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Effectively Wild Episode 2004: House of Cards

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Rareness of the Names in Major League History

There have only been three players named France with the last name of France in Major League history. Worst winning percentage in games in which a team scored first is 19.6%. The 1899 Cleveland spiders, they scored first in only 46 of their games and lost 80% of them anyway. 2001 Mariners had the highest rate of winning games in which they scored first.

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