Dawgs Beat Dogs.

 

Yesterday was military appreciation day at Clemson, so the Tigers wore purple jerseys. Beating Louisville would clinch the division championship for Clemson, so they wore their orange pants - making for a rare uni combo. Highlight reel TD run, leaping over one defender then busting through two more. 

Louisville's uniforms were horrendous.  All black helmets and pants. Small, unreadable block-shadow numbers. Hard to look worse than purple jerseys and orange pants, but the Cardinals looked like a high school team out there.

Another sad day at Grant Feild. QB Jeff Sims went from "available" to "unavailable". Odd story. Maybe we'll find out the rest of it one day. 

Jackets were favored, but lost big. Another lost season.

NAP LAJOIE  [SABR Bio] secured the highest qualifying single-season batting average of the 20th century. He hit .426 in 1901 for Philadelphia in the AL's inaugural season. He had a solid season that year, winning the Triple Crown and leading the majors in nine offensive categories: 14 HR and 125 RBI. He led the majors in R, H, 2B, hit .426, OBPB SLG, OPS, OPS+, TB & SLG. He was also the first American League player to hit for the cycle, on 30-Jul-1901. Lajoie's teammate Harry Davis is listed as having done the trick three weeks earlier on 10‑Jul‑1901. However, a thorough check of multiple box scores does not credit Davis with a cycle on that or any other day.

CHARLIE GEHRINGER  [SABR Bio] was the first player to reach base in a modern All-Star Game. He got a base on balls from NL starter Bill Hallahan in the bottom of the 1st in the inaugural All-Star Game in 1933. Gehringer stole 2nd, but was stranded. He is the last American League player to hit sixty doubles in a season, in 1936. Sixty doubles in a season is rare (only done 6 times). Joe Medwick set the NL record that same season with 64 to lead the majors. Charlie was the first player in the Modern Era to hit an inside the park home run and grand slam in the same game, on 04-Aug-1930, both off Hall of Fame pitcher Ted Lyons. The GS was a 12th inning walk off.