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Baseball Almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics.
t. e. The history of baseball in the United Statesdates to the 19th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the 1830–50s.
Ed Delahanty 's career was cut short when he fell into the Niagara Falls and died during the 1903 season. [ 8] Ted Williams remains the most recent player to bat .400 in a major-league season. [ 9] Babe Ruth hit for a career .342 average and held the major-league record for career home runs from 1921 until 1974.
For example, David Ortiz hit a total of 541 home runs during his MLB career; 483 with the Red Sox and 58 with the Minnesota Twins [ 1] —thus, Ted Williams ' 521 home runs, all hit with the Red Sox, is the team record. Similarly, the team record for wins with the Red Sox is 192, accomplished both by Roger Clemens and Cy Young, who had major ...
In baseball statistics, ... Rivera is the only pitcher in MLB history to finish more than 900 career games. ... Stats updated as of August 16, 2024. Rank Player GF 1
On May 6, 1982, Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners became the fifteenth pitcher to win three hundred games when Seattle defeated the NY Yankees 7–3 at the Kingdome. On May 30, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays the first of what would become a record-breaking 2,632 consecutive games by starting at third base against the Toronto ...
AL pennant winners have gone on to win the World Series 66 times, most recently in 2023. The New York Yankees have won 40 AL pennants, [ 11] winning their first in 1921 and their most recent in 2009. [ 12] This total is more than twice that of the next-closest team, the Oakland Athletics, who have won 15. [ 13]
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz jumps onto home plate after winning Game 4 of the 2004 American League Championship Series at Fenway Park. The American League Championship Series (ALCS), also known as the American League Pennant, is a best-of-seven playoff and one of two League Championship Series comprising the penultimate round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) postseason.