Hal Newhouser won back-to-back MVPs as a PITCHER ('44 & '45) and had more than a few darn good seasons, but no one seems to remember him. Granted, those were slim years for players, but, still, for a PITCHER to win them! He had 275 SOs one year. He was pretty great. Hall of famer, but no one mentions him much.
2007-06-30 14:23:56 · 6 answers · asked by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
eek -- yeah, alas. It's just that this guy, with the 2 MVPs, well, it just seems that he's REALLY under rated. You're right, of course. Don't know why Hal's snubs bug me!!
2007-06-30 14:50:09 · update #1
Gene, when you look at the list (see below) of baseball Hall of Famers.... most of them are not mentioned much.
Guess they had their day in the sun. They certainly can be proud to be on the list. We just can not expect everyone of them to be recalled often by sports announcers and such.
2007-06-30 14:39:21 · answer #1 · answered by eek 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hal Newhouser is in the Hall of Fame along with a lot of others whom you seldom hear about. He isn't forgotten by his true fans.
Another case in point: How often did you hear the name George Sisler before Ichiro Suzuki broke his single season hit record of 257 a couple years ago?
Someone mentioned earlier this month about how many doubles a player has and had a chance of breaking Earl Webb's single season record of 67. I haven't heard Webb's named mentioned in 20-years.
That's the way things are brought up. When a record is on the line.
2007-07-01 01:11:06 · answer #2 · answered by Jay9ball 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The current, idiotic "Pitchers Shalt Not Win Thy MVP" meme didn't exist back then. Witness other pitcher MVPs of the times, starting in 1931 when the BBWAA took over administration:
Grove AL 1931, Hubbell NL 1933, Dean NL 1934, Hubbell again NL 1936, Walters NL 1939, Cooper NL 1942, Chandler AL 1943, Newhouser's pair, Konstanty NL 1950 (a reliever -- zero starts), Shantz AL 1952, and Newcombe NL 1956 -- when he also won the inaugural, MLB-wide Cy Young Award.
Pitchers winning MVP back in the olde dayes wasn't so astonishing, particularly prior to the inception of the CYA.
Note that three of Newhouser's MVP-winning colleagues are in the Hall alongside him (here, look: http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/plaques/newhouser_hal.htm ). What more is due him?
2007-06-30 21:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was a great pitcher but back then he was overshadowed by pitchers such as Bob Feller and Warren Spahn. He is one of the best ever but will never get as much credit as he deserves because he is not a big name.
2007-06-30 21:31:44 · answer #4 · answered by red4tribe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, why who's forgotten?
2007-06-30 21:32:10 · answer #5 · answered by Jim B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no idea why he is forgotten.
2007-06-30 21:29:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋