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Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada. It comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
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)
a The Atlanta Braves sale in 2007 to Liberty Media was part of a complex swap of cash, stock, magazine holdings, and the Braves, in which Time Warner sent the Braves, a hobbyist publishing company, and $980,000,000 to Liberty in exchange for approximately 68.5 million shares of Time Warner stock, at the time worth $1.48 billion.
This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards ...
Brown with the Tulsa Drillers in 1988. The Texas Rangers selected Brown in the first round, with the fourth pick overall, in the 1986 Major League Baseball draft.Starting in 1989, Brown was second in the Rangers' rotation behind ace Nolan Ryan and posted a 12–9 record with a 3.35 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 1989 and a 12–10 record with a 3.60 ERA and 88 strikeouts in 1990.
Lee was part of the Trojans team, which won the 1968 College World Series, [4] and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 22nd round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft. Lee served in the US Army Reserve for six years during the Vietnam War. One of his jobs was to process the dead soldiers from New England and call the families.
The 2021 Braves became the second team in Major League Baseball history for which each starting infielder hit at least 25 home runs. [130] On October 12, 2021, Freeman hit what would turn out to be the game-winning solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning in a tied National League Division Series game four against the Milwaukee Brewers .
While at Dartmouth, the lowest grade Ausmus received was a B. [26] College graduates are uncommon in major league baseball, with only 26 players and managers with four-year degrees in 2009. [27] In 2005, Ausmus became the first Ivy League catcher to play in the World Series since Dartmouth's Chief Meyers in 1916 . [ 28 ]