Comments on: Exactly 100 Career HR

By: Larry R.

Larry R. — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:31:32 +0000

Piersall had issues. See "Fear Strikes Out", with Anthony Perkins as Jimmy.

Hmm...Perkins plays Piersall and Norman Bates. Perhaps Perkins had issues too.

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:35:56 +0000

lol also Jim Piersall had nine children with his first wife and the divorced her! that is rough

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:33:11 +0000

@53 in 40 games with the mets, Piersall he hit .194. He was released a month after hitting the home run. Interesting career

By: Kahuna Tuna

Kahuna Tuna — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:51:13 +0000

Birtelcom, however many seasons it works out to be, the decimal difference between Demaree's and Furillo's career batting averages is .00000219444 — a number so small I had to change the cell format to get Excel to display it as a decimal rather than a negative exponent. The decimal difference between the two averages is one divided by 455,697. You can then use 455,697 as the number of at-bats, given their respective career batting averages, that each player would have to have in order for the difference in their respective hit totals to equal one full hit (136,467.1759 hits for Demaree, 136,466.1759 for Furillo). How many at-bats you'd want to assign to a theoretical full season is something we could debate, but you might want to proportionally reduce the 162-game season shown under each player's B-Ref hitting stats to a 154-game season. Using this calculation, Demaree gets 552.3086 AB in a 154-game season, Furillo 543.7531. Demaree needs just over 825 player seasons to amass 455,697 at-bats, Furillo just over 838. That's if you want the difference between them to climb to exactly one full hit. If you're okay with rounding, the numbers go down. (-;þ So yeah, "about 1,000 full baseball seasons" sounds right.

By: birtelcom

birtelcom — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:31:10 +0000

@47: Nice find on Demaree. So if I've calculated correctly, based on their respective batting averages, if Demaree and Furillo each played for about 1,000 full baseball seasons, Demaree would end up with one more career hit than Furillo.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:17:12 +0000

51 He did it with the Mets and they cut him after he did it.

By: Neil L.

Neil L. — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:28:22 +0000

@51
That has been mentioned before in BR, Nesnhab, but thanks. Nowadays, would Piersall be accused up showing up the pitcher and get plunked the next time at bat?

By: nesnhab

nesnhab — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:20:10 +0000

Jim Piersall, in the twilight of his career, said he would celebrate his 100th homer by running the bases backwards. And he did.

I guess he hit a few more after that though.

By: thom-13

thom-13 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:13:28 +0000

John Kruk most definitely weighed 170 lbs while playing baseball.

This would have been sometime since he turned five and when he started in the Majors.

By: Kahuna Tuna

Kahuna Tuna — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:01:18 +0000

The player who hit the most career home runs, half in the NL and half in the AL: Candy Maldonado — 73 in each league. À propos of nothing at all, the Dodgers and Giants have traded with each other only once since the 12/11/85 trade of Maldonado from the Dodgers to the Giants for Alex Treviño.