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July 26, 2007
Seven Days of Underdog

It's day three of the Seven Days of Underdog. I'm asking one trivia question each day to celebrate the release of
Underdog cartoons on DVD. The first person to answer the question correctly in the comments and include a valid E-Mail address wins volume one of the Ultimate Underdog Collection. Today's question:

It's said that pitching wins championships, and only four World Series champions had their regular season team ERA come in above league average. Of those four, which had the biggest difference from the league ERA? (Just to be clear, use AL or NL ERA, not MLB ERA.)

Update: R.J. won the DVD with his answer, the 1913 Philadelphia Athletics. Interestingly, while their ERA was above league average, their total runs allowed per game was below league average. Back then lots of runs were allowed on errors, so Philadelphia might have been a very sure handed team, or their official scorer gave away a lot of hits.


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1913 Philadelphia A's?

Posted by: R.J. at July 26, 2007 03:49 PM

2002 Angels

Posted by: Nick at July 26, 2007 04:09 PM

05 Cards with a 4.54 era compared to league 4.40?

Posted by: Jason at July 26, 2007 04:20 PM

1987 Twins

Posted by: Mike at July 26, 2007 04:20 PM

2006 Cardinals
deaconblues42 {at} gmail

Posted by: Deacon Blues at July 26, 2007 04:23 PM

1987 twins mchandle@student.umass.edu

Posted by: Mike at July 26, 2007 04:24 PM

I think 1913 A's is right. The other teams were the 87 Twins, the 2006 Cardinals and the 76 Reds

Posted by: Will at July 26, 2007 04:25 PM

So just in case . . . 1913 A's, will.li@gmail.com

Posted by: Will at July 26, 2007 04:26 PM

Holy cow, the 1913 A's were bad: an 86 ERA+. You're right.

Posted by: Deacon Blues at July 26, 2007 04:32 PM

E-mail is daullaz@yahoo.com, in case you couldn't get it from the original post.

Posted by: R.J. at July 26, 2007 06:34 PM
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