... was a big advantage for guys like Snider (lefty power hitter), but not much of an advantage for a guy like Reese, who was a right handed batter.

The site from which I obtained the stats actually does a stadium adjusted calculation, but I'm not sure how much that really means. One of the things that helps determine how good a baseball player really is is how well he adapts to the configuration of his particular stadium. Other factors play a part (teammates, opponents, which league they played in -- particularly since the DH rule).

>> The only thing that ever impressed me about the Dodgers is Furillo's
>> ability to throw home from the wall & get runner taging up out.

My sixth grade memory book has a page in the back where you could write various things about yourself, one of which was "Favorite Baseball Player". Mine says "Carl Furillo", who was a master at playing caroms off that crazy right field wall -- and, as you say, of throwing out runners tagging up from third. He could really hum the ball in from the outfield.

>> Oh yeah & Amros's lucky catch.

You Damn Yankee Fans are just never happy are you? You've had two or three of the best teams of all times (the Ruth, Mantle and Jackson eras) and have won way more than your share of World Series titles ... and you want to begrudge the long suffering fans of Dem Bums our first ever World Series title (saved, of course, by Sandy Amoros' brilliant play on, I think, Yogi Berra's slicing line drive down the left field line).

I still remember the last play of the 1955 series (Elston Howard grounder to Pee Wee Reese at short, who threw to Gil Hodges at first for the final out) like it was yesterday. The Dodgers have had their moments since (Kirk Gibson's home run comes to mind), but the 1955 World Series remains the shining moment of my Dodger fandom!

----- jim o\-S