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Bold season totals indicate player led league. Italic season totals indicate player led all major leagues. I resolved the discrepancies by carefully examining the game descriptions presented in multiple newspaper accounts. They concurred percent with my findings and incorporated the relevant information in the Retrosheet boxscore file and the derived player daily file for Ruth.
Table 2 presents the actual RBI record that Babe Ruth achieved for his —19 seasons according to my research. This means although MLB. Moreover, for the —19 period, Ruth amassed a total of RBIs—not While researching the —34 seasons I discovered a total of games with RBI-errors in the official baseball records involving Yankees players; Babe Ruth was involved in 45 of these RBI-error games.
Table 3 presents the salient details for each of the 45 RBI-errors I discovered in the official records for Babe Ruth. At the outset of this article we stated that many baseball record books differ as to whether Ruth led the league in RBIs four or six times. I obtained complete details for each run scored in of the games that The Bambino played. I used independent accounts from several newspapers in order to achieve certainty.
They concurred with my conclusions. All researchers are encouraged to examine the supporting documentation available in the online appendix at SABR.
There were 22 games for which I was unable to obtain complete run and RBI details. As previously mentioned, with the exception of the game of April 25, and the two games from and for which the newspaper box scores did not include RBI information, stats in the newspaper box scores matched identically to those in the official DBD ledgers. This suggests that the run and RBI information in the official records for these games is correct. In the absence of detailed information for these games, the official DBD RBI information must be considered to be correct by default.
As noted above, the corrections of each of the 45 RBI-errors have already been implemented on the Retrosheet website. It remains to be seen when Elias, MLB. To facilitate the implementation of the corrections, I provided the final draft of this manuscript and all the supporting documentation to Seymour Siwoff Elias , Cory Schwartz MLB. And for the —36 Tigers, 87 out of the games Detroit played — 9. But as the RBI-errors discovered for the Yankees and Tigers of the Ruth-Gehrig-Greenberg era indicate, there probably are a significant number of RBI-errors in the official records for the other major-league teams.
Runs batted in is a very important metric in evaluating both the absolute and relative performances of the players on each team and within each league. It is important to have accurate RBI statistics. At this time—with all the resources currently available—it is both appropriate and feasible to uncover and correct the RBI-errors.
I heartily encourage other SABR members to conduct the requisite research to ascertain accurate RBI statistics for the players on their favorite teams. It is my sincere hope that Major League Baseball will embrace such a collaborative enterprise to correct the errors in the official records and that key officials and fellow SABR members such as John Thorn, Cory Schwartz, and Seymour Siwoff will champion the effort.
Known for devouring the most hot dogs to drinking the most beers to bedding the most women, he possessed an insatiable appetite for life. The name "Babe Ruth" is synonymous with two other words, "home run.
Prodigious homers are still described as Ruthian. What other athlete has ever had an adjective named for him?
This is the man who truly made baseball the national pastime, the kid who started out looking like a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher with the Boston Red Sox who became a Hall of Fame left-handed hitting outfielder with the New York Yankees. The 6-foot-2, pound Ruth revolutionized the game, changing it from a pitcher-dominated, scratch-out-a-run contest to a homer-hitting, dialing-long-distance event.
Babe was the first to reach 30 homers, 40, 50, Twelve times he led the American League in homers, 11 times he hit more than 40, four times more than From , he slugged homers, an average of From , from ages 31 to 36 when he was supposedly past his prime after a subpar , he averaged 50 homers, RBI, runs and a.
How would you have liked to have him on your Rotisserie League team? With Ruth it's often difficult to separate truth from legend. Part of it is that we don't really seem to care. We want to believe that Ruth pointed towards the centerfield bleachers before homering in the World Series or that his "bellyache heard 'round the world," which caused him to undergo abdominal surgery in , was the result of his eating too many hot dogs. We want to believe that he promised a sick kid in the hospital that he would belt a homer for him the next day and then he hit three.
He was born George Herman Ruth on Feb. He was not an orphan, as legend has it his mother died when he was 16, his father when he was a major leaguer. Growing up wild on the streets, he stole, skipped school, chewed tobacco and drank whiskey. In , his parents placed him in St.
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