For all his gaudy career numbers, Eddie Murray doesn’t possess much in the way of single-year supremacy. There’s an AL-best number of walks in 1984 to go along with the circuit’s best on-base percentage (and the league’s best OPS+) that year, a few seasons with more intentional walks than any […]
In 1923, while helping guide a Reds pitching staff to the best ERA In the Major Leagues, backstop Bubbles Hargrave also made an immense etching on the offensive side, posting a .333/.419/.521 line. The effort not only gave the 31-year-old a place among the top-10 in the NL in all […]
For the 1931 season, Lou Gehrig paced the AL in both homers and RBI, generated more hits than any other player in the league, tallied more total bases than anyone, scored more runs, had more extra-base hits and reached safely as much as anyone. The numbers – gazing at them […]