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| Jan-21-17 | | playground player: <Esteemed Baseball Mavens> Here's a tough one for you: Who was the only player to lead his league in RBIs three times during the 1950s? My hat's off to anybody who knows this! |
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Jan-21-17
 | | saffuna: Ralph Kiner? |
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Jan-21-17
 | | Penguincw: <pgp>
If I had to make one guess, it would've been Willie Mays, but I had a bunch of secondary guesses: Berra, Mantle and Williams. Looking up the answer, *spoiler* one of them is right, so yay. |
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| Jan-21-17 | | playground player: <saffuna>, <penguincw> None of the above. Oddly, neither Mays nor Berra ever led the league in RBIs. Williams didn't do it in the 50s, and Mantle only once, in 1956. Ralph Kiner was a good guess, but no cigar. |
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Jan-21-17
| | Penguincw: Ah, I'm a fool. While my guesses were just guesses (no research, just whatever baseball knowledge I knew in my brain), my proofreading/research skills were horrible. I looked up the answer on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...), but didn't read the table properly. I thought one column was AL leader, and the other NL leader, but it was actually AL leader, and then AL runner-up. Checking http://www.baseball-reference.com/l..., I can actually see the answer to the question, and I hadn't even heard of him before. |
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Jan-22-17
 | | OhioChessFan: Ummmmmm, no chance on that one. I've never heard of him either. I got a nephew who claims to be a Hall of Famer in sports trivia. I'll see what he can come up with. |
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Jan-22-17
| | saffuna: This player was a big sports hero in the Bay Area in the late 40s. High school prodigy, All-American running back at Cal. I heard about him a lot because he was in my grandmother's English class at Oakland Tech. He was a good player, 1958 MVP, but as far as all those RBIs go, he had Ted Williams getting on base about half the time ahead of him. (And Williams wasn't driving himself in that much in the 50s.) His career was relatively short because he had a severer fear of flying, and retired because of it. |
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| Jan-22-17 | | playground player: Jackie Jensen--ah, how quickly we forget!
<saffuna> Fear of flying, eh? I didn't know that. BTW, it always helps the RBI leader to have someone in front of him who gets on base a lot. But you still have to drive him in. Enzo Hernandez couldn't have done it. Being old enough to remember, and living on the East Coast, I'd say Jackie Jensen got a pretty fair amount of recognition while he was active. I remember he was a contestant--against Rocky Colavito (remember him?)--on the old <Home Run Derby> TV show. But now--Jackie who? |
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| Jan-22-17 | | YouRang: Just saw the sad news this morning that Yordano Ventura, pitcher for the Royals was killed in a car accident. He was 25. http://www.si.com/mlb/2017/01/22/ro... |
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Jan-22-17
| | saffuna: < it always helps the RBI leader to have someone in front of him who gets on base a lot. But you still have to drive him in.> He was definitely a good player. I was just suggesting why he led the whole AL in RBIs three times, ahead of Mantle, Williams and others. I saw the Red Sox play once, against the immortal San Francisco Seals in 1957. Willimas in left (in front of us), Jensen in right, and Jimmy Piersall in center. He did not climb the screen. |
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Jan-22-17
| | Penguincw: Aww, RIP to Ventura.
Also heard that prospect Andy Marte also died in the Dominican Republic in an unrelated car crash: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/.... |
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Jan-22-17
 | | WannaBe: Very sad, another young life lost, reminds me of Oscar Taveras in 2014 (pitcher for StL), same thing car accident. |
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Jan-22-17
 | | MissScarlett: G H Wolbrecht vs E P Elliott, 1909 |
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Jan-24-17
| | WannaBe: For the 2015 NFL season, I kept track of teams that had to travel 2 time zones or more for their game and posted teams' W/L record. Here's a study by Northwestern U., what is fascinating (to me, at least), is that researchers said a person needs one day per hour of change to be fully adjusted (jet lag, especially if you are going eastward). http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/... Usually, NFL team will depart Friday for a Sunday game, that really isn't enough time to fully adjust, if you are going from coast to coast. NBA and NHL usually have a day or two in-between games if a team have to travel, but not always. Another thing with schedules and road games, are the ones that makes you go "huh"? (Yes, I know it's impossible to have the best scenario, when it comes to arena's availability...) Example, Lakers:
1/22 @DAL
1/25 @POR
1/26 @UTH
Randomly, here is one from Houston road trip:
11/1 @CLE
11/2 @NYK
11/5 @ATL
11/7 @WAS
At least they had the 6th off.
11/27 @POR
11/29 @UTH
12/1 @GS
12/2 @DEN
Huh? |
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Jan-25-17
 | | Phony Benoni: Apparently, the best way ton win a Caissar is to disappear for a while. If I left completely, no telling what I could win! Seriously, it's always gratifying to be appreciated . I'm especially proud of taking Funniest Kibitzer, since the competition is so fierce. Particularly from those who aren't trying to be funny. <WannaBe> Which collection won? I take that it wasn't the puzzle collection but can't tell which one it was. ---
I guess a few details are in order. Like many diabetics, I have begun to have trouble with my feet. Nothing serious as yet, but one toe in particular had had several small sores over time. The operation was a minor preventive procedure meant to lessen the change of a recurrence. The problem was that I had to keep the foot elevated for a couple weeks. Sitting at the computer was specifically forbidden, so I couldn't use the desktop. So nearly two weeks of watching television. I'd rather be in zugzwang. Doc gave the All Ckear to Resume Normal Activities today, so I'm back, though I'll probably take it easy to a few days just to play it safe. |
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Jan-25-17
| | WannaBe: <Phony Benoni> your unusual position collection won. |
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Jan-25-17
| | Phony Benoni: <MissScarlettt>L Game added to collection. Thanks for the alert. |
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Jan-25-17
| | Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> You mean Game Collection: That's strange? Lordy, I haven't updated that in ages. Need to get back to work. |
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Jan-25-17
 | | Stonehenge: Please check out http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches.... The games from the NY Open do not belong to the Game Collection: US Open 1974, New York. |
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Jan-25-17
 | | perfidious: That must be correct: there was no <NY Open> until Jose Cuchi started it up in the 1980s. It is possible, though, that those games were played in the '74 <World Open>, the second in the series, which was held in NYC in its early years. |
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Jan-25-17
| | Phony Benoni: <Stonehenge> Thanks for looking at this. As of now I have not checked over the 1974 tournament thoroughly, so this is subject the change. The four games from the "New York Open" in Game Collection: US Open 1974, New York are: S Bernstein vs Ruth Cardoso, 1974 S Bernstein vs R Rodriguez, 1974 S Bernstein vs Vladimir Ryznar, 1974 S Bernstein vs Kogan, 1974 In the first place, as far as I am aware, there was not yet an event known as the <"New York Open"> in 1974. As with any tournament, games from the various us Opens are submitted with a variety of headers. Colloquially, it is sometimes referred to by the name of the city, such as "Boston Open" or "Ventura Open", so seeing "New York Open would not surp4ise me. By the way, I did not submit the games. I suspect they were sent in by someone working from Bernstein's autobiography (see Game Collection: COMBAT: Fifty Years of Sidney Bernstein), and if Bernstein used "New York Open" the submitted probably did as well. Of course, that only means the games shouldn't be automatically disqualified as US Open games. There is partial cross table for the tournament available("Chess Life & Review", December 1974,p. 791-793), and the names of all five players are listed. In addition, we definitely have one confirmed pairing, Bernstein - Rodrigues (round 11). Unfortunately, the cross able only list results for the first 50 players, so the other pairings cannot be confirmed. In addition, that year's bulletins are brief, and I don't see any of the games as yet. (They are not yet entered in my database.) Based on this, I feel there is a strong chance the games are from the US Open, so I will keep them in the collection for now. If I'm wrong, then it will be fixed later. But the 1974 event (and, indeed, almost everything at 1969) are still in a fragmentary stage. |
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Jan-25-17
| | Stonehenge: Thanks, that makes sense. I think you are right to leave them in the US Open Collection, where they probably belong. |
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Jan-25-17
| | Phony Benoni: <perifious> Yes, the World Open might be a possibility, and it was held in NYC in 1974 according to CL&R. On the other hand, we have a couple of games from Bernstein labeled "World Open", so it would seem he made a distinction between the two events. |
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Jan-30-17
| | WannaBe: MLB hands down punishment for StL hack of HOU.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/... |
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| Feb-03-17 | | Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, I haven't talked to you in a month of Sundays! Who do like in the big game, (before I place my bet)? ; P
P.S. I just played 2 ten minute games on the net. The 1st game I played the Ruy Lopez Marshall with the white pieces, with a 2000+ player.. I got killed fairly quickly. I think I was playing Karpov... The next game I went down a weight class, & played a 1870 player & kicked a$$ in a Najdorf Sicilian, with the black pieces... ; P |
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