Re: Baseball History Lesson of the day

On Nov 2, 8:47 pm, Ruben <ru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:44:55 -0800, Matt wrote:
On Nov 2, 5:12 pm, Ruben <ru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This guy was a leathal bat and evidently couldn't field although I don't
know why he has the missed season (maybe WWi?)
Played some of his best years in Brooklyn...

Doesn't seem clear, although it appears he played in the minors.
A pretty good article about him here:

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=4635&bid=1389

Matt

Just to point out just how great of a hitter he was, 4 times he hit over
160 OPS+, including three years in a row in Brooklyn.  Evidently from the
Article, he was swinging for the fences in the dead ball era, putting him
in conflict with the hitting coaches :)

Makes you seriously wonder why so many teams gave up on him. Too much
money? Bad attitude? His fielding didn't appear to be bad, so I have
to
wonder...

Matt
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