It has only ever happened once...

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by G1911

Johnny Burnett is the only MLB player to get 8 hits in a game, an 18 inning contest in 1932.

He's also the only one to get 9 hits in a game.

Late to the party, but pretty impressive for a player that, as far as I know, has his only card during his playing days in the 1934 Al Demaree set. As a shortstop and third baseman that played in 129 games for the Indians in the 1932 season and batted .297 in over 500 at bats, you would think he would have at least snuck into the 1933 Goudey set.

Brian

[Aaron Seefeldt]

Baseball legend, Rickey Henderson, wanted to remind himself he “made it.”

He wanted, daily, to walk past the check for $1 million – from the Oakland A’s – marking the point his life changed forever.

And not just because of the amount of money, but because of the validation the check represented.

So he framed the check.

As in, he framed the check and didn’t cash it.

Seriously. He didn’t cash the million-dollar check. He put it in a frame, hung it on the wall, and didn’t think much more about it.

It didn’t take long for the A’s finance department to catch the extra million bucks that wasn’t balancing in their checkbooks and trace it back to Rickey. They reached out and talked him into depositing the original and keeping a photocopy on the wall. He obliged.

[BobbyStrawberry]

About to happen for the first time: The SF Giants open the season at the NY Yankees (!?)

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

Baseball legend, Rickey Henderson, wanted to remind himself he “made it.”

He wanted, daily, to walk past the check for $1 million – from the Oakland A’s – marking the point his life changed forever.

And not just because of the amount of money, but because of the validation the check represented.

So he framed the check.

As in, he framed the check and didn’t cash it.

Seriously. He didn’t cash the million-dollar check. He put it in a frame, hung it on the wall, and didn’t think much more about it.

It didn’t take long for the A’s finance department to catch the extra million bucks that wasn’t balancing in their checkbooks and trace it back to Rickey. They reached out and talked him into depositing the original and keeping a photocopy on the wall. He obliged.

I have forgotten a 20 in my pocket but....
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