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Ernie Lombardi batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he has won and his rank on various season and career statistical leaderboards. Also Career ...
posted 7/22/2007 in Ernie Lombardi Bookmarks
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CINCINNATI REDS - ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM
Published 2/9/2009 by Sully (info@sullybaseball.com) at SULLY BASEBALL
... imperative!
That's a great team!
The All Time Hits leader? MVPs? Hall of Famers? World Series heroes!
The only think they lacked was a true work horse All Time Cy Young Award winning Ace.
Do you think the Acquired Team has one?
Do you think they have one of the great pitchers of All Time?
Read on...
ALL TIME ACQUIRED REDS TEAM
STARTING CATCHER
ERNIE LOMBARDI
Lombardi was a great player, loved by the fans and was wrongly villified by ...
The Hardball Times:Matching presidents and ballplayers, 1933-2008
Published 8/11/2008 by Chris Jaffe at The Hardball Times
... find the ballplayer from that era who is most similar to the president, and explain the comparisons. This allows me to combine two loves: history and baseball. Last one only went to 1933, so this completes it. The downside is that it runs the risk of becoming political. The point of this is to be fun, not to get people caught up in some damn debate. Still, I want to get the guys who I think are good comps. Here are the matches since 1933. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45)/ Ernie Lombardi In 1921, when he was an up-and-coming politician still in his late 30s, FDR came ...
Pickoff Moves
Published 4/6/2007 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... Ernie Lombardi BRO b. 1908, played 1931, All-Star: 1936-1940, 1942-1943, 1945, Hall of Fame: 1986 (Veterans), d. 1977-09-26. Broke in with the Dodgers but made his name with the Reds, Lombardi was a tremendous offensive catcher with Bengie Molina quickness. Even that epithet may be inadequate; Bill James once wrote that Mo Vaughn would lap him in a race around the bases three times. But, man was he powerful! James again:
Ernie Lombardi was a huge man, with huge, oak-trunk legs and huge feet and huge hands and a promontory with nostrils that protruded from a lumpy face. He had huge arms and wrists like giant power cables that snapped around an unnaturally large bat, the heaviest used by any player of his time, and flicked the ball effortlessly wherever he wanted it to go.
His ability to smash hard line drives was his saving grace, and he twice won batting titles, ...
