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Major League Baseball quotes, notes, and random facts
A World Series Moment: Rockies and Sox captured in numbers.
from the October 24, 2007 edition
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Balance of power
American League: 60 championships
National League: 42 championships
Classic quotes
"When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes."
– Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale
"If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner."
– Lindsey Nelson, broadcaster
"We hit the ball right where they could show off their defensive ability."
– Baltimore manager Earl Weaver after the Orioles lost the 1969 World Series to the Mets
Payoff
$362,173 is how much additional money each member of the St. Louis Cardinals made last year for winning the World Series.
$291,667 is the amount each of the losing Detroit Tigers pocketed.
game crowds
92,706 is the largest attendance ever recorded for a single matchup – Game 5 played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the temporary home of the Dodgers, in 1959.
6,210 was the smallest, for Game 5 in 1908 at Bennett Park in Detroit, home of the Tigers.
Shaky series
When a 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook the Bay Area in 1989, Game 3 of the World Series was postponed for 10 days. It made no sense to switch ballparks, since the all-Bay series pitted San Francisco against Oakland, which won 4-0.
SOURCE: Baseball-almanac.com; mlb.com; baseball-reference.com; worldseries.com; quotegarden.com; geocities.com; and team websites National League/Colorado Rockies
National League/Colorado Rockies
First season: 1993
2007 regular season record: 90-73
Best ...
Hitter: Matt Holliday, .340
Pitcher: Jeff Francis, 17-9
Basestealer: Willy Taveras, 33
Random facts:
• The Colorado Avalanche hockey team was the last Denver franchise to win a major pro championship (2001).
• The Rockies were 6 1/2 games out of first place in their division in mid-September, but have won 21 of their last 22 games in one of the most amazing baseball stretches ever.
• In their inaugural 1993 season at Mile High Stadium, the Rockies drew 1 million in attendance after 17 home games, a new record.
• The Rockies are the only major pro franchise named for a major geological formation.
• In 1995, the Rockies recorded a ML record 658 runs at home.
• In 2002, the Rockies pioneered baseball storage in a temperature-controlled "humidor." Before then, home-run balls sailed out of high-altitude Coors Field at an abnormally high rate.
• Colorado met Boston in a three-game, interleague series in June, and came away with two road victories.
American League/Boston Red Sox
First season: 1901
2007 record: 96-66
Best...
Hitter: David Ortiz, .332
Pitcher: Josh Beckett, 20-7
Basestealer: Julio Lugo, 33
Random facts:
• Boston played in the first World Series in 1903. The team, known then as the Boston Americans, beat Pittsburgh in 8 games behind the pitching of Cy Young.
• Babe Ruth first made his mark in the World Series as a Boston pitcher, tossing 29 consecutive, scoreless innings during the 1916 and 1918 World Series.
• To land pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, the Red Sox first paid his Japanese team, the Seibu Lions, more than $50 million just for exclusive negotiating rights.
• The Sox were a wild-card team when their 86-year title drought ended in 2004.
• Participants in a Boston furniture chain promotion will be reimbursed for purchases made in the season's first two weeks ... if the Sox win.
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