Today in RBI Baseball History

[fightonusc]

November 4:

1989 - Benito Santiago is the unanimous selection as the NL Rookie of the Year.

1994 - Doc Gooden receives a one-year suspension for violating his aftercare program.

1999 - Davey Lopes is hired to manage the Milwaukee Brewers.

2003 - Don Mattingly replaces Rick Down as hitting coach of the New York Yankees.

[Gantry]

Wow, are there this many RBI entries everyday in wherever you're checking usc?  Might be a way to incorporate that into the website..

[fightonusc]

The AP usually does a "Today in Baseball History" story during the season. Also, National Pastime has some good information as well.

[dvldog]

Thanks to fightonusc's sources...

November 12

1961 - Greg Gagne was born in Fall River, Massachusetts.

1986 - Roger Clemens of the Red Sox becomes only the second American League pitcher to unanimously win the Cy Young Award.

2000 - Darryl Strawberry announced his retirement. He had been besieged with drug problems and colon cancer. His 18-year major league career had ended after the 1999 season.

[Baines]

quality thread.  This should be a mainstay of the RBI forum

[dvldog]

note:  i'm pretty much just copying and pasting these, so they're not in my own words

November 13

1979 - For the first time in major league history two players are named co-winners of National League MVP award as Cardinal first baseman Keith Hernandez shares the honor with Baseball Pirate Willie Stargell.

1984 - Ryne Sandberg (.314, 19, 84) becomes the first Cub to win the National MVP League Award since Ernie Banks did it in 1959.

1989 - After 16 years with the same team, Jim Rice is released by the Red Sox. The Boston outfielder retires from the game with a career .298 average with 382 home runs.

[fightonusc]

Novemeber 15

1983 - Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken is named the American League's MVP becoming the first player to win the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player Award in consecutive years.

1988 - Dodger World Series hero Kirk Gibson edges out Met outfielders Darryl Strawberry and Kevin McReynolds for the National League MVP Award.

2001 - Yankee right hander Roger Clemens (20-3, 3.51 ERA) wins the Cy Young Award for an unprecedented sixth time (Red Sox -1986, '87, '91 and Blue Jays -1997, '98). The Rocket becomes the first Pinstripper to win the award since 1978 when Ron Guidry copped the honor.

[Blyleven_No-No]

excellent work fightonusc, I am proud to see your dedication to what is truly one of the great websites devoted to the art of RBI Baseball...are you a Southern Cal grad by any chance?  I don't know if I understand your name

[fightonusc]

Class of 1997.  I am proud to have been at USC for some of the worst years of football in school history. Those kids tonday don't know how good they've got it, I tell ya...

[what_foul_pole]

TODAY:

I began posting on Dee-Nee Forums...

...racing the to eclipse Santana-Level...the obvious Mendoza line of the message board...

[dvldog]

fix your fucking aviator

(not intended to be mean -- this is how we always point out that someone's avatar is not showing -- welcome to the forums)

[what_foul_pole]

thank you...

how do I fix my Juan Acevado...I mean Avatar?

Thank you

[dvldog]

it's in your profile

[Gantry]

I fixed it as best I could, but it is scaling like ass.  You want to pick a picture that is more square than rectangular...

[TβG]

i thought maybe we should resurrect this thread for the new year.  my page-a-day calendar should come in handy.

LANDMARK

Reggie Jackson hit more home runs (292) in the 1970's than any other American Leaguer.  Ironically, Jackson's best three homer seasons came in the surrounding decades.  Reggie had 47 taters in 1969, 41 in 1980, and 39 in 1982.

i think it's awesome that they used "taters" to describe one of Potatoes feats.

[Gantry]

We should start a drive to get Potatoes to be his official nickname...

Who had the NL record for taters in the 1970s?  I don't even have a good guess...  Stargell?

[fathedX]

Shit Gantry, are you some kind of a genius??  It was indeed Stargell, with 296 HRs from 1970-1979.  Jackson had 292 and Bench had 290.  Nice guess!

[ericdavisfan]

I clicked on the National Pastime link and found this:

1871 The Boston Red Stockings are incorporated by Ivers Whitney Adams with $15,000 and the help of Harry Wright, who had founded and managed the Cincinnati Red Stockings, America's first professional baseball team.


I guess that counts, since Boston is on RBI, but not as interesting as the previous stuff

[Gantry]

I pulled stargell out of my ass, had I thought about it more I would have talked myself out of it...

[JoeDirt]

Who else do you have up there, in your ass?  We still haven't found Bin Laden, and Saddam WAS found in a hole...