Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
is:
The Big Black Guy, 6-2, 210, who batted and
threw right, and who goes down
in modern MLB history as the greatest
all-around player ever, post-ugly-segregation
era, because in 1978 he is the only player to
lead the league in home runs (led 3x),
triples, and RBIs (led 2x) in the same season,
plus that year he led in games played,
at-bats (led 2x), hits, total bases (led 4x),
slugging percentage (led 2x), extra base hits,
on base slugging percentage,
league leader in strike-outs one time,
GIDB (grounded into double-plays) where
he led 4x (the highest of 36 in one of the
years), and adjusted OPS, with the only
people coming closest to his career all-around
feats are Aaron Judge and Shohei Otani
(but they must play more years), plus he
is the only player in MLB history to have
three years of at least 200 hits, 39 HRs
while batting .315 in each of those years,
oh and he was the highest paid player in
two of his years, while spending his
whole career of 16 years with the Red Sox,
which was the last racist team in baseball
to hire a Talented Big Black Man, being
the 13,534th 'Player of Blackness' hired
after the 'No Blacks Allowed Even If
You Play Better' segregation span of
time, so you know that he had to put
up with some hate, and he got in the
HOF in his final year of eligibility,
and with stats like his it should have
happened much sooner, but he was a
360 degree 'Bad Mahma Jamma,'
among other notable accomplishments,
with some highlights here,
and we give flowers and say the name of...
...Jim Rice!
Black Baseball History Month was
founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.
in 2025 to commemorate, place value,
and get to know, our Heroes, while
standing and cheering for, the many
International Black Men who 'Shocked
and Awed' us with too many to count,
fantastic and unexpected physical
heroics at the Ballpark, in exciting
efforts for their teams to cross home
plate more than their opponents to win.
The Founder of Black Baseball History Month,
Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,
is also a College and Pro Baseball enthusiast,
USC Dental School Graduate,
and elucidator of elatus labialis wingeulus.
If you know a Baseballer who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
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