Lance Parrish
Eight-time All Star and 1984 World Series champ Lance Parrish has 6 Silver Sluggers & 3 Gold Gloves; he retired with the 4th-most homers by a catcher.
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Eight-time All Star and 1984 World Series champ Lance Parrish has 6 Silver Sluggers & 3 Gold Gloves; he retired with the 4th-most homers by a catcher.
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Former All Star Jerry Reuss ranks 33rd all time in starts (547), 57th in innings pitched (2,669 2/3), 80th in wins (220), and 39th in shutouts (51).
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Manny Mota retired with the most pinch hits in history; his .315 career average with the Los Angeles Dodgers is surpassed only by Mike Piazza.
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Sam Jethroe broke the Boston color barrier as the 1950 Rookie of the Year for the Braves nine years before the Red Sox finally integrated.
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The National League record holder for most relief innings pitched, Kent Tekulve made 90+ appearances in an MLB record-tying 3 different seasons.
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Owner of the lowest career earned run average in Brooklyn history, Jeff Pfeffer won 25 with a 1.92 ERA for the 1916 pennant-winning Dodgers.
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From 1915 through 1920 bottle-bat wielding Heinie Groh led all MLB third basemen in WAR; in 1963 he was elected to the Cincinnati Reds team Hall of Fame.
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Larry French won 197 big league games from 1929-1942 and finished with 40 shutouts and 199 complete games before becoming a lifetime military man.
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The purported inventor of the forkball, 196-game winner Bullet Joe Bush won 15 games for the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics team that won only 36 contests all season.
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Baseball fans are quite familiar with the “Mendoza Line” but few know much about the 9-year career of Mario Mendoza for whom it was named.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954