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83.6% (first ballot) Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed " Barney " and " the Big Train ", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1907 to 1927.
Johnny Bench. Johnny Lee Bench (born December 7, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career, which lasted from 1967 to 1983, with the Cincinnati Reds, primarily as a catcher. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Bench was the leader of the Reds team known as the Big Red Machine that dominated the ...
Satchel Paige. Leroy Robert " Satchel " Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame . A right-handed pitcher, Paige first played ...
1972. Election method. Negro Leagues Committee. Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American baseball catcher primarily in the Negro leagues. In 1972, he became the second Negro league player to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. [ 1] Gibson played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the ...
Johnny Mize. John Robert Mize (January 7, 1913 – June 2, 1993), nicknamed " Big Jawn " and " the Big Cat ", was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played as a first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons between 1936 and 1953, losing three seasons to military service during World War II.
Mariano Rivera [ 2][ 3][ 4] is the all-time leader in saves with 652. Rivera and Trevor Hoffman [ 5] are the only pitchers in MLB history to save more than 600 career games. Lee Smith, [ 6] Kenley Jansen, [ 7] Craig Kimbrel, [ 8] Francisco Rodríguez, [ 9] John Franco, [ 10] and Billy Wagner [ 11] are the only other pitchers to save more than ...
Josh Gibson holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler 's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season. Record.
The Army Black Knights baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Patriot League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's Division I. Army's first baseball team was fielded in 1890.