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Baseball Facts - Page 17
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Mike Cameron almost hit 5 home runs in one game. After already hitting four dingers, he hit another one to the warning track in his fifth at bat. To date, no one has ever hit 5 home runs in a single Major League game.
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Joe Nuxhall was just 15 years old when he became the youngest player in Major League history in 1944. With player shortages due to WWII, he made just one appearance: giving up 5 runs in 2/3rds of an inning. He would later return to the majors at age 23 and play for 15 seasons.
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In 1963, manager Alvin Dark said there would be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hit his first home. Right on schedule, Gaylord Perry hit his first career home run in 1969, just an hour after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
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Ron Wright played only one major league baseball game - but it was memorable! Due to injuries to Edgar Martinez and Jeff Cirillo, Ron was inserted into the Seattle Mariners starting lineup on April 14, 2002 against the Atlanta Braves. In his three at-bats, Ron struck out, hit into a triple play, and hit into a double play. Thus, Ron's 3 major league at-bats produced 6 outs!
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Ken Griffey Jr. and Babe Ruth both have the same legal first name: George.
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2. Tris Speaker throughout his entire career had six unassisted double plays. As a center fielder. No other outfielder has more than two!
3. You've probably never heard of Ron Hunt. He's the only player to get hit by a pitch 50 times. Ouch! He also led the league in getting hit by pitches seven times.
4. Joe Sewell struck out 114 times in his major league career. His strikeout percentage was 1.4%.
5. In 1941, Joe DiMaggio won the MVP award for the AL mainly for his hitting streak. But Ted Williams made a strong case that he should have won the award. DiMaggio hit .408/.463/.717 with a 1.180 OPS during the streak. Williams hit .406/.553/.735 with a 1.288 OPS during ALL of 1941.
The 56-game hitting streak? 2632 consecutive appearances?
25 All-Star game selections? 511 pitching wins?
Those records above could maybe be broken. But one record that will NEVER be broken is Johnny Vander Meer’s. Who? Vander Meer was a pitcher who threw two no-hitters in consecutive starts! Nobody else has ever done it. And in order to break his record, somebody has to throw THREE no-hitters in three consecutive starts! Vander Meer may have not been a great player, but he will never be replaced in the Baseball Record Book.