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skyking162.com - 1/18/2008
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On Tuesday I outlined a variety of a sources for historical fielding data . Yup, just by downloading a few files, you too can have access to how many runs any fielder saved* in any season back to 1957. I spent last night looking through the data and found some interesting stuff. Read on.
(* Well, a moderately accurate guess, at least.)
Ozzie vs. Mark Belanger
Growing up, I always took ...
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skyking 162: Fun With Historical Fielding Numbers
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skyking 162: Fun With Historical Fielding Numbers If Ozzie Smith was the Nicholas Brothers rolled into one...Mark Belanger had Gus Giordano done cold. Ozzie vs. Mark Belanger Growing up, I always took it for granted that Ozzie Smith was the best fielding shortstop of all time. After all, he’s a Hall of Famer with a decidedly mediocre bat. But the more I read about baseball prior to 1988 (Kirk Gibson’s World Series homerun is the first baseball event I remember watching in real time), the more I see the name Mark Belanger. He was the Orioles’ shortstop from 1966 through 1981. ...
