Monday
Manny Mota set the all-time record for most pinch-hits on this date in 1979. I remember getting the 1980 Topps baseball card that commemorated the achievement and thinking to myself two things. First, “Oh, that’s what Manny Mota does?” And second, “Wait, they track pinch-hits?”
They do. When I searched for pinch-hits in Stathead, I was a bit surpri…
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