Hitting

Cool stuff. Glad 1 and 2 are what they are.

Forgot Jenkins had some good years during some shitty years.

Happy to see Jim Gantner at #5 and will be for a while yet.  One of my favorites and I still wish he had punched Andujar.  Met his sister -in -law at UW-Oshkosh.  She was my daughter's boss in the alumni office as part of her work study.

After Yount and Molitor my favorite Brewer was Cooper.  I didn't realize just how many hits he had as a Brewer

@The Heckler posted:

After Yount and Molitor my favorite Brewer was Cooper.  I didn't realize just how many hits he had as a Brewer

One of my favorite Brewer memories was listening to Bob Uecker call that game against the Yankees in 1978 where Cooper had 3 home runs, including a walkoff against Gossage in the bottom of the ninth. That was the game where Reggie Jackson charged the mound and got into a fight with Mike Caldwell.

Uecker went nuts on the walkoff and you could feel the electricity in the crowd, even through the radio.

https://sabr.org/gamesproj/gam...s-off-3-homer-night/

Cooper had a 5 year run from 1979-1983 where he was at a HOF level. His stats in 1981 got suppressed because of the strike, but if you extrapolate those out to a full season, he hit 25-30 HRs, had 100-125 RBIs, and basically 200 hits every year. All this while winning a gold glove.

Cooper's career numbers were lower than they should have been because he spent about 4-5 years in his mid-20s stuck on the bench in Boston behind Carl Yastrzemski. It probably cost him about 300-400 hits and another 40-50 HRs. Maybe still not enough to get HOF consideration, but 2700 hits with 300 HRS would have made it at least borderline.

Super Dooper Cecil Cooper

@MichiganPacker posted:

One of my favorite Brewer memories was listening to Bob Uecker call that game against the Yankees in 1978 where Cooper had 3 home runs, including a walkoff against Gossage in the bottom of the ninth. That was the game where Reggie Jackson charged the mound and got into a fight with Mike Caldwell.

Uecker went nuts on the walkoff and you could feel the electricity in the crowd, even through the radio.

Not related to the hitting graphic but one game that really sticks out to me was the opening day game against the Red Sox when Sixto hit a walk off grand slam to win it.  My 8th grade teacher let us listen to the last inning on the radio in the class room and we erupted with Uecker when he said get up get out of here Sixto Lexcano!

Good times.

Almost hit for the cycle

I was at the game April 12, 1980.  Two grand slams in the same inning against Boston.

I remember listening to that game on the radio, Money and Cooper hit the slams and the Brewers routed the Red Sox. I was at a game April 16, 1977 when Cooper hit his first HR as a Brewer. It was a walk off against Sparky Lyle as the Brewers rallied from a 3-1 deficit entering the 9th. Sal Bando hit an RBI triple ahead of Cooper's AB to make it a 3-2 game.

I went to college in Waukesha and worked at the Medical College of Wisconsin one summer. I went to a few games during that time. A few of the most memorable were

1. I was at the game on August 30, 1987 where Kirby Puckett went 6 for 6 and took a grand slam away from Robin Yount. In the 9th, he hit a home run into the right field bleachers right near where we were sitting (in fact, I think my younger brother is in this video (with a cream-colored shirt at the 1:21 mark with his glove two rows back from the guy who caught it)) trying to catch the ball. I've never seen a guy hit that ball that hard that many times in a game.

https://www.facebook.com/Twins...n-/4253246221440675/

2. I went to a game in the summer of 1989 against the Royals. Watching Bo Jackson just launch long fly balls well into the bleachers in batting practice was an experience.

If you ever had seen Puckett in real life you would never think he was an athlete. He walked by me and looked like he was about 5 feet tall and just very pudgy. Great player but if you were picking sides and didn't know who he was you'd take a pass as many times as you could.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     I can remember going to Braves games when Pete Rose and Tony Perez were rookies. Pete was already a knob taking part of his infield with no glove. When you went to games back then you saw HOFers. I saw the Giants with Mays, McCovey, Cepada. That was the year Aaron and McCovey tied for the HR title with 44.

I remember going to a game, sneaking down to seats by the dugout, and watching Dave Parker swing a sledgehammer in the on deck circle.  He was a giant.