Comments on: St Louis Browns http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/496 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:02:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jackfish http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/496/comment-page-1#comment-3278 jackfish Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:34:35 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/496#comment-3278 It's amazing, the early 1920s featured four of their best hitters all on the same team (Williams, Sisler, Jacobson & Severeid) as well as their best pitcher (Shocker) and they made it as high as second place only once. While their lone World Series app. in 1944 featured only one of their best players (Stephens) and none of their best pitchers. I guess MLB was REALLY thinned out during the war years. Also I'm a bit surprised that Severied was picked over Rick Ferrell. A special mention should go to Harlond Clift who spent most of his career on crappy second division Browns teams(1934-43) only to get traded to the Senators the year before they made their one & only WS app. Jack It's amazing, the early 1920s featured four of their best hitters all on the same team (Williams, Sisler, Jacobson & Severeid) as well as their best pitcher (Shocker) and they made it as high as second place only once. While their lone World Series app. in 1944 featured only one of their best players (Stephens) and none of their best pitchers. I guess MLB was REALLY thinned out during the war years. Also I'm a bit surprised that Severied was picked over Rick Ferrell.
A special mention should go to Harlond Clift who spent most of his career on crappy second division Browns teams(1934-43) only to get traded to the Senators the year before they made their one & only WS app.

Jack

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