-My 9th grade History teacher (in response to "Why do we need this stuff?")
There are a number of seasons in baseball history which stand out. Today's post deals with the 1924 season. What makes seasons distinctive are not so much the standings, stats or
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If listening or learning about history is uninspiring to you I won't bore you with long-winded prose about the people places and occurrences.
In 1924 ...
John McGraw (so prominent he deserves his own blog post - and just might get one!) wins his record 10th pennant (and fourth consecutive) as manager of the New York Giants.
The highest single season batting average was recorded by Rogers Hornsby at .424 (in 1924 - ha!). Rogers was no slouch by the way. His career batting average was .358, batting over .400 3 times with 7 batting titles. Not too shabby.
There was an event involving Jim Bottomley (remember him?). Bottomley of the Cardinals set the record (at the time) with 12 RBI's in a game! He did this verses the Brooklyn Robins. This record was held until 1993 when Mark Whiten (also with the Cards) drove in 12 against the Reds.
The Babe had a memorable season. Though not one of his finest, he put up some of his best numbers across the board (bold is league leader)
.378 BA / .513 OBP(this is elite!) / .739 SLG (again elite) / 46 HR / 143 R / 124 RBI / 142 walks
The Washington Senators beat the New York Giants in the World Series. The Sens did this in 7 games. This fact in itself is nothing terribly special, but Walter Johnson had a noteworthy series. The Big Train pitched 12 innings in game one of that series - took the loss, had another loss in game 5 (complete game) but pitched the final 4 innings in game 7 to seal the deal for the Senators.
I hope you enjoy baseball history as much as I do. Sometimes these little nuggets are all someone needs to "take them back to another time" as they say.
Thanks for reading
-Tom
And The Big Train was considered an old man at the time, a decrepit 36!
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