No one remembers who came in second???

[RayMac]

Reggie Jackson leads all Major League Baseball batters in striking out over the course of his career, Reggie of course is in the Hall of Fame. #2 is Jim Thome who has a pretty good chance of being there in future. I mention this because we actually met Jim when he was a young minor league player with Cleveland in Spring Training in Tuscon. You could just go over to the minor league complex and say hi back then.
On the pitching side of things, Nolan Ryan leads and #2 isn't too shabby either - Randy Johnson.

[Bwana]

Reggie Jackson leads all Major League Baseball batters in striking out over the course of his career, Reggie of course is in the Hall of Fame. #2 is Jim Thome who has a pretty good chance of being there in future. I mention this because we actually met Jim when he was a young minor league player with Cleveland in Spring Training in Tuscon. You could just go over to the minor league complex and say hi back then.
On the pitching side of things, Nolan Ryan leads and #2 isn't too shabby either - Randy Johnson.

For some reason I thought it was Babe Ruth that led the strikeout dept.

[RayMac]

The Babe played in a different era when they didn't have the hard slider, the split finger and the relief specialist. He had "only" 1330 strikeouts in 22 seasons which puts him at #108. Nick Swisher (great name for a strikeout king) has nearly as many Ks in 11 seasons as the Bambino had in 22.
If you really want to go back to a different era, Wee Willie Keeler - the master of the slap and bunt hits - struck out only 136 times in a 19 year career. Reggie (Mr. October) Jackson averaged more than 149 per year.

[Nokie]

I will go a different direction-

Nikola Tesla. Thomas Edison gets all the PR but this guy was scary, scary, smart and futuristic. .

[bolaberlim]

What about this guy? Is it a win or a fail? Frankly, I love when underdogs win! Will he be in the history books?

[Col Angus]

Reggie Jackson leads all Major League Baseball batters in striking out over the course of his career, Reggie of course is in the Hall of Fame. #2 is Jim Thome who has a pretty good chance of being there in future. I mention this because we actually met Jim when he was a young minor league player with Cleveland in Spring Training in Tuscon. You could just go over to the minor league complex and say hi back then.
On the pitching side of things, Nolan Ryan leads and #2 isn't too shabby either - Randy Johnson.

On the baseball theme, this pitcher holds the record for MOST LOSSES!!!! and has a prestigious award named for him...Cy Young. Of course he also won more games, a lot more games than anyone else.

[RayMac]

On the baseball theme, this pitcher holds the record for MOST LOSSES!!!! and has a prestigious award named for him...Cy Young. Of course he also won more games, a lot more games than anyone else.

If you look at the top 7 "losers" in pitching, they all have winning records and all of them are in the Hall of Fame.
#2 in losses is Pud Galvin - a 19th century dead ball era pitcher who averaged an astounding 293 innings pitched per season. Pud was basically a control pitcher even back then. Lots of hits, but few strikeouts. Still won more than he lost.

[RayMac]

Moving on to physics, Clerk Maxwell gets the fame and the name when it comes to electromagnetic theory, but his equations were redeveloped into their simpler and more generally applied format by the relatively unknown Oliver Heaviside.

[Col Angus]

If you look at the top 7 "losers" in pitching, they all have winning records and all of them are in the Hall of Fame.
#2 in losses is Pud Galvin - a 19th century dead ball era pitcher who averaged an astounding 293 innings pitched per season. Pud was basically a control pitcher even back then. Lots of hits, but few strikeouts. Still won more than he lost.

One of the reason for the many losses and innings pitched is because of owner frugality. Pitchers who started games were expected to finish them, so no pitch counts, no middle relief, no closers. If you couldn't finish a game, you weren't major league material.

[Col Angus]

"Maggie May"

"Reason to Believe" was released as the single from Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story album. "Maggie May" was the B side of the 45.