Baseball

Roy Campanella died on June 26, 1993 at the age of 71.

In the USA it is played the most. It is also played in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela , Mexico and Japan but the U.S. plays it more on the professional level, minor leagues, independent leagues, college, high school , little league, and sandlots to name a few.

For the three MLB seasons 2008-2010, there were 7288 regular season games played and 130050 base hits for an average of 17.84 per game.

Damaso Marte wore #43 for the Yankees in 2009.

P Frank Hiller 1946

P Vic Raschi 1947

UT Art Schult 1953

OF Ken Hunt 1959

OF Roger Repoz 1964-66

IF Mike Ferraro 1966

P Dale Roberts 1967

P Rob Gardner 1970-72

P Terry Ley 1971

UT Jim Ray Hart 1973-74

P Jim Magnuson 1973

P Rudy May 1974-76

C Jim Deidel 1974

P Jim York 1976

P Ken Clay 1978-79

P Doug Bird 1980-81

P George Fraizer 1981-83

Coa Jerry McNertney 1984

Coa Jeff Torborg 1984

P Rich Bordi 1985

P Tim Stoddard 1986-88

Coa Gene Michael 1989

Coa Lee Elia 1989

P Jeff Robinson 1990

IF Torey Lovullo 1991

P Jeff Johnson 1991-93

P Sam Militello 1992

P Paul Assenmacher 1993

C Bob Melvin 1994

Coa Nardi Contraras 1995

IF Dave Silvestri 1995

P Jeff Nelson 1996-00

C Todd Greene 2001

P Christian Parker 2001

P Raul Mondesi 2002-03

P Ted Lilly 2002

P Jeff Nelson 2003

P Jorge DePaula 2004

P Scott Proctor 2005-07

P Darrell Rasner 2008

P Damaso Marte 2009-11

alex rodriguez. hes a cheater

Say what?!! Let me tell you something Mr. Hater. Just because he took steroids TEN YEARS AGO!!!! doesn't make him the worst player ever!!!!!!!!! There have been dozens of other players who have taken steroids and it doesn't improve them one bit!!!!!!!! You're just jealous, Alex Rodriguez is one of the best players in history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JEALOUS!!!!!!!!

in 1946 Sam Hernandaze hit a total of 25 foul balls in one at bat

That is a record that will never be known. Pitch counts in baseball have only been important in the last 25-30 years. Before the mid 70s or so pitch counts were not a statistic that teams kept.

Pete Rose 4256

Ty Cobb 4189

Hank Aaron 3771

Stan Musial 3630

Tris Speaker 3514

Carl Yastrzemski 3419

Cap Anson 3418

Honus Wagner 3415

Paul Molitor 3319

Eddie Collins 3315

Willie Mays 3283

Eddie Murray 3255

Nap Lajoie 3242

Cal Ripken, Jr. 3184

George Brett 3154

Paul Waner 3152

Robin Yount 3142

Tony Gwynn 3141

Dave Winfield 3110

Craig Biggio 3060

Rickey Henderson 3055 (Hasn't officially declared retirement and played in several games in 2003 but hasn't played since as of now)

Rod Carew 3053

Lou Brock 3023

Rafael Palmeiro 3020 (Still an active player but hasn't played since 2005)

Wade Boggs 3010

Al Kaline 3007

Roberto Clemente 3000

Closest Active Players

Barry Bonds 2852

Julio Franco 2567

Steve Finley 2535

Omar Vizquel 2485

Ken Griffey Jr. 2425

Don Mattingly was an outfielder when he was called up to the 1982 New York Yankees.

The record for strikeouts in a Major League game is 21, set by Tom Cheney on September 12, 1962. Cheney pitched 16 innings and broke the previous record of 18, set by Bob Feller.

The record for a nine-inning game is 20, first accomplished by Roger Clemens on April 29, 1986; Clemens has since had another 20-strikeout game, and Kerry Wood has also had one. Randy Johnson also struck out 20 batters within the first nine innings of a game, but isn't credited by MLB with being tied for the record because the game went to extra innings after Johnson left.

Tino Martinez

In 1944, Charley "Red" Barrett of the Boston Braves threw only FIFTY-EIGHT pitches during a nine inning complete game. Barrett's Braves shutout the Reds 2 - 0 and the game set major league records for least number of pitches known to have been thrown by a single pitcher in a complete game and shortest game played at night.

A poll in late 2012 found that 53% of adult Americans identify themselves as fans of baseball. In 2013 the number of US adults was about 242 million. This would mean about 128 million adults are fans of baseball.

If youth are fans of baseball in the same percentages as adults, that would mean 167 million Americans who like baseball.

The sport is also very popular in many countries in Latin America, but even estimates of the percentages of that population who are fans of the sport are not available.

the annual salary of a pro catcher is arouns 8 and 900 thousand dollars a year

Jack Chesbro had 41 wins in 1904, for the New York Highlanders (Yankees).

The first MLB was in 1871 and called the National Association. There were nine teams in the League representing the cities of Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Washington, New York, Troy, Ft. Wayne, Cleveland, and Rockford. Each team had 12 or 13 players, two or three being pitchers. So there really wasn't a 'first' player in the MLB, it was more like the 'first' teams in the MLB. If you click on the 'First MLB Game' link on this page, you can read about the first MLB game ever played. The date was May 4, 1871.

Willie McGill was only 16 years, 5 months & 28 days old when he won his 1st game in 1890, he ended the season with a record of 11-9. He was born on November 10, 1873 and he won his 1st game on May 8, 1890.

Since 1900:

Rogers McKee was born on September 16, 1926 and he won his 1st and only Major League game on October 3, 1942. He was 17 years, 17 days old, when started the second game of a doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field and pitched a complete game, winning 11-3. The opposing pitcher (and loser) was rookie Cookie Cuccurullo, who was making his major league debut.

Mickey Mantle holds the American League record for games with home runs from both sides of the plate with 10. Ken Caminiti holds the National League record, also with 10. Eddie Murray holds the major league record with 11, 9 times in the American League and twice in the National League.

The Boston Red Sox have recorded 100+ wins three times. In 1912, coached by Jake Stahl, they won the World Series that year. In 1915, coached by Bill Carrigan they won the World Series that year. In 1946, coached by Joe Cronin

they won the AL East Division.

That would be the New York Yankees with 5 straight between 1949-1953 and 1960-1964. The Yankees have also won four straight pennants 3 times (1936-1939, 1955-1958, 1998-2001). The only other MLB team to have won four consecutive pennants is the New York Giants (1921-1924).

5..... 1919,1940,1975,1976,1990

The last time was in 1990 with the likes of Barry Larkin, Hal Morris, Joe Oliver, Eric Davis, Paul o'neil, Billy hatcher, Chris Sabo, Jose Rio, Tom browning, and the nasty boys, rob dibble Ext......

In 1990 the reds went wire to wire they stayed in first place all year long from game 1. One other note. Reds center feilder Eric Davis dove for a ball and ruptured his kidney and did not see anymore action. However he set the pace fore the reds to win it all with his home run.

The 1975, 1976 reds were known as the greatest baseball team of all time. They were called the big red machine with an all star team of bench, rose, ext.

The reds would have won another world series in 1995 but they were eliminated in the national league championship by the atlanta braves. The reds were quick on the bases and deion sanders was the guy making it all happen then they traded him toward the end of the season screwin up the team chemistry and after the trade they went into a funk they they could not get out of and reggies sanders could not hit a tree with a semi-truck he became mr. strike out king.

Everybody in Cincinnati can thank former reds gm Jim bowden for making what might be the most idiotic trade ever by trading prime time deion sanders right at the end of the season when it was deion who was making it all happen. Thanks for costing Cincinnati another world series title Jim. (Dork)

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Just as a side note....The Reds also had the distinction of having the best record in baseball in 1981...but did not see a second of postseason action. It was the first baseball strike and 54 games were lost; although the season resumed, MLB in its infinite wisdom, decreed that it would be a "split season"; the teams leading at the time of the strike were declared "first half champs"; and the season started all over again. The Reds were a half-game behind LA when the season was suspended; they finished a game and a half behind Houston in the second half.

The Reds were 66-42 on the year, and had the season simply continued, would have been three ahead of LA at season's end. No team in baseball had a better record, but because of the "spilt season" fiasco, no postseason for Cincinnati. (I was at Opening day in 1982, when the Reds unveiled a banner which read "Best Record in Baseball ~ 1981"; it was flown right next to the division, NL, and WS pennants flown over Riverfront Stadium.

The Dodgers knocked off Houston, then Montreal in the playoffs...and came back from an 0-2 start to defeat a badly overmatched Yankee squad to win the World Series.

I don't believe the given answer to be correct. 162 or 163

According to the article linked below, there are only ~162 games per year. This means that the MAX # of games that any team could play is 81 (162/2).

http://www.answers.com/topic/major-league-baseball-1

So the Question remains unanswered: How many games does each Major League Baseball team play during the regular season??? 559Josh

The question was "many games does EACH MLB team play in the regular season", not "how many total MLB games are there in a regular season".

Therefore, the original answer WAS correct: 162. It's easy to verify: go to Wikipedia and search for "2009 major league baseball season". In the tables that list each team's season record, add up the "games won" and "games lost" columns. Obviously, for any given team, the sum of these columns must be the total games played by that team (given that MLB has no drawn matches). You will see that for each team, the total is either 162 or 163. (Officially, each team is scheduled for 162 regular season games. However, if two teams finish the season tied for leadership of their division, then they must play-off to determine a winner. Those games are counted as regular season games, so each of those two teams would play 163 games for the year).

The objection that you stated would only be true if the total of ALL major league baseball games played in the season was 162. But then, the divisor would not be 2 (because there are more than two teams). If the total of all games was 162, but there were only two teams, that would still be 162 games each. Just because each game is played by two teams, that doesn't mean the answer should be divided by two. Think of it this way: imagine there are only two teams, A and B, and they play only one game. Now, the total number of games played is only 1. Yet the total games played by each team is still 1. It is not a half.