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Baseball's Worst Team Fred Worth Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Academic Forum 21 2003-04 Baseball's Worst Team Fred Worth Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Abstract - In this paper we will look at some of the worst teams in baseball history and try to decide which team was indeed the worst. We will look at some statistics that will compare the teams to the teams of their day to try to account for the differences in eras. Introduction Much discussion is heard regarding who the best player, hitter, pitcher, etc. in baseball history may have been. There is not typically a lot of discussion on who the worst in any of these categories may be. The 2003 season changed that a little bit due to the incredible futility displayed by the Detroit Tigers. In this paper, we will look at some of the worst teams in baseball history and see if, indeed, the Tigers qualify. Preliminary Criteria The first consideration needs to be what criteria we will use to make our determination of the worst team. Certainly the teams win-loss record and winning percentage should be considered. Since the word "worst" implies a comparison, we should also look a how far the teams finished out of first place and, to see how truly bad they were, how far they finished behind the next-to- last-place team. Candidates The following table lists the teams we will consider for the designation as the worst team in baseball history. There have been other teams that were very bad. Obviously the choice of candidates is fairly arbitrary, however, most would agree that these nine teams were rather bad. -
Easoni'7 Art Shires, Boston First Base Son Lose After Such a Spectacular Man, Was Struck on the Nose by Showing
May 2l-C- mls at Ut. Angel; St Paul at Pirates, Hubbard aye. BIB BITS WILL 5; SPORTS Finneganand June S Pirates - at Gerraij: STATERS HI Hubbard at St. Paul, lit. Angel IB' Oyer Oregon Team Jones bye.' . Normal Billed June 12 Mt Asgel at Pirates: OIHEfi Gerrais at Hubbard. St. Paul bye. By June II Hubbard at Mt. An Narrow 67 to 64 Margin Second Time gel; St. Paul at Gerrais, Pirates bye. : Vf. W. L, r U Fft. 4 Pi. UONMOUTH, April 22. Wil ' Ftnnegan, Springfield, :'." O 1 Pat Mt. Angel St. Detroit --S S 0O!CTrri.-- , 00 Mid-Willam- ette June4 at nnlreraltya AH 2l - lamette tracks and Ohio; grappler, "win meet". Henry ,Three wih. s s . .ss7 ckic(e .4 e 4.400 7-t- Paul; Pirates at Hubbard, Gerrais .athletes, nosed out 1 o-f Five' Baseball Letiermen : N. : Tt 8t--L Bearcats Also Oulhit big field a Jones. of t ProvO, V Utah, fat; a bye." - --;v: T.'4 I S.400 . , - f Divisions Ready " nou. 4 .400 BMtu gi 1 jse 4 Tktory r oTsr Oregon Normal Available Despite ban 'clean? bout at the armory Tues Sim The second division Is composed f - Schoofs Team, Suffer school i here today In 7 a closely day .night on Matchmaker Harry 1 ' C0J1M :r- ForiReal Action ;t of clubs located In Polk county. CLEVELAND; April 22 (AP) h contested meet which was. marred "1 On Society Groups Plant mat card which Is featur- - . Some bad Breaks' ' Detroit let loose 22 hits to win : ft by a muddy track and occasional ing a finish: i two out : of three Mid-WlUamet- .game - made the The . -
Spring Training in Florida
Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 39 Number 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 39, Article 3 Issue 3 1960 Spring Training in Florida J. Roy Stockton Part of the American Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Article is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Stockton, J. Roy (1960) "Spring Training in Florida," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 39 : No. 3 , Article 3. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol39/iss3/3 Stockton: Spring Training in Florida SPRING TRAINING IN FLORIDA by J. ROY STOCKTON PRING TRAINING serves many purposes for the great American S game and business of baseball. The primary objective, of course, is to get the players into the best possible physical condi- tion for the arduous, 154-game pennant races during which the championships of the two major leagues are decided. During this conditioning process young players and others who may have been obtained in trades are inspected and tested in practice sessions, squad games, and exhibition contests. During the off-season each major league club is permitted to carry a maximum of 40 players on its roster. There are modifica- tions to this rule. For instance, returning service men may be carried for a specific period without counting as members of the 40-man squad. -
1943 Sacramento Solons ©Diamondsinthedusk.Com
TEAM SNAPSHOT: 1943 Sacramento Solons ©DiamondsintheDusk.com 1943 Sacramento Solons (41-114) “From Riches to Rags” Hitting Pos. G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB AVG After winning the 1942 Pacific Coast League Nippy Jones 2B 129 477 44 145 25 6 4 37 9 .304 crown on the final day of the season, the Mickey Burnett SS 145 552 57 152 21 4 6 43 32 .275 Sacramento Solons fall to last place in 1943, Fred Hensley 3B 133 434 35 119 20 5 1 44 0 .274 Pete Petersen C 98 278 24 75 14 6 5 34 3 .270 finishing 41-114 (.265) and 69 games behind Mickey Kavanaugh OF 141 485 34 129 23 2 1 40 16 .266 champion Los Angeles and 29 games behind Eddie Malone C 117 359 28 94 18 4 1 28 5 .262 the seventh-place Padres of San Diego. Manny Vias OF 108 346 38 84 13 3 0 24 6 .243 Bill Ramsey OF 110 379 44 89 14 2 0 21 28 .235 Jack Angle 1B 148 512 50 115 16 5 3 48 14 .225 Sacramento’s winning Dick Cole SS 26 76 3 17 0 1 0 0 0 .224 percentage of .265 is the Joe Molina OF 75 211 12 47 5 0 1 12 1 .223 worst in Pacific Coast Jake Suytar 1B 56 168 9 37 3 1 0 10 0 .220 League history. George Jumonville 3B 75 241 20 50 8 0 3 27 3 .207 Dan Phalen 1B 3 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 .167 Ken Penner P 3 1 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 The team’s best pitcher, Bud Byerly P 46 109 5 30 6 0 0 5 0 .275 left-hander Al Brazle, Jean-Pierre Roy P 27 59 3 15 1 0 0 3 0 .254 is 11-8 and leading the Al Brazle P 23 60 4 15 2 2 0 2 0 .250 PCL in ERA (1.69) when Paul Fitzke P 23 18 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Steve LeGault P 13 23 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 .130 the Cardinals call him Clyde Fischer P 14 8 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 .125 up on July 13, to replace James McFaden P 15 8 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 .125 pitcher Howie Pollet Clem Dreisewerd P 42 74 6 9 0 0 0 3 0 .122 who has entered the Al Brazle John Pintar P 42 68 2 6 0 0 0 2 0 .088 Army. -
1936-06-11, [P Page Six]
Pagre Six THE WESTERN NEWS, LIBBY, MONTANA Thursday, June 11, 1936. INES from an overcrowded note L book. (Which merely it another Splashy Print Dress way of saying that the Not In the Box for Sprightly Tots Score Dept it working overtime thin SEENand HEAR BRISBANE week.) around the Gente who ahould know *ay that the THIS WEEK U. S. will be knocked off in the Olym pics this year. Not enough money to pay for those who do want to go . NATIONAL CAPITAL! %■ 160,000 Horses Joe Medwlck uses the largest glove of By Carter Field A New Democracy any major league outfielder. It's al Thin Men Live Longer most a mate for the first baseman’s rr TV-iT FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT :<<■ mitt Hank Greenberg had to discard Must We Have W r? î . After losing $1,600 betting on Jim Washington.—In the prize ring and commandeered. Whereas the present The well advertised Queen Mary, 7 m In war, experts agree that It Is a splen world price of silver Is around 46 to looking very big moving up to her New * m my McLarnin, Jimmy Kelly spent two more C’s on a dinner celebrating Tony did quality not to know when you are ■17 cents, with every prospect that It York dock, repre ♦x i*-- • Canzonerl’s victory , . Three of licked. Because there Is always the will not rise materially above that. sented in reality r 1 the quintessence of Princeton's beat backs may be Ineligi possibility that something may happen China Protests ble for football next fall. -
History of Barbershop
HISTORY OF BARBERSHOP By David Krause and David Wright Definition of barbershop harmony. Read: Definition of Barbershop Harmony, from the Forward of the Contest and Judging Handbook. The Purpose Of This Course. We will attempt to trace the roots and the evolution of barbershop harmony from well before its actual beginnings up to the present. We will try to answer these questions: What were the tides of history which spawned the birth of the barbershop quartet, and what environment allowed this style of music to flourish? What were its musical forerunners? What are its defining characteristics? What other types of music were fostered contemporaneously, and how did they influence the growth of quartet singing? Which styles are similar, and how are they similar? How did the term "barbershop" arise? How long did the historical era of the barbershop quartet last? What other kinds of music sprang forth from it? Why did the style eventually need preservation? How was SPEBSQSA formed, and how did it become a national movement? What other organizations have joined the cause? How have they coped with the task of preservation? Are current day efforts still on course in preserving the style? How has the style changed since the Society was formed? We will spend the next few hours contemplating and attempting to answer these questions. Overtones. As barbershoppers, we are very conscious of the "ringing" effect which complements our singing. We consider it our reward for singing well- defined pitches in tune. The fact that a tone produced by a voice or an instrument is accompanied by a whole series of pitches in addition to the fundamental one which our ear most easily detects has been known for centuries. -
National~ Pastime
'II Welcome to baseball's past, as vigor TNP, ous, discordant, and fascinating as that ======.==1 of the nation whose pastime is cele brated in these pages. And to those who were with us for TNP's debut last fall, welcome back. A good many ofyou, we suspect, were introduced to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) with that issue, inasmuchas the membership of the organization leapt from 1600 when this column was penned last year to 4400 today. Ifyou are not already one of our merry band ofbaseball buffs, we ==========~THE-::::::::::::================== hope you will considerjoining. Details about SABR mem bership and other Society publications are on the inside National ~ Pastime back cover. A REVIEW OF BASEBALL HISTORY What's new this time around? New writers, for one (excepting John Holway and Don Nelson, who make triumphant return appearances). Among this year's crop is that most prolific ofauthors, Anon., who hereby goes The Best Fielders of the Century, Bill Deane 2 under the nom de plume of "Dr. Starkey"; his "Ballad of The Day the Reds Lost, George Bulkley 5 Old Bill Williams" is a narrative folk epic meriting com The Hapless Braves of 1935, Don Nelson 10 parison to "Casey at the Bat." No less worthy ofattention Out at Home,jerry Malloy 14 is this year's major article, "Out at Home," an exam Louis Van Zelst in the Age of Magic, ination of how the color line was drawn in baseball in john B. Holway 30 1887, and its painful consequences for the black players Sal Maglie: A Study in Frustration, then active in Organized Baseball. -
The Retro Sheet Retro News 9 Official Publication of Retrosheet, Inc
June 2, 1999 Inside: Volume 6, Number 2 Game Acquisitions 2 Nominations Sought 3 Strange Plays 5 The Retro Sheet Retro News 9 Official Publication of Retrosheet, Inc. There are two topics for this column: game logs and data release policy. The game log story is really just an up- date from last time. Since then Tom Ruane has done a lot of work getting the logs organized. He has had help from Mark Armour who is filling in some of the gaps, especially umpires. In addition David Vincent has written a program that will make access to these logs easy and logical. All that is left is to get the logs posted on the web site, which we hope will be accomplished very soon, perhaps even before you read this notice. The Retrosheet Board of Directors explicitly gave permission to the President of the organiza- tion to decide when a given data file was ready to release. Up to this point, I have been very conservative and we have only released files that had undergone exhaustive proofing. For ex- ample, totals generated from our play by play files agree to the greatest extent possible with the official totals in all batting and pitching categories. For those cases (very few) where our numbers differ from the official totals, we have detailed descriptions of the source of these dif- ferences. The logic behind this slow approach is that I thought it would be damaging to our credibility to release one ver- sion of a file without detailed proofing and then to replace it later after we had made corrections. -
Boston Extends Mark Against Mm
BOSTON EXTENDS MARK AGAINST MM Pin Tourney Sports Recruits with Low Earned-Run ghoSßßßwßwot- to Start Roundup- Marks Tighten Cards' Pitching —Eddio Brlots on March 17 jV '%*¦ I : • NEW YORK. Feb. 18.-—Hor- Minor Evonft ton Smith was the first top flight golf pro to fill out hia Will Bo Hold draft questionnaire. He drew a sub-par number . Holdout WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1941 PAGE 7 from March 24-29, Mickey Owen has been trying ®‘r; EiilL/ i to Larry MacPhall at Ha- call H : . I fl|or v Jmwk 1 §• ••>>.• Mjgßk •• I •Limber up, all you bowlers! vana collect from Springfield, v iT •meSImSMM The annual Mount Clemens- Mo.,' but Larry won’t answer roosldtrfd tIM • . Macomb bowling tournament the telephone . Boston hears The Sports Glass will begin on March 17 in the Slip Madigan is coming east to Mount Clemens Recreation hall try to land the Boston college —Min Clifford way, and on March 24 at the Macomb coachtng job ... By the Recreation, according to an an- those pro and con letters Bean- Toronto •Funniest line of the year wos pulled the night before last by been nouncement made yesterday town fans are writing the papers Gullible Gus Dorazio, the gent who certainly must have afteroon by Arnold Rocken- on whether Frank Leahy should talked into a fight with Joe Louis. suess, manager of the tourna- have left B.' C. make mighty funny, for at the time ... Gus didn't mean his remark to be ment. swell reeding Ed Oliver, - *¦•'?¦ ~ .&&&"s he let it fall he was just being shovelled off the canvas in Phil- On March 17, the five-man the golfer, has just received no- notion, adelphia after a photo punch by the Detroit Chocolate Drop events will start. -
The Dillon Examiner
~íf y i * f i l p f i * iR p m ■ v ^f,. i* »s? J* - í¿' 1 : J THE DILLON EXAMINER |By JIM RHODYI Don't'Strain' Gun An intimate knowledge of dis A- tances in relation of effective shot gun ranges is one of the most im Atlantic Pact Ratified portant factors in successful wing shooting. "A huge amount of sporting am' 11—World welterweight champion Sugar munition is wasted every season Ray Robinson successfully defends July title from Havana’s Kid Gavilan. Top Ten Spot News 1—Justice department files anti-trust because many shooters have never 13—American league All-stars defeat suit in U.S. district court in Chicago taken the trouble to learn to judge National League team, 11-7. aimed at breaking up du Pont em 31—Sam Snead takes Western Open golf Stories of 1949 pire. various distances,” says Henry P. championship at S t Paul. 15—Charles (Lucky) Luciano, ex-New York vice king, barred from Rome Davis of Remington Arms Co. August a These are the 10 biggest after being questioned about nar “ They think a game bird is within 10—Ezzard Charles successfully defends news stones of the past year, ascotics ring. shooting range as long as they can heavyweight championship by de 25—Thomas Mann receives Goethe prize feating Gus Lesvenich. selected by a representative for literature In first visit to native 5—Truman asks higher identify it as such, and blast away 19—Hlronoshln Furuhashl, Japan, sets group of weekly newspaper edi Germany in 18 years. -
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Police Court Aftermath
MOST PROGRESSIVE WITH THE SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER LARGEST IN GUARANTEED THIS AREA CIRCULATION "The Voice of] the Raritan Bay District" VOL. VI.—No. 3 FORDS, N. J., FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941' PRICE THREE Police Court Aftermath Use Of Municipal-Owned Property Adjacent To Oak Carteret Man, Allegedly Involved In Several Highway Tree School Proposed At Session Monday Night Escapades, Injured When Car Finally Overturns RARITAN TOWNSHIP—Due to over-crowded play- FOKDS—When Joseph Bognar, of 92 Warren Street, ground facilities at Oak Tree school, the township Board •Carteret, was released from the Perth Amboy General of Education Monday night in the Bonhamtown school Hospital yesterday morning- he was taken to police head- Vacation Of Part Of Keas- Dudics Again Elected As Conferences Held During Federal Government Will quarters at Woodbridge and booked' on a complaint of discussed a proposal to take over several municipally- 1 bey Street Protested Chairman At Meeting Of owned properties adjoining the Oak Tree school. Turn Over Building To hit-and-run driving . When he appeared before Eecorder Arthur Brown he was fined $25 and $3 costs. In Letter To Board. Clara Barton Unit Inspection of playground facilities by Mayor Walter C. Christensen and school board Bognar, according .to the' testi- members revealed that additional mony, hit one car, almost struck space was sorely needed. Mayor several other - cars, came within HAZARD TO CHILDREN;, AUDIT IS ARRANGED, Christensen informed board mem- inches of knocking: two boys off bers of properties available and their bicycles and finally wound PEDESTRIANS CHIEF GIVES REPORT transferable for school use. up by crashing into a tree and Should building -of an addition turning his' car over, Tuesday to the.school become necessary in night.