Today is the mail day, like all Wednesday. Listen to me, if you didn’t send me from which town or city you are writing to me, I can’t answer you. Thanks.
Salomón Delgado, from Mexico City, asks …: “In the World Series of the dead ball era, did you hit few home runs?”
Friend Sal…: During the three Series from 1905 to 1907, 16 games were held without any home run. In 1905, the Giants allowed the Athletics just three runs, none earned, after 45 innings. Christy Mathewson, who was a terror because of his lightning fast fastball, left the Athletics, then Philadelphia, on nine three times and allowed just one walk in his 27 innings. The game the Athletics won was 3-0, shut out by Chief Bender.
Néstor Zambrano R. de Maracaibo advises…: “Juan, I suggest that when you watch baseball on television, narrated or commented, by Fernando Arreaza, you take the volume off. You don’t need anyone to explain what is happening to you. Only you can think of listening to a game narrated by that man ”.
Friend Nes…: Thank you very much. But I have never heard the bugger, nor do I know where he speaks, nor do I know how he speaks, of course, I do not know if he is very good or very bad at the microphone. Listen to me, and who told you that lie that I hear it? What I have published is told to me by fellow readers.
Mario S. Sanabria, from Mexicali, asks …: “Has any pitcher ever been a major league batting champion?”
Friend Mayo …: Yes, sir. It happened in 1886, when the American Association (AA) was the Big League. Guy Hecker, known as “The Big Blond” of the Louisville Colonels, hit 341, one-thousandth more than his teammate, Peter Browning. In that season, on Aug. 15, against Baltimore, Hecker hit three home runs, which no one else did in the AA.
Oscar Morán, from Ponce, Puerto Rico, asks…: “Is there any procedure that allows the Mets to save themselves from the Francisco Lindor disaster, or will they still have to pay him the 341 million dollars until 2031? Puerto Rican, I am ashamed ”.
Amigo Caro…: If Lindor was out of the game due to injury, the insurance would pay. But there is no other salvation for the Mets. If they change it, they will have to pay you in Flushing, until 2031, 33 million 540 thousand dollars every year, and to the team that receives it, it would cost only 560 thousand dollars annually.
Thanks to the life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.
