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Archive: October, 2012

POSTED: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 12:00 AM

(We post a baseball trivia question every Saturday, just for fun, as well as a detailed answer, stats, charts and commentary on the previous week's question. Pass along your questions, thoughts and ideas to boopstats@phillynews.com.)

 

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION

POSTED: Friday, October 5, 2012, 3:21 AM
Hank Baskett makes a catch in Game 5 of the 2006 season ( Jerry Lodriguss / Inquirer ) (INQ LODRIGUSS)
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For only the fourth time since 1960 (as far back as we can check), four different players have led the Eagles in receiving yardage in their first four games.

POSTED: Friday, October 5, 2012, 12:00 AM

To help celebrate the one-year anniversary of Philadelphia SportsWeek (powered by the Daily News), we've strung together an electronic version of all 53 BoopStats included in the publication so far.

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POSTED: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 8:34 PM

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POSTED: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 3:23 AM
( (AP)

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POSTED: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 3:28 AM

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POSTED: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 2:01 AM
( Yong Kim / Staff Photographer ) (Daily News/Inquirer)

Darin Ruf ... meet Denny Sothern.

Those two are the only rookie September callups in Phillies history to hit three home runs in their initial stint with the Fightins.

In the list below we look at Ruf (shown above) and 15 other selected players who made their major league debut for the Phillies in September and how they fared in their first taste of the bigs.

POSTED: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 3:27 AM

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POSTED: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 2:29 AM
( Yong Kim / Staff Photographer ) (DN)

Uniform number 20 was retired Sunday night by the Eagles to honor former All-World safety Brian Dawkins. He will be the last Eagles to don that number, but he wasn't the first.

A total of 18 players are credited by the Eagles with wearing No. 20 (see list below).

POSTED: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 1:24 AM
( (AP)

Ever since the regular referees returned to start Week 4 last Thursday in Baltimore (photo at left), there has been something missing from NFL games ...

 ...  about six minutes.

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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

His favorite books growing up were the NBA Guide and the Baseball Encyclopedia, which was, for all intents and purposes, the Internet before there was an Internet.

He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at boopstats@phillynews.com.


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