Today on the blog we celebrate former Detroit Tigers slugger Norm Cash with a "missing" 1971 "Baseball's Greatest Moments" card, marking his monster 1961 season that was sadly lost amidst the Maris/Mantle home run chase, where he took home the batting title with a .361 mark:
Cash's season has always blown me
away considering that over his borderline Hall of Fame tenure, it was
the ONLY year he hit .300!
That is correct, the only time Norm
Cash reached the .300 mark was when he hit .361 in 1961, his next
highest mark at .283 over a full season in 1971.
Along with
his .361 average, the man was a hitting machine, hitting 41 homers,
scoring 119 runs, driving in 132, also leading the league with 193 hits,
a .487 on-base-percentage and 19 intentional walks to go along with his
124 walks outright.
By the time he retired after the 1974 season he slammed 377 homers and drove in 1103 runs while collecting 1820 hits.
Not a bad compliment in the line-up to guys like Al Kaline and Willie Horton!
