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After hitting no more than five home runs in any of his previous seasons, Whitaker began to hit for power in 1982, tallying 15 home runs, eight triples, and a .286 batting average. He also had one of his best defensive seasons in 1982, leading the league's second basemen with 470 assists , 120 double plays turned, and a .988 fielding percentage .
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Babe Ruth was the first player to reach 500 home runs and set a career home run mark of 714 that stood until 1974. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 500 home run club is a group of batters who have hit 500 or more regular-season home runs in their careers. There are twenty-eight players who are members of the 500 home run club.
Whittier lived in the home for 29 years. He moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1836 [8] and sold the family farm. The home he moved to, the John Greenleaf Whittier House, is also open to the public. The homestead is the setting for Whittier's best-known narrative poem Snow-Bound, [9] published in 1866 and an instant bestseller.
Choosing to settle in Palermo over the more provincial Marsala, the couple built as their family home the Villa Malfitano, an Art Nouveau mansion near Zisa Castle on the Via Dante. In these years, the Belle Époque age, the house was the venue for lavish parties attended by British and Italian royalty and celebrated European society.
Whittaker finishing the 400m at the 2024 US olympic trials.. She ran a personal best of 50.17 seconds to finish fifth in the final of the 2024 NCAA Division 1 Outdoor final in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024.
Starting with spring training that year, [9] Canseco and McGwire began a ritual of meeting at home plate and banging their massive forearms together with closed fists to briefly form an "X" when either of them hit a home run. [9] [10] Dubbed the Monster Bash, it soon replaced the customary high five as the team's preferred post-homer celebration.