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official at-bats for Pujols his first 5 years

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Ok...How about this one ? In 1941 Ted Williams was the last major leaguer to bat .400 or better (.406), The same season Joe DiMaggio logged his 56 game streak .......DiMaggio was voted MVP .....BUT who led the league in hits ?
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The only similarity between Adam and Joe DiMaggio is the letter "D".

2220 strikeouts in just 13 years.

Question, without checking, does any one know who is in second place with 13 years or less in the bigs?

Hint: It isn't even close.

Frank- nice bio in the new Old Cardboard. We may have to start addressing you as Dr. Burkett.:)

Off the top of my head, didn't Mo Vaughn have over 1400 k's in his shortish career?

Switch hitter
 

Last switch hitter to be named American League MVP.

Not Mantle. Not Murray. Vida Blue

If you do, I'll see that you are banned.:eek::eek::D

For a bunch of fun facts about lefties at 2b, SS, 3b and C:

http://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/com..._a_lefthander/

The last 2B, SS, 3B, and C to play 100+ games at those positions played before 1900.

Yes sir!

Fact: Clarence Blethen injured himself with his own false teeth.



In 1923, Clarence Blethen was a rookie pitcher for the Red Sox; he also happened to wear false teeth. When he was pitching, Clarence thought that he would look meaner if he took his teeth out, which he would place in his back pocket.

Running the bases one day, Clarence forgot about his false teeth in his pocket. As he he went to steal second, his teeth clamped down, thus making Clarence Blethen the only man to be injured by biting himself in the butt.

Fact: Jack McCarthy threw out three runners at home plate in the same inning.



While playing for the Cubs in 1905, outfielder Jack McCarthy was possibly a little angry with his team's inabilty to get anyone out. So McCarthy decided to take matters into his own hands.

He threw out not one, not two but three runners trying to score. It is such an amazing feat that nobody has come close to matching it in the 108 years since, and unless the outs per inning expand to four, no one will ever have a shot at eclipsing him.

Believe it or not, Teddy Ballgame was my first guess. Was more than a little surprised to see I was right, LOL.

Cecil Travis with 218. I had forgotten that one.

My favorite "thing" about Ted Williams. In his career, he:

hit .406
hit .388
won the Triple Crown - twice
won the MVP - twice

None of those 6 things occurred in the same season.

The longest major league game ever played was 26 innings....and both pitchers hurled complete games.

I thought the exact same thing when I read his bio, Barry.

Here's an amazing stat.

On May 26th, 1959, Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates gave one of the greatest pitching performances in baseball history. He retired the first thirty-six Braves he faced, including future Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews, and slugger Joe Adcock, taking a perfect game into the thirteenth inning. In the bottom of the thirteenth, it all unraveled. Felix Mantilla reached first on an error by Pirate third baseman Don Hoak, ending the perfect game. But the no hitter remained intact. Eddie Mathews (who hit 512 home runs in his career) advanced Mantilla to second with a sacrifice bunt. After walking Aaron, Joe Adcock stepped up to the plate. Adcock promptly hit a pitch out of Milwaukee's County Stadium, winning the game. But Adcock was credited with only a double, as he inadvertently passed Aaron on the base paths. So, the game ended a 1-0 Milwaukee victory.

The beneficiary of Adcock's home run turned double? Lew Burdette, the 1957 World Series MVP, who had also pitched a 13 inning complete game. Though he'd surrendered 12 hits, he gave up no runs. The win allowed Burdette to tie with teammate Warren Spahn, and San Francisco Giant Sam Jones for the National League lead with 21 wins on the season.