“I never took a drink in my life on the day of a game after 11 o’clock in the morning,” he once said. While hung over? That was a different matter. He always insisted he never took to the field while drunk. Born in Pennsylvania steel country, his parents were alcoholics and Hack followed suit. Wilson was certainly taking a drug, though not the performance-enhancing kind. No one has driven in more than 150 runs since Alex Rodriguez (156) with the Yankees in 2007.
Among the 30 highest single-year RBI totals, only five occurred after 1949, and all in the “steroid era”. Wilson was originally credited with 190 but a rather tardy review determined that an RBI that should have gone to Hack was wrongly given at the time to a teammate, and his tally was boosted to 191 in 1999.ĭriving in hordes of teammates is an old-fashioned habit now that on-base percentages and the average runs per game tend to be lower than in the pre-war period. Lou Gehrig batted in 185 runs for the Yankees in 1931, which remains the second-highest single-season RBI total. The 56 homers were a National League record that stood for 68 years until surpassed by Mark McGwire in 1998. 356 batting average to accompany those eye-popping 191 RBI. Wilson ended the year with 146 runs scored and a.
August 1930 was a monstrous month for Hack: 113 at-bats, 45 hits, 13 home runs, 53 RBI. That, too, was achieved with the Cubs 92 years ago. But it’s impossible to imagine anyone – not Judge, not Pete Alonso, not Jose Ramirez, not a single modern hitter – threatening Wilson’s MLB-record total of 191 runs batted in.
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