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Next time your team gives up a shitload of runs in an inning, remember it’s probably still not the worst thing a team has ever done.

On April 22, 1959, the A’s gave up 11 runs on 1 hit to the White Sox in the 7th inning. The inning featured three errors, ten walks (eight with the bases loaded!), and a bases-loaded hit batsman, as well as one lone single.

The best part is that aside from the single, none of the White Sox put a ball in play beyond the infield. Two of the errors were on the shortstop and third baseman (the other was the right fielder misplaying the single), and two of the outs were groundouts back to the mound, with the other a strikeout.

More fun: this was an A’s home game. Initial attendance was 7,446. How many of those do you think were left after this 7th inning?

Look at those pants, how tight they are! Dennis Eckersley’s first observation when TBS shows old footage of him pitching.

Bees take over agent Boras' suite at Angel Stadium - MLB - SI.com

He wasn’t there?! THAT’S NOT COOL. Those bees are stupid, then.

If you take the six guys who’ve made the most starts, they’ve pitched at a pace that’s only a win or two worse than that of New York’s rotation despite earning about one-seventh what the Yankees are paying AJ Burnett. Lookout Landing, discussing the Oakland A’s rotation (link)

brighteryellow:

rickankielsmustache:

Frankly, we’re more concerned with how a traded player reacts to being traded to a team full of porn ‘staches. Is that brought up in the negotiations?

(via JoeSportsFan)

I have nothing to add to this. Welcome, Holliday - let’s play baseball.

I will reblog every Holliday-mustache related thing.

The second one in the top row makes him look like he belongs on the side of a W.B. Mason truck.

reblogged from brighteryellow

He began that year sleeping in a firehouse in Camden, New Jersey, and ended it tending bar in a saloon in Wheeling, West Virginia. In between those events he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics, played left end for the Business Men’s Rugby Football Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt, courted, married and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts, saved a woman from drowning, accidentally shot a friend through the hand, and was bitten by a lion. Lee Allen on Rube Waddell’s 1903 season

In my opinion — and I suppose if there is any subject that I am qualified to discuss, it is pitching — Rube Waddell had more sheer pitching ability than any man I ever saw. That doesn’t say he was the greatest pitcher, by a good deal. Rube had defects of character that prevented him from using his talents to the best effect. He is dead and gone, so there is no need for me to enlarge on his weaknesses. They were well enough known. I would prefer to dwell on his strong points. And he had plenty. Walter Johnson