The following three players from S. Calif. I think will have a real shot at the title if they stay healthy and get a lot of playing time ( you can't hit homers sitting on the bench.
JOSH HAMILTON- LAA
Played for Texas last year and hit a season high for himself of 43 home runs.
MATT KEMP- LAD
Led all players with 23 homers last year before being sideline with injury's, only played in 106 games. Had a career high of 39 homers in 2011.
MARK TRUMBO- LAA
Won the Pacific Coast League and the MiLB title with a career high 36 homers in 2010. Hit 29 homers in 2011 and 32 homers 2012, both 144 game seasons. Look for Mark to have a very big year in 2013.
Please let me know if you think of any other players that have a real chance of winning the Home Run title this year.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
CONTENDERS FOR THE 2013 HOME RUN TITLE, odds will be posted before the end of March. Let me know if you think any other player should be on list and why.
JOSH HAMILTON, LAA
EDWIN ENCARNACION, BLUE JAYS
MATT KEMP, LAD
MARK TRUMBO, LAA
CURTIS GRANDERSON, NYY
ADAM DUNN, CWS
JOSE BAUTISTA, BLUE JAYS
MIKE HESSMAN, OKC (PCL)
DARIN RUF, PHILLIES
TRAN BRAUN, BREWERS
J. MEGUEL CABRERA, TIGERS
All players are active as of now, we will get a feel for the when spring training and the preseason games start.
JOSH HAMILTON, LAA
EDWIN ENCARNACION, BLUE JAYS
MATT KEMP, LAD
MARK TRUMBO, LAA
CURTIS GRANDERSON, NYY
ADAM DUNN, CWS
JOSE BAUTISTA, BLUE JAYS
MIKE HESSMAN, OKC (PCL)
DARIN RUF, PHILLIES
TRAN BRAUN, BREWERS
J. MEGUEL CABRERA, TIGERS
All players are active as of now, we will get a feel for the when spring training and the preseason games start.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Saturday, February 09, 2013
60 HOMERS CLUB MEMBERS QUICK NOTES.
THE 60 HOMERS CLUB
1 BARRY BONDS 73
2 JOE BAUMAN 72
Bauman was a minor league slugger who batted .337 and collected 337 home runs and 1057 RBI in 1019 games. First signed by the Braves, he lost four years to WWII, and held out from 1949-51. He won four HR titles in the nine years he played, but only once played above Class A. After hitting 103 HR for Artesia in 1952-53, he won the Longhorn League (Class C) triple crown by batting .400 with 72 HR and 224 RBI for the Roswell Rockets in 1954. The 72 HR and .916 slugging average he achieved that season are all-time pro records.
3 MARK MCGWIRE 70
Since he retired, McGwire has kept a low profile. His admission that he used the supplement androstenedione has led to speculation that he also took steroids. Although McGwire had repeatedly denied using illegal performance-enhancing drugs, he refused to do so under oath when he appeared before the House Government Reform Committee on March 17, 2005. As McGwire said in his opening statement, "Asking me or any other player to answer questions about who took steroids in front of television cameras will not solve the problem. If a player answers 'No,' he simply will not be believed; if he answers 'Yes,' he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." When asked if he was asserting his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, McGwire said: "I'm not here to talk about the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject."
4 JOE HAUSER 69
He made a name for himself in the minor leagues, where he became the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs twice in a professional career: 63 in 1930, and 69 in 1933.
5 BOB CRUES 69
In 1948, Crues went on a rampage through the dusty and windswept ballparks of the Southwest, driving in 254 runs in just 140 games, dwarfing the major league record of 191 RBI set by Hack Wilson with the Cubs in 1930. Playing for the Amarillo Gold Sox of the class C West Texas-New Mexico League, Crues drove in almost two runs per game that summer. Two! The closest anyone ever came to his total was former teammate Joe Bauman who drove in 224 one season. Tony Lazzeri, who set the old record with 222, had to play in 197 games in 1925 to reach that mark at Salt Lake City in the Pacific Coast League. As the 21st century dawned, it seemed possible that Crues' RBI record will be one of the rare ones never to be broken. Bob tied Hauser's record of 69 with two games left in the season. His try for the 70th drew a record crowd of 4,851 for a season-ending Labor Day doubleheader with Lubbock. Ironically, Secory, the umpire who might have cost him a home run in Abilene, was working behind the plate
6 SAMMY SOSA 66
7 DICK STUART 66
MARK MCGWIRE 65
SAMMY SOSA 64
8 BOB LENNON 64
Bob Lennon hit 64 home runs for the Southern Association Nashville Vols in 1954, but his most memorable homer came on April 30, 1957, when he was playing for the Chicago Cubs. "It was what I had dreamed about," he recalled in a 1993 interview. He hit it in Ebbets Field, where he had rooted for the Dodgers as a boy. It was his only major league home run.
SAMMY SOSA 63
JOE HAUSER 63
9 MOOSE CLABAUGH 62
10 KEN GUETTLER 62
Guettler, who died in 1977, played only briefly above the Texas League and never made it to the majors. He hit 330 homers in 15 seasons, but never more than five in a season after his run with the Shreveport Sports in '56.
11 ROGER MARIS 61
Career Statistics
- Set Baseball's Single Season Home Run Record (61 in 1961)
- 275 Career Home Runs
- Two-time Most Valuable Player in American League (1960 & 1961)
- Led American League in RBI's (1960 & 1961)
- Gold Glove Award Winner (1960)
- Seven World Series (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968)
- Six World Series Home Runs
12 FROSTY KENNEDY 60
Kennedy hit 60 home runs for Plainview (Texas) of the Class B Southwestern League in 1956, accomplishing this feat in only 144 games. He hit .327 that year, with 184 RBIs and 151 runs scored.
He is also one of the few men in baseball history to hit over .400 twice. He hit .411 for Riverside of the class C sunset League in 1949, and .410 for Plainview when that city fielded a team in the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1953.
Kennedy had a 40-game hitting streak for Plainview in 1953, part of a remarkable stretch which saw him hit safely in 95 of his final 100 games that season.
13 TONY LAZZERI 60
Lazzeri was a prominent member of the 1927 Yankees' "Murderers' Row" lineup and the second baseman on five World Championship Yankee clubs. He had seven 100-RBI seasons and four times hit as many as 18 home runs. His excellent glove, driving leadership, and superior baseball instincts made him the hero of Italian-Americans, as their first superstar . He was known as "the quiet man of the Yankees." Though an epileptic, he never had an on-the-field seizure in his 12 Yankee seasons.
14 BABE RUTH 60
Born: 6 February 1895
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Died: 16 August 1948 (cancer)
Best Known As: New York Yankee hero and "Sultan of Swat"
Name at birth: George Herman Ruth, Jr.
1 BARRY BONDS 73
2 JOE BAUMAN 72
Bauman was a minor league slugger who batted .337 and collected 337 home runs and 1057 RBI in 1019 games. First signed by the Braves, he lost four years to WWII, and held out from 1949-51. He won four HR titles in the nine years he played, but only once played above Class A. After hitting 103 HR for Artesia in 1952-53, he won the Longhorn League (Class C) triple crown by batting .400 with 72 HR and 224 RBI for the Roswell Rockets in 1954. The 72 HR and .916 slugging average he achieved that season are all-time pro records.
3 MARK MCGWIRE 70
Since he retired, McGwire has kept a low profile. His admission that he used the supplement androstenedione has led to speculation that he also took steroids. Although McGwire had repeatedly denied using illegal performance-enhancing drugs, he refused to do so under oath when he appeared before the House Government Reform Committee on March 17, 2005. As McGwire said in his opening statement, "Asking me or any other player to answer questions about who took steroids in front of television cameras will not solve the problem. If a player answers 'No,' he simply will not be believed; if he answers 'Yes,' he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." When asked if he was asserting his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, McGwire said: "I'm not here to talk about the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject."
4 JOE HAUSER 69
He made a name for himself in the minor leagues, where he became the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs twice in a professional career: 63 in 1930, and 69 in 1933.
5 BOB CRUES 69
In 1948, Crues went on a rampage through the dusty and windswept ballparks of the Southwest, driving in 254 runs in just 140 games, dwarfing the major league record of 191 RBI set by Hack Wilson with the Cubs in 1930. Playing for the Amarillo Gold Sox of the class C West Texas-New Mexico League, Crues drove in almost two runs per game that summer. Two! The closest anyone ever came to his total was former teammate Joe Bauman who drove in 224 one season. Tony Lazzeri, who set the old record with 222, had to play in 197 games in 1925 to reach that mark at Salt Lake City in the Pacific Coast League. As the 21st century dawned, it seemed possible that Crues' RBI record will be one of the rare ones never to be broken. Bob tied Hauser's record of 69 with two games left in the season. His try for the 70th drew a record crowd of 4,851 for a season-ending Labor Day doubleheader with Lubbock. Ironically, Secory, the umpire who might have cost him a home run in Abilene, was working behind the plate
6 SAMMY SOSA 66
7 DICK STUART 66
MARK MCGWIRE 65
SAMMY SOSA 64
8 BOB LENNON 64
Bob Lennon hit 64 home runs for the Southern Association Nashville Vols in 1954, but his most memorable homer came on April 30, 1957, when he was playing for the Chicago Cubs. "It was what I had dreamed about," he recalled in a 1993 interview. He hit it in Ebbets Field, where he had rooted for the Dodgers as a boy. It was his only major league home run.
SAMMY SOSA 63
JOE HAUSER 63
9 MOOSE CLABAUGH 62
10 KEN GUETTLER 62
Guettler, who died in 1977, played only briefly above the Texas League and never made it to the majors. He hit 330 homers in 15 seasons, but never more than five in a season after his run with the Shreveport Sports in '56.
11 ROGER MARIS 61
Career Statistics
- Set Baseball's Single Season Home Run Record (61 in 1961)
- 275 Career Home Runs
- Two-time Most Valuable Player in American League (1960 & 1961)
- Led American League in RBI's (1960 & 1961)
- Gold Glove Award Winner (1960)
- Seven World Series (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968)
- Six World Series Home Runs
12 FROSTY KENNEDY 60
Kennedy hit 60 home runs for Plainview (Texas) of the Class B Southwestern League in 1956, accomplishing this feat in only 144 games. He hit .327 that year, with 184 RBIs and 151 runs scored.
He is also one of the few men in baseball history to hit over .400 twice. He hit .411 for Riverside of the class C sunset League in 1949, and .410 for Plainview when that city fielded a team in the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1953.
Kennedy had a 40-game hitting streak for Plainview in 1953, part of a remarkable stretch which saw him hit safely in 95 of his final 100 games that season.
13 TONY LAZZERI 60
Lazzeri was a prominent member of the 1927 Yankees' "Murderers' Row" lineup and the second baseman on five World Championship Yankee clubs. He had seven 100-RBI seasons and four times hit as many as 18 home runs. His excellent glove, driving leadership, and superior baseball instincts made him the hero of Italian-Americans, as their first superstar . He was known as "the quiet man of the Yankees." Though an epileptic, he never had an on-the-field seizure in his 12 Yankee seasons.
14 BABE RUTH 60
Born: 6 February 1895
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Died: 16 August 1948 (cancer)
Best Known As: New York Yankee hero and "Sultan of Swat"
Name at birth: George Herman Ruth, Jr.
Saturday, February 02, 2013
The Juice in the Arm gang, what to do.
OK long ball fans, just a few more weeks before some players start showing up for spring camps. The really big news is that the JUICE IN THE ARM GANG did not make the HOF. I think that Berry, Sammy and Mark will never make membership into the Hall as long as the voting sports writers have a memory of the juicing scandal, Lance has admitted to doing the same thing and he was striped of all his titles. I believe most of America considers juicing as cheating. Non of the three got close to the 75% of votes need for membership into the Hall of Fame, in fact non got even 40%. The newest member of the juice in the vain gang is Alex (won the HR title a few years back with 54). He can look forward to never being a member of the HOF.
The last player to make the 60 homers club before the JITV gang took over was Rodger Maris, remember the call '61 in 61', that was a 38 year span before Mark did it. The last Pro Player to hit 60 before Roger was my father Forrest Edward Kennedy (Frosty) in 1956, for 5 years he was number 10 on the 60 homers list until Maris dropped him to number 11. So from 1927 (Babe Ruth) until 1961(Maris) only 11 men had hit 60 or more homers in one season, and it was done 12 times (Joe Hauser did it twice) in a 62 year span.
Then between 1998 and 2001 it was done six times by only three men. Did we really need drug testing to know that something was up?
1 BARRY BONDS 73 2001
2 MARK MCGUIRE 70 1998
3 SAMMY SOSA 66 1998
MARK MCGUIRE 65 1999
SAMMY SOSA 64 2001
SAMMY SOSA 63 1999
You can't really take a way a home run title (Sammy Sosa hit 60 three times, but never won the title) but something should be done about the stats.
I would like hear yor comments on this subject and any thoughts on what organized baseball should do, if anything on this matter.
The last player to make the 60 homers club before the JITV gang took over was Rodger Maris, remember the call '61 in 61', that was a 38 year span before Mark did it. The last Pro Player to hit 60 before Roger was my father Forrest Edward Kennedy (Frosty) in 1956, for 5 years he was number 10 on the 60 homers list until Maris dropped him to number 11. So from 1927 (Babe Ruth) until 1961(Maris) only 11 men had hit 60 or more homers in one season, and it was done 12 times (Joe Hauser did it twice) in a 62 year span.
Then between 1998 and 2001 it was done six times by only three men. Did we really need drug testing to know that something was up?
1 BARRY BONDS 73 2001
2 MARK MCGUIRE 70 1998
3 SAMMY SOSA 66 1998
MARK MCGUIRE 65 1999
SAMMY SOSA 64 2001
SAMMY SOSA 63 1999
You can't really take a way a home run title (Sammy Sosa hit 60 three times, but never won the title) but something should be done about the stats.
I would like hear yor comments on this subject and any thoughts on what organized baseball should do, if anything on this matter.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Here are some Dec. Pics taken near the end of 2012. I want to wish everyone a very merry HAPPY NEW YEAR! Have a great 2013, can't wait for baseball to start.
My sister La Nona and her son Danny with Rodger Lodge of sports radio 830AM
My sons wife Katie and their daughter Sarah.
My son Mike and Sarah.
This is me, Mike and Sarah.
Sarah Kennedy hamming it up in front of the Christmas tree.Friday, December 07, 2012
A voice from my past. Andy Forsyth
A voice from my past.
Forrest,
I did a google search on Frosty to see if there was anything posted on him.
My dad and I were talking about baseball and his name came up.
I was saddened to hear of Frosty's passing in 1998. My Dad and he played semi-pro
baseball together in So. California and they both played on the Plainview Ponies
but at different times. I think about a year or two apart. My family and his
used to go camping and horseback riding together and we'd visit his family
on Sunday afternoons a few times a year. I knew Eddie and also Nona before
she became ill. I also got to see her again years later after she came out of
her coma. So glad to here she celebrated her 25th, probably much more by now
judging by the date of the posting you had on Google. My mom was and still is
good friends with Jan. I hope she's still doing well.
I was at Cooperstown a few years ago and made a point of finding the listing
of Frosty and his 60 homers at the Hall of Fame. It was really cool to see someone
I knew that at least had his name mentioned there. I'm a big baseball fan. I also
got to see him play a few games in semi-pro when my dad and him played together.
I hope you're able to get this.
Both my parents are still around, in 2010 they celebrated their 60th Anniversary
in So. California.
Take care, Andy Forsyth, Crofton, Maryland.
Forrest,
I did a google search on Frosty to see if there was anything posted on him.
My dad and I were talking about baseball and his name came up.
I was saddened to hear of Frosty's passing in 1998. My Dad and he played semi-pro
baseball together in So. California and they both played on the Plainview Ponies
but at different times. I think about a year or two apart. My family and his
used to go camping and horseback riding together and we'd visit his family
on Sunday afternoons a few times a year. I knew Eddie and also Nona before
she became ill. I also got to see her again years later after she came out of
her coma. So glad to here she celebrated her 25th, probably much more by now
judging by the date of the posting you had on Google. My mom was and still is
good friends with Jan. I hope she's still doing well.
I was at Cooperstown a few years ago and made a point of finding the listing
of Frosty and his 60 homers at the Hall of Fame. It was really cool to see someone
I knew that at least had his name mentioned there. I'm a big baseball fan. I also
got to see him play a few games in semi-pro when my dad and him played together.
I hope you're able to get this.
Both my parents are still around, in 2010 they celebrated their 60th Anniversary
in So. California.
Take care, Andy Forsyth, Crofton, Maryland.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
La Salle volleyball, game on 11/20/2012 in Fresno, Ca.
GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
First round results, Tuesday
DIVISION I
SOUTH
Marymount d. Poway, 25-18, 25-18, 25-13
Fresno Clovis West d. La Salle, 19-25, 25-23, 25-15, 18-25, 15-11
Redondo d. Palisades, 25-22, 25-17, 25-15
San Diego Torrey Pines d. El Dorado, 25-17, 25-18, 25-11
Pasadena La Salle overcame a 24-19 deficit in the third set to sweep Placentia El Dorado, 25-16, 25-20, 29-27, in the CIF Southern Section Division 1A championship match at Santiago Canyon College.
Riley Spriestersbach and Katrina Palffy each had 10 kills for the second-seeded Lancers (34-20, who lost to Glendora St. Lucy's in the Division 2AA final last season.
Kelly Claes had 11 kills and Tess Hultgren added nine for the Golden Hawks (20-14), who upset St. Lucy's in the quarterfinals.
Photo: La Salle players celebrate after sweeping El Dorado to win the Division 1A championship at Santiago Canyon College. Credit: Steve Galluzzo / For The Times
Jessica Kennedy (granddaughter of Frosty Kennedy) and the La Salle team won the CIF SS title only to lose 3-2 in the State championship (1st round) game in Fresno. They went 33-3 on the season. Lancers, you had a great year!!!!
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
First round results, Tuesday
DIVISION I
SOUTH
Marymount d. Poway, 25-18, 25-18, 25-13
Fresno Clovis West d. La Salle, 19-25, 25-23, 25-15, 18-25, 15-11
Redondo d. Palisades, 25-22, 25-17, 25-15
San Diego Torrey Pines d. El Dorado, 25-17, 25-18, 25-11
Pasadena La Salle overcame a 24-19 deficit in the third set to sweep Placentia El Dorado, 25-16, 25-20, 29-27, in the CIF Southern Section Division 1A championship match at Santiago Canyon College.
Riley Spriestersbach and Katrina Palffy each had 10 kills for the second-seeded Lancers (34-20, who lost to Glendora St. Lucy's in the Division 2AA final last season.
Kelly Claes had 11 kills and Tess Hultgren added nine for the Golden Hawks (20-14), who upset St. Lucy's in the quarterfinals.
Photo: La Salle players celebrate after sweeping El Dorado to win the Division 1A championship at Santiago Canyon College. Credit: Steve Galluzzo / For The Times
Jessica Kennedy (granddaughter of Frosty Kennedy) and the La Salle team won the CIF SS title only to lose 3-2 in the State championship (1st round) game in Fresno. They went 33-3 on the season. Lancers, you had a great year!!!!
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Posted 09/22/2012 in the PLAINVIEW HERALD.
Baseball great Frosty Kennedy played with Plainview Ponies
Posted: Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:25 pm
Updated: 2:26 pm, Sat Sep 22, 2012.
Baseball great Frosty Kennedy played with Plainview Ponies DOUG McDONOUGH
Herald Editor Plainview Herald
Without a lick of modesty, Forrest Kennedy always considered himself the greatest professional baseball player in the history of the sport.
And “Frosty” Kennedy considered his best season to be 1956, when he hammered 60 home runs and drove in an astounding 184 runs while playing for the Plainview Ponies in the Class D Southwestern League.
In recognition of that historic feat, Kennedy is part of a display at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Kennedy, who died June 5, 1998, at the age of 72, looked back at his baseball career for a feature in the Herald on Aug. 25, 1985. Then-Editor Danny Andrews updated that story in 1992, when then-66-year-old Kennedy was operating a BMX bicycle track in Covina, Calif. Although retired, he was still living in Covina when he died six years later.
“I think I’m the greatest ballplayer ever,” he told Andrews in a telephone interview in 1985. “Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, but never batted over .400. Ted Williams and a lot of other guys batted over .400, but never hit 60 homers. I did both.”
Pointing out that fact, Kennedy told Andrews that the personalized plates on his car read “60 HOMERS.”
A retiree from Douglass Aircraft and a lifelong fan, Kennedy in his later years held the firm conviction that half of the modern major league ballplayers couldn’t have played for the Plainview Ponies and other semi-pro and minor league teams during the 1940s and 1950s.
“It’s true, the kids don’t have the experience,” he told Andrews. “They play college ball and maybe spend a year or two in the minors, and they move up to the big leagues. There are only six guys hitting over .300 in each league.
“(Yankees great) Reggie Jackson couldn’t have played on my ball club. They just don’t have players now like Musial, Williams and DiMaggio. A guy is hitting .250 and they think he’s having a helluva year,” he said.
While he hit 60 homers for Plainview, Kennedy was quoted as claiming that he could have hit 120 homers if he had played in a well-lighted modern park.
“We only had five pitchers on the staff and they were paid to go nine innings,” Kennedy explained. “Now they think a guy’s great if he goes five.”
A first baseman, according to Baseball-Reference.com, Kennedy played for a dozen teams during his 11-year career.
Kennedy said one reason he never made it to the major leagues despite a career .342 batting average with 228 home runs, 1,083 runs batted in and 1,572 hits, was “there were too many players. In those days, the Dodgers had more players in the farm system than there are in the entire minor leagues now.”
Signed for $200 per month by former Dodger catcher Babe Hermann, as a 21-year-old he played one game in the 1947 season for Riverside, Calif., recording a hit in his single appearance at the plate. The next two years at Riverside he hit .331 and .411. In 1950, Kennedy played for three teams, Pensacola, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., and Hartford, Conn., during an injury-plagued year, playing a total of 48 games with a combined batting average of .320.
He hit .307 with Miami Beach in 1951; .339 with 25 homers at Lamesa in 1952; a league-leading .410 including a 40-game hitting streak, 225 hits, 38 home runs and 169 RBI for Plainview in 1953; played briefly for Oklahoma City and Burlington, Iowa, before hitting .372 with 35 homers and 120 RBI in 112 games for Amarillo in 1954; hit .301 with 30 homers and 122 RBI with Yuma, Ariz., in 1955; .327 with 60 homers and 184 RBI in Plainview in 1956; and finished his career in 1957 playing for Boise, Idaho, (19 games with 15 hits and one homer) and Savannah, Ga., (34 games with 28 hits and six honors).
“Grover Seitz (the Pampa manager who was to have managed the Ponies in 1957, but died in a car crash in the off-season) wanted me to come back and play, but in 1957 I signed with Savannah in the Cincinnati organization and got a new car as a bonus. I had a hernia operation and they sold me to Jacksonville, and I wound up with Boise in the Pioneer League.”
After retiring as a player, Kennedy went on to coach American Legion youth baseball for eight years.
Kennedy recalled that he and second baseman Don Stokes were sold to Oklahoma City, an AA team, after the Lamesa franchise was moved to Plainview at the start of the 1953 season, and that’s how he wound up in Plainview. He hit a league-leading .410 that season, and spent the next two seasons playing for Amarillo, Burlington, Oklahoma City and Yuma, before coming back to Plainview for his historic 1956 season.
According to Baseball-Reference.com, Kennedy pitched in only three games. He pitched in two games for Amarillo in the 1954 season and once in 1956 for Plainview. None of those assignments carried enough innings to register a win-loss decision.
According to Andrews, Kennedy was a colorful character with a proverbial chaw of tobacco, muscular build and sleeveless, tobacco-stained uniform.
As the 1956 season wound down, Plainview was well out of the Class C pennant race. The locally-owned Ponies, who did not have a working agreement with a major league team, were 75-69 and finished 17 games behind Hobbs. Also in the league were El Paso, Pampa, San Angelo, Ballinger, Carlsbad, Midland, Roswell and Clovis.
But Kennedy was flirting with history, gunning for 60 homers. Babe Ruth set the major league record in 1927 for the Yankees. Joe Baumann held the overall record with 72 homers while playing for Roswell in 1954.
Kennedy had 59 homers going into the final three games in 1956 at San Angelo. Many of those round-trippers were hit in Plainview’s Jaycee Park where it was only 348 feet to the center field fence.
A rainout in San Angelo forced a pair of 7-inning games in a double-header the next night, depriving Kennedy of at least two at-bats.
“The San Angelo catcher was calling the pitches for me, trying to help me get the 60th homer,” but Kennedy went 1-for-8 with nothing out of the park. “I was trying too hard and I finally told him, ‘Hey, you’re not helping me, you’re hurting me.’ I didn’t want to know what was coming.”
But the next night, the last of the season, Kennedy hit a long solo homer in the third off Jorge Lopez. Umpire Al Martin ruled it fair as it soared right at the foul line.
Kennedy said one of his most memorable homers came in 1953 when he hit one off Red Dial of Clovis in the 13th inning of a playoff game at Jaycee Park. Kennedy collected $290 in bills that fans stuck through the fence behind home plate.
Decades later, Kennedy had fond memories of Plainview, saying it was his favorite baseball city and had the best fans. It also was “the only town I ever played in where you were ‘sanded out’ because the sand blew so hard you couldn’t see the lights.”
MyPlainview.com
Posted: Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:25 pm
Updated: 2:26 pm, Sat Sep 22, 2012.
Baseball great Frosty Kennedy played with Plainview Ponies DOUG McDONOUGH
Herald Editor Plainview Herald
Without a lick of modesty, Forrest Kennedy always considered himself the greatest professional baseball player in the history of the sport.
And “Frosty” Kennedy considered his best season to be 1956, when he hammered 60 home runs and drove in an astounding 184 runs while playing for the Plainview Ponies in the Class D Southwestern League.
In recognition of that historic feat, Kennedy is part of a display at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Kennedy, who died June 5, 1998, at the age of 72, looked back at his baseball career for a feature in the Herald on Aug. 25, 1985. Then-Editor Danny Andrews updated that story in 1992, when then-66-year-old Kennedy was operating a BMX bicycle track in Covina, Calif. Although retired, he was still living in Covina when he died six years later.
“I think I’m the greatest ballplayer ever,” he told Andrews in a telephone interview in 1985. “Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, but never batted over .400. Ted Williams and a lot of other guys batted over .400, but never hit 60 homers. I did both.”
Pointing out that fact, Kennedy told Andrews that the personalized plates on his car read “60 HOMERS.”
A retiree from Douglass Aircraft and a lifelong fan, Kennedy in his later years held the firm conviction that half of the modern major league ballplayers couldn’t have played for the Plainview Ponies and other semi-pro and minor league teams during the 1940s and 1950s.
“It’s true, the kids don’t have the experience,” he told Andrews. “They play college ball and maybe spend a year or two in the minors, and they move up to the big leagues. There are only six guys hitting over .300 in each league.
“(Yankees great) Reggie Jackson couldn’t have played on my ball club. They just don’t have players now like Musial, Williams and DiMaggio. A guy is hitting .250 and they think he’s having a helluva year,” he said.
While he hit 60 homers for Plainview, Kennedy was quoted as claiming that he could have hit 120 homers if he had played in a well-lighted modern park.
“We only had five pitchers on the staff and they were paid to go nine innings,” Kennedy explained. “Now they think a guy’s great if he goes five.”
A first baseman, according to Baseball-Reference.com, Kennedy played for a dozen teams during his 11-year career.
Kennedy said one reason he never made it to the major leagues despite a career .342 batting average with 228 home runs, 1,083 runs batted in and 1,572 hits, was “there were too many players. In those days, the Dodgers had more players in the farm system than there are in the entire minor leagues now.”
Signed for $200 per month by former Dodger catcher Babe Hermann, as a 21-year-old he played one game in the 1947 season for Riverside, Calif., recording a hit in his single appearance at the plate. The next two years at Riverside he hit .331 and .411. In 1950, Kennedy played for three teams, Pensacola, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., and Hartford, Conn., during an injury-plagued year, playing a total of 48 games with a combined batting average of .320.
He hit .307 with Miami Beach in 1951; .339 with 25 homers at Lamesa in 1952; a league-leading .410 including a 40-game hitting streak, 225 hits, 38 home runs and 169 RBI for Plainview in 1953; played briefly for Oklahoma City and Burlington, Iowa, before hitting .372 with 35 homers and 120 RBI in 112 games for Amarillo in 1954; hit .301 with 30 homers and 122 RBI with Yuma, Ariz., in 1955; .327 with 60 homers and 184 RBI in Plainview in 1956; and finished his career in 1957 playing for Boise, Idaho, (19 games with 15 hits and one homer) and Savannah, Ga., (34 games with 28 hits and six honors).
“Grover Seitz (the Pampa manager who was to have managed the Ponies in 1957, but died in a car crash in the off-season) wanted me to come back and play, but in 1957 I signed with Savannah in the Cincinnati organization and got a new car as a bonus. I had a hernia operation and they sold me to Jacksonville, and I wound up with Boise in the Pioneer League.”
After retiring as a player, Kennedy went on to coach American Legion youth baseball for eight years.
Kennedy recalled that he and second baseman Don Stokes were sold to Oklahoma City, an AA team, after the Lamesa franchise was moved to Plainview at the start of the 1953 season, and that’s how he wound up in Plainview. He hit a league-leading .410 that season, and spent the next two seasons playing for Amarillo, Burlington, Oklahoma City and Yuma, before coming back to Plainview for his historic 1956 season.
According to Baseball-Reference.com, Kennedy pitched in only three games. He pitched in two games for Amarillo in the 1954 season and once in 1956 for Plainview. None of those assignments carried enough innings to register a win-loss decision.
According to Andrews, Kennedy was a colorful character with a proverbial chaw of tobacco, muscular build and sleeveless, tobacco-stained uniform.
As the 1956 season wound down, Plainview was well out of the Class C pennant race. The locally-owned Ponies, who did not have a working agreement with a major league team, were 75-69 and finished 17 games behind Hobbs. Also in the league were El Paso, Pampa, San Angelo, Ballinger, Carlsbad, Midland, Roswell and Clovis.
But Kennedy was flirting with history, gunning for 60 homers. Babe Ruth set the major league record in 1927 for the Yankees. Joe Baumann held the overall record with 72 homers while playing for Roswell in 1954.
Kennedy had 59 homers going into the final three games in 1956 at San Angelo. Many of those round-trippers were hit in Plainview’s Jaycee Park where it was only 348 feet to the center field fence.
A rainout in San Angelo forced a pair of 7-inning games in a double-header the next night, depriving Kennedy of at least two at-bats.
“The San Angelo catcher was calling the pitches for me, trying to help me get the 60th homer,” but Kennedy went 1-for-8 with nothing out of the park. “I was trying too hard and I finally told him, ‘Hey, you’re not helping me, you’re hurting me.’ I didn’t want to know what was coming.”
But the next night, the last of the season, Kennedy hit a long solo homer in the third off Jorge Lopez. Umpire Al Martin ruled it fair as it soared right at the foul line.
Kennedy said one of his most memorable homers came in 1953 when he hit one off Red Dial of Clovis in the 13th inning of a playoff game at Jaycee Park. Kennedy collected $290 in bills that fans stuck through the fence behind home plate.
Decades later, Kennedy had fond memories of Plainview, saying it was his favorite baseball city and had the best fans. It also was “the only town I ever played in where you were ‘sanded out’ because the sand blew so hard you couldn’t see the lights.”
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CABRERA WINS HOME RUN TITLE
JOSE MIGUEL CABRERA OF THE DETROIT TIGERS WINS THE HR TITLE WITH 44. HE PLAYED IN 161 GAMES WITH A .330 AVG. MEGUEL WAS BORN ON 04/18/1983 IN MARACAY, VENEZUELA.
RYAN JOSEPH BRAUN WON THE NATIONAL LEAGUE TITLE WITH 41 HOMERS PLAYING IN 154 GAMES WITH A .319 AVG. RYAN WAS BORN ON 11/17/1983 IN MISSION HILLS, CA.
THESE ARE HR LEADERS OF THE CLASS A ADVANCED LEAGUES
ADAM DUVALL PLAYS FOR THE SAN JOSE GIANTS OF THE CALIFORNIA LEAGUE.
PARENT CLUB: SAN FRANCISCO HR: 30 GAMES: 134 AVG.: 258
DOB: 09/04/1988 BORN: LOUISVILLE, KY
AARON BAKE PLAYS FOR THE BOWIE BAYSOX OF THE CAROLINA LEAGUE.
PARENT CLUB: BALTIMORE HR: 22 GAMES: 89 AVG: 266
DOB: 09/10/1987 BORN: DENTON, TX
TRAYCE THOMPSON PLAYS FOR THE SALT RIVER RAFTERS. HE TIED FOR THE TITLE ALSO WITH 22 HOME RUNS. PARENT CLUB: CWS GAMES: 116 AVG: .254
DOB: 03/15/1991 BORN: LADERA RANCH, CA
MARCELL OZUMA PLAYS FOR THE JOPITER HAMMERHEADS OF THE FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: MIAMI HR: 24 GAMES:129 AVG: 266
DOB: 11/12/1990 BORN: SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
CLASS A LEADERS
MIGUEL SANO PLAYS FOR THE CEDAR RAPIS KERNELS OF THE MIDWEST LEAGUE.
PARENT CLUB: MINNESOTA HR: 28 GAMES: 129 AVG: 258
DOB: 05/11/93 BORN: SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MATHEW SKOLE PLAYS FOR THE SALT RIVER RAFTERS OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: WASHINGTON HR: 27 GAMES: 101 AVG: 286
DOB: 07/30/1089 BORN: WOODSTOCK, GA
SEE YOU ALL BACK HERE NEXT YEAR.
RYAN JOSEPH BRAUN WON THE NATIONAL LEAGUE TITLE WITH 41 HOMERS PLAYING IN 154 GAMES WITH A .319 AVG. RYAN WAS BORN ON 11/17/1983 IN MISSION HILLS, CA.
THESE ARE HR LEADERS OF THE CLASS A ADVANCED LEAGUES
ADAM DUVALL PLAYS FOR THE SAN JOSE GIANTS OF THE CALIFORNIA LEAGUE.
PARENT CLUB: SAN FRANCISCO HR: 30 GAMES: 134 AVG.: 258
DOB: 09/04/1988 BORN: LOUISVILLE, KY
AARON BAKE PLAYS FOR THE BOWIE BAYSOX OF THE CAROLINA LEAGUE.
PARENT CLUB: BALTIMORE HR: 22 GAMES: 89 AVG: 266
DOB: 09/10/1987 BORN: DENTON, TX
TRAYCE THOMPSON PLAYS FOR THE SALT RIVER RAFTERS. HE TIED FOR THE TITLE ALSO WITH 22 HOME RUNS. PARENT CLUB: CWS GAMES: 116 AVG: .254
DOB: 03/15/1991 BORN: LADERA RANCH, CA
MARCELL OZUMA PLAYS FOR THE JOPITER HAMMERHEADS OF THE FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: MIAMI HR: 24 GAMES:129 AVG: 266
DOB: 11/12/1990 BORN: SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
CLASS A LEADERS
MIGUEL SANO PLAYS FOR THE CEDAR RAPIS KERNELS OF THE MIDWEST LEAGUE.
PARENT CLUB: MINNESOTA HR: 28 GAMES: 129 AVG: 258
DOB: 05/11/93 BORN: SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MATHEW SKOLE PLAYS FOR THE SALT RIVER RAFTERS OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: WASHINGTON HR: 27 GAMES: 101 AVG: 286
DOB: 07/30/1089 BORN: WOODSTOCK, GA
SEE YOU ALL BACK HERE NEXT YEAR.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
HOME RUN STANDINGS AS OF SEPT. 16, 2012
ALL PLAYERS WITH 39 OR MORE HOME RUNS LISTED
Below are the double-A league leaders.
HR.....GP.....GL.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE
42......136....17......J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN
40......138....16......R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL
40......139....18......E. ENCARNACION/ AMERICAN
39......135....17......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN
39......144....16......C. GRANDERSON/AMERICAN
DOUBLE-A LEAGUE LEADERS:
DARIN RUF HAD 38 HOME RUNS PLAYING FOR THE READING PHILLIES OF THE EASTERN LEAGUE. AVG. .317 RBI: 104 PARENT CLUB: PHILADELPHIA
HUNTER MORRIS HAD 28 HOME RUNS PLAYING FOR THE HUNTSVILLE STARS OF THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE. AVG. 303 RBI: 113 PARENT CLUB: MILWAUKEE
MIKE OLT HAD 28 HOME RUNS PLAYING FOR THE FRISCO ROUGH RIDERS OF THE TEXAS LEAGUE. AVG. .288 RBI: 82 PARENT CLUB: TEXAS
Next time I will list the single A league leaders.
Below are the double-A league leaders.
HR.....GP.....GL.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE
42......136....17......J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN
40......138....16......R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL
40......139....18......E. ENCARNACION/ AMERICAN
39......135....17......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN
39......144....16......C. GRANDERSON/AMERICAN
DOUBLE-A LEAGUE LEADERS:
DARIN RUF HAD 38 HOME RUNS PLAYING FOR THE READING PHILLIES OF THE EASTERN LEAGUE. AVG. .317 RBI: 104 PARENT CLUB: PHILADELPHIA
HUNTER MORRIS HAD 28 HOME RUNS PLAYING FOR THE HUNTSVILLE STARS OF THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE. AVG. 303 RBI: 113 PARENT CLUB: MILWAUKEE
MIKE OLT HAD 28 HOME RUNS PLAYING FOR THE FRISCO ROUGH RIDERS OF THE TEXAS LEAGUE. AVG. .288 RBI: 82 PARENT CLUB: TEXAS
Next time I will list the single A league leaders.
Sunday, September 09, 2012
home run standings as of sept. 9 2012
FOUR PLAYERS WITH 38 OR MORE HOMERS LISTED. BELOW ARE THE AAA MILB LEAGUE LEADERS.
HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
40......132.....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN. MLB
38......132.......R. BRAUN; NATIONAL/ NLB
38......133.......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
38......135.......E. ENCARACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
DAN JOHNSON- PLAYS FOR THE CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS OF THE AAA INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: CHICAGO WIGHT SOX
28 HOMERS .267 AVG. 85 RBI PLAYED IN 137 GAMES
MIKE HESSMAN- PLAYES FOR THE OKLAHOMA CITY HEDHAWKS OF THE AAA PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: HOUSTON
35 HOMERS 231 AVG. 78 RBI PLAYED IN 123 GAMES.
CARLOW RODRIGUEZ- PLAYES FOR THE RIELEROS DE AGUASCALIENTES OF THE AAA MEXICAN LEAGUE. 32 HOMERS 296 AVG. 94 RBI HE ONLY PLAYED IN 105 GAMES.
KEEP ROOTING FOR THE ANGLES. MY HOME TOWN TEAM IS ONLY 1 GAME OUT OF THE PLAY-OFF PIC.
HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
40......132.....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN. MLB
38......132.......R. BRAUN; NATIONAL/ NLB
38......133.......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
38......135.......E. ENCARACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
DAN JOHNSON- PLAYS FOR THE CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS OF THE AAA INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: CHICAGO WIGHT SOX
28 HOMERS .267 AVG. 85 RBI PLAYED IN 137 GAMES
MIKE HESSMAN- PLAYES FOR THE OKLAHOMA CITY HEDHAWKS OF THE AAA PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. PARENT CLUB: HOUSTON
35 HOMERS 231 AVG. 78 RBI PLAYED IN 123 GAMES.
CARLOW RODRIGUEZ- PLAYES FOR THE RIELEROS DE AGUASCALIENTES OF THE AAA MEXICAN LEAGUE. 32 HOMERS 296 AVG. 94 RBI HE ONLY PLAYED IN 105 GAMES.
KEEP ROOTING FOR THE ANGLES. MY HOME TOWN TEAM IS ONLY 1 GAME OUT OF THE PLAY-OFF PIC.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF AUG. 30, 2012
ONLY THREE PLAYERS HAVE 35 OR MORE HOMERS.
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER
48........35.......127.....A. DUNN/ AMERICAN
44.......35.........120....R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL
44........35........121....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN
THERE WILL NOT BE A 50 HOMERS GUY THIS YEAR.
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER
48........35.......127.....A. DUNN/ AMERICAN
44.......35.........120....R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL
44........35........121....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN
THERE WILL NOT BE A 50 HOMERS GUY THIS YEAR.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF AUG. 20, 2012
ONLY THREE PLAYERS WITH 33 OR MORE HOMERS ON TOP IN THE CHASE FOR THE HOME RUN TITLE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME WE HAVE HAD THIS MANY PLAYERS STILL IN THE RACE WITH LESS THAN 45 GAMES LEFT TO PLAY.
PHR....HR....GP....PLAYER
47........35.....119....A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
47........34.....112....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
45........33.....112....R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL/ MLB
PHR....HR....GP....PLAYER
47........35.....119....A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
47........34.....112....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
45........33.....112....R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL/ MLB
Sunday, August 12, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF AUG. 12, 2012
ALL FIVE PLAYERS WITH 30 OR MORE HOME RUNS ARE LISTED
PHR....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
46........32......`105.....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
44........31......112......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43........32......105......C. RODRIGUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
43........30......111......E. ENCARNACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43........30......113......C. GRANDERSO/ AMERICAN/ MLB
PHR....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
46........32......`105.....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
44........31......112......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43........32......105......C. RODRIGUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
43........30......111......E. ENCARNACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43........30......113......C. GRANDERSO/ AMERICAN/ MLB
Friday, August 10, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF AUG. 10, 2012
ALL PLAYERS WITH 29 OR MORE HOME RUNS LISTED.
PHR...HR...GP...PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
45.......31....109...A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
45.......30....102...J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
44.......30....109...C. GRANDERSON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43.......29....103...R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL/ MLB
43.......29....102...M. TRUMBO/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43.......29....107...J. WILLINGHAM/ AMERICAN/ MLB
42.......32....105...M. RODRGUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42.......29....112...A. CABRERA/ NATIONAL/ MLB
42.......29....108...E. ENCARNACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
40.......29....102...M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
38.......29....108...M. ABREU/ MEXICAN/ AAA
I was gone for a two week stay in the hospital. I come back and find that the PHRs have come way down. No player is on track to 50 homers this year, even 45 homers may not happen. The one bright spot is Mark Trumbo of my home town team the Angles is on a toroid pace and may soon take over the top spot.
PHR...HR...GP...PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
45.......31....109...A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
45.......30....102...J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
44.......30....109...C. GRANDERSON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43.......29....103...R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL/ MLB
43.......29....102...M. TRUMBO/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43.......29....107...J. WILLINGHAM/ AMERICAN/ MLB
42.......32....105...M. RODRGUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42.......29....112...A. CABRERA/ NATIONAL/ MLB
42.......29....108...E. ENCARNACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
40.......29....102...M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
38.......29....108...M. ABREU/ MEXICAN/ AAA
I was gone for a two week stay in the hospital. I come back and find that the PHRs have come way down. No player is on track to 50 homers this year, even 45 homers may not happen. The one bright spot is Mark Trumbo of my home town team the Angles is on a toroid pace and may soon take over the top spot.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF JULY 15, 2012
All players with 25 or more home runs listed.
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
51.........28......87......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
51.........27......82......M. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
50.........27......96......M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
49.........27......89......J. BAUTISTA/ AMERICAN/ MLB
49.........26......83......R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL/ MLB
46.........25......86......E. ENCARNECION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
46.........25......88......C. GANDERSON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43.........29......96......M. ABREU/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42.........28......95......C. RODRIQUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42.........27......87......B. HARPER/ MEXICAN/ AAA
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
51.........28......87......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
51.........27......82......M. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
50.........27......96......M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
49.........27......89......J. BAUTISTA/ AMERICAN/ MLB
49.........26......83......R. BRAUN/ NATIONAL/ MLB
46.........25......86......E. ENCARNECION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
46.........25......88......C. GANDERSON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
43.........29......96......M. ABREU/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42.........28......95......C. RODRIQUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42.........27......87......B. HARPER/ MEXICAN/ AAA
Saturday, July 07, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF JULY 7, 2012
All players with 24 or more home uns listed.
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
27.........27.......85.....J. BAUTISA/ AMERICAN/ MLB
51.........26.......77.....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
49.........27.......72.....M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
47.........25.......83.....A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
47.........24.......79.....R. BRAUN/NATIONAL/ MLB
46.........24.......63.....B. ELDRED/ INTERNATIONAL/ AAA (RELEASED, last game June 17)
45.........28.......89.....M. ABREW/ MEXICAN/ AAA
44.........27.......85.....B. HARPER/ MEXICAN/ AAA
39.........24.......89.....C. RODRIQUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
27.........27.......85.....J. BAUTISA/ AMERICAN/ MLB
51.........26.......77.....J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
49.........27.......72.....M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
47.........25.......83.....A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
47.........24.......79.....R. BRAUN/NATIONAL/ MLB
46.........24.......63.....B. ELDRED/ INTERNATIONAL/ AAA (RELEASED, last game June 17)
45.........28.......89.....M. ABREW/ MEXICAN/ AAA
44.........27.......85.....B. HARPER/ MEXICAN/ AAA
39.........24.......89.....C. RODRIQUEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
Monday, June 25, 2012
PHR STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 25, 2012
JOSE BAUTISTA (BLUEJAYS) NOW LEADS THE PHR LEADER BOARD. HE IS GOING AFTER HIS THIRD STRIGHT HOME RUN TITLE. PAT RILEY SHOULDA BE SMILING.
ALL PLAYERS WITH 21 OR MORE HOME RUNS LISTED.
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
53........24.......73......J. BAUTISTA/ AMERICAN/ MLB
53........23.......67......J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
52........24.......63......B. ELDRED/ INTERNATIONAL/ AAA
51........23.......73......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
47........23.......70......A. RIZZO/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
47........21.......70......E. ENCAMACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
46........21.......61......M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
46........21.......72......C. GRANDERSON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
45........26.......83......B. HARPER/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42........24.......79......M. ABRUE/ MEXICAN/ AAA
39........21.......70......M. LOPEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
38........21.......76......J. LINDSEY/ MEXICAN/ AAA
37........21.......81......J. AMADOR/ MEXICAN/ AAA
ALL PLAYERS WITH 21 OR MORE HOME RUNS LISTED.
PHR.....HR.....GP.....PLAYER/ LEAGUE/ DIV.
53........24.......73......J. BAUTISTA/ AMERICAN/ MLB
53........23.......67......J. HAMILTON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
52........24.......63......B. ELDRED/ INTERNATIONAL/ AAA
51........23.......73......A. DUNN/ AMERICAN/ MLB
47........23.......70......A. RIZZO/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
47........21.......70......E. ENCAMACION/ AMERICAN/ MLB
46........21.......61......M. HESSMAN/ PACIFIC COAST/ AAA
46........21.......72......C. GRANDERSON/ AMERICAN/ MLB
45........26.......83......B. HARPER/ MEXICAN/ AAA
42........24.......79......M. ABRUE/ MEXICAN/ AAA
39........21.......70......M. LOPEZ/ MEXICAN/ AAA
38........21.......76......J. LINDSEY/ MEXICAN/ AAA
37........21.......81......J. AMADOR/ MEXICAN/ AAA
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