Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 23, 2020 21:20:31 GMT
Can't do this as trivia
The pitcher with the best winning percentage against the Yankees is Dickey Kerr at .778 (14-4). Kerr was noted as a "Clean Sox", one of the few who has a moral compass and didn't shit on the game. In 2nd on the list...
Babe Ruth .773 (17-5). If anything, the $100,000 the Yanks spent on Ruth pulled a nasty thorn from their side.
Interesting story from Kerr's SABR biography
"On September 11 tempers and pent-up frustrations boiled over during Kerr’s start against the Boston Red Sox in Chicago. An easy fly ball fell untouched in the outfield between Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, and a perfect force throw from Kerr was flat-out dropped by Buck Weaver; these miscues helped turn a 1-0 Boston lead into a 6-0 laugher.
Kerr, however, wasn’t laughing. At the end of the inning, he reportedly flung his glove across the field in disgust, glowered at Weaver and Swede Risberg, and screamed at them, “If you’d told me you wanted to lose the game, I could have done it a lot easier!” A riot nearly broke out on the White Sox bench, Ray Schalk joining his batterymate in the scrum, and manager Kid Gleason had to break up fistfights between teammates. The White Sox fell, 9-7, unable to overcome six errors.". I've read a lot of tales about the Black Sox throwing games in 1920, either by extortion or for more cash.
Kerr, however, wasn’t laughing. At the end of the inning, he reportedly flung his glove across the field in disgust, glowered at Weaver and Swede Risberg, and screamed at them, “If you’d told me you wanted to lose the game, I could have done it a lot easier!” A riot nearly broke out on the White Sox bench, Ray Schalk joining his batterymate in the scrum, and manager Kid Gleason had to break up fistfights between teammates. The White Sox fell, 9-7, unable to overcome six errors.". I've read a lot of tales about the Black Sox throwing games in 1920, either by extortion or for more cash.
