Le 2 mai 1876, on attribue à Ross Barnes des Boston Red Stockings le premier coup de circuit de l’histoire.
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Par Theorpo
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Le 2 mai 1876, on attribue à Ross Barnes des Boston Red Stockings le premier coup de circuit de l’histoire.
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Par Theorpo
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Probably by accident too
Fun fact: the ball was caught by some jackass named Mugshot Hample.
“Wait what do we do now?! The ball is out of play, so he’s out, right?”
Was it inside the park or out? Do we know?
Barnes was the original GOAT hitter, though not due to home runs. He was the master of the fair foul bunt, which was hitting the ball into fair territory, and then the ball immediately spinning into foul territory away from fielders. The rule was changed after 1876 to where those balls are considered foul now and at the same time, Barnes contracted an illness which sapped a lot of his energy and he was never the same player.
Though he is considered by some to even be more dominant in the first years of baseball than early 2000s Bonds as well. He had a 12.2 bWAR/162 average in his first 6 seasons, his splits were .398/.424/.532 which led to a 194 OPS+ in that time. and also he could score:
> Barnes is only one of four players, the others being Babe Ruth, Rickey Henderson, and Aaron Judge, in the history of Major League Baseball to lead his league in runs scored with more than 30 runs over the next closest player; in 1876 Barnes had 54 more runs scored than runner-up George Wright, which is the largest differential ever.
Barnes played 66 games in 1876, and had a .429/.462/.590 that year for a 235 OPS+ a number only surpassed by Ruth and Bonds in modern times (but matched by 1941 Ted Williams)
He was considered one of the players that helped build the foundations of what baseball became yet he is not in the HoF which I feel is an oversight.
wild to think this dude had no idea he was about to change everything about the game forever
You mean the first home run in the National League. Home runs had been part of the game for decades, even if they were rare.
Only 11 years after the Civil War is really crazy.
This was very interesting. As a huge fan of historical baseball this is something I did not know. Thanks for sharing.
Also, on this day in 1954, Stan Musial became the first player to ever hit five home runs in a day. It was a doubleheader: hit three in the first game, two in the nightcap.
Nate Colbert, 8 years old at the time, was in the stands. He later went on to tie Musial’s record on August 1, 1972 – hitting five bombs against the Braves.
I wonder if there was a bat flip.