Question of the day: who’s your favorite sports sibling? Know of any? Dom, Joe, & Vince DiMaggio. Frank & Joe Torre.
Felipe, Matty, & Jesus Alou, Cal & Billy Ripken, John & Pat McEnroe, Rick & Mickey Mahler.
Phil & Joe Niekro. The Van Arsdale twins.
Jon & Scooter Barry. Justin & BJ Upton. Peyton, Eli, & Cooper Manning, Charlie & Pete Gogalak.
Nick & Steve Mike-Mayer. The Kelce brothers. The three Berras.
Chase & Travis d’Arnaud. The Selmon brothers. Walter & Eddie Payton. The Fridge played with his brother Michael Dean at Clemson. Dizzy & Daffy Dean.
Jim & Gaylord Perry.
Sandy & Roberto Alomar. George & Ken Brett.
The placekicking Gramatica brothers. The Boone brothers. Clete, Ken, & Cloyd Boyer.
Dominique & Gerald Wilkins. Never a fan of that Cardinals catcher Molina, nor his brothers. Not a fan of Tiki & Rhonde Barber.
Braves lost last night, so I’m trying out a different quarter zip to change their luck – my black Braves Vision qtr zip.
Six former Braves are struggling with their new teams: Charlie Morton, Dansby, Ramon Laureano, Travis d’Arnaud only has one hit, Ian Anderson, and Luke Jackson.
Currently reading Kaliane Bradley’s “The Ministry of Time”, a time travel novel set in England. New York Times bestseller. Highly regarded by Good Morning America, Parade Magazine, NPR, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Obama, and me. So it must be good.
Article: how to spend a day at the Masters.
Speaking of the Mannings, Arch Manning signed a NIL deal with Viori.
ICHIRO SUZUKI [SABR Bio] broke George Sisler’s 82-year-old record with 262 hits in 2004. Sisler had broken Ty Cobb’s record of 248 in 1911 with 257. From 2001-2019, Suzuki played in 2623 MLB games plus 19 in the postseason, but never reached the World Series. He was the first rookie to lead the majors in All-Star voting, with 3,373,035 in 2001.
When baseball’s Hall of Fame held its inaugural election for enshrinement TY COBB [SABR Bio] received the most votes of any candidate—222—98% of the vote. Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner received 215 votes apiece (95%). Christy Mathewson got 205 votes (90.7%) and Walter Johnson received 189 (83.6%). In Cobb’s triple crown year of 1909, he led the majors in HR (9), RBI (107), and average (.377). His career highs were 12 HR (1921, 1925), 127 RBI (1911), & BA of .419 (1911). Casey Stengel said of Cobb “He was the greatest all time ball player. That guy was superhuman, amazing.” In 14 of his 24 seasons, Cobb’s doubles outnumbered or equaled his strikeouts.
Year/2B/K/Difference
1911 47 42 5
1912 20 20 ~
1914 22 22 ~
1917 44 34 10
1919 36 22 14
1920 28 28 ~
1921 37 19 18
1922 42 24 18
1923 40 14 26
1924 38 18 20
1925 31 12 19
1926 18 2 16
1927 32 12 20
1928 27 16 11
Wednesday: worked till 6 pm. Wore my black adidas. Called C as I was leaving. She was headed to small group. My group wasn’t meeting, so I crashed on the couch. Watched Elsbeth. So good. Up early to hit the gym this AM.
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