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The plaque gallery at the Baseball Hall of Fame Ty Cobb's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits.
In November 2012, Baseball-Reference.com added JAWS values to every player page after Jaffe left Baseball-Reference competitor Baseball Prospectus for Sports Illustrated. [5] In 2014, Will Leitch called JAWS "the definitive statistical measure" in evaluating Hall of Fame cases. [6]
In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)
Mike Fetters (1992) Fetters had a 0.84 ERA in 22 games going into the all-star break that season, with a 4-1 record and 0.742 WHIP even without killer strikeout numbers (22 in 32 innings).
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was given a section in the book, a first for The Baseball Encyclopedia. [36] With the advent of the Internet, the need for baseball reference books diminished. The final version of The Baseball Encyclopedia, the 10th, came out in 1996. [10] Jeanine Bucek was the lead editor of that edition.
Rank Player (2025 Es) E 1 Herman Long: 1,096 2 Bill Dahlen: 1,080 3 Deacon White* : 1,018 4 Germany Smith: 1,009 5 Tommy Corcoran: 992 6 Fred Pfeffer: 980 7
The list of career leaders is dominated by players from the 19th century when fielding equipment was very rudimentary; baseball gloves only began to steadily gain acceptance in the 1880s, and were not uniformly worn until the mid-1890s, resulting in a much lower frequency of defensive miscues. The top 13 players in career errors began playing ...
A five-time Gold Glove Award winner, [1] Freehan held the major league record for highest career fielding percentage (.9933) until 2002, and also the records for career putouts (9,941) and total chances (10,734) from 1975 until the late 1980s; [2] he ranked ninth in major league history in games caught (1,581) at the end of his career.