2007-08-04 09:39:47 · 5 answers · asked by Jim B 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Roger Conner with 138.
2007-08-04 10:06:26 · answer #1 · answered by Sharon S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you have already got your solutions. My addition is precisely alongside the lines of explaining why there is one in all those disparity in numbers. in case you already comprehend this, I make an apology for uninteresting you. earlier Ruth (and probably some different batters who hit on the comparable time as Ruth), the domicile run became not a great deal in baseball. a house run became considered an anomaly. It became only not that significant. They performed what we call "small ball" in those days. Get a guy on base with any style of hit and then bunt him over to 2d. Use velocity of runners and thieve bases. Get extra singles or sacrifices and get him to attain a run. Ty Cobb is a appropriate occasion of the "small ball" mentality. The participant of this era did not attempt to hit domicile runs. today we are going to settle for a decrease batting elementary from a guy that makes up for it by means of hitting 30 to forty domicile runs a 300 and sixty 5 days. In those days they does not. The coaches wanted floor ball hits or line force hits. Then Ruth began enjoying. (have been you conscious that he became initially a left exceeded pitcher that still holds pitching information that have not been equaled? human beings forget approximately that Ruth became between the terrific left exceeded pitchers in baseball history. yet then he became switched to being a on a daily basis participant simply by fact his bat became too significant to basically have in the lineup each and every 4 days.) Ruth began hitting domicile runs on a conventional foundation. vendors promptly found out that followers have been looking domicile runs to be interesting and that domicile runs placed followers in the seats. extra followers in the seats meant extra money. that's while the domicile run took on a lots extra beneficial magnitude in baseball. And the rest is baseball history or a minimum of that's what some baseball historians think of.
2016-11-11 05:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roger Connor, with 138. No, you probably never heard of him before. Neither had the other two dozen people who have asked the "who wuz it b4 ruth" question over the past month.
2007-08-04 09:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yeah i didnt know about riger connor either i knew someone who had 100 something though, lol
2007-08-04 09:44:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which one, single season or career?
2007-08-04 09:43:06 · answer #5 · answered by baseballfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋