In 1904, James E. Bennett patented a new proposal for catcher’s apparatus that would replace the glove and helmet altogether with big wire cage through which the pitched ball would pass through, hitting a padded mattress on the chest. It didn’t catch on.

Joe Sewell only struck out three times during the entire 1930 season (353 at bats). Two of them were in the same game.

Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old female pitcher for the AA Chattanooga Lookouts, once played the New York Yankees in an exhibition game and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.

In addition to being the first to break the color barrier in baseball, Jackie Robinson was also the first African-American vice president of a major American corporation — he served as vice president of personnel for Chock Full O’ Nuts coffee from 1957–1964.

Roger Maris once had four kickoff return touchdowns in a single High School football game.


Wade Boggs batted .369 lifetime at Fenway Park, Ty Cobb territory, but he batted .309 elsewhere without the Green Monster to bounce opposite field hits off of. 

In the 1992 expansion draft, both the Rockies and the Marlins passed on drafting Mariano Rivera, who was left unprotected by the Yankees.

In 1957 Richie Ashburn fouled off a pitch and the ball hit a woman in the nose. As she was being carried off on a stretcher, Ashburn fouled off another pitch and that ball hit her again.

Posted by DoctorKz on 1/8/2016 9:41:00 PM (view original):
Joe Sewell only struck out three times during the entire 1930 season (353 at bats). Two of them were in the same game.

Hire that pitcher !

Only two players in MLB history have ever gotten 200 or more hits in a season 10 times: 

Ichiro Suzuki - 2001-2010 (the ONLY player EVER to do so ten years in a row)

Pete Rose - who did it 10 times in the 15 years period 1965-1979. 

That's it. 


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Of the following catchers:

Manny Sanguillen
Johnny Bench
Ted Simmons
Carlton Fisk
Thurman Munson
Ray Fosse


The catcher who had the most regular season hits through the decade of the 1970s was....


Ted Simmons, with 1,550

Simmons also had more career hits than any of the others with 2.472. 

Good post italyprof...I wonder if anyone knows, without looking it up, who held the record for most consecutive 200-hit seasons before Ichiro?

The record was 8....Wade Boggs came close with 7 straight (1983-89).

Any guesses?

I am 99% sure that if you don't immediately know it, and don't look it up, you're first dozen or so guesses will be wrong.

Holmes?

Nope, he only did it once, lol

I looked it up. You're right.

Yeah, I had to look it up too.

without looking first i think it's kirrrrby puckettttttt

then i looked it up and i was wrong

took me forever to find out who it was. I searched "most consecutive 200 hit plus seasons" and it would go to 200 hit seasons. had to go through every player to find out who it was