Miscellaneous Useless Trivia

Of the 107 times pitchers have pitched in 80 or more games in a season, only two guys have done it more than three times: Paul Quantrill (5) and old rubber-armed submariner Kent Tekulve (4). Those who did it three times include Steve Kline, Ray King and Mike Stanton. The vast majority of folks on the list have done it only once. It would seem that one year of pitching every other game is enough to convince the pitcher and/or management to limit them to 60-75 the rest of their career.

If the only 8 times that 90-games pitched has been accomplished, six of the occasion are by just two players: Mike Marshall (3 times) and Tekulve (3). Wayne Granger also did it in an earlier generation, while only Salomon Torres, in 2006, has done it in the past 20 years.

Among pre-World War II players, finishing your career between 2900-3000 hits was just about as common as finsihing above 300 hits. Whereas 7 players founded the 3000 hit club before 1945 (in rough chronoligical order: Cap Anson, Nap Lajoie and Honus Wagner, Cobb, Speaker and Eddie Collins, and Paul Waner; 6 made 2900 but fell short of 3000 (Jake Beckley, Willie Keeler, Sam Crawford, Sam Rice, Rogers Hornsby, and Al Simmons).

Since 3000 became such a big deal post-WWII, 20 more have joined that Club, only two more (Frank Robinson and Barry Bonds) have joined the 2900-2999 group, and both of them had the consolation of 500 HRs.

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