Eddie Mathews hit 512 home runs, 493 for the Braves 1952-1966. His career totals for the Braves are associated with the three character abbreviation ATL. However, his season team identifiers are: 1952 BSN 1953-1965 MLN 1966 ATL. Since 1903 Eddie Mathews is the only player to play for the same team in three different cities. The Athletics is only other team to play in three cities: Philadelphia 1903-1954 Kansas City 1955-1967 Oakland 1968-2019. Reggie Jackson played his first 35 games for the the 1967 Kansas City Athletics; he hit one home run for them. The best known hitters on the 195 ..read more

Some thoughts on alternative ways of experiencing team sports using technology without attending the event. NYU Tisch institute Chalk Talk #8: The Virtual Season Ticket May 28, 2020 by Vince Gennaro NYU SPS Tisch Institute for Global Sport This Chalk Talk discusses the Virtual Season Ticket (VST), as a new product for sports organizations and events and a new viewing experience for fans. The VST allows fans to experience a courtside NBA game, or a 50-yard line seat at an NFL game, from the comfort of their home. The use of a virtual reality headset and other emergent technologies can trans ..read more

Mark McGwire 1986-2001 Sammy Sosa 1989-2005, 2007 qryHomeRunLog12 Date1 Last1 HR1 HRcar1 HRy1 Last2 HR2 HRcar2 HRy2 BatTeam1 Opp1 Team1 PitTeam1 1997-09-17 McGwire 1 382 53 Sosa 1 206 35 STL CHC Cardinals Cubs 1998-08-08 McGwire 1 433 46 Sosa 1 251 44 STL CHC Cardinals Cubs 1998-08-19 McGwire 2 436 49 Sosa 1 255 48 STL CHC Cardinals Cubs 1999-08-14 McGwire 1 504 47 Sosa 1 317 44 STL CHC Cardinals Cubs 1999-10-03 McGwire 1 522 65 Sosa 1 336 63 STL CHC Cardinals Cubs 2001-06-18 McGwire 1 560 6 Sosa 1 407 21 STL CHC Cardinals Cubs 2001-07-28 McGwire 1 571 17 Sosa 1 4 ..read more

The careers of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron overlapped 1954-1973, so most of their many home runs were hit in those seasons: Mays 636 of 660 Aaron 713 of 755. Their teams would have played about 392 games. Mays and Aaron homered in the same game 13 times. In 9 of the 13 games each player hit one home run. Aaron out homered Mays once: 2-1. Mays out homered Aaron three times: 2-1 twice and 4-2 on April 30, 1961 in Milwaukee. The first of the 13 games was June 22, 1954 at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th to win 3-2. Mays hit number 21 in the second o ..read more

MLB owners and players, nobody cares about your MONEY issues. NOBODY. The 2020 season will not have much legitimacy, so use it to experiment. The pitching distance should be moved back three feet to the middle of the diamond and, of course, the ridiculous mound eliminated, but the pitchers would cry too much about the sudden change and perceived strain on their arms, so that's not being proposed. It can wait until 2021. Start the count at 2-1. Cut to the chase. Force pitcher and batter to complete the plate appearance quickly. 8 batters! Forget designated hitter (DH) altogether. In recent ..read more

1904-2019: 3 or 4 home runs in a game by individuals have been hit 605 times by 425 batters, obviously including multiple times by some batters. In only one game did more than one batter do it: Brewers TEAMMATES Richie Sexon and Jeremy Burnitz. Milwaukee Brewers at Arizona Diamondbacks Box Score, September 25, 2001 Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Start Time: 7:08 p.m. Local Attendance: 35,032 Venue: Bank One Ballpark Game Duration: 3:36 Night Game, on grass Brewers 9, Diamondbacks 4     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Milwaukee Brewers 0 1 0 2 0 3 1 0 2 9 12 1 Arizona Diamondb ..read more

Babe Ruth joined the New York Yankees in 1920. The Yankee home run records 1903-1919: Season: Rk Player HR Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Pos 1 Wally Pipp 12 1916 23 NYY AL 151 617 545 70 143 20 14 93 54 82 2 16 16 .262 .331 .417 .748 *3/H 2 Home Run Baker 10 1919 33 NYY AL 141 623 567 70 166 22 1 83 44 18 2 9 13 .293 .346 .388 .734 *5 3 Home Run Baker 10 1916 30 NYY AL 100 402 360 46 97 23 2 52 36 30 5 1 15 .269 .344 .428 .772 *5/H 4 Wally Pipp 9 1917 24 NYY AL 155 669 587 82 143 29 12 70 60 66 6 15 11 .244 .320 ..read more

16 times, never more than once by any player. Date Player Age4 Tm Opp Rslt H/R Inn D/N Park Lname 1932-06-03 Lou Gehrig 28.98 NYY PHA W 20-13 R 9 D Shibe Park Gehrig 1936-07-10 Chuck Klein 31.78 PHI PIT W 9-6 R 10 D Forbes Field Klein 1948-07-18 (1) Pat Seerey 25.36 CHW PHA W 12-11 R 11 D Shibe Park Seerey 1950-08-31 Gil Hodges 26.42 BRO BSN W 19-3 H 9 N Ebbets Field Hodges 1954-07-31 Joe Adcock 26.77 MLN BRO W 15-7 R 9 D Ebbets Field Adcock 1959-06-10 Rocky Colavito 25.85 CLE BAL W 11-8 R 9 N Memorial Stadium Colavito 1961-04-30 Willie Mays 30.01 SFG MLN W 14-4 R 9 D County ..read more

17 of the 425 players to hit at least three home runs in a game 1904-2019 hit 6 or fewer in that season. One player hit only those three homers. Cnt: Count of the number of 3 homer games HRmax: most season home runs in a season with a 3 homer game HRmin: fewest season home runs in a season with a 3 homer game Sorted on HRmin ascending, then Year1 ascending. The Year1 is arbitrary and may not be for the HRmin year but it puts the records in something better than random order. Drum roll for the guy with all three season home runs in one game: qry3HomeRunGameSeasHR NameF NameL Bats HRcar A ..read more

Freddie Patek is both the shortest and lightest of the 425 players to hit at least 3 home runs in a game. Below is a table with the 17 players shorter than 5'10": no taller than 69 inches. They are sorted in ascending order by height and weight. Only George Harper was older than Patek. Age is shown in decimal. Patek may also have hit the fewest home runs that season, only five. His three homer game was in the middle. He played one more season but had no home runs in 47 AB. The size data was taken from the Lahman database but it is consistent with baseball-reference.com. For instance Will ..read more