Historical Hitter November 1st: William Fredrick “Heinie” Heitmuller
For years the Pacific Coast League played the longest schedule in baseball, running from early April to the last week of October, with some years ending November 1st. In 1912 the season ended on the 28th with the Oakland Oaks winning the six team league title by 5 full games, 112 -79 .539 with Vernon ...
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Historical Hitter October 29-30: Monte Ward
With the Giants winning their Eighth World Series Title, or 10 if one includes the two from 1888 &1889, it brings forth the famous last stanza from Casey at the Bat. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men ...
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Historical Hitter October 28th: John Montgomery Ward
Today was the day Monte Ward joined the Baseball Tourists en-route. Ward had arrived late for his Giants had just gotten done with their successful 1888 World Series in Missouri, playing against the American Association Browns. It was the Tourists second game in Denver, and a day of acclimation did wonders for the players and ...
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Historical Hitter October 2th 1888: Cap Anson
On this day in 1888 The All-American Stars were playing the Chicago National Leaguers on their American wing of their Around the World Tour of 1888-1889. This was Game 8 and was played at River Front Park in Denver Colorado. The score was Chicago 16 – All Americans 12. The Hitting Hero was the mainstay ...
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Historical Hitter October 24th 1892: Hugh Duffy
In the age when the Beaneaters were the toast of Boston and kings of baseball, their leader was once derided as being too small to play ball with the comment, “we already have a batboy.” Yet this diminutive player soon became one of the games titans, and set the highest single season batting average, and ...
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SMART hitting! THINK OUTSIDE THE BATTER’s BOX
The ability of a baseball hitter to get the count in his favor will very often determine success. 2-0 or 3-1 are Big Swing counts. The batter should be coming out of his shoes in an aggressive swing or he should not be swinging at all! No big deal if you take a tough strike and the count becomes 2-1 or 3-2. That is SMART hitting! THINK OUTSIDE THE BATTER's BOX