Holy crap, that was hilarious and actually a really solid sports history lesson too. I loved how serious he took this subject and how deep he dove into it. Awesome graphs, graphics, statistic,...
Holy crap, that was hilarious and actually a really solid sports history lesson too. I loved how serious he took this subject and how deep he dove into it. Awesome graphs, graphics, statistic, archival photos/news clippings and even a bunch of synthwave music as the cherry on top. Also, LOL:
His final record; Zero wins, thirteen losses, nine of them by knockout.
Totally not funny though:
... has been denied because we have already filled our quota of Negroes.
... a sort of quiet discrimination still permeated Baseball. The pitcher, like the quarterback, was a marquis position reserved for a white player. Of the 153 pitchers to start a game in 1960, only 10 were black. But Gibson's manager wasn't at all quiet about this discrimination. His name was Solly Hamus... on at least one occasion yelling [racial] slurs at an opposing player. He would lazily, probably intentionally, confuse the names of black players on his own team.
Kudos to Johnny Keane for giving Bob Gibson a real chance at making it as a pitcher though. And that graph showing Gibson holding 3 of the 5 furthest rightmost positions in the graph of ERA over innings pitched, for every World Series performance during the integration era, is crazy. Same with the one showing him as the only pitcher to ever finish a season with an ERA below 1.5 since the "dead ball era"... which nobody has ever done since.
Thanks for posting this, @gtwillwin... it was great!
Holy crap, that was hilarious and actually a really solid sports history lesson too. I loved how serious he took this subject and how deep he dove into it. Awesome graphs, graphics, statistic, archival photos/news clippings and even a bunch of synthwave music as the cherry on top. Also, LOL:
Totally not funny though:
Kudos to Johnny Keane for giving Bob Gibson a real chance at making it as a pitcher though. And that graph showing Gibson holding 3 of the 5 furthest rightmost positions in the graph of ERA over innings pitched, for every World Series performance during the integration era, is crazy. Same with the one showing him as the only pitcher to ever finish a season with an ERA below 1.5 since the "dead ball era"... which nobody has ever done since.
Thanks for posting this, @gtwillwin... it was great!