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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

BASEBALL THINK TANK: More Than 200, Less Than .250

Today, we are speaking of switch hitters. There have been 28 of them in history (since 1901) with averages under .250 and have at least 3000 career PAs.

Name the FIVE with 200+ HRs.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=3ubu5




Jersey Born


A look at Garden State-born Major League Baseball Players. Some you will know and some are unknown to us all, but represented Jersey in the show.


Mule Haas (Montclair, NJ)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/haasmu01.shtml

Athletics/White Sox/Pirates 1925-1938

Career Highlight: As a member of the Philadelphia Athletics, hit a 3-run inside-the-park homer in a 10-run seventh inning of Game 4 of the 1929 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. The A's were down 8-0 entering the frame and won 10-8. Two days later in the fifth and final game, Haas hit a game tying 2-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, helping Philadelphia to the world title.