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Post by tomservo on Jun 4, 2007 15:17:28 GMT -5
I lifted this from Ken Jennings's website and is a really cool baseball question. See if you can figure it out.
Consider the universe of baseball statistics. Forget about ones that are averages, and thus a player’s score can go up or down over time — batting average, ERA, slugging percentage, and the like. Focus on the ones that accumulate. Also, forget about statistics that nobody tracks, like ground rule doubles in extra innings under a full moon on astroturf. Stay with statistics that people have actually heard of.
Now consider that among such statistics there’s the concept of one category being a special case of another. If you do one, you necessarily do the other, but not vice versa (otherwise two statistics would be called “synonyms”). A perfect game is a special case of a no-hitter. A double is a special case of a hit. An at-bat is a special case of a plate appearance. A save is a special case of a game played, but a hit is not because you can have any number of hits in a game.
At last, the question. There are two statistics, one of which is a special case of the other. The career leaders in the two categories — the guys who did each the most times — are different men with the same first and middle names. Who are they?
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Post by nyjyrk on Jun 4, 2007 21:39:38 GMT -5
Sent you a PM. I think I have it.
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Post by tomservo on Jun 5, 2007 1:03:39 GMT -5
Good work Jim. You got the two players. For anyone else who may be puzzled by this. Neither the players nor records involved are obscure by any means.
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Post by basenoc on Jul 3, 2007 17:54:49 GMT -5
dammit! i give up. ??who is it?
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Post by nyjyrk on Jul 4, 2007 6:50:16 GMT -5
Henry Lewis Aaron - Home runs Henry Lewis Gherig - grand slams
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Post by basenoc on Jul 4, 2007 9:56:01 GMT -5
;D i was way off ;D
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