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Sadaharu Oh managing the Japan national team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Playing for the Central League's Yomiuri Giants (1959–80), Oh set the professional world record for home runs with 868. In 1847, American soldiers played what may have been the first baseball game in Mexico at Parque Los Berros in Xalapa, Veracruz.
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.
Grand slam on first career pitch 2: Daniel Nava. June 12, 2010 [17] [a] Three sacrifice flies in a game 12: José López. April 15, 2008 [14] 10 or more runs batted in during a game 17: Baseball Almanac: Hitting for the natural cycle: 14: Baseball Almanac: 6 singles in a 9-inning game 18: Baseball Almanac: 4 home runs in a game 18: Baseball ...
The first baseball almanac, Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player edited by Henry Chadwick, begins publication. [9] 1860 February 22 – First recorded baseball game played in San Francisco, California between the San Francisco Eagles and the San Francisco Red Rovers. [10] 1860 September 28 – The first baseball game reported between two named black ...
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
The first televised baseball game in the world was actually... two baseball games. The first MLB telecast was aired on Aug. 26, 1939, and was actually a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
World Series / Chronicle-Telegraph Cup Champion 1900 – Brooklyn Superbas: Brooklyn Superbas 1901: Chicago White Stockings: Pittsburgh Pirates – 1902: Philadelphia Athletics – 1903: Boston Americans: Boston Americans 1904: New York Giants – 1905: Philadelphia Athletics: New York Giants 1906: Chicago White Sox: Chicago Cubs
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.