Baseball Facts - Page 14

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In 1979, knuckleball pitcher Phil Niekro had 21 wins and 20 losses in the same season. He was 40 years old and threw a league-leading 342 innings.
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The most recent Tigers draft pick to earn an MVP award is Patrick Mahomes.
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Barry Bonds had more walks than Joe Morgan had hits.
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In 2023, the mom from the movie "Little Big League" became the mother of an actual big league player when her son, Pete Crow-Armstrong, was called up by the Cubs.
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Rickey Henderson scored more runs than Joe Dimaggio had hits.
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Sep 19, 2023
Rickey Henderson has more stolen bases than Johnny Bench's total RBIs.

Rickey also has more runs scored than Joe DiMaggio had hits. (DiMaggio has a lifetime .325 average. But blame WW2 for stealing some of his career.)

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Sep 28, 2023
Added the second one.