Who Are Your Favorite MLB Record Holders ? and Why ?

[Meathead]

Cy Young 512 wins, but that was a very different time.

 

[jwoodie]

Hank Aaron's steroid free home run record.

For me, even more impactful than his 755 home runs was that one in particular, #715. That was more huge than any home run which has followed...

Hank Aaron's steroid free home run record.

For me, even more impactful than his 755 home runs was that one in particular, #715. That was more huge than any home run which has followed...

Why was #715 was so impactful for you?

 

[protectionist]

Honorable Mention: Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle. Both batted cleanup behind home run records (in 1927 and 1961). Neither record would have been set without them waiting in the on-deck circle.

Interesting observation. And note that Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and Maris all performed their heroics without performance enhancing drugs.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Honorable Mention: Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle. Both batted cleanup behind home run records (in 1927 and 1961). Neither record would have been set without them waiting in the on-deck circle.

Interesting observation. And note that Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and Maris all performed their heroics without performance enhancing drugs.

Alcohol?

 

[protectionist]

130 SBs by Rickey Henderson. Just a cool record.

This is why I have always considered Henderson the greatest leadoff hitter of all time. It was Amazing how quickly he got from home plate to home plate, without hitting a home run.

And he was one of the best leadoff home run hitters too.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak and Ted Williams hitting .406. Those are two records I don't see ever being broken or even challenged. The pitching and defense is so much better than it was back in those days.

Yeah, hitting .400 is impossible now. Watched Gwynn hit .394, and I don’t think anyone will come close to that. As Tony put it- I go 0-5 that means I have to go 4-5 the next day.

when rod carew hit .388 he said you really start feeling the weight of the bat in late Sept.......

 

[protectionist]

Alcohol?

Alcohol and nicotine for sure, but if anything that hurt their performance rather than help it.

 

[protectionist]

when rod carew hit .388 he said you really start feeling the weight of the bat in late Sept.......

That batting average in 1977, was the highest in 20 years, since Ted Williams hit .388 in 1957.

 

[Harry Dresden]

191 hits by hack wilson will be around and someone hitting 400 again....

Last one was Ted Williams in 1941. That's quite a chunk of time.

Ted Williams once said one of th toughest things in sports is "to hit a round ball, with a round bat, and hit squarely."

well if you do that 30% of the time you are a considered a good hitter....if Michael Jorden only made 30% of his baskets we would not know who he is...if Brady only completed 30% of his passes....he would be nothing....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Cy Young 512 wins, but that was a very different time.

very different....so different that the dead ball era stats should be separate from the "modern" era....

 

[protectionist]

Yeah, hitting .400 is impossible now. Watched Gwynn hit .394, and I don’t think anyone will come close to that. As Tony put it- I go 0-5 that means I have to go 4-5 the next day.

Good post. George Brett came close too.

Here are some of the runnerups to Ted Williams (.406 in 1941)

2.	George Brett, Kansas City (1980)	.390
3.	Ted Williams, Boston (1957)	.388
	Rod Carew, Minnesota (1977)	.388
5.	Larry Walker, Colorado (1999)	.379
6.	Stan Musial, St. Louis (1948)	.376

 

[protectionist]

well if you do that 30% of the time you are a considered a good hitter....if Michael Jorden only made 30% of his baskets we would not know who he is...if Brady only completed 30% of his passes....he would be nothing....

Shows how much more difficult hitting is. If anybody could comment on it, it was Ted Williams.

 

[protectionist]

very different....so different that the dead ball era stats should be separate from the "modern" era....

Same thing with batting average. Before the Ted Williams .406 in 1941, there were quite a few over .400 seasons. Since then, none.

 

[Harry Dresden]

when rod carew hit .388 he said you really start feeling the weight of the bat in late Sept.......

That batting average in 1977, was the highest in 20 years, since Ted Williams hit .388 in 1957.

and Williams missed 3 of his prime years because of military service...

 

[Harry Dresden]

well if you do that 30% of the time you are a considered a good hitter....if Michael Jorden only made 30% of his baskets we would not know who he is...if Brady only completed 30% of his passes....he would be nothing....

Shows how much more difficult hitting is. If anybody could comment on it, it was Ted Williams.

i got that sports comparison from him in an interview he did....

 

[Meathead]

Yeah, hitting .400 is impossible now. Watched Gwynn hit .394, and I don’t think anyone will come close to that. As Tony put it- I go 0-5 that means I have to go 4-5 the next day.

Good post. George Brett came close too.

Here are some of the runnerups to Ted Williams (.406 in 1941)

2.	George Brett, Kansas City (1980)	.390
3.	Ted Williams, Boston (1957)	.388
	Rod Carew, Minnesota (1977)	.388
5.	Larry Walker, Colorado (1999)	.379
6.	Stan Musial, St. Louis (1948)	.376

Didn't Gwynn hit .390 or something?

 

[Harry Dresden]

very different....so different that the dead ball era stats should be separate from the "modern" era....

Same thing with batting average. Before the Ted Williams .406 in 1941, there were quite a few over .400 seasons. Since then, none.

in a baseball documentary i seen they said the ball was a little bigger than the hardball used since 1919 but more mushy so it didnt go as far and as fast as the hardball....so baseball because of the ball had become a faster game.....

 

[Meathead]

Yeah, hitting .400 is impossible now. Watched Gwynn hit .394, and I don’t think anyone will come close to that. As Tony put it- I go 0-5 that means I have to go 4-5 the next day.

Good post. George Brett came close too.

Here are some of the runnerups to Ted Williams (.406 in 1941)

2.	George Brett, Kansas City (1980)	.390
3.	Ted Williams, Boston (1957)	.388
	Rod Carew, Minnesota (1977)	.388
5.	Larry Walker, Colorado (1999)	.379
6.	Stan Musial, St. Louis (1948)	.376

1994	34	SDP	NL	110	475	419	79	165	35	1	12	64	5	0	48	19	.394	.454	.568	1.022

 

[MarathonMike]

Nolan Ryan career strikeouts 5,714

Good luck trying to take down that one. Of all major league records for a career in any team sport, that one to me is probably the most unreachable.

I was sooooo pissed off when the Angels traded Jim Fregosi to the Mets for some outfielder and no name pitcher.

By June I was hooked. I was there the night they clocked him at 100.9mph with this new fangled radar thing. In the 9th inning no less. He kept getting faster as the game progressed.
He’d walk the bases loaded then strike out the side so many times.
Also there when he said he wanted to be the first to throw back to back no hitters after just tossing one. In the 7th the 2nd baseman Jerry Remy made the play of a lifetime to save the no hitter by diving and throwing to first while on his back. Umpire Ron Luciano clapped with that one. None other than Hank Aaron got a clean single with one out in the 9th.

I'm confused Jim Fregosi was an infielder.

Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak and Ted Williams hitting .406. Those are two records I don't see ever being broken or even challenged. The pitching and defense is so much better than it was back in those days.

Yeah, hitting .400 is impossible now. Watched Gwynn hit .394, and I don’t think anyone will come close to that. As Tony put it- I go 0-5 that means I have to go 4-5 the next day.

And Gwynn hit .394 in 94 when they had the strike. They were at about 110 games when the season ended.

 

[protectionist]

Although this record is helped by just being in the world series a lot, my favorite MLB record is the 18 home runs in the world series, by Mickey Mantle. Sure, he played in 12 world series, more than most players, but the really big test of the toughness of a mlb hitter, is how well he does in the big important games, when it really matters most,

No hitter ever excelled under those conditions more than Mantle, and that 18 WS home run record will never be broken.

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