Why was George Sislers most relevant season linked to a thrown bottle?
As a member of the Browns, Senators and Braves, George Sisler, now back in popular currency thanks to Ichiro Suzuki, rarely got within sniffing distance of a pennant race. In a major-league career that stretched from 1915 to 1930, just one Sisler team finished closer than 12 games out of first place. That team, the 1922 Browns, missed winning the American League pennant by just one game. In 1922, the St. Louis Browns had a strong, dynamic offense that featured first baseman Sisler’s speed (51 stolen bases, 19 caught stealing) and .420 batting average, second baseman Marty McManus, who had good power for a middle infielder of the day, and a very good outfield: Baby Doll Jacobson, Jack Tobin and Ken Williams, who would produce the first 30-30 season in the history of the game. On the mound, once and future Yankee Urban Shocker was midway through a four-year stretch of 20-win seasons. The Browns and defending pennant winners the Yankees, who had been without Babe Ruth for a good part of t
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