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Hugh Nicol's single-season mark of 138 stolen bases in 1887 remains the major league record. The pre-modern single-season mark for stolen bases is 138 by Hugh Nicol of the Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) in 1887. [27] In the modern era, Ty Cobb set a single-season mark of 96 stolen bases in 1915 [27] that lasted until it was broken by Maury Wills ...
National League. 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. Year.
List. Lou Brock held the stolen base record from 1977 to 1991 and is one of just three players with more than 900 career stolen bases. Sliding Billy Hamilton held the stolen base record for 80 years. Arlie Latham was the stolen base record holder from 1887 to 1896. Juan Pierre won multiple stolen base titles and finished his career with 614 ...
Highest team on-base percentage: .348 in 1999; Total Hits: 1,644 in 2000; Extra-base hits: 522 in 1977; Hits in a game: 26 vs. Detroit on September 9, 2004 (first game) Longest individual hitting streak: 31, Whit Merrifield 2018-19; Most .300 hitters in a single season: 4 in 2000; Home runs: 168 in 1987
Highest caught-stealing %: Mike LaValliere, 72.73% (1993) [20] Most no-hitters caught: 2, Carlos Ruiz (2010) and Wilson Ramos (2015) (List of Major League Baseball no-hitters) Both of Ruiz's no-hitters were by Roy Halladay; the second was in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, Halladay's first career postseason start.
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]
40–40 club. Alfonso Soriano, the fourth player to join the 40–40 club, commemorated the occasion in 2006 by retrieving the bag from second base after his 40th steal. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 40–40 club is the group of batters, currently six, who have collected 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season.
Wills's 97th stolen base occurred after his team had played its 154th game; as a result, Commissioner Ford Frick ruled that Wills's 104-steal season and Cobb's 96-steal season of 1915 were separate records, just as he had the year before (the American League had also increased its number of games played per team to 162) after Roger Maris had ...