Bill Wambsganss’ unassisted triple play (1920 World Series Game 5): There have been 15 unassisted triple plays in big league history. The second one occurred in the World Series. The game also featured the first World Series grand slam. Cleveland won 8-1.
Cleveland: 3 Brooklyn: 0 (Game 7 1920 World Series): Stan Coveleski won his third game of the series propelling the Tribe to their first World Championship. Cleveland outscored the Dodgers 21-8 in the best-of-nine series.
Bob Feller strikesout 18 Tigers (October 2, 1938): Roger Clemens once struck out 20 Tigers. The 1996 Tigers were terrible. On the other hand, Bob Feller struck out 18 Tigers during their glory years. The Tigers fielded a team that included Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg. Detroit won the game 4-1, but no one remembers! The 18 strikeouts was a major league record at the time.
Bob Feller’s opening day no-hitter (April 16, 1940): In 1940, Bob Feller tossed the only opening day in MLB history. Feller walked 5 and struck out 8 while beating the White Sox 1-0.
Indians: 4 Braves: 3 (1948 World Series Game 6): The Tribe wins its second and latest world title in the first politically incorrect World Series. Hall of Famer Joe Gordon homered in the victory.
Frank Robinson becomes baseball’s first black manager (1975): Baseball desegregated in 1947. Nearly thirty years later, Frank Robinson became the first African American field manager. In his first game, the Tribe beat the Yankees behind player-manager Robinson’s home run.
Len Barker’s perfect game (May 15, 1981): The eighties were a wasteland for Indians baseball. Len Barker provided Cleveland’s greatest moment of the decade when he beat Toronto 3-0. It is one of twenty perfect games in baseball history.
Cleveland: 5 Boston: 4 (1995 ALDS Game 1): In the bottom of the 13th, Tony Pena’s home run lifted Cleveland to victory. The game featured five homers and 14 pitchers. The Cleveland victory stretched Boston’s postseason losing streak to 11 games.
Indians win first Pennant since 1954 (1995 ALCS Game 6): Dennis Martinez beat Randy Johnson 4-0. Cleveland led 1-0 after 7. The Tribe scored three in the 8th to blow the game open. Carlos Baerga homered to cap the scoring.
Tony Fernandez pennant winning home run (Game 6 ALCS-11th inning): Cleveland beat Baltimore 1-0 in 11 innings to win their second pennant in three years. The Fernandez home run was Cleveland’s third hit or the game. The Indians went on to lose their second World Series.
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Friday, November 5, 2010
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2009 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees
Here is the Cooperstown Class of 2009...
Joe Gordon- One of the first power hitting second basemen. Finished with 253 homers. Played 11 seasons and was a 9 time all star. He was the 1942 AL MVP and 5 time World Champion (1938, 1939, 1941, 1943 with NY and 1948 with Cleveland).
Jim Rice: The dominant right handed power hitter for a decade (1975-1986). He finished with 382 Homers and 1451 RBI. 8 time All-Star, 2 silver sluggers, & the 1978 MVP.
Rickey Henderson: 2295 runs, 3055 hits, 2190 walks, 1406 steals, and the most lead-off homers in history. 10 time all star, 1990 MVP, 1989 ALCS MVP, Gold Glove (1981), 3 silver sluggers, 1989 and 1993 World Champion.
Gordon and Rice should have been inducted awhile ago. For whatever reason, Gordon was forgotten. Rice's production was overshadowed by the steroid hulks of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Rickey is the greatest leadoff hitter ever and might be the best major league player of the last 40 years. He made it on the first ballot.
Who's missing? The usual suspects: Andre Dawson, Bert Blyeleven, Jack Morris, Lee Smith, and Alan Trammell. Dawson was as dominant in the NL as Rice was in the AL. However, stat geeks are stuck on his .323 OBP. Blyleven had 60 shutouts, over 3000 Ks, and 287 wins. What does it take? Smith was the all-time leading save guy until recently. Goose and Sutter are in, why not Smith? (Maybe it's the Garvey homer). Morris won 254 games and was dominant in big games. His 3.90 ERA is keeping him out. The ERA went up dramatically as he got older and hitters began looking like Female Soviet Olympians. Trammell is overshadowed by Yount and Ripken.
Joe Gordon- One of the first power hitting second basemen. Finished with 253 homers. Played 11 seasons and was a 9 time all star. He was the 1942 AL MVP and 5 time World Champion (1938, 1939, 1941, 1943 with NY and 1948 with Cleveland).
Jim Rice: The dominant right handed power hitter for a decade (1975-1986). He finished with 382 Homers and 1451 RBI. 8 time All-Star, 2 silver sluggers, & the 1978 MVP.
Rickey Henderson: 2295 runs, 3055 hits, 2190 walks, 1406 steals, and the most lead-off homers in history. 10 time all star, 1990 MVP, 1989 ALCS MVP, Gold Glove (1981), 3 silver sluggers, 1989 and 1993 World Champion.
Gordon and Rice should have been inducted awhile ago. For whatever reason, Gordon was forgotten. Rice's production was overshadowed by the steroid hulks of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Rickey is the greatest leadoff hitter ever and might be the best major league player of the last 40 years. He made it on the first ballot.
Who's missing? The usual suspects: Andre Dawson, Bert Blyeleven, Jack Morris, Lee Smith, and Alan Trammell. Dawson was as dominant in the NL as Rice was in the AL. However, stat geeks are stuck on his .323 OBP. Blyleven had 60 shutouts, over 3000 Ks, and 287 wins. What does it take? Smith was the all-time leading save guy until recently. Goose and Sutter are in, why not Smith? (Maybe it's the Garvey homer). Morris won 254 games and was dominant in big games. His 3.90 ERA is keeping him out. The ERA went up dramatically as he got older and hitters began looking like Female Soviet Olympians. Trammell is overshadowed by Yount and Ripken.
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