Lou Gehrig

31 December 2010

g the highest honor in baseball, as five (Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Rogers Hornsby, and Lou Gehrig) are in the Hall of Fame, and Manny Ramirez and Todd Helton are still playing in the majors.  If Albert Pujols stays healthy, he should join the club in 2012.

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3 December 2010

well’s Slugging Percentage; two have been linked to steroids, and the other three (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Rogers Hornsby) are already in the Hall of Fame.

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract lists Bagwell as the fourth best first baseman of all time.  Albert Pujols may have passed him since the book’s release (2001), but Jeff Bagwell was one of the greatest position players of the nineties and will be rewarded with a one-way trip to Cooperstown in 2011.

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12 February 2010

Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas officially announced their retirements this week, ending speculation that either one would attempt a comeback in 2010 after not appearing in a big league game last season.  Glavine was a great finesse pitcher of his generation, and Thomas was a premiere slugger of the nineties.

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11 September 2009

The Iron Horse would be proud of Jeter


With his next base knock, Derek Jeter will break Lou Gehrig’s Yankee record of 2,721 career hits.  After passing Mantle and The Bab

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17 May 2008

The '36 Yanks, the first year of Joltin' Joe, and the last great one from Lou Gehrig, along with typically solid contributions by Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzeri and the usual cast of star Yankees.

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