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The Tampa Bay Rays payroll for 2010 is roughly $72 million. The highest paid player on the team is Carlos Pena with an annual salary of $10,125,000.

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After retiring from baseball after the 1966 season, the 31-year-old Koufax joined NBC Sports as a member of the Major League Baseball broadcast team. Although Koufax had signed a 10-year contract with NBC to be a baseball broadcaster, he left before the start of the 1973 season. He often felt uncomfortable on camera.

As of 8/22/10:

AL:

Tampa Bay 76-48 --

Boston 71-54 5.5 GB

Chicago White Sox 67-57 9.0 GB

Toronto 64-59 11.5 GB

Los Angeles Angels 62-62 14.0 GB

NL:

Philadelphia 70-53 --

St. Louis 67-54 2.0 GB

San Francisco 69-56 2.0 GB

Colorado 63-60 7.0 GB

Florida 62-61 8.0 GB

In MLB, yes.

Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .408 in 1911 and lost the batting title to Ty Cobb who hit .420.

Ty Cobb hit .401 in 1922 and lost the batting title to George Sisler who hit .420.

It's never been easy to completely shut down the Bronx Bombers. The last to do it were six Houston Astros pitchers. On June 11, 2003, they combined for a nine-inning no-hit game against the Yankees, winning 8-0 at Yankee Stadium. Houston's Roy Oswalt pitched a scoreless first inning, but was forced to leave the game with an injury after throwing to one batter in the second inning. He was then followed by Peter Munro (2.2 innings), Kirk Saarloos (1.1), Brad Lidge (2), Octavio Dotel (1) and Billy Wagner (1).

It was the largest number of pitchers ever to share a no-hit game, and the first time the Yankees were held hitless since 1958.

The Yankees organization has only been no-hit six other times:

+ On June 30, 1908, Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders 8-0.

+ On June 21, 1916, Rube Foster, also of the Red Sox, shut down the pre-Babe Ruth Yankees, 2-0.

+ On Sept. 10, 1919, Ray Caldwell of the Cleveland Indians defeated another pre-Ruth Yankees team, 3-0.

+ On April 30, 1946, Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians blanked the Yankees, 1-0.

+ On August 25, 1952, Virgil Trucks of the Detroit Tigers turned back the New Yorkers, 1-0. It was Trucks' second no-hit game of the season since he had hurled a gem against the Washington Senators in May.

+ On Sept. 20, 1958, Hoyt Wilhem of Baltimore Orioles no hit the Yanks, 1-0.

Yes. In fact, he pitched two, one in each league.

17 September 1996, with the Dodgers, against the Rockies (in Coors Field, no less).

4 April 2001, with the Red Sox, against the Orioles.

Sources: Wikipedia, baseball-reference.com

Yes.

A play in which a home run occurs cannot have an error. If the official scorer gives an error on the play, the batter will be ruled as having advanced to home on the error.

An inside the park home run usually has a lot of luck/good fortune involved. Willie Harris of the Nationals hit an inside the park home run against the Braves recently. He hit a drive to center field that the center fielder ran back on, made a lunge for at the wall, and missed. The ball caromed off the wall and back towards the infield. By the time the left fielder ran over and retrieved the ball, Harris was halfway between second and third. The left fielder threw to the cutoff man but Harris beat the relay throw home for a home run. No error was involved, just bad luck for the Braves and good luck for the Nationals.

Cincinnati Reds swept the Okland Athletics 4-0.

Marv Rickert and Eddie Waitkus of the Chicago Cubs in 1946, and Toby Harrah and Bump Wills of the Texas Rangers in 1977.

Prior to the 2010 season, that was 102-60 in 1965. This was the only year the franchise won 100+ games in a regular season.

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Yes, nine times.

The last time, prior to 2010 when the Yankees and Phillies have the chance, was 1977-1978 when the Yankees and Dodgers did it. The Yankees won both World Series.

Other times were ...

* 1957-1958 with the Braves and Yankees (each team won 1).

* 1955-1956 with the Dodgers and Yankees (each team won 1).

* 1952-1953 with the Dodgers and Yankees (Yankees won both).

* 1942-1943 with the Cardinals and Yankees (each team won 1).

* 1936-1937 with the Giants and Yankees (Yankees won both).

* 1930-1931 with the Cardinals and Athletics (each team won 1).

* 1921-1923 with the Giants and Yankees (Giants won 2 and Yankees won 1). This is the only time the same teams played in 3 consecutive World Series.

* 1907-1908 with the Cubs and Tigers (Cubs won both).

Yes, he did. On September 28, 1960, Ted Williams went 1 for 3 against the Baltimore Orioles in his last game. He hit a home run in his final career at bat.

Canada won two World Series. The Toronto Blue Jayswere the 1992 and 1993 champions.

Baltimore-based attorney Peter Angelos, to the chagrin of every single Orioles fan who knows anything at all about baseball, has owned the Orioles since 1993.

Steve Garvey (6), Tony Gwynn (19), Dave Winfield (31), Randy Jones (35), and Jackie Robinson (42).

Omar Vizquel, Orlando Cabrera and Octavio Dotel are three players whose names begin with O.

I think the St Louis Browns with less than 50,000 during the Depression in the 1093's.

He is the last active player to wear the uniform number that major league baseball has retired in honor of the late Jackie Robinson. When Rivera's career ends, no member of the Yankees organization will ever wear it again.

every team is required to have a representative in the All-Star game so the Chicago Cubs will have someone, who that person is has not yet been determined, whether he is chosed by votes from fans or the NL manager is to be seen

#5 is David Wright, the Mets third baseman.

Mike Schmidt- from the Philadelphia Phillies, did it April 17th 1976 against the Chicago Cubs both teams combined for a staggering thirty-four runs in this slugfest which featured nine home runs including four consecutive long balls by Mike Schmidt. The Phillies ended up winning the game 18-16 after being down by 11 runs.

This question is impossible to answer as Satchel Paige played for many unorganized teams as well as in the Negro Leagues, whose records are not complete, nor completely accurate.