O/T-Amazing Stat of Mordecai Brown
 

I was just doing some research on line and noticed a stat of Mordecai Brown that I thought was amazing - in 1909 he led the NL League in Wins - and saves.

And in 1909 and 1910 Brown led the league in complete games and saves.

Anyone else have any cool player stats?

One of my favorite's (although modern)
In 1996 Vinny Castilla had 40 Home Runs, 113 RBI & hit .304
in 1997 his #'s were the same!

Beat me to it Jay!

Awesome! I'm surprised walsh and Johnson didn't accmplish this as well

uh, Walsh did in 1908 - the year he won 40. Nice Sean! Wajo didn't. Kinda the only thing Wajo didn't do.

Don Mattingly is tied for the major league record of six grand slams in one season (i believe it was 1987).

He never hit another one in his entire career.

I remember looking at the back of a 1984 Topps Mike O'Berry card and seeing his yearly hit totals five seasons into his career: 10,10,20,10,10

Going with the old time saves, how many guys have thrown a perfect game in the same year they led the league in saves? Lee Richmond, 1880

There's the well-known Stan Musial stat regarding his career hits total:

1815 hits at home
1815 hits on the road

This reminded me of this.... Hoyt Wilhelm hit a home run in his 1st at bat
and never hit another in his 20+ year career.

Lefty Grove led the Majors in wins (28) and saves (9) in 1930.

Dave Stapleton played seven years in the majors, and his batting average was lower every year - from .321 his rookie year in 1980, to .128 in a part time role in 1986.

Re: O/T-Amazing Stat of Mordecai Brown
 

Every now and again Vin Scully tells this story:

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run."

On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only home run of his career.

Never heard that before. Great story. On a similar note, Casey Stengel said the same thing about the Mets' chance of winning a World Series.:)

JimStinson
 

Great stuff !!!! My favorite is "What Hall of Fame Starting Pitcher NEVER gave up a grand slam home run in his career ?"
answer : Jim Palmer !
More amazing in light of the fact that he pitched with a "lively Ball" not a dead ball era pitcher.
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What about the Quintuple Crown of pitching??

1930 Lefty Grove led the AL in Wins, Strikeouts, ERA, Complete Games, and Saves.

Grove
 

That is kind of neat....probably will never happen again with the advent of closers

Z Wheat

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Rogers Hornsby's .400 average...across a five year span.

Phil Niekro led the league in both wins and losses in 1979, the last year of a three-year stretch in which he pitched more than 1000 innings.

Greg Minton holds the record for innings without allowing a homer - 270 straight.

pitchers that could hit
 

Warren Spahn hit at least one home run in 17 straight seasons

Greg Minton holds the live ball era record. Ed Killian had a streak of over 1,000 homerless innings in the early 1900s.

I like records that are so off-the-charts that they will likely never be equaled, much less surpassed....such as Fernando Tatis hitting two grand slams in one inning.

Honorable mention to the Minnesota Twins for making two triple plays in one game.

Both involved the same scoring play and players. Gaetti to Newman to Hrbek, 5-4-3. I remember watching somewhat non-intently and first thinking that for some reason they were showing a replay from earlier.

Yes, both were around the horn as a result of a ground ball, much rarer than line drive triple plays. You'll never see that again.

On August 22, 1915, the Washington Senators scored a run without an official at bat in the inning, as of 1995 the only time that had ever been done in a major league game.

Speaking of things that will never be done again - four 20-game winners on the 1971 Baltimore Orioles. Jim Palmer was the last of the four to get his 20th. The 1920 White Sox had four as well.

On May 2, 2002 Brett Boone and Mike Cameron hit back to back home runs twice in the same inning.


This is an NFL one but I thought people might like it.

From 1972 to 1980 each Super Bowl winning team's quarterback wore number 12.

In 2000 Rickey Henderson became only the 2nd player to steal a base in 4 decades. Who was the 1st?

Speed and Power?

A ) There have been 15 times that someone has had 100 extra base hits in a season.

B ) Six of these have been since 1995.

C ) Four of these in 2001. "The Year of the Juice"?

D ) The following is a list of those who have done this more than once (2 times each). - Gehrig, Klein, Helton

E ) Ruth came close 4 times with 119 (in 1921 and the most ever, which included the 16 triples he didn't need), 99, 99, and 97.

More on how the game has changed.

A ) Stan Musial, with 177 lifetime triples, is tie for 19th of all-time, and is the highest ranking of anyone who played post WW II.

B ) Clemente is 2nd of the post WW II players and tie for 27th overall with 166.

C ) Slaughter is 3rd, tied for 54th with 148.

D ) Willie Wilson is the post-1979 leader with 132 (147 total) and tied for 56th on the list, followed by Brett Butler with 131 (who is tied for 78th overall).

"Cakes" is also the only pitcher to win a World Series game in 3 different decades.

Eddie Collins?

No, this player was not a prolific base stealer at all. In fact, he only stole 24 career bases.

Ted Williams
 

Ted Williams did it. Amazing!

You are correct sir!

Germany Schaefer stole 3 bases in one inning including the same base twice. He stole 2nd, then stole 1st, then stole 2nd again.

I think what Cliff Carroll did is pretty amazing. He went 0-for-20 in 1888, then retired to go into farming. Didn't play in 1889, then came back in 1890 and led the league in AB's, scored 134 runs and batted a career high .285

Amazing Stats
 

In 1941, Joe DiMaggio struck out ONLY 13 times, and ended his career with an amazing low 369 k's in 13 seasons (28 K's per year)! Unquestionably, those numbers prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Joe D. had the best bat control of ANY power hitter in baseball history.

Joe T.

Mike Schmidt struck out 4 times in one game, on 12 pitches. :D:D:D

1989 Texas Rangers had FIVE pitchers who had won or went on to win 200 or more games -- Ryan, Charlie Hough, Kevin Brown, Jamie Moyer, Kenny Rogers.

1980 Yankees had four who already had won 200 or more -- Perry, Kaat, Tiant and John.

good one. :D:D:D

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Steve Garvey played against Hank Aaron when he hit #715 & against Pete Rose when he hit #4192.

Thats awesome!

September 30, 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th homer against the Washington Senators. This was also Walter Johnson's last game. Johnson bats for Tom Zachary, who had given up Ruth's homer, and flies out to Ruth.

Here's one of my all-time favorite stats.

Carl Yastrzemski hit .301 in 1968. It was good enough to win him his third batting title. Yaz was the only hitter in the entire American League to hit .300 in the summer of '68. Runner up Danny Carter of the Oakland A's hit .290.

Amazing Feats
 

Impossible as it may seem, the 1972 NY Mets didn't have a single player with 100 hits!

Joe T.

Adam Dunn

2005 40 HRS
2006 40 HRS
2007 40 HRS
2008 40 HRS


Fred Lynn did the same thing for four straight years, but with 23 HR's.

Another interesting 'stat':

Carlos May was the only person in MLB to wear his Birthday on the back of his jersey.

He was born on May 17th.

So the back of his jersey read:

MAY
17

Juan Samuel had double figures in singles, doubles, triples, home runs and stolen bases in his first 4 full years in MLB.

Strikeouts
 

Joe Sewell only had 4 strikeouts in 1925 and 1929. That's 8 strikeouts total in 1186 plate appearances... Insane:eek:

modern
 

590
590
591
592
591


official at-bats for Pujols his first 5 years

JimStinson
 

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.