* Lest we forget: Tommy Holmes

April 15, 2008

The man who held the NL consecutive hitting streak until Pete Rose broke it in 1978, Holmes struck out 122 times in 4,992 at-bats during his 11-year career, spent mostly with the Boston Braves. Look at that number again. Some players strike out that much in a season.

Holmes spent 30 years working in the Mets promo department. He was, at least nominally, the author of a book about the Dodgers and an instructional guide.

That’s Holmes on the right as manager of the Braves in 1951.

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