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Toward the end of the 1986 season, he was hobbled by leg injuries and struggled throughout the playoffs. In 1986, it appeared that the Boston Red Sox 's fortunes were about to change. The team's hitting and offense had remained strong with Dwight Evans , Bill Buckner , Don Baylor , and future Hall of Famers Jim Rice and Wade Boggs , who would ...
He is, as of 2024, the only player to die directly from an injury received during a major league game. [1] [2] His death led baseball to establish a rule requiring umpires to replace the ball whenever it becomes dirty. Chapman's death and sanitary concerns also led to the ban on spitballs after the 1920 season.
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
Eight players and three club staff members killed when their plane failed to take off on its third attempt. Of the remaining team, two players received career-ending injuries. [9] 14 August 1958: Egypt national fencing team: Fencing: KLM: Lockheed L-1049H-01-06-162 Super Constellation: Atlantic Ocean off Ireland: 99: 6: Six players killed. 16 ...
On September 30, 1972, in his final at-bat, he had become only the 11th player in Major League Baseball history to collect 3,000 hits. [citation needed] In October 1972, Clemente traveled to Managua, Nicaragua to coach the Puerto Rico national baseball team at the 1972 Amateur World Series.
The rioting resulted in 73 deaths and at least 1,000 injured, making it the worst disaster in the history of soccer in that nation. [ 172 ] February 10 – A riot erupted after a boxing fight between Luis Lazarte and Johnriel Casimero was stopped in round ten and Casimero credited with a tenth-round technical knockout win in Mar del Plata ...
A left-handed pitcher, Dravecky played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres (1982–87) and the San Francisco Giants (1987–89). He was named an All-Star with the Padres in 1983 and played in the 1984 World Series. In September 1988, Dravecky was diagnosed with a desmoid tumor in his left arm. He underwent surgery the following ...
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...