Baseball Thread 5 - #5 George Brett Has a Story to Tell

Juan Marichal for the NL?

 

Drysdale started for the NL. He was coming off that great shutout streak in May-June (remember RFK congratulating him in L.A. the night he was assassinated?) And I think Gibson had a losing record after his first few starts that year; of course, his ERA was still very low.

Couldn't tell you the AL starter, although I'd laugh if it was Lolich over his piano-playing teammate.

 

Wasn't Lolich. I looked it up.

68 was also the first ASG played indoors.

 

BuckW, it was Luis Tiant, who had the all-time ignored great pitching season of all the 1968 great seasons for Cleveland.

 

Tiant in '68 = 21-9, 1.60, .087 WHIP, 9 shutouts.

 

This prompted me to look at Tiant's career stats and several things leap off the br reference page. First, he's the only player in mlb history, apparently, whose name starts with "Tia". Second, his season in 1974 -- 25 complete games and he threw 311 innings, and led the league in neither category. Underscores the difference in pitching eras. I bet there won't be 25 complete games in mlb as a whole this year.

 

Karl Ravech looks awful.

 

Anybody know when first pitch is, so I can keep my Joe Buck exposure to a minimum?

 

They're still doing the intros. Just finished the bench players.

 

early Wednesday. The Pujols applause will last 8+ hours.

 

Shouldn't Stephen Harper get equal time on behalf of the Jays here?

 

Sheryl Crowe has aged well.