Special guest at the Hot Stove meeting: Brent Stevens, Babe Ruth’s great grandson. Maintains the website www.BabeRuthCentral.com and has written a book titled Out Of The Mouth of Babe. Lives in Roswell. He brought a framed letter written in 1947 by Ty Cobb to the Babe. Cobb, more of a singles hitter, didn't like how home run hitters like Ruth were changing the game. Little did he know.
Old Tom Curren was born in 1941, and remembered seeing the newspaper headlines when Babe Ruth died in 1948. I need to get some conditioner to oil my baseball gloves. Next meeting will be March 22. The Jonathan Harris look-alike brought several of his old gloves, and offered to oil up mine.
The Hot Stove guys recounted the hostage situation in the school, years ago. All the Forsyth County schools were on lockdown all day. Johnny took the gun away from the boy. Johnny had his old collection of Hanna bats set out. Made in Athens Ga.
Jeff Hullinger did a feature story on the black little league team back in the 60's, coached by the legendary Southwest Dekalb football coach. On the way home I bought a Savannah Bananas cap for two bucks. If you can't beat'em, join'em. Kinda tight.
For valentines, last night Ceil cooked me burgers, and a steak for her. Big baked potatoes. And she baked an apple pie and bought vanilla ice cream.
After a month of retirement, I'm wondering about the future of this blog. I post every day. I really don't have time to sit in front of the computer and type up things that I am trying to think through. It is helpful and therapeutic. Perhaps after supper I can peck out my thoughts on my phone. Not sure what I am gonna do. Not as many TV shows that I am interested in either. Best Medicine. Georgie & Mandy. Peyton's Places. Only Murders in the Building. I quit watching Elsbeth and that other detective show. Too much work to watch when C doesn't want to watch. I don't really watch much baseball on TV, though the Braves will be airing 15 spring training games in March. When I watch football, I spend a good deal of time working on my laptop. Thought about mounting a flatscreen in my office, but I'm not sure why. I've been listening to the radio, but even that can be distracting.
MIKE TROUT [B-R Bio] has a higher career WAR than any of these MVPs / Hall of Famers Jeff Bagwell, Johnny Bench, Rod Carew, Joe Dimaggio, Ken Griffey Jr, Chipper Jones, and Robin Yount. When Trout won his second All-Star Game MVP in 2015, he joined Willie Mays (1963, 68), Steve Garvey (1974, 78), Gary Carter (1981, 84), and Cal Ripken (1991, 2001) as a 2-time winner. From 2012 thought 2016, Trout led the league in WAR, with: 10.5, 8.9. 7.7, 9.5, & 10.4. Led MLB 4 times. Only Led the AL in 2015.
Player WAR MVP HOF Vote%
Bagwell* 79.9 NL 1993 2017 86.2
Bench* 75.1 NL 1970,72 1989 96.4
Carew* 81.2 AL 1977 1991 90.5
DiMaggio 79.1 AL 1939,41,47 1955 88.8
Griffey 83.8 AL 1995 2016 99.3
Jones 85.3 NL 1999 2018 97.2
Yount 77.4 AL 1982,89 1999 77.5
Trout 87.5 AL 2014,16,19
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