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ShareThisStan Hack’s Bad Day In The Big Apple On The Big Stage
I was just playing around with Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index new All-Star Game Pitching Event Finder, looking at which pitchers fanned the most batters at an All-Star played at Yankee Stadium. Why? Hey, I admit...when it comes to looking at old baseball stats, sometimes I find myself wondering the strangest things.
Anywho, when looking at the results, the 1939 All-Star Game caught my eye. There were 62,892 fans there that day. Stan Hack was the lead-off batter for the National League in the game.
When you look at Stan's career stats, you see that he usually whiffed around 40 times a year. Today, that would make him out to be a great contact hitter. But, back in Hack's day, he was probably one of the top twenty in the league - in terms of swinging and missing.
Getting back to that game in 1939, Stan Hack struck out to start the game - and he was caught looking to end the game.
Some All-Star moment in the Big Apple, huh? Book-ending the game with K's.
The only other All-Star Game to start and end with a strikeout was 1979. But, that was different batters in each situation.
So, Stan Hack stands alone with this one. It's a good little trivia question to hit your friends with at this time of the year. I doubt that many would be able to guess it.
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