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Baseball

kairos12

(13,248 posts) Thu Jun 13, 2019, 12:05 AM Jun 2019

Lou Gehrig

Stole home 15 times in his career.

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Lou Gehrig (Original Post) kairos12 Jun 2019 OP

Wow! GeoWilliam750 Jun 2019 #1

And Ty Cobb and Jackie Robinson True Dough Jun 2019 #3

Babe Ruth 10 times. kairos12 Jun 2019 #4

If the late great Yogi Berra was still around he'd tell you Robinson stole home only 18 times Brother Buzz Jun 2019 #5

Question from someone who doesn't know all the ways which baseball numbers are parsed...: RockRaven Jun 2019 #2

GeoWilliam750

(2,540 posts)

1. Wow!

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Thu Jun 13, 2019, 12:27 AM

Jun 2019

Last edited Thu Jun 13, 2019, 04:56 PM - Edit history (1)

And Jackie Robinson did it 19 times

And Ty Cobb did it 54 times

True Dough

(20,257 posts)

3. And Ty Cobb and Jackie Robinson

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 13, 2019, 05:53 AM

Jun 2019

wouldn't have gotten along very well if they played for the same team!

kairos12

(13,248 posts)

4. Babe Ruth 10 times.

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 13, 2019, 09:49 AM

Jun 2019

Brother Buzz

(37,797 posts)

5. If the late great Yogi Berra was still around he'd tell you Robinson stole home only 18 times

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 13, 2019, 11:18 AM

Jun 2019

RockRaven

(16,270 posts)

2. Question from someone who doesn't know all the ways which baseball numbers are parsed...:

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Thu Jun 13, 2019, 12:53 AM

Jun 2019

does "stealing home" necessitate that the pitcher either threw the ball to the catcher as a pitch, or did nothing...

or does stealing home include advancing from 3rd to home while the pitcher is trying to pick off a runner (excluding errors, of course)?

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