Gibson made 18 career starts in Dodger Stadium. 02/28/2008 09:07 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017 Don't be angry about Bill O'Reilly comparing our friend and masthead mistress Arianna to the "Nazis" -- really don't. Wynn was asked if he was disappointed that Spahn had made it to 300 wins ahead of him. You know, attendance exploded between 1945 and 1950, which made the game a bigger deal--a wealthier operation. .probably the closest to that would be Hack Wilson's 190-RBI season (now amended to 191). This is the "public" part of Bill James Online. I have written about that many times over a period of 40+ years. Nobody knew how many career wins any pitcher had. After 25 years, he sold the business to pros who thought they could make a lot more money than he did. No; I remember being fascinated by that many years ago, and I remember having a discussion with a friend about it. In the earliest days of major league baseball, each team had just one starting pitcher, who started every game. Hey Bill, I read with great attention your answer to the Al Oliver's question about his .302 batting average in 1984. .I forget whether it was 1958 or 1959. . When did that practice end? . Comparing the road ERAs  1961 to 1966 more carefully, Gibson had a large road ERA advantage in 1962 (1.64 runs) but an insignificant one in 1965 (.10 runs). that is what it is about; sportsmanship also, of course, but sportsmanship in the effort to win. No need to post this unless you want to, but as I read it, I reminded myself that I already had on my shelf your Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers....I said to myself that some of what I want is there....been a few years since I read most of it. It was quite literally thinner than a slice of paper, thinner than a piece of onion-skin paper. That was the change event. Create an account or log into Facebook. James Albert Varney Jr. (June 15, 1949 – February 10, 2000) was an American actor, comedian, and writer. That's not true of any other pitcher in history, except Carl Hubbell in 1933 and 1936, and that's being pretty generous to Hubbell. . This is our first attempt at using this cool app.... Hey folks! From 2000 to 2006 or thereabouts it was the best breakfast place in Lawrence. Any number of pitchers who really did not NEED to be in the Hall of Fame got into the Hall of Fame with 250-299 wins--Burleigh Grimes, Eppa Rixey, Red Ruffing, Ted Lyons. So. Actual research about the Giants' problems at shortstop in the 1960s. William Martin (Billy) Joel (The Bronx (), 9 mei 1949) is een Amerikaanse pianist, singer-songwriter en componist.Vanaf 1972 produceerde hij popmuziekhits (begonnen met de single Nocturne) tot zijn afscheid in 1993.Daarna bleef hij optreden, naast het schrijven en opnemen van klassieke muziek That is, I ASSUME that it was sold, because I went in to get my breakfast one day, ordered the Ham and Eggs, and they had replaced the ridiculously large slab of ham with an absurdly thin slice of ham. They won't three pennants because he was something MORE than that. Until about 1975 there is NOBODY who had 250 wins in the 20th century who did not get into the Hall of Fame, so I assumed (at the time) that the pitchers in that generation with 250-299 wins would also eventually go in, which may yet prove to be true. "To say that it was the sole cause of the election. I think the question of what will become the HoF standard for pitchers is interesting. (Ok ok I sang White Wedding at karaoke on NYE.) . Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. It was also covered by English singer-songwriter Billy Idol in 1981. Gibson didn't have anything LIKE that impact on pennant races. So, who would you put on your list of great MLB flingers who had relatively fewer innings than most of the great ones? The subscription portion of the site looks and feels much like this part, but a) contains ten or twenty times as much information, b) also contains some other features, and c) gives you the opportunity to interact with us—to pose questions for "Hey, Bill," to post articles, to comment on articles, etc. So is it the park, or is it the pitcher? When did 300 wins start being thought of as a benchmark for HOF induction - had to be early 90s, right? You can’t replace Tommy James and the Shondells. Gibson had a career winning percentage of .574 in his home parks, .606 on the road. How would the AL have handled a virtual tie back then? Failure never needs an explanation." 20-10 with a 2.50 ERA is a hell of a pitcher, and that kind of pitcher would probably win a Cy Young Award, but if Koufax had been JUST 20-10 with a 2.50 ERA, the Dodgers would have lost the pennant race in 1965 and 1966, and probably in 1963 as well (assuming thta one of the games "switched" in moving from 25-5 to 20-10 would have been a loss to the Cardinals.) Well, certainly Dodger Stadium reduced Koufax' ERA and exaggerated the scale of his dominance. Koufax was 39-17 in those games, a .696 winning percentage with a 1.43 ERA--when supported by two runs a game. "sustained" obviously being a debatable word, since he was not able to sustain it beyond 1966. Do you have any explanation for Babe Ruth's extremely low (for him) walk rate in 1929? Was he really blamed for blowing the pennant or was it a later author looking for pathos? Cameron first gained recognition for directing The Terminator (1984). You suggested that without the 190-RBI season, Hack Wilson would not have made the Hall of Fame. The standard for. Where’s Billy?” Billy: IM GONNA GET YALL! Koufax had a career winning percentage of .658 in his home parks, .652 on the road. A recent series of articles has seemed to indicate that Jacob deGrom has gotten better as he has gotten older, and throws slightly harder now in 30s than earlier in his MLB career. But the explosion of 300-game winners in the 1980s moved the standard up to 300, and it hasn't yet relaxed enough to get all of the 250-299 game winners in, although we are trending back in that direction. About 1928, when Ty Cobb got his 4,000th hit, this was mentioned and discussed in some places, but there were still some game reports from that game which did not mention the fact that Cobb had recorded his 4,000th hit. Chesbro's season had another interesting * to it. I've been wrasslin' with WAR, and I have a question: If you devise a Replacement Rate system, including all versions of WAR, are you automatically stuck with having the zero point in your math system be the Replacement Rate itself? He played the role of Jim on the sitcom According to Jim (2001–2009). People want to say that because won-lost record is not a valid or reliable measure of a pitcher's skill that doesn't count, but it does. . You wrote, "I'm pretty sure there is a drug-free treatment now for an inability to understand things in context." I have enjoyed your work for years. The only year that Gibson had a comparable impact on the pennant race was 1964, and, while Gibson was great in 1964 and great in September of 1964, that season wasn't at a Cy Young level. I'm a Canadian. Stefanie Magura from Rock Hill, Sc Yeah it's a great song! He is best known for his broadly comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as appearing in films and numerous television commercial advertising campaigns. Gibson didn't. . James Carville, American political consultant, author, media personality, and Democratic Party strategist who successfully managed the first presidential campaign (1991–92) of Bill Clinton. One is that Koufax won-lost record in games that he was supported by 1-3 runs, in his key seasons, was just phenomenal. Koufax had a better road ERA than Gibson did in 1961, 1963, 1964 and 1966, so the statement that Gibson was "a better road pitcher". .but what he said was that in that season, the Yankees flipped DiMaggio and Gehrig in the batting order, putting Ruth before Gehrig rather than after him, so pitchers stopped walking Ruth because that would just bring Gehrig to the plate. Hello, Bill. .what, you didn't think I was going to notice? It was just a fairly minor milestone; when Gil Hodges hit his 300th home run just a few years earlier, I would guess that hardly anyone noticed. Some unexpected risers for 2021, and the teams we should be pessimistic about. I think Gibson ... Hey Bill! 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. By 1941, when Lefty Grove won his 300th game, that had changed to a significant extent. Yeah. Love that. Yes, that's right; that one IS more obvious than Wilson. He thought the right thing to do was to maximize guest satisfaction and maximize repeat business. The band and I wanted to pay tribute to the great Bill Withers who sadly passed last week. .. .I remember I read that when I was in high school. . In those 66 games the Dodgers scored 138 runs, or just over two per game. So.. .Chesbro got into the Hall of Fame purely, 100%, because history chose to draw a line at just the right place for him. " Anytime. If I didn't do that, I'd be of no use to the world. James Francis Cameron CC (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and environmentalist. Bill, thanks for your answer to my question about pitchers' use via lots of innings while younger as opposed to MLB chuckers who did not rack up big inning totals prior to 25 or so. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates. But you have to remember:  that was the era of Snodgrass and Fred Merkle. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. I even think that Dizzy Dean might not have made it if he won 29 games in 1934, instead of 30. Sandy Koufax started 85 games in that park, and lost 15 of them. Gibson didn't, even in 1968; in 1968 Gibson lost three games 3-2 and one game 6-4. I was a fan of Tommy James and the Shondells and while I love the cover Billy did. HeyBill: re:   "When the race is over, you celebrate the winner or shut up. When he made 36 starts in 1964 and 1965, he wasn't quite at the same level of effectiveness. If he had won they would have finished .001 behind Boston with three games less played. That's just a "where we draw the line" thing. You'd think the opposition would be reluctant to walk Ruth when Ruth was hitting 3rd and Gehrig 4th, but that's not what the data shows. The band and I wanted to pay tribute to the great Bill Withers who sadly passed last week. Up until 1920, if you go back to find the game reports of games in which a pitcher got his 300th win or a hitter got his 3,000th hit, you will find that this is very often not mentioned in the summary of the game. ..let's see, that would have been 1975, which oddly enough would now be the halfway point between when it happened (1929) and the present (2021). You suggested that without the 190-RBI season, Hack Wilson would not have made the Hall of Fame. .if anybody knows anything more specific about this, speak up? I'm not saying that you have to conclude that Koufax was greater than Gibson or Seaver or, for that matter, Juan Marichal, but I'm saying that there is a reason he was on that mountain. For a period of 50 years, the starting assignments of #1 pitchers got knocked down and knocked down and knocked down, so that: If you set the boundary at 1880, then the record for wins in a season is 59 or 60, by Old Hoss Radbourn in 1884. Hey everyone happy day to everyone in this group. .really? "Mony Mony" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which reached No. .too large to fit comfortably on a breakfast platter. It… As you know we have universal healthcare. Visitors can read the most recent Hey Bill's on this page. He was 6-11 there, with a 3.04 ERA. It's hard to imagine how you can do that, but it you check it out, I think you'll find that he did. Anyway, I am sure that had SOMETHING to do with it, but it's not really an explanation. James Adam Belushi (/ b ə ˈ l uː ʃ i /; born June 15, 1954) is an American actor and comedian. ... and c) gives you the opportunity to interact with us—to pose questions for "Hey, Bill," to post articles, to comment on articles, etc. Start listening now! Anybody remember that guy's name? SoundCloud is a music and podcast streaming platform that lets you listen to millions of songs from around the world, or upload your own. For some reason this puzzled me so much that I subscribed to your site just to ask about it. George from Ansonia, Ct Five members of the "STEAM ROAD BAND"-(Hank,Tom,Jay,Bill,George) were also members of another Connecticut band called "SPECIAL DELIVERY" who had a single release in 1968 on Verve Records called "HELLO LOVE" Verve-VK 10606. From 1963 to 1966 Koufax had 66 starts (16.5 per season) in which he was supported by 1 to 3 runs. Your participation is requested for a fun Hall of Fame survey that captures what's important to YOU! . ! Up until the mid-1970s, every pitcher who had won 250 games in the 20th century was in the Hall of Fame--not 300, but 250. ... Colin James is with Geoff Hicks and 3 others. My friends explanation, warning you in advance that this doesn't quite work. As the company grows, the roles become specific. In 1922 the first effort to compile a baseball encyclopedia was published by Ernest Lanigan, although it wasn't actually an ecyclopedia; it was actually just a collection of some career records that Lanigan had completed, on a hit-or-miss bases. It seems like it was a common restriction on roster building.
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