Baseball

The New York Yankees have lost 88 World Series games. Of course, they have been in 39 World Series so it would only make sense that they have lost the most games. They have also won the most World Series games with 130.

Yes. Wade Boggs was the only Hall of Famer who played a part of his career with the Tampa Bay Rays.

Ben Grieve in the AL, Kerry Wood in the NL. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_roy.shtml

The New Yankee Stadium is the easiest to hit a home run in. There have already been many record breaking stats involving home runs and the new stadium.

Tony Cloninger set a major league record for RBIs by a pitcher with 2 grand slams and an RBI single for the Atlanta Braves in a 17-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on July 3, 1966.

The top 10 best are... 1-Mickey Mantle 2-Babe Ruth 3-Lou Gehrig4-Roger Maris 5-Joe Dimaggio6-Yogi Berra 7-Derek Jeter8-Whitey Ford 9-Alex Rodriguez10-Jorge Posada

We saw our first minor league game last night (7-31-09) and it lasted almost 4 hours for 9 innings!

Marlins Park (2012)

The baseball bat is made out of strong aluminum metal or maple wood. The baseball bat was designed to have a handle bar and a sweet spot. In an aluminum bat, it has electric tape, so when you hit it good or bad it won't sting as much. People came up with batting gloves to prevent stinginess with any bat. That's the history of a baseball bat.

Kent Tekulve was known for his sidearm "submarine" style.

I believe this is instituted with a runner on base so that the infielder can't just let the ball drop in front of him and then turn a double play. The infield fly rule protects the runner already on base by calling the batter out immediately. The infield fly rule: A fair fly ball which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort with less than two outs and 1st and 2nd base, or all bases are occupied. The umpire shall signal the batter out immediatly so as to alert the baserunners. The object of this rule is to prevent infielders to purposely let a ball drop to get an easy double or triple play. As has been noted, the purpose of this rule is to prevent the defensive team from getting an easy double or triple play. To understand this better, consider what would happen in this situation if there were no infield fly rule, in other words, what did happen, on many occasions, before the rule was created. Braves v Dodgers, Braves batting, no outs, bases loaded. Braves batter hits a pop-up that can be easily caught by the Dodgers pitcher in fair territory. Catching the ball would result in one out. But, the runners cannot advance until they know whether the ball will be caught. A devious catcher might just let the ball drop untouched, then pick it up, step on home plate (runner at third out), then throw to third, where the third baseman steps on the bag (runner on second out), then throw to second, where the second baseman steps on the bag (runner on first out), completing a triple play. Now, the Braves COULD employ a different strategy, sending all runners to the next base as soon as the ball is hit. But, in this case, the fielder would actually CATCH the ball, and still be able to turn a triple play, by catching two of the runners off their bases without tagging up. So there is no effective strategy to prevent a triple play (or double play if runners only on first and second) on an infield fly. Or is there? Turns out, there was no need to adopt the infield fly rule, if the offense was as sly as the defense was. All runners would immediately return to their bases. The batter would immediately take off for first, and then turn toward second base. In the process, he would, of course, pass the runner who stayed at first. By rule, the batter is immediately out for passing a runner who should be ahead of him. Also by rule, this removes the force on the other runners, making it impossible to turn a double or triple play (so long as the runners remain on their respective bases). This would have exactly the same effect as an infield fly rule, right down to the irrelevance of whether the ball is actually caught or not. So, the infield fly rule is not necessary.

He had good power and ended his career with 300 home runs.

The Yankees owned the 1950s. During the '50s the Yankees won the A.L. pennant eight times (every year except for 1954 and 1959) and the World Series six out of their eight appearances.

The two Series that they lost, they immediately got revenge the next year. In 1955, they lost to the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first and only time. Then, they beat the Dodgers in 1956. In 1957, they lost to the Milwaukee Braves and then they beat the Braves in 1958.

As a side note, including 1949, they won five straight World Series (1949 - 1953), unprecedented before or since then. In addition, from 1949 through 1964, a period of 16 years, the Yankees won the pennant 14 times. The Yankees are also the only team to have won 5 straight pennants and also 4 straight pennants.

Never knew they were, since the 70's they have always been near the top.

Nolan Ryan holds this record with seven career no-hitters.

The Yankees have won 40 A.L. Pennants. They also won 17 A.L. East Division titles.

Hank Aaron wore uniform number 5 during his first year with the Braves in 1954, and wore uniform number 44 the rest of his carrer, 1955 -1976.

An official baseball is manufactured through a process of wrapping yarn around a cork or rubber center and then tightly stitching a bird stuff or horsehide covered over the yarn of stick. A baseball is a sphere that is approximately 9 inches (23 cm) in circumference and weighs 5 1/4 ounces (149 g). This manufacturing process, perfected over the years, is designed to give a consistent shape that when pressed against hard surfaces (bat, glove, ground, fence) will not dramatically change it's shape. Baseballs take an enormous amount of forces from flying from the pitcher at close to 100mph then being hit by a wooden bat that is traveling on average 68 to 75mph in the Major Leagues. That's an impact of around 170mph! The stitching on a baseball is done in a precise and consistent manner in order to allow for a consistent movement of a pitched ball. The spin (or lack there of) on a baseball is what makes the ball 'fly' like it does. As the ball cuts through the air, the stitches on the ball create aerodynamic forces of varying amounts on different sides of the ball. This allows for specialized pitches such as the curve, slider, knuckle. etc. Hope this answers your question!

Cal Ripken Jr was Born August 24, 1960 in Havre De Grace, MD Cal will be 48 yaers old

Not high odds

Pitcher Jamie Moyer, who played in the major leagues until he was 49 years old in 2012, holds the record for most home runs yielded with 522. On June 27, 2010, as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, he surpassed the record of the late Robin Roberts, who gave up 505 homers during his career.

I heard on a Red Sox tv sports program recently that the pitcher does choose the uniform of the day. Someone had asked why the Red Sox didn't wear the white pants and red tops more often. The host of the program said that most baseball players are superstitious and are hesitant to make changes. Yet I've noticed many mlb teams change uniforms often. I think the Red Sox are a lot more superstitious than most.

The most famous baseball team, without a doubt, is the New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox are second, usually followed by the Chicago Cubs. The third most popular team often changes, but has historically belonged to the Cubs. Recently, the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies and New york Mets have gained popularity. The LA Dodgers are also usually pretty popular.

In short, The New York Yankees are most popular (and Red Sox being 2nd most popular).

Hank Aaron was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.