Cap Anson

A guy like Kid Nichols was like that.

But like Cap Anson, I don't really want any Cap Anson stuff in my PC.

Why is that? Is he

a bad guy?

Relax.

You look it up.

You look up, Cap Anson.

All right.

The excitement of Pete Rose extending his hitting streak to 30 straight with that single in the fifth inning.

We overlooked the fact that that base hit broke him out of a 10th place tie with Cap Anson, hit number 3,082 in his career.

So Pete is in 10th place all by himself on the all-time hit list.

No balls and two strikes.

It's now 6-4 San Francisco.

Foul back by Corral.

Having bypassed Cap Anson, Pete's next man in sight is Paul Weiner, number nine on the list with a total of 3,152.

Which Pete's 70 bases away from him.

I didn't know that because when you're in Hot Springs in the 1890s, The White Sox, that's when they started training in Hot Springs.

And they had a guy named Cap Anson who was kind of one of the stars of baseball at that time who should not be in the Hall of Fame because he almost single-handedly kept black players out in the early 1900s.

Right.

But nonetheless, he was the first guy that had 3,000 hits.

They had these cards called Old Judge, and they were in 172s.

And, uh, the card was an 1887 Cap Anson was the very first Cub card.

If you have an eight, a near mint, that card would get you $150,000 these days.

And the last one that sold was a five, and it sold for $7,000.

So Cap Anson, the 1800s.

[laughs] Cards go back that far.

All right.

Then we get into, there are a couple of these guys from the 1800s.

So Cap Anson's in third place.

Yeah.

Wouldn't

In August 1881, Detroit Wolverines purchased his contract.

He debuted on August 27th, and he beat Cap Anson's Chicago White Sox 9-1.

Then he lost his next four games, finishing the season with a 1-4 mark, a pretty mid-start for a career at this point.

Yeah.

He owed everybody money, this guy, Silver Flint.

And he – what's his name? Cap Anson? Have fun in hell, Cap.

Anyway, Cap Anson, he went to jail – Because he stood up for Silver Flit and this other guy who who and helped him them evade arrest from the sheriff.

So so they Silver Flit escaped.

He owed everybody money, ended up dying of consumption at like like age 36 in his ex-wife, who was like a minstrel show girl.