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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
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).
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)
David Ortiz, who led Red Sox to three World Series titles, was the only 2022 candidate elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens fell short again.
Jeff Passan hands out Yahoo Sports' first-half 2018 MLB awards.
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 ...
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]