The so-called King of Sports is about to begin, the Opening Day will be registered on March 28, so in this section I will provide you with some data about Major League Baseball, which, despite being surpassed in audience by the American Football maintains a legion of loyal fans who do not miss a single game. It should be noted that records in the Big Top vary, but there are some that have remained in force for more than 100 years.
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The record for strikeouts in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game belongs to Tom Cheney, with 21 strikeouts, in a game between the now-defunct Washington Senators and the Baltimore Orioles, in 1962.
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The longest game in history was on May 8, 1984, between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers; It lasted 25 innings and the final score was 7-6. 14,754 spectators at Comiskey Park received 13 runs, 43 hits, 4 errors.
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One of the unbeatable records is that of the legendary Babe Ruth, who has the achievement of having scored 177 runs in 1921. He batted .300 collectively and averaged 6.2 runs per game. The Bambino reached base 352 times, the fifth most in history.
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On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. managed to reach 2,216 uninterrupted games, to surpass the mark that had been set, with 2,215, by the Japanese Sachio Kinugasa in the Japanese Hiroshima Carp team. It was in a match between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles.
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An average of .400 has not been seen since Ted Williams registered .406 for the Boston Red Sox in 1941. The mark for a season in the Major Leagues is held by the Dominican Tetelo Vargas, in 1943, with .471, in 136 at-bats , according to data from Baseball Reference.
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Baldomero “Mel” Almada Quirós, born on February 7, 1913, in Huatabampo, Sonora, and died on August 13, 1988 in Caborca, was the first Mexican baseball player to participate in the Major Leagues. He was left-handed and played center fielder from 1933 to 1939.
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Trivia: Mel Almada made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 1933, batting .344 in 14 game appearances. On October 1 of that season, he hit the last hit Babe Ruth allowed as a pitcher.
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Until the 2011 season, of the 17,733 players who have participated in the Major Leagues, Mexico has contributed 112 born in its territory; one of them, Benjamín “Cananea” Reyes Chávez, was a third base coach for the Seattle Mariners in 1981.
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Aurelio López, ‘the Vulture of Tecamachalco’, is the only pitcher from Puebla who has won a World Series, and is one of the historic players of Mexican baseball. He was born on September 21, 1948. He died in a vehicle accident in Matehuala, on September 22, 1992. He stood out for being a fast pitcher. In 1983 he returned with the Detroit Tigers, to live his best era and win the 1984 World Series, a team that nicknamed him ‘Mr. Smoke’. He played in 10 MLB seasons and earned 97 wins as a reliever.
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History. The Knickerbocker Baseball Club was the first organized baseball club in 1842, formed by a group of young men in New York City, headed by Alexander Cartwright.
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First league. In 1871 the Players Association met for the last time, who decided to put an end to the club era and separated the professional and amateur teams, the former founding the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players with 23 squads.
By: Fabián Sánchez
2024-03-22 12:29:34
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