Baseball

If you'd like to see a list of all-time batting average leaders, go to http://www.baseball-almanac.com/hitting/hibavg2.shtml. You can see that the .400 average has been surpassed about 33 times in the major leagues.

The following numbers are retired by the Philadelphia Phillies:

1 Richie Ashburn

14 Jim Bunning

20 Mike Schmidt

32 Steve Carlton

36 Robin Roberts

42 Jackie Robinson (retired through all of baseball)

The uniforms of Grover Cleveland Alexander and Chuck Klein are also retired but they did not wear numbers on the back of the jerseys during that era.

The only two notable players who have worn number 34 for the Minnesota Vikings were running back Rickey Young (1978-83) and running back Herschel Walker (1989-91).

Willie Mays is Barry Bonds godfather but is not a blood relation

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American League pitchers hit 1 home run ... Zach Britton of the Orioles.

National League pitchers hit 27 home runs ...

2 - Cliff Lee (Phillies), Carlos Zambrano (Cubs), Zach Duke (Diamondbacks), Kevin Millwood (Rockies)

1 - Derek Lowe and Tim Hudson (Braves), Tom Milone and John Lannan (Nationals), Yovani Gallardo, Shaun Marcum, and Zack Greinke (Brewers), Jake Westbrook and Jaime Garcia (Cardinals), Travis Wood and Dontrelle Willis (Reds), Ross Ohlendorf (Pirates), J.A. Happ (Astros), Daniel Hudson and Barry Enright (Diamondbacks), Matt Cain (Giants), Chad Billingsley (Dodgers), Jason Hammel (Rockies), Mat Latos (Padres)

Pete Rose with 4256 hits.

it started with 9 men who created a modified version of Cricket and Rounders. it was supposed to be a sport that wouldn't have players get paid but that changed somehow. these 9 men were all from cooperstown NY which is why the Baseball HOF is in cooperstown

The '67 Red Sox used several catchers that season with Mike Ryan getting in the most games as catcher. Ryan caught in 79 games, Russ Gibson caught 48 games, Bob Tillman caught 26 games before being traded to the Yankees for Elston Howard, who then caught in 41 games for the BoSox and even George Thomas got in one game as a catcher for Boston that season.

Through the 2008 season in MLB, that is Lou Gehrig with 23 career grand slams.

1. Orel Hershiser : Los Angeles, 59.0 scoreless innings from 8/30/88 - 9/28/88 ...
2. Dan Drysdale : Los Angeles, 58.0 scoreless innings from 5/14/68 - 6/8/68 ...
3. Walter Johnson: Washington, 55.2 scoreless innings from 4/10/13 - 5/14/13...
4. Jack Coombs: Philadelphia, 53.0 scoreless innings from 9/5/10 - 9/25/10...
5. Bob Gibson: St. Louis, 47.0 scoreless innings from 7/13/33 - 8/1/33 ...

Billy Martin was Mantle's best friend on the team. Mantle named his third son Billy in Martin's honor.

no they were always two separate franchises. Philadelphia just had two teams at one point, such as NY and LA does today.

Many people hate running or stuff like that. I did my best 2 answer this!.

Alexander Cartwright jizzed on a blanket and ate it.

Lip Pike in 1876, the first year of the National League, was documented as being Jewish, but there may have been others.i dont know

Yankees hit 108 home runs on the road in the regular season this season, second only to Philadelphia.

Brian Lara is the first and only batsman to date to have scored 400+ in a Test match.

There are 162 regular season games. If a player is on a team that qualifies for the postseason, then he will have played in those additional games as well. If a player played in every single regular-season game, and played in every postseason game, assuming all the series went the maximum games, a player could conceivably play 181 games in a season. One could even count the All-Star game, to say technically he played in 182 games. This answer is incorrect. MLB does not count postseason records toward a players yearly or career stats. They are separate. If you check this link, you'll see the career leaders for games played. A couple have hit 164 or 165, and a few have hit 163. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/G_season.shtml The correct answer to this question is a little complicated. If a game is tied after 5 innings and is then stopped (rained out, etc.) the stats count for the players. However, the game still needs to be made up. This is only in a tie after 5 innings. If one team leads, the game is official and counts toward the standings. But if the game is tied, after 5 innings, and the game is stopped, the players' stats count (including games played), but the game is still made-up at a later date. Thus, is a player plays in all the other games, he can get credit for 163 games played. Also, if the top two teams in a division are tied after the 162nd game, a 1 game playoff is needed to determine the final standings in the division. All stats are counted. This most recently happened in 2008 with the Chicago White Sox and the Minnesota Twins.

The shortest Major League game ever played was on September 28th 1919. It was played by The National League's New York Giants(6pts.) and the Philadelphia Phillie's (1pt.). All 9 innings lasted a total of 51 Minutes.

Also That same year the Philadelphia Athletics in the American League had one of the worse seasons in all time Major League Baseball History!!(36 Wins With 104 Losses). Not a good year for Philadelphia.

The Second shortest game was on September 26th 1926. It's 9 innings lasted 55 Minutes and was played in the American League. Played by St. Louis(6Pts.) vs. New York(2Pts.).

No. Alex Rodriguez has never hit an inside the park home run during his MLB career.

The most runs scored in one game by one team is 36 by the Chicago in 1897. For an AL team it's the Texas Rangers at 30 in 2007. For a combined score the most is 49 between Chicago (26) and Philadelphia (23) in 1922.

Mike Piazza is a Catholic baseball player as well as Mike Sweeney and David Eckstein. There is a DVD with Catholic Baseball players talking about their faith called "Champions of Faith."

Joe Mauer hit .365 in 2009, followed by Mike Piazza at .362 in 1997.

short answer: 10 seasons

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Candidates for the National Baseball Hall of Fame are chosen by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BWAA). Only those who have been active members in the BWAA for at least ten years are eligible to vote.

Each Hall of Fame candidate must have been retired for at least five seasons and have played at least ten seasons in major league baseball.

Inductees are selected by careful examination of their qualifications, including their playing record, character and integrity. Each inductee must receive 75 percent of the vote to be a successful candidate. A separate Veteran's Committee selects candidates who retired at least 21 years ago. The induction takes place in July in Cooperstown, New York.

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There are exceptions to the rule but they are probably in the Hall of Fame for an individual fete rather than a lifetime of great playing. One example is Addie Joss played in only a total of 9 seasons who was a pitcher for Cleveland. On 08-22-1903 he made 3 outs in one inning while only throwing 3 pitches and on 10-02-1908 Joss threw the fourth perfect game ever in all of MLB. But these are the exceptions rather than the rule.

Mickey Mantle's first major league home run was hit on May 1, 1951 at Comiskey Park.