who was the first baseball player to hit a homerun
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- 1876 -- Ross Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings hits the first home run in Major League Baseball history in a game against the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Mar 07 04, 7:21 AM.
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Meet the baseball player who invented the high five Meet the baseball player who invented the high five. It was October 2, 1977. The Los Angeles Dodgers were up against the Houston Astros on the last game of the regular season. Dodgers’ outfielder Dusty Baker was at bat. He swung and knocked it out of the park, his 30th homerun of the season - making the Dodgers the first team in history to have four position players with 30-plus homeruns each.
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- Bill Hass on Baseball:Pintor’s First Career Homer, a Grand Slam, Carries Hoppers. Pintor’s First Career Homer, a Grand Slam, Carries Hoppers By Bill Hass / Greensboro Grasshoppers at www.gsohoppers.com The smallest Hopper produced the game’s biggest swing Sunday afternoon.
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Prince Fielder Fielder is the son of former MLB first baseman Cecil Fielder. Prince and Cecil Fielder are the only father-son combination to each hit 50 MLB home runs in a season.e holds the Brewers' team record for home runs in a season, and is the league's youngest player to hit 50 home runs in a season. He became the first Brewer to win the Home Run Derby, defeating Nelson Cruz in the final round of the 2009 derby.
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Who hit the first home run at Shea stadium? The Dodgers moved to Dodgers Stadium in 1962. The first home run hit by a Dodger there was by Jim Gilliam off Moe Drabowsky of the Cincinnati Reds in the third inning of the g…ame played April 11, 1962. The Dodgers won the game 6-2. It was the second game ever played at Dodger Stadium.
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Female French teen makes MLB history Melissa Mayeux, a shortstop on the French U-18 junior national team, became the first known female baseball player to be added to MLB's international registration list, which means she will be eligible to be signed by a Major League club on July 2. • Cast your Esurance All-Star ballot for #ASGWorthy players.
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Sammy Sosa Sosa's Major League career began with the Texas Rangers in 1989. After three seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Sosa became a member of the Chicago Cubs in 1992 and became one of the league's best hitters. Sosa hit his 400th home runs in his 1,354th game and his 5,273rd at-bat, the quickest in National League history.
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- Babe Ruth calling his shot . . . Gabby Hartnett's home run in the gloamin'... Ernie Banks' No. 500. . . These are some of the 6,905 major league home runs hit at Wrigley Field. The first home run was hit by Art Wilson of the Chicago Whales in a Federal League game on April 23, 1914. Wilson connected off Kansas City's George (Chief) Wilson, sending the ball over the left-field wall with a man aboard in the second inning. The Whales went on to win 9-1 before 15,000 fans.
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Hank Aaron hits first home run of his MLB career Hank Aaron hits first home run of his MLB career. On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocks out the first home run of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.
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Distance of Longest Batted Baseball On April 17, 1953, Mickey Mantle is credited with what many consider to be the longest HR in baseball history. He is estimated to have hit a 656 foot home run at Washington's Griffith Stadium off Senator's pitcher Chuck Stobbs.. 172 m. Baseball, the national pastime of the United States, started in the early 1800s.
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- Grand Slams Records. One of the rarest events in baseball is HITTING TWO GRAND SLAMS IN THE SAME GAME BY THE SAME PLAYER and they are all listed (along with box scores, positional breakdowns, and trivia items) in our fabulous feats section. On May 26, 1929, New York Giants pinch-hitter Pat Crawford hit a grand slam.
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Braves' Andruw Jones hits Petco Park's longest homerun Braves' Andruw Jones hits Petco Park's longest homerun. Andruw Jones hit the longest homer ever at Petco Park, a 453-foot shot that went deep into the second deck in left-centre field, and three other Atlanta Braves connected in an 11-3 rout of the NL West-leading San Diego Padres in July 2006.
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List of Major League Baseball career hit by pitch leaders Below is the list of the top 100 Major League Baseball players who have been hit by a pitch the most during their MLB careers. Hughie Jennings holds the Major League record for most hit by pitches, getting hit 287 times in his career.
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Grand slam (baseball) Roberto Clemente is the only player to have hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a one-run victory; the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 9–8 on July 25, 1956 at Forbes Field, a park known for its spacious outfield.
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Frank Thomas (designated hitter) Thomas is the only player in major league history to have seven consecutive seasons of a .300 average and at least 100 walks, 100 runs, 100 runs batted in, and 20 home runs (from 1991 to 1997). The only other player to have more than five consecutive seasons accomplishing this feat was Ted Williams, with six.
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Who hit the first home run in Major League Baseball history? First Home Run The first home run hit in MLB history was by Ezra Sutton of the Cleveland Forest Citys on May 8, 1871 against the Chicago White Stockings in the National Association. Sutton hit a second home run in the game to be the player to hit the first and second home runs in MLB history. Ross Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings, later the Cubs, hit the first home run in the National League on May 2, 1876. Later that day Charlie Jones of the Cincinati Red Stockings also hit one.
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Jim Bunning Pitches a Perfect Game He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996. Bunning pitched his first no-hitter on July 20, 1958, for the Detroit Tigers against the Boston Red Sox. His second, for the Philadelphia Phillies, was a perfect game, which came against the New York Mets on June 21, 1964, Father's Day. Bunning's perfect game was the first in the National League in 84 years.
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15 Greatest Players for the Los Angeles Dodgers Kirk Gibson didn’t have a long, illustrious career with the LA Dodgers, but he certainly became one of their greatest heroes and perhaps their greatest free agent ever in 1988 when he hit a walk-off home run to win game one of the 1988 World Series, often regarded as one of the most iconic moments in MLB history.
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10 Most Mind-Blowing Single-Game Feats in MLB History Ryan Braun had an outstanding game on Monday night, but it pales in comparison to the day then-Los Angeles Dodger outfielder Shawn Green enjoyed on May 23, 2002 at Miller Park. In that game, Green hit four home runs, a double and a single. That's 19 total bases, which is a major league record for a single game.
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- Home Run. • The oldest player to hit a home run in an All-Star Game was Cal Ripken, Jr. at 40 years, 10 months and 16 days (2001). Hit. • The oldest player to get a hit in an All-Star Game was Carlton Fisk at 43 years, seven months and 13 days (1991).
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Rockies rookie Trevor Story sets mark with HR in 3rd straight game Trevor Story is the new Superman as he homers for third straight game Trevor Story did something that had never been accomplished in baseball history, hitting a home run in his first three major league games.
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- The last American League player to steal second, then third, then home plate during the same inning was Chris Stynes of the Kansas City Royals on May 12, 1996. The career record for these larcenous occurrences are four in the American League by Ty Cobb and four in the National League by Honus Wagner.
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Major League Baseball History: Top 10 Most Untouchable Records st louis cardinal fernando tatis didn t know that the team s trip to play the l a dodgers would result in history but in april of 1999 tatis became the first player ever to hit two grand slams in the same inning the blasts also broke a record for most rbi in an inning
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ButterKrust Bakery on Broadway Reborn as C.H. Guenther and Son Updated April 25, 2014. By Jessica Mattsson. If you grew up in San Antonio, there is a good chance you knew all about the ButterKrust Bakery on Broadway. You probably passed it countless times in the family automobile, windows rolled down to allow the aroma of fresh-baked bread to waft inside.
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Who was the first black major league baseball player? Vote for this answer. Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972), became the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947.
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Reggie Jackson Jackson was the first major leaguer to hit one hundred home runs for three different clubs, having hit over 100 for the Athletics, Yankees, and Angels. He is the only player in the 500 home run club that never had consecutive 30 home run seasons in a career.