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Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
MLB's 20 Greatest Games is an American television series that aired in 2011 on MLB Network.Hosted by Bob Costas [1] and Tom Verducci [2], the series counted down and dissected the 20 greatest games in Major League Baseball history since 1961 [3].
Thomas Marian Paciorek (/ p ə ˈ tʃ ɔːr ɛ k / pə-CHOR-ek; born November 2, 1946) is an American former outfielder and first baseman who spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1970–1975), Atlanta Braves (1976–1978), Seattle Mariners (1978–1981), Chicago White Sox (1982–1985), New York Mets (1985) and Texas Rangers (1986–1987).
In baseball statistics, a relief pitcher is credited with a game finished (denoted by GF) if he is the last pitcher to pitch for his team in a game. A starting pitcher is not credited with a GF for pitching a complete game. Mariano Rivera [1] [2] [3] is the all-time leader in games finished with 952.
Arm issues cut short his playing career, but he became one of the most successful general managers in major-league history and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.
In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the second baseman is assigned the number 4. The second baseman is frequently the smallest player on the team, and the ability of such smaller players to absorb the impact of play has contributed to many long careers at the position throughout major league history; three-quarters of the ...
Before Brock, Hamilton held the record for eighty-one years, from 1897 to 1977. [6] Before that, Latham held the record from 1887 to 1896. Latham was also the first player to collect 300 career stolen bases. [6] With Kenny Lofton's retirement in 2007, 2008 was the first season since 1967 in which no active player had more than 500 career stolen ...
Tris Speaker is the all-time leader in career double plays as a center fielder with 146; [17] [18] [19] he is the only player to record more than 100 career double plays as a center fielder. Speaker played a particularly shallow center field and six of his double plays were unassisted, which is the record for outfielders. [ 20 ]