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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 ...
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]
Denotes active player[a] List. [edit] Christian Yelich, the active leader and 81st all-time in games played as a left fielderRickey Henderson holds the American League record. Zack Wheat held the major league record for 75 years. Ted Williams held the American League record for 42 years. Goose Goslin held the American League record for 25 years.
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 ...
Marvin Eugene Throneberry (September 2, 1933 – June 23, 1994) was an American Major League Baseball player. Affectionately known as "Marvelous Marv", he was the starting first baseman for the 1962 New York Mets, a team which set the modern record for most losses in a season with 120 until that record was broken by the Chicago White Sox with 121 in 2024.
Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson (born December 25, 1958), nicknamed Man of Steal, is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 25 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four separate tenures with his original team, the Oakland Athletics. He is widely regarded as baseball's ...
[3] [4] [5] He was helped by a three-game series at Texas when he homered in each game of the series. At the end of the 1990 season, Maas had hit 21 home runs in 79 games and he finished second in The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award voting to Sandy Alomar Jr. of the Cleveland Indians. Maas was a left-handed batter.