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Richard Dale Long (February 6, 1926 – January 27, 1991) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Browns, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees and Washington Senators between 1951 and 1963. Listed as 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg), he batted and threw ...
Cincinnati Reds No. 18 retired. Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. Theodore Bernard Kluszewski (September 10, 1924 – March 29, 1988), nicknamed " Big Klu ", was an American professional baseball player, best known as a power-hitting first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1950s. He played from 1947 through 1961 with four teams in Major ...
A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majority of plays made at that base. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the first ...
Eddie Clarence Murray (born February 24, 1956), nicknamed " Steady Eddie ", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, designated hitter, and coach. Spending most of his MLB career with the Baltimore Orioles, he ranks fourth in team history in both games played and hits. Though Murray never won a Most Valuable Player (MVP ...
Adam Dunn. Adam Troy Dunn (born November 9, 1979), nicknamed " Big Donkey ", [ 1 ] is an American former professional baseball left fielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, Chicago White Sox, and Oakland Athletics. He is a two-time MLB All-Star.
Born in San Francisco, California, Gentile was a powerful, left-handed slugger listed at 6' 3", 210 lb. He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a high school pitcher in 1952. [ 1 ] He played his first minor league season as a pitcher, earning a 2-6 win–loss record. The next year he was converted into a first baseman. [ 1 ]
Donald Arthur Mattingly was born on April 20, 1961, in Evansville, Indiana.Mattingly is ambidextrous.He pitched in Little League Baseball and was also a first baseman, throwing both right-handed and left-handed, and was a member of the 1973 Great Scot Little League championship team in Evansville, Indiana, under the coaching of Pete Studer and Earl Hobbs.
Wells also reached first base on a bunt single, scored a run, and earned the victory. He was the oldest pitcher to start a game for the Los Angeles Dodgers. On September 13, 2007, against his former team, the San Diego Padres, Wells had his first multi-hit game of his 21-year career at the age of 44.