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In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats, through the following formula, where AB is the number of at bats for a given player, and 1B, 2B, 3B, and HR are the number of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs, respectively:
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However, singles are rarely reported separately in statistical sources. It may prove easier to use an alternative formula, one which credits one base per hit and adds on the extra bases:
Unlike batting average, slugging percentage gives more weight to extra-base hits such as doubles and home runs, relative to singles. Plate appearances resulting in walks are specifically excluded from this calculation, as an appearance that ends in a walk is not counted as an at bat.
Retrosheet.org doesn't tabulate singles separately in player listings.
Baseballreference.com doesn't.
espm.com dosn't in batting stats. Nor does usatoday (sprts weekly)
The Boys’ Baseball Benefit Game was an annual charity event staged in Chicago from 1949 through 1972, wherein the Chicago Cubs of the National League played an exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox of the American League.
In July of 1949, the Cubs and the White Sox took advantage coincident off-days during the season to contest an annual “Boys’ Baseball Benefit” game to raise funds for the support of various youth baseball organizations, usually for the purchase of equipment and for the upkeep of playground facilities in the Chicago Park District. Although no game was played in 1950, as the All-Star Game was scheduled for Comiskey Park, the game would be staged annually from 1951 through 1972.
As the Cubs held spring training in Arizona and the White Sox in Florida, these games usually represented the only on-field meeting of the Chicago teams in those years, and these were very popular events locally, drawing bigger crowds than did typical league games. In 1964, 3,000 fans ended up sitting in the outfield after seats sold out. With a few exceptions, all of the games were staged at Comiskey Park because attendance tended to be better for night games, and Wrigley Field lacked lights in these days. Attendance, and the revenue it generated, was the objective. Receipts figures ranged from a low of approximately $35,000 to highs just under $100,000 in some years. Of course, “bragging rights” to the city’s title were also at stake, but these were exhibition games.
The competing clubs tolerated roster substitutions, and both teams would often give their second stringers some work with only token appearances from the front-line players. It was common for one or both teams to start a minor league pitcher from their system. Dick Ellsworth, just out of high school, mode his first professional start in the 1958 game, and threw a four-hit shutout for the Cubs, and became a mainstay of their staff. Other starters were never heard from again, at least not at the major league level.
Naturally, if one team was involved in a pennant race, that team wisely chose to rest its stars --.in 1951, the Sox had six players absent due to their selection for the next day’s All-Star Game. The underdog opponent felt free to try a bit harder to win (e.g., in 1961, bullpen ace Don Elston finished for the Cubs). Still, coverage of the game invariably stated that whatever the result, “Boys’ Baseball’ was the real winner.
Often a curfew set, so that one team could catch a train (or a plane) to the next league game; this meant that ties were a possibility, though none occurred (in 1954, Eddie Miksis hit a Poor Man’s Homer in the Gloamin' to avoid such a tie.) They often tried out fringe players, free-agents (the Sox picked up the recently released Ned Garver for just the benefit game) or minor leaguers. Former Cleveland star, Mike Garcia was a batting practice for the Sox, and got to pitch in the 1960 game. Dave DeBusschere, ultimately to become a basketball Hall-of-Famer, threw five innings for the Sox in 1962. Ernie Banks, who’d been a first baseman since 1961, played shortstop again in the 1970 game. Banks also suited up for the 1972 game despite having retired from league play the previous season.
The Boys’ Baseball Benefit Games date site att winner score* Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Ref 07/11/1949 Comiskey Park 36,459 Cubs 4-2 Johnny Schmitz Bob Kuzava [2] 1950 no game [3] 07/09/1951 Comiskey Park 22,109 White Sox 3-2 Lou Kretlow Bob Rush [4] 06/26/1952 Comiskey Park 32,405 White Sox 5-4 Howie Judson Bob Schultz [5] 07/02/1953 Wrigley Field †† 12,403 Cubs 4-2 Tom Simpson Bob Keegan [6] 07/01/1954 Comiskey Park 22,755 Cubs 7-6 Johnny Klippstein Harry Dorish [7] 08/15/1955 Comiskey Park 26,028 Cubs 7-6 [10] Don Kaiser Jack Harshman [8] 08/13/1956 Comiskey Park 23,438 White Sox 4-0 Dixie Howell Moe Drabowsky [9] 08/12/1957 Comiskey Park 20,111 Cubs 2-0 Turk Lown Bill Fischer [10] 06/16/1958 Comiskey Park 21,804 Cubs 1-0 Dick Ellsworth Bob Shaw [11] 06/22/1959 Comiskey Park 29,383 Cubs 3-2 Bobby Anderson Barry Latman [12] 06/13/1960 Comiskey Park 28,408 White Sox 7-0 [6] Herb Score John Gray [13] 06/26/1961 Comiskey Park 21,862 Cubs 5-1 Jim Brewer Ned Garver [14] 05/14/1962 Comiskey Park 20,675 Cubs 2-1 Glen Hobbie Russ Kemmerer [15] 07/01/1963 Comiskey Park 37,256 Cubs 4-2 Jim Brewer Mike Joyce [16] 06/25/1964 Comiskey Park † 52,712 White Sox 11-1 Frank Kreutzer Dick Scott [17] 07/26/1965 Comiskey Park 37,470 White Sox 7-2 Juan Pizarro Ernie Broglio [18] 07/25/1966 Comiskey Park † 47,064 White Sox 5-4 Juan Pizarro Bill Hands [19] 06/22/1967 Comiskey Park 39,443 White Sox 2-0 Fred Klages Cal Koonce [20] 07/10/1968 Comiskey Park † 23,994 White Sox 1-0 Eddie Smith Darcy Fast [21] 08/18/1969 Comiskey Park 33,333 Cubs 2-0 Archie Reynolds Bart Johnson [22] 05/21/1970 Comiskey Park † 28,863 Cubs 7-6 Archie Reynolds Gerry Arrigo [23] 06/24/1971 Wrigley Field †† 32,485‡ White Sox 7-3 Stan Perzanowski Ray Newman [24] 08/14/1972 Comiskey Park 38,153 Cubs 3-1 Tom Phoebus Jim O’Toole [25] 1973-84 no game Summary: Cubs 13 wins, White Sox 10 wins.