The Washington times., 1936-02-19
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Here Are
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By KIRK MILLER
Times SPORTS Editor

You may be grateful TO, or
you may blame, not the over
signed, but Henry Pierpont
Edwards, of the American
League service bureau, the
man with q statistical mind,
for the tid-bits which viii
make up much Of today's
Offering.
Henry has sent along an in
teresting brochure carrying
many entertaining home run
records Of the past season and
with your kind indulgence we
will skip through this treatise and
pick out some Of the most In
tereSting nuggets.
Hard and Easy Parks
For instance. the same num-
Der Of home runs were made in
White Sox park last season that
were made in Yankee Stadium
Ill.
And as usual, fewer circuit
clouts were registered at Griffith
Stadium than in any other park
tn the loops.
Boston saw SIS homerS 60 over
the fence or into the stand:
Cleveland, SO: Detroit, 50; Phil
adelphia, 102 and st. Louis, 85.
Charlie Gehringer hit the most
four-basers in the toughest park
In the loop-WaShington. He Is
credited with three. His only
teammate who could clear the To-
cal walls was GoSlin, with one.
Yves Ferrell got q pair here, as did
Hal TroSky, Jimmy Foxx. Lou
Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri.
One each is attributed to the
following on local terrain: Carl
Reynolds, Hank Bonura, Anthony
Piet, Earl Averill, Joe VoSmik, Odel
Hale, Goose Goslin, Frank CroSetti,
Jesse Hill (now with Washington
Charlie Ruffing, George Selkirk,
Bob Johnson, Pinky Higgins, Ray
Pepper, Harland Cliff, Robert
EStalella, Joe Kuhel. Buddy Myer,
Alvin Powell and Johnny Stone.
Where They Hit 'Em
As a lot of you have known since
the close Of last season, Jimmy
Foxx and Hank Greenberg tied
last season with 36 home runs
each, but Henry Edwards inter
esting table tells you in which
parks this pair did their extra
base smuggling.
Greenberg got 8 in Boston. 3 in
Chicago, 18 in his home park at
Detroit, in Cleveland, 4 in New
York, 2 in Philadelphia, S in st.
Louis and mary q one here in
Washington. If that doesn't make
36, well, it ought to.
Jimmy Foxx only got II in his
home grounds at Shibe Park last
season, and the next easiest park
for him to loft them out Of sight
was Chicago, where he registered
five. In Boston, where FoXx will
play n games next season, FoXx
: got but a single homer last year.
In Cleveland he got two, in De-
troit four, in New York two, in
st. Louis three and in Washing
ton two.
How Home Boys Did
WaShington'S best circuit
clouter last season was Jake
Powell, with six such blows, one
in Boston, one in Chicago, one in
Cleveland, two in New York, and
one at home. Myers five homerS
were compiled with two in Chi
cago and one in New York, St.
Louis and Washington, each.
Schultz hit homerS in Boston
and New York, Linke hit one in
Chicago, Manush hit two in Cleve-
land and two in New York. Boil
ton hit one in Cleveland and one
in Detroit. Kuhel hit one in
Cleveland and one at home.
Estalella, the Cuban player out
Of Albany, here only a few weeks
last season, hit one in Phila-
delphia and one at home, and
Sam Holbrook connected for two
in st. Louis. Il
Now, I believe that about COM
pletes the "home run lesson" for
today, and I also believe what
has gone before Nill be much
more palatable if it is topped off
with the field measurements Of
the eight American League cities,
which follow, the yardage in fig.
ureS after each city, giving
first the left field, then center,
then right:
Washington, 35S, AL, 32S; Chi
cago, $40, 436, $40; Cleveland,
374, 467, 290; Detroit, 339. 455,
372; Boston, $40, 468, 358; st.
Louis, 800, $50, 800; Philadelphia,
334. 468, 3S1, and New York, S01.