Sublime

in 1920, a 25-year-old Hornsby—a lifetime .310/.370/.440 hitter to that point—hit .370/.431/.559, leading the league in all three splits, and he also led the league in hits, doubles, RBIs, and total bases. Over the next five seasons combined—this is so ridiculous—Hornsby would hit .402. Nobody, not even Ty Cobb, hit .400 over five full seasons.

In 1930, he led the league in wins and saves (though it would be decades before the save became an official statistic).

Only 36 percent of the home runs Roberts gave up were with runners on base. That’s a pretty good percentage; it’s tied for 14th among the 100 pitchers who gave up the most home runs in baseball history.III

His son later said that Bankhead, who was from Alabama and had seen the worst of America’s racism, pitched in mortal fear of hitting a batter and causing a riot. Bankhead pitched in only four games and was sent back to the minors; there would not be another black pitcher in baseball until the legendary Satchel Paige was finally given his chance wit

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned