BEST Performance in Career Record-setting Game
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:57 pm
BEST Performance in Career Record-setting Game
Another thread asks "Has anyone else in any sport ever had a worse performance in a career record-setting game
than Peyton Manning the other day?"
The following certainly qualifies as "anyone else in any sport."
It was at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1941.
That's a little early for those who like to use the term "back in the day."
For most of those folks, their "day" was sometime near the dawn of ESPN.
"YouTube" was a long way from becoming a place where the munchkins could "browse" when Mommy and Daddy weren't looking.
But, that September afternoon was one of the most historic days in the entire world of sports.
"Teddy Ballgame," "The Thumper," "The Splendid Splinter," or simply, Ted Williams set a record he already had earned.
The Red Sox were scheduled for a double-header against the "A's" - that's the Philadelphia A's for you ESPNers.
Williams' batting average stood at .39955 and, if he did not play, his season would end at .400 with the average rounded.
But Ted Williams was made of sterner stuff - the same stuff that flows in the veins of a Peyton Manning, or a Brett Favre,
or a Tom Brady.
Ted played the double-header and went 6-for-8 to finish the season with .406 and break the record of .390 accomplished
31 years earlier.
The stats rats probably have 100 places where Williams' record is posted but it is rare that you find the story of the heroics
and the guts that led to it.
It was the last day of the season and he took the chance to go out a winner.
No free rides for Ted.
When they are all done, Manning and Favre and Brady will have moved every quarterback in history down a couple of notches
and everything they have achieved is worth every bit of recognition they will get for it.
Only the envious will say different.
Another thread asks "Has anyone else in any sport ever had a worse performance in a career record-setting game
than Peyton Manning the other day?"
The following certainly qualifies as "anyone else in any sport."
It was at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1941.
That's a little early for those who like to use the term "back in the day."
For most of those folks, their "day" was sometime near the dawn of ESPN.
"YouTube" was a long way from becoming a place where the munchkins could "browse" when Mommy and Daddy weren't looking.
But, that September afternoon was one of the most historic days in the entire world of sports.
"Teddy Ballgame," "The Thumper," "The Splendid Splinter," or simply, Ted Williams set a record he already had earned.
The Red Sox were scheduled for a double-header against the "A's" - that's the Philadelphia A's for you ESPNers.
Williams' batting average stood at .39955 and, if he did not play, his season would end at .400 with the average rounded.
But Ted Williams was made of sterner stuff - the same stuff that flows in the veins of a Peyton Manning, or a Brett Favre,
or a Tom Brady.
Ted played the double-header and went 6-for-8 to finish the season with .406 and break the record of .390 accomplished
31 years earlier.
The stats rats probably have 100 places where Williams' record is posted but it is rare that you find the story of the heroics
and the guts that led to it.
It was the last day of the season and he took the chance to go out a winner.
No free rides for Ted.
When they are all done, Manning and Favre and Brady will have moved every quarterback in history down a couple of notches
and everything they have achieved is worth every bit of recognition they will get for it.
Only the envious will say different.