Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 7/27 - Numbers

Baseball is in the post steroid era. Pitchers, many of them very young, are putting up impressive numbers. The ERAs of Chris Sale and Felix Hernandez are below two - in a DH league! Shades of Pedro Martinez. In all, ten American League pitchers have an ERA below three. Here's a list of all MLB pitchers who have an ERA below the long accepted standard of excellence, which really should be considered 3.50, maybe even 3.99, regarding AL hurlers.                             
                             Age    Team    Wins  Losses    ERA
1. Kershaw, C       26     LAD        12       2          1.76   
2. Sale, C              25     CWS       10        1         1.88   
3. Hernandez, F    28     SEA         11       2          1.99   
4. Wainwright, A  33     STL         12        5         2.02   
5. Cueto, J            28     CIN          11        6         2.08   
6. Kazmir, S          30     OAK        11        3         2.32   
7. Tanaka, M          26     NYY        12        4         2.51   
8. Beckett, J          34     LAD         6          5         2.52   
9. Lester, J             30    BOS         10        7         2.52   
10. Alvarez, H       24     MIA          7         5         2.62   
11. Richards, G     26     LAA         11        3         2.62   
12. Ross, T            27     SD             9       10        2.65   
13. Hudson, T        39     SF             8         7         2.65   
14. Gray, S             25     OAK        12        3         2.65   
15. Teheran, J        23     ATL          10        6         2.71   
16. Hamels, C       31      PHI           5         5         2.72   
17. Greinke, Z       31     LAD         12        6         2.74   
18. Kluber, C         28     CLE          10        6        2.77   
19. Samardzija, J    29    OAK          4         8         2.80   
20. Roark, T           28     WSH        10        6         2.82   
21. Simon, A          33     CIN          12        5         2.86   
22. Darvish, Y       28      TEX          9          6         2.92
Stats culled from MLB.com.

It was the first physically demanding session of the floating book shop in a while. The humidity sapped me. My thanks to one of our stellar porters, Pedro, who directed me to a bag of goods someone had discarded, which contained several marketable pictorials and children's books, and to Bob, who dropped off two novels on his way to a visit with his grandkids, and to the kind folks who purchased books today, especially the young man who bought a bag o' sci-fi paperbacks.

Bill Brown stopped by with a revised edition of his book: Words and Guitar: A History of Lou Reed's Music. When new works by the artist were released recently, he decided he had to go back to the drawing board. He opened it to the title page. He had given me a thanks, as he is grateful that I discovered about 20 errors in the text and that I encouraged him to make the book available in Kindle. His sale rankings at Amazon are a lot better than mine. Thanks, buddy.
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