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rbtexan
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12:55p, 8/6/25
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"Fun Fact: Bob Gibson came within 4 outs of an unprecedented "complete season" in 1968.

He started 34 games that year and pitched a combined 304.2 innings.

There are 306 total innings in 34 games.

Because be pitched 9+ innings in several outings, it made up for the innings that he didn't pitch a full 9 innings. Keep in mind there were several games that he "only" pitched 8 innings because the Cardinals lost and he didn't take the field in the 9th.

If he recorded 4 more outs that season, he would've pitched a "complete season" worth of 9-inning games, a truly mind numbing accomplishment.

We'll never see any pitcher come remotely close to this. "


Saw this online today

Jimbo Franchione
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1:22p, 8/6/25
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crossing over with another thread...

Bob Gibson got into the Hall on his first ballot

but only with 84% of the 401 ballots casts

64 voters passed on him. Go figure
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AgRyan04
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In reply to W • 6:16p, 8/6/25
And the sports media wonders why people think they're dolts.
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AgRyan04
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11:44a, 8/7/25
Goose Gossage's 308th save was in support of Nolan Ryan's 308th win.

I remember having the baseball card but the stat never stuck and I just "rediscovered" this today
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4:18p, 8/7/25
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Goose played for 9 different teams (and the Yankees twice)

might be a record for a Hall of Famer

White Sox
Pirates
Yankees
Padres
Giants
Cubs
Rangers
A's
Mariners
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In reply to W • 4:58p, 8/7/25
Hall of Famers Who Played with Seven or More Teams

Record is 11 by Dan Brothers. Almost all of his career was in the 19th century when there was an almost constant flux of teams and leagues.

Henderson also played for nine teams with four stints with the A's and two with the Friars.
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jja79
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In reply to rbtexan • 10:53p, 8/7/25
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Gibson played basketball at Creighton and for the Harlem Globetrotters. He didn't sign with the Cardinals until he was 22 which was rare back then.
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In reply to rbtexan • 4:33a, 8/8/25
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He did even better in 1969.
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AgRyan04
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In reply to W • 11:20a, 8/8/25
W said:
Goose played for 9 different teams (and the Yankees twice)

might be a record for a Hall of Famer

White Sox
Pirates
Yankees
Padres
Giants
Cubs
Rangers
A's
Mariners


He was doing a signing at a card show I went to earlier this year and I thought it was cool seeing people walking around the show in their Goose jerseys representing nearly every team he was with
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AggieEP
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9:24a, 8/9/25
In Aaron Judge's 2017 rookie of the year season he struck out 208 times.

In Luis Arraez's 7 years in the big leagues he's struck out 207 times.

This year he's on track to strike out 18 times.
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9:52a, 8/9/25
In 1924 when Rogers Hornsby hit .424 (2nd best all time), he was actually hitting .434 at the end of August, then went into a terrible slump, only hitting .352 in September

He never had more than 2 games in a row all year without a hit.

He hit .509 in August (54 for 106) with a 1.466 OPS.

His "worst" average against another team that year was .387 vs. the Cubs.

You can see his gravestone on the east side of Austin in Hornsby Bend, a parcel of land given to his great-grandfather by Stephen F. Austin himself for his work as a surveyor.







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