Re: Trivia

Will White says "Hold my beer". His 1879 totals of 75 complete games, 75 games started, 680 innings pitched, and 2,906 batters faced remain major league records and are widely considered unbreakable.
Side note on Old Hoss - he shared pitching duties with Charles Sweeney in 1884 until Sweeney was kicked off the team for drinking between innings and fighting with the manager. Radbourn offered to pitch every game for the rest of the season in exchange for a small raise and exemption from the reserve clause for the next season. From that point, July 23 to September 24 when the pennant was clinched, Providence played 43 games and Radbourn started 40 of them and won 36. Soon, pitching every other day as he was, his arm became so sore he couldn't raise it to comb his hair.