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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Happy Birthdays

52 MLB players have birthdays today.  Since Ty Cobb is one of them, I thought that this day might be near the top of the list for most career hits for players born on a day.  Wrong I was.

Cobb had about 31% of the hits for players born on 12-18.  Bill Skowron was second with 1,566.  Roy Howell is the only other player on the list who got onto a Kellogg's card.  Howell is fifth on this list with 991 hits.  This group of players has over 13,000 hits.  I have no idea if that is a lot.


Four days during the year have over 20,000 career hits by players born on that day. 

06-15 - 56 players; Leader - Wade Boggs (3011), Billy Williams (2711), Brett Butler (2375);

10-30 - 66 players; Leader - Ed Delahanty (2597);

12-20 - 57 players;  Leader - Cecil Cooper (2192); 10 players over 1,000 hits.

10-18 - 63 players; Leader - Willie Horton (1983)


What does all of this mean?  Nothing.  I just decided to check it out instead of just mentioning that today is Ty Cobb's birthday.





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2 comments:

  1. FujiDecember 18, 2018 at 10:09 PM

    Wow. That's some serious research. Very interesting.

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  2. RunForeKelloggsDecember 19, 2018 at 4:04 AM

    I like to keep using my data mining skills, even if isn't really useful. I might not teach for the rest of my career.

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