>>>Actually, no. I don't have numbers. It just seems to be something I know (or knew) from my time playing ball. It was one of those things that everybody just 'knew'.
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>>>When I say, my time playing ball, I have to clarify that I never played professional ball. I had an invitation to a travelling tryout here in Toronto, conducted by the then Milwaukee Braves, and I had a few bird dogs talking to me, but that was both a long time (think Milwaukee Braves), and a different life ago.
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>>The Milwaukee Braves, yup, that does date it, but that's very cool. Obviously you were better than most of us ever were.
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>>You would not believe how much of my head is filled with useless baseball trivia. My all-time favorite is about the year Lou Gehrig knocked in 102 runs .... on the road.
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>Everybody interested in baseball trivia knows who Gehrig replaced at first base for the Yankees. A more interesting question, at least to me, is who did Babe Ruth replace in the Yankee outfield?

Hint - He was a bear of a man.