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Willie Mays, the all-time leader in putouts by a center fielder. In baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by PO or fly out when appropriate) is given to a defensive player who records an out by tagging a runner with the ball when he is not touching a base, catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base to put out a batter or runner (a force out), catching a thrown ball and tagging a base ...
Pages in category "Major League Baseball center fielders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 518 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Richie Ashburn played a record 730 consecutive games in center field from 1950 to 1954. Dummy Hoy held the major league record for 21 years. Lloyd Waner held the National League record for 17 years. Paul Hines, who was the first player to appear in 1,000 games in center field, held the National League record for 20 years.
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While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide. Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League Baseball players have a greater life expectancy than males in the general U.S. population — about five years more, on average, which is ...
He was simply the “Say Hey Kid” from his days patrolling center field at the Polo Grounds in the 1950s, when baseball ruled New York City, to his death at age 93 on Tuesday afternoon.
Tris Speaker is the post-1900 leader in career errors committed as a center fielder with 227; Ty Cobb (208) is second, and is the only other center fielder to commit over 200 career errors. Lorenzo Cain , who had 39 errors through the 2022 season to place him tied for 130th all-time, is the leader among active players.
A center fielder who could “do it all,” Mays had a lifetime batting average of .301 with 3,293 hits, 660 home runs — good for sixth on the all-time list — and 339 stolen bases.