10 résultats pour "batting"

• DiMaggio Wins Batting Title.

  In game four DiMaggio took part in one of the most bizarre plays in World Series history. Down two runs in the top of the ninth, the Yankees tied the score at fourapiece to take the game into extra innings. DiMaggio came up in the top of the tenth with two men on base and a chance to bring home the go-ahead run. He rapped asingle to right field, scoring one run. When Reds outfielder Ival Goodman misplayed the ball, Keller, a burly rookie known as King Kong, raced home and slammedinto catcher Ern...

• World Series Records Record Player Team Most World Series appearances by a team - New York Yankees Total/Average Date 39 - Most World Series wins by a team - Best career batting average Pepper Martin New York Yankees 26 - St.

• Major League Baseball Records Since 1900.

  * As of 2007 season. . Individual Batting (Single Season). Batting AverageNap Lajoie, 1901 .426 Rogers Hornsby, 1924 .424 George Sisler, 1922 .420 Ty Cobb, 1911 .420 Ty Cobb, 1912 .409 Joe Jackson, 1911 .408 George Sisler, 1920 .407 Ted Williams, 1941 .406 Rogers Hornsby, 1925 .403 Harry Heilmann, 1923 .403 Runs Batted InHack Wilson, 1930 191 Lou Gehrig, 1931 184 Hank Greenberg, 1937 183 Jimmie Foxx, 1938 175 Lou Gehrig, 1927 175 Lou Gehrig, 1930 174 Babe Ruth, 1921 171 Hank Greenberg, 1935...

• Major League Baseball Records Since 1900.

  * As of 2007 season. . Individual Batting (Single Season) Batting AverageNap Lajoie, 1901 .426 Rogers Hornsby, 1924 .424 George Sisler, 1922 .420 Ty Cobb, 1911 .420 Ty Cobb, 1912 .409 Joe Jackson, 1911 .408 George Sisler, 1920 .407 Ted Williams, 1941 .406 Rogers Hornsby, 1925 .403 Harry Heilmann, 1923 .403 Runs Batted InHack Wilson, 1930 191 Lou Gehrig, 1931 184 Hank Greenberg, 1937 183 Jimmie Foxx, 1938 175 Lou Gehrig, 1927 175 Lou Gehrig, 1930 174 Babe Ruth, 1921 171 Hank Greenberg, 1935 1...

• An Injured Home Run.

  couldn't do it,” Gibson later said. “But once I got up in that cage, I didn't feel anything until I was going around the bases.” Gibson sent Dodgers batboy Mitch Poole to tell Lasorda that the slugger was ready if needed. Lasorda hustled to the batting cage to talk to Gibson himself. “As soonas he heard that I wanted to hit,” Gibson said, “he took off.” During Davis's at bat Gibson entered the dugout and sat in the corner wearing a helmet and holding ablack bat. Davis drew a walk, Gibson lim...

• Babe Ruth.

  earned. But Ruth’s boyish exuberance, compassion for hospitalized children, and personal warmth and generosity endeared him to most people. During the 1926 World Seriesagainst the St. Louis Cardinals, Ruth received word that one of his fans, a boy named Johnny Sylvester, was hospitalized and extremely ill. Ruth wrote the boy atelegram and promised to hit a home run for him in that day’s game. Ruth made good on his promise with not only one, but three homers. And even at the height offame and for...

• Jackie Robinson Breaks the Barrier.

  Leagues. The crowd of fans at the Negro Leagues' annual East-West Classic All-Star Game in 1944 outnumbered the major league All-Star Game 46,247 to 29,589. Another barrier to black players fell when baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, an adamant opponent of desegregation, died in office in 1944 and wasreplaced by A. B. “Happy” Chandler. Chandler was known to support integration, but it took Branch Rickey, who had built the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system intothe finest in baseba...

• Reggie Jackson's World Series Home Runs.

  final at bat in game five, he smashed a World Series record with four consecutive home runs. Other records included his total of five home runs for the Series, his 25total bases, and his 10 runs. He finished the World Series with eight runs batted in and a .450 batting average. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Babe Ruth's "Called Shot".

  When Ruth, the second New York batter in the fifth inning, came to the plate, Wrigley Field was roaring. “They called me ‘big belly’ and ‘baboon,’” Ruth recalled,according to the book Great Moments in American Sports by Jerry Brondfield. The New York Times said of the Chicago fans, “It seems decidedly unhealthy for anyone to taunt the great man Ruth too much, and very soon the crowd was to learn its lesson.” During the at bat, Ruth mouthed off to the Chicago players in thedugout as they and...

• Maris Breaks Home Run Record.

  Bothered by an injured hip, Mantle was removed from the lineup in mid-September with 54 long balls, leaving Maris alone in the home-run derby. The pressureincreased as a result of a July 17 ruling by Major League Baseball Commissioner Fred Frick that the record would have to be matched or bettered within 154 games,the number of games played in the 1927 season. In 1961, for the first time, American League teams played 162 games. Frick, a friend of Ruth's, said that if therecord was broken after 1...