Baseball

Currently, the Yankees have hit ten grand slams during the 2010 season. Alex Rodriguez has three, Jorge Posada and Robinson Cano have two each, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira and Brett Gardner have one apiece.

Elected by baseball writers were second baseman Roberto Alomar and pitcher Bert Blyleven. Longtime general manager Pat Gillick was selected by a special panel. Induction ceremonies will be in July 2011.

Lou Gehrig threw left handed, and Batted from the Left side of the plate.

The seventh-inning stretch song has always traditionally been "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", and the Minnesota Twins are no exception. On Sundays however, they add "God Bless America" before singing baseball's anthem.

Frank Thomas retired after the 2008 season. There being a 5 year waiting period before nomination/election, he will be eligible starting in 2014.

A grand slam in first time at bat was William "Frosty Bill" Duggleby.He was playing a home game for Philadelphia against the New York Giants in the second inning on April 21, 1898 Florida,s Jeremy Hermida also hit a grand slam his first time at bat in the seventh inning against St. Louis on August 31, 2005

Roberto clemente married vera cristina and had 3 sons when he was young he was very poor his father was a sugar plantation and his mother ran a grocery store Roberto had many other small jobs to earn a litttle more money for his family

1) Tommy John - 91-60 record for the Yankees between 1979-1982 and 1986-1989 ... In 1980, he won 22 games, made the All-Star team, and was 4th in Cy Young Award voting.

2) Dave Righetti - 74-61 record between 1979-1990 ... was a starter from 1979-1983 and became the Yanks closer in 1984 ... led the AL with 46 saves in 1986 and had 224 saves for them in his career ... threw a no hitter against the Red Sox on July 4, 1983.

3) Rich Gossage - nicknamed Goose, he was the Yankees closer between 1978-1983 ... led the AL in saves with 27 in 1978 and 33 in 1980 ... elected to the Hall of Fame in 2008.

4) Ron Guidry - pitched for the Yankees between 1975-1988 ... career record with the Yankees of 170-91 for a .651 winning percentage ... won 25 games in 1978 and 22 in 1985 ... won AL Cy Young Award in 1978 ... was selected to 4 All-Star teams and won 5 Gold Gloves.

Whitey Ford hold the New York Yankees franchise record for career wins with 236

The 1995 National League rookie of the year winner was Hideo Nomo

Lou Gehrig, Pat Seerey, Rocky Colavito, Mike Cameron, Carlos Delgado, Bobby Lowe, Ed Delahanty, Chuck Klein, Gil Hodges, Joe Adcock, Willie Mays, Mike Schmidt, Bob Horner, Mark Whiten, and Shawn Green

A man by the name of Brian Matusz held the worst qualifying ERA in a season. It was 10.69. I am still looking for the worst qualifying career ERA.

A baseball game ends when there is the final out of the ninth inning. If the home team is winning, and they get three outs in the ninth, they win. If the score is tied after nine innings of play, they go into extra innings, which lasts until a team scores and holds the other team to scoring.

Abner Doubleday is traditionally credited with having "invented" baseball, in Cooperstown, NY, in 1839. However, it appears that a man named Alexander Cartwright was actually the inventor, in the respect that he first codified the rules of a game somewhat similar to today's game in 1845. Doubleday himself never claimed credit for inventing baseball, or even for having been an important figure in its evolution. The only evidence to suggest Doubleday's involvement was a letter (written several decades later) from a man who would have been 5 years old in 1839. Even that letter did not suggest that Doubleday invented any of the modern elements of the game. Furthermore, the letter's author was insane. In 1839, Doubleday was at the US Military Academy in West Point (he later served as an officer in the Mexican-American War, the Seminole Wars, and the Civil War, advancing to the rank of General in 1862), not in Cooperstown. Though he lived in Cooperstown before attending the Academy, his family moved away about the time he enrolled at the Academy, in 1838, so he would have had no reason to even visit Cooperstown in 1839. In any event, Cooperstown and West Point are separated by over 170 miles, a prohibitive distance to travel for a weekend, or even a whole week, of leave in those days. But, to be perfectly honest, Cartwright's claim is little better than Doubleday's. It is, in fact, ridiculous to assign ONE inventor to the game. It evolved over a thousand years from games in England that bear little resemblance to the modern game of baseball, or even cricket (which, by the way, does not disprove the uniquely American nature of the current game). Sure, Cartwright wrote down the "Knickerbocker Rules", but teams had been playing under unwritten versions of those rules for years. And, truth be told, even Cartwright's rules are a far cry from modern baseball. For example, the number of innings was not set (they played until one team reached certain number of "aces", which we call runs now); there was no strike zone (batters had to swing and miss to get a strike); there were no home runs, except "inside-the-park homers" (any ball hit outside the field of play was a foul, even if it was over the outfield fence); foul balls never counted as strikes; the distance between the bases was not the same (and was not even standardized); the ball was pitched underhanded; there was no "pitcher's mound", or any other place designated for the pitcher to pitch from (thus, presumably, the pitcher could stand anywhere on the field of play); a batted ball caught after the first bounce but before the second was an out (now it must be caught before the first bounce); the number of players on a team was not specified. Does that sound even remotely comparable to the game you'll see tonight in the opening game of the World Series? If you must assign an "inventor" to the modern game of baseball, then it has to be the MLB rules committee, and the date has to be the date (probably sometime in the last year) that the most recent of many, many official rules changes took effect. It is ridiculous to talk about some game played sometime in the past that was "essentially the same" as modern-day baseball. Thousands and thousands of minor changes add up to major changes, and the term "essentially" is way too open to interpretation. If you want to talk about the first ever game that was called by the name "baseball", then you have to go back to at least 1744 (and completely give up any claim that it is an American invention) to a game that had very, very little resemblance even to Cartwright's rules, let alone modern Baseball.

Andy Pettitte admitted using HGH, not steroids in 2002 and 2004, and was not suspended. Former Yankees relief pitcher Jason Grimsley was suspended 50 games in 2006. Jason pitched for the Yankees from 1999-2000.

Swede Risberg, SS, Chicago White Sox. 8 in the 1919 world series. Albeit, he probably intentionally made the errors (so, are they real errors?) since the "Black Sox" threw the series to the Reds. Risberg was a weak hitter - fielding was his prowess. So, it's pretty obvious his "boots" were "all about the money".

The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3. Click on the '1975 World Series' link on this page to see a game by game breakdown.

The Oakland Athletics' nickname of the "Athletics" originates from athletic clubs in the 19th century.

Yes, he is 79.

11/14/1964

Well that's pretty generic. The old adage, three strikes and you're out is the best known rule of baseball. Otherwise, each team sends a batter to home plate to try to hit a pitch from the pitcher. If you hit it and someone catches it before it hits the ground, you're out. If it hits the ground, and they throw it to first base before you get there, you're out. If not, you're safe and stay on first base and the next batter comes up. And you keep going until the team at bat makes three outs. Then you change sides and the team in the field comes to bat. Pitches can be balls, not over the plate, or strikes, thrown over the plate. Three stirkes you're out. Four balls and you get a base on balls, called a walk, and can go to first base. The team whose players get all the way around the bases and come back to home plate the most times in 6 or 9 innings wins.

It was Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball. It reportedly sold for $3,005,000 to comic book maker Todd MacFarlane, but due to the steroid scandals it is now worth about 1/3 of what he paid for it.