Monday, July 4, 2011

July 4, 1960: Mickey's 300th HR

Mantle 300
The Yanks lost. Their record was 43-26-1. I bet Casey wouldn't have waited one batter too many to yank AJ.
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3 comments:

  1. Joe De PastryJuly 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    I never could understand why Casey batted Richardson first most of the time. He was awful. Career OBP .299. Never higher than .337.
    {Jeter career .383; this year .320; last year .340}

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  2. David BallelaJuly 5, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    You're right Joe. In retrospect they should have kept Jerry Lumpe instead.
    He had about the same lifetime BA, but a career OBP of .325. Plus he had a lot more power.

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  3. Joe De PastryJuly 7, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    I think they thought Richardson was a better fielder, but the stats on Baseball-Reference.com don't support that. But we did get Ralph Terry in the Lumpe trade; maybe the A's didn't want Richardson.

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