From: David Short on
David Short wrote:
> David Short wrote:
>> JustTom wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:00:53 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxinfla(a)hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Congratulations to a classy professional.
>>>
>>> I was kind of surprised there haven't been any yanks with 3000 hits.

It's a short list of guys who have made it to 3000.
Made even shorter by the requirement to do it with one team.

I think I can list them now...

Clemente
Kaline
Biggio
Gwynn
Yount
Brett
Ripken
Mays
Wagner
Yaz
Musial
Aaron
Cobb
Rose

A couple of things....

When you parse this list, you can recognize the teams right away. I
purposefully didn't put the team's in so you could see it.

Parsed this way, Pete has by far the most hits for another team. Only a
couple of these guys played for more than one franchise. Cobb, Musial,
Wagner, Mays, Aaron. Rose was the only one that left as a decent player
and then came back. He had nearly 1000 hits as a non-red. Nobody else
comes close to that.

How many of these guys are pre free-agent and how many are from the free
agent era? I count 6 guys who could have left as free agents and 14 that
were from the era of the reserve clause.

Finally,....They were given a ton of grief over it, but I kind of
understand why the Astro's kept Biggio around and on the field for his
final tour. Loyalty is a two way street.

dfs


From: JustTom on
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:15:31 -0400, David Short
<David.no.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.edu> wrote:

>JustTom wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:00:53 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxinfla(a)hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations to a classy professional.
>>
>> I was kind of surprised there haven't been any yanks with 3000 hits.
>
>What's really surprising is how few there are with even 2000.
>
>Berra, Mattingly, Dimagio, Williams, Ruth, Gerhig and Jeter.
>
>Only the last three got over 2500.

Yeah,, I guess I knew that DiMaggio lost the war years, but I guess I
didn't realize he only played 13 years. By the time I was old
enough to be baseball "aware", he was just Mr. Coffee. Doubt that I
even knew he was a ball player until much later.


From: JustTom on
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:07:20 -0400, David Short
<David.no.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.edu> wrote:

>David Short wrote:
>
>Only one Red Sox with more than 3000....Yaz.

Where have you gone, Wade. I often wonder if he regrets doing it in
a Devil Ray uni.

>One Brave....Aaron
>One Oriole....Ripken

I remember Murray looking odd in a dodger uni, but I don't remember
him at all as a met or indian. Surprised me to find that he played
over a third of his career in a different uni.

>No Cubs....
>

Another thing that struck me was what a wondering bunch of vagabonds
the mets have been. Ed Kranepool's 5997 are the most PA in their
history. They don't even have a "1500 hit" club.


>It's kind of a fun game.

That's funny because that's exactly what I did this morning and yeah
it was kind of fun. Went to baseball-reference and decided to look
up who the leaders were for each team. Did the yanks and immediately
went to the reds, and when I saw Larkin among the leaders realized
that this is harder than it looked. So I had a V8 moment and
googled MLB 3000 hits and got the complete list and worked backwards
instead from the ones I knew had more than one team.









From: David Short on
JustTom wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:07:20 -0400, David Short
>> It's kind of a fun game.
>
> That's funny because that's exactly what I did this morning and yeah
> it was kind of fun. Went to baseball-reference and decided to look
> up who the leaders were for each team. Did the yanks and immediately
> went to the reds, and when I saw Larkin among the leaders realized
> that this is harder than it looked. So I had a V8 moment and
> googled MLB 3000 hits and got the complete list and worked backwards
> instead from the ones I knew had more than one team.

Damn. That sounds very, very familiar.

You wouldn't really be Tyler Durden, would you?

dfs
From: JustTom on
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:58:33 -0400, David Short
<David.no.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.edu> wrote:

>JustTom wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:07:20 -0400, David Short
>>> It's kind of a fun game.
>>
>> That's funny because that's exactly what I did this morning and yeah
>> it was kind of fun. Went to baseball-reference and decided to look
>> up who the leaders were for each team. Did the yanks and immediately
>> went to the reds, and when I saw Larkin among the leaders realized
>> that this is harder than it looked. So I had a V8 moment and
>> googled MLB 3000 hits and got the complete list and worked backwards
>> instead from the ones I knew had more than one team.
>
>Damn. That sounds very, very familiar.
>
>You wouldn't really be Tyler Durden, would you?

I admit that this flew soaringly over my head, and humble enough to
admit that even a quick google hasn't helped other than that I now
know where the name comes from, but I've not seen the movie or read
the book.



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