Magical Moment

In 1970's they started showing improvements. The Houston Astros set a team record for hits during a game with 25 against the Atlanta Braves on May 30,1976. They finishing in second place in 1978. During this time some of their players were Joe Morgan, Bob Watson, Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn, and Cesar Cederno. Their pitchers were

Who holds the record for longest hit streak in a game by 11 games?(The Streak) Joe DiMaggio, that's who. Joe DiMaggio should be the most talked about player in MLB history but doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He is one of the most consistent players to ever play. He is one of the best player to ever play. He is the most respected player ever.

ERA. In 1917, Babe Ruth went 24-13 with a ERA of 2.01 and played in 35 out of 38 complete

He also finsished tied in RBIs with Edwin Encarnacion. Ortiz led the American Leaugue and Major League with a 1.021 OPS and in doubles 41.On Novemeber 18th,2015 he official annouced he would retire after the 2016 season. On May 14th,2016 at Fenway Park. Ortiz hit a walkoff double to lead the Red Soxs to a 6-5 victory over the Houston Astros. It was his 20th walkoff hit,and the double was his 600th of his career making him the 15th player in MLB history to reach this milestone. He also joined Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds as only the third player in MLB history with atleast 500 career homeruns and 600 career doubles. On August 24th,2016 in a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at the Tropicana Dome, Ortiz hit his 30th homerun of the season,making him the oldest player in a season to reach 30 homeruns. Later in the same game Ortiz hit his 100th RBI of the season. It was the Tenth time he did so in his career, a Red Sox record. He hit his 625th career double two days later playing the Royals, passing Hank Aaron and moving to 10th all-time on the list.On October 2nd,2016,during a pregame ceremony at Fenway

Also how Sosa had a poor family and started playing solely to provide for his family made him known . Another event that made Sammy known was the home run race, including Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey. This was when these three competed to beat Roger Maris’s record of 61 home runs in one season. This also gave him the most fame. The final event that made Sosa known was his disrespect for the game by using performance

Each year Records are broken by different players and teams. Even though there are Hall of Fame records that are broken there are still season leaders with records that are changing every day. One example is that Matt Carpenter has 15 stolen bases for the year in the National League, but that leader could change the next day when Kris Bryant gets two steels in one game and takes the lead with 16 steels. Even though there are Hall of Fame records, and league leaders there are still one more leader the team leader. For every

Everybody knows that Henry Aaron holds the record for the most career homeruns. But most of them probably do not know that he also holds the record for the most career Runs Batted In (RBIs) with 2297. The reason is that this record is not as glamorous. Well, not everything about Hank Aaron was glamorous. He had to overcome great odds and work very hard to get where he is today. Henry Louis Aaron was born on February 5, 1934. Ironically, Aaron was born one day before Babe Ruth’s birthday. This was right in the middle of the Great Depression. Because of the fact that it was the Great Depression, his father was lucky to bring home seventy five to eighty dollars per week. His childhood was not luxurious. Something that he used to do for fun

Rose’s Hall of Fame story started September 1985, during a game at the Red’s home field. During this game, Pete Rose got a hit. Hits were no big deal in Rose’s career; however, this one was different. This was hit number 4,192 for Rose. He had just broken the hits record (The Pete Rose Controversy).

It’s Saturday, October 1, 1932 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It’s a bright and sunny day. It’s Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. And the grandstands are jam-packed with nearly 50,000 fans.

He made all the young black kids believe they could participate in a sport that was originally made for caucasians. In 1952 he was brought into the team Milwaukee Braves. Probably Hank’s most famous act was the day he broke Babe Ruth’s home run score. It was April 8, 1974, the day everyone was waiting to see if it could truly happen, when Hank hit his 715 home run. But it wasn’t till 1982 that Hank earned his place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1990 was the year Hank wrote as well as published his autobiography, I Had a Hammer. In reward of his symbolism for all blacks, Hank received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 from President George Bush. He had also received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his close ties with Japanese Baseball Legend Sadaharu Oh plus his promoting of the two countries shared love, baseball. “My motto was to always keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging” Hank Aaron once said.

He made 462 home runs, which put him on the 32nd place of all time MLB players. With the number of his home runs, he is the one of the 11 players in history that made 400 runs or more and 200 stolen bases.

Accomplishments: He broke ground for the participation of African Americans in professional sports. Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home run record, although he hit a respectable .280 with 13 home runs before breaking an ankle in September. In 1955, Aaron became the Braves' starting right fielder and he won the NL batting title in 1956 with a .328 average and 26 home runs. His all-time career mark of 755 home runs was built on a remarkable 20-season stretch from 1955 through 1974. He hit 40 or more home runs in 8 of those seasons, 30 or more in 15, and 20 or more in all 20. He also batted over .300 fourteen times. His top batting average was .355 in 1959; his best home run season was 1971, when he had 47. Fascinatingly, he hit 44 home runs--his uniform number--in three different seasons, 1957, 1963, and 1965. The Braves, who had moved to Atlanta in 1966, announced that he would be held out of the opening series in Cincinnati so he would have a chance to break the record before his home fans. However, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn ordered the team to use Aaron in Cincinnati, and he tied the record in his first trip to the plate. When he retired, he held all-time major-league records for extra base hits, 1,477; total bases, 6,856; and runs batted in, 2,297. Aaron then returned to Atlanta to work in the Braves' front office, where he became one of the first blacks in upper-level

Montgomery threw the ball at an easy seventy-seven-mile rate. The crowd consumed their fingernails in anticipation as everyone sat at the edge of their seats, praying and hoping for the title of a lifetime. Indians player Martinez hit the ball into right field, almost directly at third base. An atmosphere of anxiety overwhelmed the Progressive Stadium for the tenth inning of the seventh game of the World Series; the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians were tied seven to seven. Kris Bryant stepping off his base to retrieve the ball, leaned down with a grin plastered on his face, grasped the ball and drove it to the guard at first base, Anthony Rizzo. His foot tagging the base before Martinez even had the chance to capture his position on the field. The stadium erupted in amazement. For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs had won the world series. The excitement, the thrill had everyone in shock. The curse was beaten, the books would have to be rewritten, history was made; the wall that held the previous victories would now welcome the Chicago Cubs for the first time in a century. Baseball fans’ imaginations’ went wild with the possibility that they could

Attention Getter: On August 7th, 2007, Barry Bonds hit home run number 756, passing Hank Aaron for the most home runs in Major League history. However, this record is controversial, due to steroid use.

In the game of baseball, catching a ball is an everyday action and is no big deal to most players, but for some, it creates a legacy for themselves. The Right Fielder’s love for the game of baseball is expressed by how he always has to urge to play and did not care as much about the position he is playing. Though he wants to play the game and leave his mark by doing so, his team does not believe in him doing that. The Right Fielder’s team shows that they do not believe in him by assigning him the position normally the worst players would play, never getting balls hit in his direction and never getting to know him. In the story Death of the Right Fielder, by Stuart Dybek, the symbol of the ball found in the mitt of the Right Fielder shows that one must do what they