Q. What does Monongalia mean?
“ ‘Ole Mon River” gets its start in Fairmont and winds its way north 128 miles to Pittsburgh. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names reports that Monongahela is a name of American Indian origin, one that means “river with the sliding banks” or “high banks that break off and fall down.”
Q. Can prodigious people?
Prodigious is an adjective that describes something or someone as extremely impressive, either in mass or quality. While this word comes from prodigy (a young someone who has an incredible ability) the adjective prodigious does not refer to someone being a prodigy.
Q. Does prodigious mean big?
Prodigious is defined as something very big or powerful, or something extraordinary.
Q. What’s a Victorianist?
1 : a typical instance or product of Victorian expression, taste, or conduct. 2 : the quality or state of being Victorian especially in taste or conduct.
Q. What years are Edwardian?
1901 – 1910
Q. What came before Victorian era?
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian period, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the Belle Époque era of Continental Europe.
Q. What is today’s era?
According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth’s time scale, we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age.
Q. What is the best era?
Ed Walsh holds the MLB earned run average record with a 1.816. Addie Joss (1.887) and Jim Devlin (1.896) are the only other pitchers with a career earned run average under 2.000.
Q. Who has the lowest ERA ever?
The lowest single-season ERA in league history was posted by Tim Keefe, whose 0.86 ERA in 105 innings pitched for the National League’s Troy Trojans in 1880 led his closest competitor by . 52 runs. In the American League, Dutch Leonard’s 0.96 ERA is a single-season record.
Q. Who has the best ERA ever?
Ed Walsh+
Q. What is the highest possible ERA?
The highest career ERA of anybody who has a finite ERA is 189.00 by Joe Cleary, who appeared in one game for Washington in 1945. He was credited with 1/3 of an inning and gave up seven runs, all earned.
Q. What pitcher has the worst ERA?
John Gochnaur. John Peter Gochnaur (September 12, 1875 – September 27, 1929) was an American professional baseball player.
Q. What is my era?
ERA is the most commonly accepted statistical tool for evaluating pitchers. The formula for finding ERA is: 9 x earned runs / innings pitched. If a pitcher exits a game with runners on base, any earned runs scored by those runners will count against him. ERA should be an ideal evaluation of pitchers.
Q. How is war calculated?
The formula itself is not very complicated and it is WAR = (Batting Runs + Base Running Runs +Fielding Runs + Positional Adjustment + League Adjustment +Replacement Runs) / (Runs Per Win). This itself is not a complicated formula, however each of the singe components are more difficult to calculate.
Q. Is a walk an earned run?
Generally speaking it’s an earned run. However, if the walked runner scores on an error or passed ball it isn’t an earned run. If the runner advances on an error that would have recorded the final out of the inning if played correctly and later scores, that is also an unearned run.
