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).
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6 comments:

  1. isaac_spaceman11:52 AM

    Couldn't happen to a much better guy.  A lot of Mariners fans (not me) boo Rodriguez, booed Griffey until he came back, and took a long time before they stopped booing Johnson, but I don't know of a single one who didn't wish Moyer the best.

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  2. Shani11:57 AM

    This post makes me smile and smile, and then smile some more.

    Maybe I need a Moyer jersey.

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  3. Devin McCullen1:13 PM

    Also, in that time frame, the Mets have walked him with the bases loaded to force in a run twice.  (Actually, that was just in the last 2 years.)  Expos did it in 1988, too.

    I liked this News of the Day for 8/16/1986 from the Clutch Hits discussion:

    A five-mile section of highway through suburban Salt Lake City will be opened Sunday, completing the nation's first transcontinental interstate highway, the 2,907-mile Interstate 80, officials said Friday. The completed route will connect California State Route 480, San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, with Interstate 95 at Teaneck, N.J.

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  4. isaac_spaceman5:02 PM

    Hate to ruin it for you, but the 80 doesn't get any closer to the Pacific than the 90 does. 

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  5. Alex Gordon9:01 PM

    I love the fact that after the Cubs traded him along with a pre-roids Palmiero to Texas they signed him as a free agent in 1992 and then cut him before the season when he couldn't beat out the likes of Shawn Boskie for a rotation spot.

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  6. isaac_spaceman10:58 AM

    Moyer basically had two careers -- one when he tried to do what everybody else in baseball did, and then a second one where he just decided to mix speeds and work off of control.  When he became an unapologetic junkballer, that's when his career blossomed. 

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