Mario Mendoza was a big-league baseball player. He was not an all-star and was seldom even a starter. He ll never get into the Hall of Fame without buying a ticket. He is, however, a baseball immortal.
His name is attached to an infamous baseball statistic. When a hitter s average falls below .200, he is said to have slipped below the Mendoza Line, a sign of the batter s ultimate futility. It s among those terms coined, not by some wise guy columnist sitting up in the press box, but by the players themselves in order to rib a teammate or, more often, to denigrate an opponent.
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Late in the afternoon of Saturday, June 8, 1946, Boston was struck by a violent thunderstorm. Winds raged at 80 miles an hour, and in one four-minute period a half inch of rain deluged the city. As night fell, there were lightning bolts that came so often and so vividly that it was as if night turned into day. Trees were uprooted, telephone poles were knocked down, and widespread power outages were reported. It was said to have been one of the worst storms of its kind the city had seen in 60 years. Fortunately, the Red Sox game with the Detroit Tigers that afternoon was already over by the time the blast of bad weather hit.