Fellow KODers -
I've
been reviewing some KOD historical stats, including the KOD 24 regular
season. I found something of interest I thought I would share. On August 29
this past KOD 24 season just completed, during the '70 San Francisco -
'69 Pittsburgh game, something happened that had never happened before
in KOD history. I would guess that neither manager appreciated what they
had just seen.
The
Pirates' Dave Cash led off the top of the 8th inning with a pinch hit
HR. Nobody was more shocked than his teammates. Cash's HR was his first
in 928 KOD ABs. Until then Cash was the KOD record holder for most KOD
ABs without a HR. But no more. Now he's tied with Tim Foli and Nellie
Fox as the only 3 players in KOD history with only 1 HR in more than 650
ABs. With Cash having managed to escape the ignoble
Class-of-the-Homerless, there are now 4 players left: Walt Weiss, Frank
Taveras, Mark Belanger, and Maury Wills.
Wills
takes over as the current KOD record holder for most KOD ABs without a
HR in at least 650 ABs. He has 820 ABs. But Belanger is only 7 ABs
behind him. It will be interesting to see how many KOD seasons will be
necessary for either one of them to hit their first round-tripper.
DZ
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