Jamie Moyer is on the verge of becoming a MLB leader of sorts. At the time of this writing, he has allowed 439 home runs in his career (25 this year). When he reaches 449, he will be #1 among all left-handed pitchers at allowing homers, AND he will assume the title of most homers ever allowed by a player NOT in the Hall of Fame.
Question 1... What pitcher will he pass to advance in both categories?
Question 2... What four HOF'ers have allowed more homers than Moyer?
Guesses please. No fair looking it up.
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I didn't look anything up, so this is probably wrong.
Answer 1 - Frank Tanana.
Answer 2 - Robin Roberts, Jim Palmer, Phil Niekro, Ferguson Jenkins.
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Excellent! The only wrong answer was Jim Palmer. Roberts (#1), Jenkins (#2), and P.Niekro (#3) are the correct HOF'ers; and Frank Tanana (#5) is the leading lefty until Moyer (#6) passes him.
Jim Palmer, believe it or not, is currently tied with ex-Tweener Woody Williams for 41st place.
A hint for HOF'er #4... He won game 7 of the 1981 NASOMA World Series.
Kudos to the Tweeners and also the Snakeman, who correctly guessed 3 of the 4 HOF'ers (including the one the Tweeners missed).
His incorrect HOF guess was Nolan Ryan, who is tied for 33rd on the all-time homer allowed list. The Snakeman went with Tom Browning as the non-HOF lefty. Browning is tied for 114th place.
The little Wahoo also correctly guessed Roberts and Jenkins.
So is the other guy Don Sutton?
Correct. Don Sutton rounds out the top 4.
even better question, since I had Don Sutton, did I have him in 1981, cause that would ahve meant I won the series.
Where is my Pig Publishing book?
Thank you Pigman for making my day, as I thought Don was with me then, so I must have won the series that year.
one I remember is our first year, when we were so clueless, and played injuries full rules, and I played last game of first world series with Phil Niekro in LF, and Burt Hooten at 3B.
dummies we were.
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