C'mon, Max, that question may appear hard for this crowd, but it's way too easy. Stallard gave up Roger Maris' 61st homer, to break Babe Ruth's record in '61. Of course, since McGwire has now hit 70, it doesn't matter much anymore. In a few years, Stallard won't be remembered at all, except perhaps by a few gnarled, mumbling old men like you or me. OTOH, the homer Ralph Terry gave up less than a year earlier will always be remembered by anyone with an interest in baseball.
And while I'm wasting my time with useless trivia, let me highlight my fav LBO passage of the day. It's Justin's summary of the "Marxist critique of capitalism" that, he says, should be discarded as worse than useless, counterproductive even.
>>>>In my experience, the Marxist critique of capitalism is common sense to most working people; it's pretty obvious that the rich run things, that democracy is a joke, that work is drag because the bosses exploit us, etc. These ideas can gain wide currency if expressed without Marxist technical vocabulary, which is offputting.<<<<
Brilliant, just brilliant, the obliviousness perhaps exceeded only by the evident complacency.
RO