Who is the best pitcher in baseball?
without reading previous answers and taking into account the way the game has changed…from live balls /dead balls -or more dramatically- the lowering of the pitching mound 5 inches after the ’67 season, when the BEST hitter - and the ONLY hitter to bat over a piddly .300 was Carl Yastrezmski. For best pitcher you would have to look at the entire career. Denny McClain was the last 30 game winner. But a broken big toe ( rumored from unpaid gambling debts) ruined his career. I think , the best of all time would be Sandy Koufax. I don’t care about pitchers prior to “ modern baseball”. Gibson was great, Clemens, Johnson, Ryan, but Koufax was fantastic. If you look at his last 4 seasons before he retired because of how it hurt his arm to pitch ( not that his stats were on the decline , but had gave to up the game because his arm pain was effecting the rest of his life) 92-17. Certainly I would consider any opposition to this assertion, but whoever brings up a “better” candidate must first shoot down Sandy Koufax
Best players in mlb from 1900-1920?
Here we go man, I'll help you out. Pitchers: Kid Nichols Cy Young Rube Waddell Vic Willis Joe McGinnity Jack Chesbro Christy Mathewson Eddie Plank Addie Joss Mordecai Brown Chief Bender Hitters: Frank Grant Billy Hamilton Sam Thompson Hugh Duffy Jack Beckley Fred Clarke Bobby Wallace Jimmy Collins Nap Lajoie Roger Bresnahan Elmer Flick Frank Chance Sam Crawford Pete Hill
Who was the Yankees first, first baseman?
Two answers:The 1903 New York Highlanders played their first game on April 22nd against the Washington Senators (1903 New York Highlanders), and according to the New York Times Boxscore (Baseball 1900-1920) the 1st baseman was John Ganzel. They officially became the Yankees in 1913 (1913 New York Yankees). Their first game was also against Washington on April 10th (1913 New York Yankees). According to that New York Times Boxscore (Page on wordpress.com), the 1st baseman was Dutch Sterrett.So John Ganzel was the 1st person to play 1B in Yankee history, while Dutch Sterrett was the first person to play 1B and be called a Yankee at the time.
Who were the most famous baseball players in the 1920s?
Babe Ruth of course was very famous. He still is to this day regarded as the best player of all time. His teammate was also very famous.Lou Gehrig was beloved for his professionalism and became a big star in New York during the 1920's.Ty Cobb's career was winding down by the 1920's, and despite his reputation, many believed he was the best player of all-time (he received more Hall of Fame votes than Babe Ruth).Rogers Hornsby, like Cobb, was well known for his dirty style of play and his, well, terrible lifestyle. Still, he was the first great NL player as baseball moved into the live ball era and was a two-time MVP, the first in NL history.Pie Traynor was widely regarded as the greatest 3B who ever lived, though his numbers do not hold up historically compared to others at other positions (such as Hornsby, who is still the greatest 2B statistically speaking).Christy Mathewson did not play in the 1920's, but perhaps he would have been regarded the same way Ted Williams is for post WWII fans. Mathewson's career was cut short following a training accident in the war that poisoned him, and he eventually developed and died of tuberculosis in 1925. Very well respected, including the 1925 World Series teams honoring him.Ray Chapman and Carl Mays. Ray Chapman was killed on the field in 1920 by a Carl Mays spitball. He remains the only player to have died from an on-field injury in a Major League game, and his death was of course shocking and significantly changed the culture of the game. Mays was not only infamous for this incident, but a year later, he was part of a scandal similar to the Black Sox scandal, although nothing came of that.Other names certainly belong, but these are among the big names of that era based on what I know. Although in all honesty, I would love to see how a historian would answer this question.
Where does Nolan Ryan rank all time?
You keep mentioning H/9 inning but that only tells half the story. You also need to consider BB/9. There's a huge difference if you walk 3 and then give up a single vs walking nobody and giving up a single. In his career Ryan started 738 games where he went at least 3 innings. Greg Maddux started 728 such games. Out of those 738 games there were only 23 where Ryan did not walk a single batter (and only one before 1980). Greg Maddux had 232 walkless games or 10 times as many. Ryan had a 13-3 record in those games which is a much better winning percentage than the games he did walk somebody. Ryan was the best ever at striking people out but strikeouts are overrated. Should the pitcher that had the most ground ball outs be considered the best ever? At least with ground ball outs you have a chance to get a double play. People always bring up the argument that he played for poor teams. Besides 1974, which team was really bad. Good pitchers have a way of making bad teams better. Over his career Ryan had a .526 winning percentage while his teams were .503. That's only .023 better than his team. Every other pitcher with over 300 wins had a much better percentage. For instance, Randy Johnson was .646 and his teams were .517. His difference was .129. Other Pitchers have been able to win Cy Young awards for poor teams. Look at Steve Carlton. Here are some pitchers that I would consider better than Nolan Ryan. 1900-1920 Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Pete Alexander, Eddie Plank, Mordecai Brown, Ed Walsh 1921-1940 Lefty Grove, Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean 1941-1960 Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford, Robin Robers 1961-1980 Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Jim Hunter, Jim Palmer, Steve Carlton 1981-2010 Greg Maddux, Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson So that's 25 that are better. There's probably a similar number that you could argue. Guys like Addie Joss, Rube Marquard, Red Ruffing, Don Drysdale, Allie Reynolds, Jim Bunning, Gaylord Perry, Don Sutton, Fergie Jenkins, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, etc. I think Ryan is probably better than most of them so I would rank Ryan somewhere between 25 and 30th.
What did people do for entertainment from 1900 to 1920 in britain?
Popular forms of entertainment were music halls, pleasure gardens, movie houses and theatres showing silent films. The King popularised horse racing and sporting events, although these were mainly for the wealthy. Gin Palaces and Public Houses became socially popular. At home family parlour games were popular - board games and so forth, and listening to the gramophone, although radio was still in its infancy. There was more leisure time than we know today - shops closed on Sundays (and Wednesday afternoons) and most entertainment established observed the Sabbath. People had less expectations of course, and were thrilled by the spectacles of exhibitions, fun fairs and the like that visited the larger cities. Compare the great exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian ages with the flop that was the Millennium dome.
What is the concept behind horoscopes that makes people believe?
I am a computer programmer who has worked in Machine Learning, so I'll give a kind of theoretical answer that has a general applicability.The thing that makes people believe in horoscopes is what is called "Overfitting". This means that, given a set of data, learning systems - human or animal or machine - can sometimes fit the noise in the data into a theory, even though it is just random noise.This is not just limited to humans. Rats in a Skinner box, where the reward is given randomly, will sometimes develop bizarre behaviours, as if they believe that these behaviours led to the reward. Gamblers at slot machines and baseball players with their luck socks have the same type of overfitting behaviour. Personally, I played around with the concept that US Presidents who were elected in a year divisible by 20 would die in office (1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960,..., Zachary Taylor the only exception). As is well known, Reagan broke the streak - he was only badly wounded.Horoscopes are like this. They start with a bogus theory that the planets and the signs of the Zodiac control our lives. The people who believe this pick and choose the data to confirm this overfitting. Which brings up the secondary point of Confirmation bias. People (and maybe animals, and maybe even computers, if programmed to look for patterns) will have confirmation bias because they become invested in their hypotheses.The tendency to overfit is inherent in any type of learning. You cannot eliminate it without eliminating the ability to learn new things. It is always a danger. Confirmation bias may possibly be avoided if the right controls are placed on the process of confirmation - for example by having the right amount of skepticism. But even then, it is hard to strike a balance. We have to live with the risk of overfitting if we are ever to learn. Likewise, we may have to live with confirmation bias if we want to avoid rejecting too many of what are actually true theorems.So, consider astrology the cost of having astronomers.
Circa 1900-1920, what did the medical term 'manition' mean?
I searched for "cancer manition" and found many sites with death certificate listings showing the same terminology. However, I did find one that was listed like this: manition (sic) & starvation due to cancer The term 'sic' is used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally. So, apparently MANITION was a commonly misspelled term for an unknown purpose. I searched medical dictionaries as well as dictionaries containing obsolete words. The answerer above may be right in saying it could be MANATION, although the definition doesn't quite fit (cancer doesn't really flow, or flow out of). Another possibility could be MONITION (an imitation of danger). That definition could have been twisted 100 years ago to mean that someone died AS A RESULT OF. I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help.