MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL DEATH’S ON OCTOBER 12

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Major League Baseball Death’s On October 12, features, Norm Cash, you will meet Hall of Famers, Cup of Coffee players, and great characters of the game. Our list stretches all the way back to the 1800s to today’s current game!

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Featured Passing – Norm Cash

While the 1968 season came to be known as “The Year of the Pitcher,” 1961 could just as easily be referred to as “The Year of the Hitter.” With the expansion Washington Senators and Los Angeles Angels joining the ranks of American League teams, baseball experienced a dilution in pitching talent that enabled the game’s top stars to compile some incredibly prolific offensive numbers. In the junior circuit alone, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle combined to hit 115 home runs for the Yankees, with the former breaking Babe Ruth’s long-standing single season home run record. Baltimore’s Jim Gentile hit 46 homers and knocked in 141 runs, in fewer than 500 official at-bats. Harmon Killebrew homered 46 times and drove in 122 runs for the Minnesota Twins. Rocky Colavito hit 45 home runs, knocked in 140 runs, and scored 129 others for the Detroit Tigers. Yet, it could be argued that the sport’s finest all-around hitter in 1961 was Colavito’s teammate in Detroit, slugging first baseman Norm Cash. The left-handed hitting Cash placed among the A.L. leaders with 41 home runs, 132 runs batted in, 119 runs scored, 124 walks, 354 total bases, and a .662 slugging percentage, while topping the circuit with a .361 batting average, a .487 on-base percentage, and 193 hits. Although Cash never again even approached most of those extraordinary figures, he remained one of the American League’s top sluggers for another decade, ending his career as the fourth leading left-handed home run hitter in league history, behind only Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Lou Gehrig.

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