Here is an interesting tidbit. Interesting to me anyway.
As a player, Joe Torre collected 2,342 hits. Actually, I think he should have been given more Hall of Fame consideration as a player, since he has a lifetime .297 average with 252 homers and 1,185 RBI's. He also won the NL MVP in 1971 when he hit .363 with 230 hits and 137 RBI's. Since he was slower than syrup, he probably didn't get many infield hits among those 230 knocks. He also made 9 All Star teams.
Anyway, right now, Torre has 2,324 managerial wins. It would have been neat if Torre retired with the same number of wins as hits. He'll come close. Of course if he manages again, and I think he will, he'll end up with more wins than hits.
The symmetry of baseball is interesting to me. No more than Stan Musial's hit numbers. The Cardinals great ended his magnificent career with 3,630 hits. Of those hits, 1,815 were hit at home and 1,815 were hit on the road. How's that for symmetry?
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