Saturday, May 8, 2010

ALSO DURING THE INTERVENING YEARS, GREG MADDUX AND TOM GLAVINE HAD THEIR ENTIRE MAJOR LEAGUE CAREERS: In between Jamie Moyer's first complete game two-hit shutout (8-16-86) and his most recent (last night):
  • 15 different franchises have won the World Series.
  • 4 different pitchers won at least 300 games.
  • 10 different batters hit at least 500 home runs.
  • 5 presidents have been in charge, and two of them served two full terms.
  • 7 pitchers have won multiple Cy Young awards.
HT: Clutch Hits. To give some perspective, also on that date in 1986: the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the "Baby Bells" could begin offering services outside their geographic regions such as "cellular radio services," "computerized answering services" and "one-way paging services." One week earlier, a twenty-nine year old Spike Lee released his first film, She's Gotta Have It, the first of his now-seventeen feature films (plus numerous full-length documentaries).