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Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Because the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and compiling statistics .
Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested. In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are ...
Paul Anthony Lo Duca (born April 12, 1972) is an American former professional baseball player and television personality. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1998 – 2004 ), Florida Marlins (2004– 2005 , 2008 ), New York Mets ( 2006 – 2007 ), and Washington Nationals (2008).
Paul Waner held the major league record for 29 years. Harry Hooper holds the American League record. Dwight Evans' 2,092 games as a right fielder in the American League are the most by any player since 1920. Willie Keeler was the first player to appear in 2,000 games in right field. Patsy Donovan held the National League record for 32 years.
Carey was born in Boston, Massachusetts.He attended Boston College High School in Dorchester, Massachusetts and then Stanford University, where he was voted the 1987 College World Series Most Outstanding Player as a freshman outfielder on Stanford's national champion baseball team on the basis of going 3-for-5 with two RBI and scoring two runs in the title game in Omaha.
Drexel University professor Ellen Staurowsky, the study's other co-author, sums it up: "Our findings continue to unmask the pretense that big-time college sport is about 'kids' playing 'games.'
He was the first player to record 100 RBI for three different teams in three consecutive seasons. [11] In 1993, while a Toronto Blue Jay, Carter set an American League record when he hit 3 home runs in a game for the fifth time in his career. (The record was tied 10 years later by Blue Jay Carlos Delgado.)
The 1973 NCAA University Division baseball tournament was played at the end of the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series , a double-elimination tournament in its twenty-seventh year.