Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

M C Hamster wrote:
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> On 13 May 2008 09:53:02 -0500, M C Hamster
> <davolson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >On Mon, 12 May 2008 21:27:40 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> ><no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>M C Hamster wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:00:20 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> >>> <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Stats guys in the basebal booth rule.
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>> The Stats guys must have sent it out over the national wire, because
> >>> the Cubs announcer mentioned the same thing tonight (about the
> >>> Cleveland triple plays).
> >>
> >>I got the the triple-play item from UPI online.
> >>
> >>> Here's the list.  (Obviously not including tonight's.)
> >>> http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats8.shtml
> >>>



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 I'm completely at a loss to explain this, or why the
> >>> sudden increase in frequency since the 1990s.  Unless it's steroids.
> >>
> >>Yeah, that's an amazing hole in the middle of the list, after seven in
the
> >>18-year span after the first one.  The 1968-1992 gap is noticeable,
too.
> >
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> 
> This is more a theoretical construct than a strong data-based
> analysis.  A friend has said these data are right, but I haven't
> really checked them myself.



Could you please explain to the uninitiated exactly how one makes
an unassisted triple play?