Name That Ballplayer by Wayne Stewart

Author:Wayne Stewart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

On three occasions this righty won 25+ games and did not win the Cy Young Award.

A Hall of Famer, he had more deliveries than UPS, and his high leg kick made his windup unique.

He is often remembered for the time he hit John Roseboro over the head with a bat, but he should also be recalled for his 243 wins and sizzling .631 won-loss percentage.

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Eddie Mathews

Roger Maris, who hit only 275 lifetime blasts. Although his next-highestseason home-run output was a rather meager 39 (in 1960), and although after 1962, when he hit 33 homers, he never hit more than 26 home runs in a season, he did hold the coveted single-season home-run record until Mark McGwire came along to shatter it with 70 HR in 1998.

Willie McCovey

Ernie Banks

Kenny Lofton. His nomadic ways really picked up around the turn of the century as he spent 2001 with Cleveland, split 2002 with the White Sox and Giants, played for both the Pirates and Cubs in 2003, was a Yankee in 2004, a Philly the next year, was with the Dodgers in 2006, and spent time with Texas and Cleveland in 2007. Incidentally, in college he was the sixth man for the Arizona Wildcats team that made it to the Final Four in 1988. The only other big leaguer to appear in a Final Four and a World Series was pitcher Tim Stoddard. Coincidentally, both those men attended the same high school.

Rickey Henderson. He is also the all-time leader for home runs hit by a leadoff hitter and for runs scored. Plus, only Barry Bonds has drawn more walks than Henderson. This all-time great was unusual in that he threw left-handed but hit righty. Trivia item: On April 24, 1987, Phil Niekro and Steve Carlton worked a game for Cleveland and Henderson homered off both, marking the only time a batter has connected against two 300-game winners in a game.

Eddie Murray, a high school teammate of Ozzie Smith’s at Locke High School in Los Angeles. Cal Ripken Jr. He’s still best remembered for his incredible record streak of playing in 2,632 games. Only Tom Seaver, with 98.84 percent of all votes and Nolan Ryan, at 98.79 percent, pulled down a higher percentage of votes than Ripken did. One member of the media who did not cast one of his ten votes (the maximum permitted) for Ripken explained that he didn’t feel Ripken needed his vote, saying he wanted to lend his support to ten other players instead. Had every voter felt that way, Ripken would have been denied Hall of Fame status in 2007. It would certainly seem that a voter’s job is simply to cast a YES vote if a player is undeniably deserving of the honor, and not think beyond that.

Roberto Clemente. Only five men ever won more Gold Gloves than Clemente. He will also be forever remembered for his tragic death on New Year’s Eve in 1972; while on a mercy mission to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua, his plane crashed at sea.

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