Recondite Baseball

An open collection of baseball's little-known records and curiosities.

"He would have been among the league leaders in batting average for a majority of the season had he had enough plate appearances."
-- 2008 St. Louis Cardinals Media Guide about non-roster invitee Mark Johnson

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Anti-DiMaggios

Fifty-six is one of those special baseball numbers. Today, people start to get excited when someone has a hitting streak half as long as Joe...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A Non-All-Star All-Star Team

I forget how I ended up there but I wound up looking at Tim Salmon's baseball-reference.com page recently and was intrigued by the spon...

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Facing Young Starters

File this under frivolous. I'm pretty sure every fan is mad when a rookie starting pitcher throws a good game against his or her favorit...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Batter P/PA Since 2000

A lot of the lineup talk in Milwaukee these days focuses on Jason Kendall batting ninth, and perhaps rightly so. After all, it's unfamil...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Most Career Walks Allowed per 9 Innings, 1901-2007

Last week I posted about the highest career WHIP in MLB history and, shortly after, the most hits allowed per nine innings pitched in MLB hi...

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Most Career Home Runs by Height

Not much of an introduction here. Below is a list of the career home run leaders at each listed height. At least one major league player in ...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

6'6" and Stealing

There haven't been that many players in major league history listed at 6'6" or taller. In fact, only 245 players to appear in a...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Most Career Stolen Bases by a Catcher

There's a Joe Garagiola (or Yogi Berra, depending on the source) quote that applies to topics like this: "The wind always seems to ...

Monday, March 10, 2008

Most Career Hits Allowed per 9 Innings, 1901-2007

This kind of relates to the previous post about WHIP. Hits Allowed as a statistic has been dismissed more and more as the concept of a pitch...

Friday, March 7, 2008

Highest Career WHIP, Minimum 1000 IP

In baseball parlance, WHIP stands for Walks and Hits per Innings Pitched. That's pretty self-explanatory, though Milwaukee Brewers color...

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