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The first
World Series was played between Pittsburgh and Boston in 1903 and was a
nine-game series. Boston won the series 5-3.
The New York Yankees have
won
26 World Series titles, which is more than any other team.
Former Yankees right
fielder
Mickey Mantle holds the record for most career home runs (18) and RBI (40)
in
World Series history.
Baseball stars from the
National League and the American League played the first
All-Star Game in 1933. The National League has won 40 of the 73 games. The
game ended in a tie twice. In 1961 rain in Boston prevented extra innings and
the game ended in a 1-1 tie. And in 2002, the game went 11 innings with the
score knotted at seven before it was finally called off due to a lack of
pitchers.
Baltimore Orioles
shortstop
Cal Ripken, Jr. didn't miss a game in 16 years. He played in
2,632 consecutive games from April 30, 1982 to Sept. 19, 1998.
Pete Rose, who played for the Cincinnati Reds and then was banned from
baseball for life for betting on games while managing the team, holds the
all-time record for hits (4,256) and games played (3,562).
In 2001, San
Francisco's
Barry Bonds broke the all-time
single-season home run record when he hit 73. He broke the mark of 70, set
by St. Louis Cardinals first baseman
Mark McGwire in 1998.
Fourteen players have
hit four home runs in one game: Bobby Lowe, Ed Delahanty, Lou Gehrig, Chuck
Klein, Pat Seerey, Gil Hodges, Joe Adcock, Rocky Colavito, Willie Mays, Mike
Schmidt, Bob Horner, Mark Whiten, Mike Cameron and Shawn Green.
Pitcher
Nolan Ryan played 27 seasons in major league baseball and
struck out more batters in his career than any other pitcher.
San Francisco's
Barry Bonds has won the National League
MVP Award seven times. That's four more times than
Stan Musial,
Roy Campanella, and
Mike Schmidt, his closest NL co-winners. On the American League MVP list are
Jimmie Foxx,
Joe DiMaggio,
Yogi Berra, and
Mickey Mantle with three awards each.
Philadelphia A's (now
the Oakland Athletics) manager
Connie Mack has 3,755 career victories, more than any other manager in
history.
The
National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum is located in Cooperstown, N.Y. It
was created in 1935 to celebrate baseball's 100th anniversary. |
