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Team records for stolen bases in a single season are also provided. Stolen bases were not officially noted in a baseball game's summary until 1886, and it was not until 1888 that it officially earned a place in baseball's box score. [1] The modern rule for stolen bases was adopted in 1898. [1] While some sources do not include stolen base ...
Max Carey led the National League in stolen bases ten times, the most times of any player. Maury Wills led the National League in stolen bases in six consecutive seasons. Vince Coleman is the only other player to do so. John Montgomery Ward was the first player to lead the National League in stolen bases for different teams.
The Modesto A's finished the season with 357 stolen bases, [17] just shy of the league record of 370. [18] While Woodard tied the single-season player record with 90 stolen bases, [17] Henderson beat the record by stealing 95 bases, and was awarded the Sundial Trophy, given to the Modesto A's Most Valuable Player. [16] [19]
On May 1, 1991, Henderson stole his 939th base, breaking the record held by Cardinals legend Lou Brock. The flecks of dirt, thrown into the air by Rickey’s trademark headfirst slide, hardly had ...
But his stolen-bases record is a good place to start. ... of baseball’s altered base-stealing landscape — to the beginning of Henderson’s. Rickey stole 33 bases in 89 games as a 20-year-old ...
Henderson played 25 seasons in the major leagues, stealing at least 100 bases on three occasions, including 130 steals in 1982 to break Lou Brock's modern-day record for a single season.
Stolen bases were more common in baseball's dead-ball era, when teams relied more on stolen bases and hit and run plays than on home runs. [2] Rickey Henderson holds the MLB career stolen base record with 1,406. [3] He is the only MLB player to have reached the 1,000 stolen bases milestone in his career. Following Henderson is Lou Brock with ...
Best known for stealing bases, [2] [3] Brock once held the major league records for most bases stolen in a single season and in a career. He led the National League (NL) in stolen bases in eight seasons. A member of the 3,000-hit club, he led the NL in doubles and triples in 1968, and in singles in 1972.