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Just 30 'Stuffs' you may not have known-

1. Albert Pujols has finished in the top 10 of the Most Valuable Player voting 11 straight years.

2. Willie Mays finished in the top six of the Most Valuable Player award 12 of 13 seasons.

3. Yu Darvish is 6'5" and weighs 220.

4. The average life of a baseball in a Major League game is seven pitches.

5. During the dead ball era, as many as two balls were used, for a game.

6. In 1934, Casey Stengel went out to the mound to relieve his pitcher. The pitcher, 'Boom-Boom' Beck got pisssed and wheeled and threw the ball off the right field wall. Hack Wilson playing right field had his head down and eyes shut in trying to shake off a hangover.Upon hearing the sound, he played the ball off the wall and threw a perfect strike to second base, where of course, nobody was covering. The crowd thought he was being humorous, the players knew it was 'Hack being Hack'.

7. 1n 1935, Augie Galan went to bat 634 times and never hit into a double play. He did hit into a triple play however.

8. Many things have changed in baseball, the one constant is the ball itself. It has remained the same size since 1872.

9. Germany Schaefer, a player who later would become a 'baseball clown, once hit a home run and slid into first, second, third, and home plate.

10. Jimmy Piersall back peddled around the bases for his 100th home run.

11. Johnny Damon has more hits than Ted Williams.

12. Tim Raines reached base more often than shoo-in Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn.

13. Luis Gonzalez had more extra base hits than Al Kaline.

14. Phil Niekro had more strike outs than Bob Gibson.

15. Phil Niekro led the league in losses four straight years.

16. Only Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth had over 2,000 rbi. ARod has 1893 rbi.

17. Of the modern great base stealers, nobody stole more bases per game than Vince Coleman, not even Rickey.

18. Tim Raines is the fifth leading base stealer in baseball history. The four ahead of him are in the Hall of Fame.

19. Only six players in the top 50 category of runs scored did not steal 100 bases during their career.
Stan Musial
Mel Ott
Ted Williams
Jimmy Foxx
Rafael Palmeiro
Cal Ripken

20. Jim Thome is just 110 strike outs from Reggie Jackson's All Time record.

21. Derek Jeter and Roberto Clemente both have 240 home runs for their career.

22. In 1961, Mickey Mantle hit 54 home runs. And only 16 doubles.

23. In 1961, Roger Maris hit 61 home runs. And only 16 doubles.

24. Maris also drew no intentional walks and did not steal a base.

25. Last year, Adrian Beltre hit more home runs (32) than he did drawing walks (25).

26. Roberto Clemente never hit 30 home runs.

27. 41 players have hit 160 triples during their careers. Only two have not stolen 100 bases. Musial and Clemente.

28. 47 players have hit 400 home runs. All but six of these hitters have at least 1,000 strike outs.
Ted Williams 521/709
Mel Ott 511/896
Lou Gehrig 493/790
Stan Musial 475/696
Vladimir Guerrero 449/985
Albert Pujols 445/704

29. Four players that have hit 500 home runs share their first name with another player that has hit 500 home runs.
This includes forms of the first name such as Bob and Bobby or Bill and Billie though those aren't the nemes.
Can you name them?
The answers will be at the bottom of this post.

30. Ernie Banks is the only member of the 500 home run club to hit most of his home runs while playing a middle infield position (277 of the 512)
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Members of the 500 home run club who share the same first name-
Willie Mays and Willie McCovey
Frank Robinson and Frank Thomas
Eddie Mathews and Eddie Murray
Jim Thome and Jimmie Foxx

Great STUFF Dough!

11. Johnny Damon has more hits than Ted Williams.
- What would Williams numbers looked like had WWII not gotten in the way?!

12. Tim Raines reached base more often than shoo-in Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn.
- Tim Raines should be on your ballet for sure when you get a vote! Speaking of that, since you started this Official Baseball Writing Gig, has the clock started ticking on you getting a Vote for the Hall of Fame now that you are Officially a Baseball Writer?

Doughboy,

I enjoyed the trivia in your post. I forwarded one question (Members of the 500 HR club that share first names) on to my local group of baseball geek friends to see how they would do. There were varying degrees of success with one friend not only getting all four correct, but, correctly pointing out that a fifth, "extra-credit," duo should be included. It turns out that Ken Griffey, Jr's real first name is George, which is, of course, the same first name of Mr. George Herman Ruth.

Puddy wrote:Doughboy,

I enjoyed the trivia in your post. I forwarded one question (Members of the 500 HR club that share first names) on to my local group of baseball geek friends to see how they would do. There were varying degrees of success with one friend not only getting all four correct, but, correctly pointing out that a fifth, "extra-credit," duo should be included. It turns out that Ken Griffey, Jr's real first name is George, which is, of course, the same first name of Mr. George Herman Ruth.

Awesome!
I did not know that Griffey Jr's real first name was George.
Good stuff.
And that, is one sharp friend!

I'm working on another like post for next week.

I'm looking forward to the next post.

Puddy wrote:I'm looking forward to the next post.

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