Back when players would bunt

Today marks the 34th anniversary of Felix Fermin’s entry into the record books for something that few realize then or remember now as the Cleveland shortstop picks up four sacrifice bunts in the Indians’ 3-2 victory over Seattle in 10 innings at Municipal Stadium.

Fermin’s four bunts are the most in the majors since Ray Chapman, another Indians shortstop, picks up four sacrifices nearly 70 years ago to the day in another game also played in Cleveland.

Fermin finishes the 1989 season with a major league-leading 32 sacrifice bunts, just as Chapman led the majors in 1919 with 50 of them.