Mark 6:2
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 8 15:10:56 EDT 1998
At 12:17 PM -0500 9/8/98, Theodore H. Mann wrote:
>On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 12:35:51 EDT dixonps at juno.com (Paul S. Dixon) writes:
>
>Didn't the Babe hit his 60 homers in a shorter season than the rest of
>these guys? Or does my memory fail me? If it doesn't, we would have to
>project how many more 4-baggers Ruth would likely have hit if he had the
>same length season as Maris and McGuire, in which case he would probably
>still be the King of Swat. Or did Maris and McGuire reach the 61 mark
>(so as to break Ruth's record) in the same number of games as Ruth?
>
I didn't answer Ted's question before. Here, however, is what the NYTimes
article by Murray Chass this morning said:
"McGwire's record-tying home run came two days after another first-inning
home run tied him with Babe Ruth at 60. McGwire's 61st came in his team's
144th game (including one tie), whereas it took Maris 163 games (also one
tie) to surpass Ruth. Because he broke Ruth's total well before his team's
154th game - the length of the season when Ruth played - McGwire should not
face any talk of an asterisk in regards to surpassing Ruth, an issue that
bedeviled Maris."
Gee, I wish I did know the Greek for baseball, so I could justify this as
something more than the answer to a question asked on B-Greek.
Oh--and the Greek word for "baseball?" Although we can't talk of it as
something Athenian ephebes practiced on the plain of Marathon, there is a
Modern Greek word for the American game, and it should come as no surprise
that it's a loan word: MPEIZ-MPWL. Those who are unaware of it should
realize that Beta in MG has a V-sound, and to get the hard B-sound, MG has
to use the combination MP (just as, in order to get the hard D-sound, it
must use the combination NT).
Carl W. Conrad
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