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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05 Cards with a 4.54 era compared to league 4.40?
2006 Cardinals
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1987 twins mchandle@student.umass.edu
I think 1913 A's is right. The other teams were the 87 Twins, the 2006 Cardinals and the 76 Reds
So just in case . . . 1913 A's, will.li@gmail.com
Holy cow, the 1913 A's were bad: an 86 ERA+. You're right.
E-mail is daullaz@yahoo.com, in case you couldn't get it from the original post.