Congratulations to the newest member of the Baseball’s Hall of Fame, Rik Aalbert “Bert” Blyleven! The honor was way overdue!
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Bert Blyleven Deserves the Hall of Fame Vote
Did you know that Bert Blyleven won fifteen games by the score of 1-0? Did you know that only two other major league pitchers have won more 1-0 games and they are hall of famer Walter Johnson and hall of famer Christy Mathewson?
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“He fakes a bluff.” -Ron Fairly Really? Was he bluffing with this quote? Not likely. Ron Fairly was one of those players who made the best out of his days in Major Leagues. He was an All-Star twice, and batted just above .250 for his entire career. He played in 4 World Series, including 1965, [...]
Bert Blyeven’s Birthday Stats & Fun Necessities for Opening Week
One of my favorite things about opening week for Twins baseball is Bert Blyleven’s unabated self-promotion of his birthday on April 6th each year. Call me a sucker for personality, but I find Bert to be very entertaining, and I am glad he is Twins baseball’s color commentator. I don’t laugh at loud at his [...]
Bert Deserves But Misses by 5 Hall of Fame Votes
Close but no Cigar… YET Bert Blyleven, who had 287 wins, 3,701 strikeouts and 60 shutouts, missed this year’s MLB Hall of Fame by 5 votes. . He had 400 votes (74.2 percent), up from 338 last year, and gets two more tries on the BBWAA ballot. The highest percentage for a player who didn’t [...]
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Mickey Hatcher is one of the All-Time favorite Twins of The Sports Daddy. Many nights spent in leftfield during my college years watching the Mick.
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