No, we were talking about trivia relating to them. If you don’t want to play, then there are many other fine threads on this board that should interest you more.
Well, if you do want to make a fool of yourself, I won’t stop you.
Former Royals’ first baseman Willie Mays Aikens was named after Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. About 60 and 20 years after, respectively.
If it’s foolish to stick with the OP, then I’m a fool. This thread is about players who end up playing in the same city they started in, but if you want to expand it to anything trivial about them, then mine are the height of relevance.
Did you know that only Babe Ruth, of the three, was over six feet tall? And only Ruth weighed over 220 pounds? And Ruth had the highest season and career average of the three? And that only Aaron never hit 50 or more HRs in a season of the three? And that Ruth was the only one never to play CF regularly? And that Aaron began as a secondbaseman, while Ruth began as a pitcher? Did you know that Aaron batted with his “wrong” hand on the top early on? And that Aaron was the first player listed alphabetically AND on the HR list for most of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s? And all three were southerners (if you consider Maryland a part of the south–Mays and Aaron were both born in Alabama.)
Is this interesting to you?
Did you suffer a stroke?
To take the conversation in a geeky direction, a Ruth-Aaron pair is two consecutive integers for which the sums of the prime factors of each integer are equal, for example 714 and 715.
Fascinating. Not for the facts themselves, but for the pathology involved in getting upset just because the thread changed from the OP.
Evidently, you don’t understand the concept of “trivia” and don’t know the difference between it and “unimportant information.” Too bad for you.
Oh, I get it. Airman Doors and you need a little schooling.
This OP was interesting to me, and I wanted it pursued. Opening the thread up to a compendium of silly facts about the three men is a hijack. If you want to natter on, open your own thread–I’m still interested in seeing whethe we’ve exhausted the OP.
This involves none of the three, but it does involve a certain amount of the bookending the OP refers to:
Warren Spahn is the only man to play for Casey Stengel both before and after his tenure with the Yankees–or, as the lefty put it, “before and after he was a genius.”
Hey looky, you were the first person to post an irrelevant comment. And the first to be needlessly confrontational. I would suggest that next you pretend that other people are all upset and you are the only rational one, that’s always fun.
More fun Hank Aaron trivia: not only was he the #1 all-time career home run hitter until recently, but he was also alphabetically first among all MLB players who ever played until a few years ago. Relief pitcher Dave Aardsma ruined it by making it to the major leagues.
See post #23. Of course, that was where I was chastised for mentioning absurdly irrelevant and unimportant information, so you may want to disassociate yourself from such, or risk the wrath of my critics here.
Rose was relevant, if you consider that he is a lock for the HoF who ended his playing career in the same city he started it, but gambled his way out of consideration for the Hall and for this thread. He’s an almost-qualifier, which is hardly irrelevant in the way that Babe Ruth’s winning percentage as a pitcher has little to do with the OP in any conceivable way.
I consider Doors to have been needlessly confrontational in hijacking the interesting OP.
But I’ll be glad to leave up to the OP to decide. If he’s satisfied with how this thread has developed, I’ll be happy to leave it to others to fill it with pointless, all-purpose baseball trivia.
What other major league team in Cincinatti (besides the Reds) did Pete Rose play for?
Good point–Rose does not fully satisfy the OP, even though he certainly is a Hall-of-Famer.
You’re correct–the OP did specify same city/different teams. My error.
PRR, you’re really getting to the point of threadshitting here. Your posts aren’t helping get things back on track - they’re actively disrupting that.
From here on out, please make sure your posts are relevant to the topic of the thread, not complaints about others or other hijacks.
Thanks. No warning issued.
Geez, I didn’t think this thread would develop into confrontations. I just wanted to know if there were notable players who fit the same city/different team scenario. Interesting/similar trivia was definitely welcome.
FTR, (I am probably getting whooooshed), but I fail to see see how Willie Mays Aiken was named after Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Post #22.
And I am also confused about the Ruth-Aaron pair as Aaron hit 755 home-runs not 715. And yes I realize that his 715th home-run is probably more famous than any other of his home-runs, but he hit 40 more homeruns in his career.
Jimmie Foxx definitely fit the spirit of the OP and thanks for that.
No Cubbies/White Sox to fit the example?
I am surprised that no football, hockey or basketball players have been named. Probably not as many opportunities as there are as many multi-team cities in those sports. What if we open to we can open it up to same metro area?
San Francisco/Oakland
NYC/Long Island/New Jersey
Baltimore/Washington
The term “Ruth-Aaron pair” was coined in the immediate aftermath of Aaron’s 715th homerun, breaking Ruth’s record. From Wiki:
I do believe that there is a wooshing - the poster does mention that he was named after them, blah blah years after them; think of “after” in terms of time.