Single Season RBI Quiz

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Single Season RBI Quiz

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Created May 29, 2009 in Sports
Featured May 29, 2009
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	Woopee:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:00 GMT	4 points
	Just goes to show that it's more about the quality of the hitters in front of you, getting on, rather than purely power that gets those RBIs. Although I must admit Manny going beserk for 165 in 1999 goes to show how great a hitter (yes, 'roids) he really is.

	kwilliams:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:03 GMT	19 points
	are you sure the asterisks doesn't denote something else?

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:07 GMT	1 point
	It's a real indicator of how much the game has changed over the years that there's no one on this list after 1949 except for known/assumed PED users.

	SpicAndSpan:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:08 GMT	7 points
	30/30 with 23 seconds to spare. It gives me a sense of geek pride to know the one with 162. I don't know if it makes up for not having a girlfriend, though.

	el_barto:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:19 GMT	3 points
	All this says is how pitching has changed...no more guys going out pitching a doubleheader. It must have been like BP for some of those guys back in the day.

	Zuquelle:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:20 GMT	4 points
	@ Cuthbert_Twilley Sure, that's one way of looking at it... But these days (and mind you, this has been going on since the '80s), the hitters aren't the only ones doing the juicing. So really, the game is still arguably "balanced".

	ArtVandaley:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:28 GMT	2 points
	I typed in Riggs S... and got one by accident!

	Booger:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:31 GMT	5 points
	Looks like the balls were juiced in 1930s. Half of all the leaders are from that decade. Five leaders are from 1930.

	guyleguy:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:44 GMT	1 point
	Mike: I know the guy with 162 (after all, I'm a Tribe fan), but I've never heard of Sam T, so he stumped me. Also, that 1999 Indians team scored over 1,000 runs. It was a sick offense, with Manny right in the middle of it putting up crazy numbers.

	deej:	May 29th, 2009 at 19:59 GMT	4 points
	any stats from before 1901 are not really validly compared to modern stats, the game is waaaaaay too different. PS: i am also a huge tribe fan, and i facepalmed on trosky

	guyleguy:	May 29th, 2009 at 20:05 GMT	2 points
	Decent number of temmate pairs on here, too. Williams/Vern, Ruth/Gehrig twice, and Foxx/Bucket Al were all on the same team.

	Jaksiel:	May 29th, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	8 points
	The 30's were a notorious "lively ball" era. For example, in 1930, the NL as a whole hit .303.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	May 29th, 2009 at 20:47 GMT	11 points
	The ball was juiced, and the NL deadened the ball after 1930 when the whole league batted over .300. Conditions were perfect for racking up big RBI totals in that era. Basically, batting averages were very high, but only a few guys would hit for power. So a bunch of .320-hitting midgets would fill up the bases, and the big bopper got to drive them all in.

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	MetaphysicalMan:	May 29th, 2009 at 21:13 GMT	4 points
	Hack Wilson, one of my favorite baseball names.

	deej:	May 29th, 2009 at 22:18 GMT	12 points
	al simmons and hank greenberg are my picks for the two most underrated sluggers of all time

	Kevin:	May 29th, 2009 at 22:57 GMT	0 points
	Oh, great, an attack of the steroids moralists. Yay!

	robbie_keane:	May 30th, 2009 at 01:13 GMT	1 point
	I agree. Shut up.

	BentKangaroo:	May 30th, 2009 at 01:29 GMT	1 point
	I also got one right for typing in Riggs St... I know the other guy, too, but I figured Hack's teammate may have contributed

	hubbjm:	May 30th, 2009 at 08:51 GMT	1 point
	Got 25 understandably missing Chuck, Sam, Vern, but also that current Yankee.

	luckylux:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	2 points
	Parks were huge back in the early part of the century so guys could run all day if the ball got down in the outfield. I totally agree with el barto. Pitching had to have been like bp back then and sluggers could just feast on it.

	Robyn:	May 31st, 2009 at 16:04 GMT	-2 points
	I got 23 by knowing famous baseball players and guessing common Spanish last names. I know that RBI means Runs Batted In, but what does that mean? Sorry for my ignorance of baseball.

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	beckleyman:	Jun 3rd, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	0 points
	The league was also alot smaller so players were pretty used to the pitchers from the other teams as well.

	dtro:	Jul 14th, 2009 at 13:25 GMT	3 points
	Babe Ruth's OBPs: 1927-.486, 1930-.493, 1931-.495. I hope Gehrig sent him a fruit basket.

	Lenard:	Aug 11th, 2009 at 07:09 GMT	0 points
	Notice that the "home run king" isn't on this list. At least Aaron is still the record holder for career RBI.

	JohnShade:	May 28th, 2010 at 07:40 GMT	-1 points
	I don't understand Kevin's first post and why it's up-voted. What's wrong with moralists? Or moralizing? I mean really. I mean we're SO SORRY we forced you to acknowledge for two seconds that these guys cheated and should be ashamed of themselves. I know it just ruined your day. Rich prick.

	sobdennis:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 03:35 GMT	1 point
	I got 25 by remembering the obvious names and then thinking about who was around in the years involved. I couldn't remember Stephens, Trotsky, and Gonzalez. Thompson was the hardest. I had to try to remember players from back then. I typed in a couple and gave up.

	RGavinF:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 05:07 GMT	1 point
	less than half the people get the alltime single season RBI guy?

	Hamlet:	Aug 1st, 2010 at 02:49 GMT	1 point
	I'm not particularly fond of players using steroids either, and some of them have been my favorite players. But the fact is, while these players were doing it, the MLB officials and owners were well aware of it, and looked the other way. So while the players technically cheated, those in power let them do it.

	mraithel13:	Aug 29th, 2010 at 04:46 GMT	1 point
	1930 was a HUGE hitter's year. didn't headaches prevent Trosky from a huge career? danzam - "Pete Rose", really?

	blove121:	Dec 17th, 2010 at 20:37 GMT	1 point
	This really just goes to show that we need MORE steroids in the game, not less.

	ClancyMakem:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT	1 point
	RBIs are a funny thing--I seem to remember at one point Tony Perez was second in the league one year in ribbys--and he set a record up to that point for having the most men on base when coming to bat in one season--he batted like .247 that season with runners on base; just goes to show that runs and ribbies are not wholly correlated with the batter himself.

	Pogues:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 17:29 GMT	-1 points
	Apparently, in my alternate universe, Hank Greenberg does not exist. I have yet to answer him on any baseball quiz.