Quote :

"Through the years, many batters have hit home runs that do not appear as part of their record. Most of these apparent homers were lost due to inclement weather conditions such as rain-outs. However, there have been quite a few four-baggers that have been ultimately credited as some other event in the record of the game due to human error on the field. Base-runners and umpires account for most of these errors."

Basically, all the home runs that didn't count

http://www.retrosheet.org/losthr.htm

Pretty cool way to waste an hour or two

1/9/2009 10:25:45 AM

Retrosheet is pretty much the greatest thing ever

1/9/2009 10:51:52 AM

does this mean babe ruth still has the homerun record?

1/9/2009 10:56:44 AM

Mr. 3000++

1/9/2009 11:00:19 AM

lol, 3 of the latest 7 resulted in the Mets getting fucked over.

1/9/2009 4:44:50 PM

i saw that ^ lol

1/9/2009 4:45:59 PM

Quote :

"5/11/2003: The Cardinals were at Wrigley Field and a 23-MPH wind was blowing out to right field. In the bottom of the first, Moises Alou of the Cubs hit a 2-run homer off Brett Tomko to centerfield. In the top of the second, Albert Pujols hit a grand slam to leftfield off Matt Clement. Corey Patterson led off the bottom of the second with a homer to rightfield. In the top of the third, Tino Martinez hit a solo homer to leftfield. Troy O'Leary hit a 2-run homer to leftfield in the bottom of the third. In the top of the fourth, Martinez homered for the second time in the game. This time it went to rightfield and scored 3 runs. In the bottom half of the fourth, Alex Gonzalez hit a 2-run homer to leftfield. He was the last batter faced by Tomko. The game was rained out in the top of the fifth inning. The final count in this day's barrage: seven home runs and a score of 11-9 St. Louis ahead all lost to the weather. "

I remember watching that

1/9/2009 5:26:42 PM

pretty cool

1/9/2009 5:32:11 PM

haha, kind of reminds me of that running back in the CFL (I think) who broke the all time rushing record. They had a big celebration right after the run and stopped the game for a bit. On his very next run, he was hit for a 6 yard loss and had to break the record again

1/9/2009 5:50:10 PM