Strictly by on-field impact, this might be the most significant dinger of all time: Mickey Mantle once said that the '60 World Series was the only loss that moved him to tears, and the dinger went a long way toward getting Mazeroski to the Hall of Fame.
103-59, 1st AL East, Lost ALCS (4-2) to Astros, 943 R, 306 HR, 4.31 ERA, 102 E, Mgr:Boone, SS:Torres, SP:German 18, CL:Chapman 37, HR:Torres 38, SB:Gardner 10
Matt Monagan Ruth was the first player to belt 30, 40, 50 and 60 home runs. What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to José 'Jordan' López Catcher is Cincinnati's Johnny Bench and the umpire is Dave Davidson.
Michael Clair Players in A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or has not played for a full season. Competition, joy and a little pain: Beep Baseball is a world of freedom for blind athletes Eric Chesterton Carlton Fisk slams a 12th-inning home run to give Boston the sixth game of the World Series Tuesday night, October 22, 1975. Can you name the New York Yankees Top 10 in Home Runs at Each Position?
(AP Photo/Harry Cabluck) Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Albert Pujols (659), Ken Griffey, Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 221 or more home runs hit during official regular season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). By The Yankees went on to win the '78 World Series, while Boston The ball ended up in the hands of Matt Murphy, a 21-year-old student from Queens, who By the time Carter finally touched home, Toronto had its second straight World Series title -- and radio broadcaster Tom Cheek had one of the most iconic calls in baseball history.Sosa would reach the mark himself days later, finishing with 66 homers to McGwire's 70 -- and just one season later, both of them topped 61 again.As always, Scully said it best: "All year long they looked to him to light the fire, and all year long he answered the demands."
• Baseball's butterfly effect: Small moments that forever changed MLB historyIt's time for a definitive ranking of the 10 best team names in the Minor Leagues If there was a home run record to be held, chances are The Babe held it -- he even set the single-season home run record four separate times, from 29 to 54 to 59 to, finally, 60 with the 1927 Yankees.
The only other player to have hit 700 or more is Babe Ruth with 714. (HARRY CABLUCK/AP)
He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. By The Yankees were all too familiar with home runs last season, having crushed over 300 as a team and setting an MLB-record with 14 players with 10 or more bombs. By
Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 221 or more home runs hit during official regular season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). The top 10 active home run leaders in Major League Baseball. When Ruth finally retired, he sat on 714 career home runs, a …
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by moneymanbaseball Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle . Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. The homer that took the top spot, though, reverberated far beyond the diamond.Russ Hodges' radio call -- "The Giants win the pennant!"
In 1920, his 54 bombs with the Yankees eclipsed the total for every other American League team. Yet, most of the damage came from two regulars at the top … By Chris Landers
• The "next man up" Yankees (16-6) struck again behind a solo home run from Thairo Estrada. There have been a lot of home runs in the history of Major League Baseball -- Alas, his work wasn't quite done yet -- Atlanta rallied with two runs in the fifth and one in the seventh, sending the game to extras ... where Puckett, leading off the bottom of the 11th, sent everybody home:Dent's fly ball just barely dropped onto the net beyond the Green Monster, sparking New York to a 5-2 win.