On this date in 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members in Cooperstown, N.Y.: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, ...
Reporters from two continents were flocking to see the Japanese outfielder chase the all-time major league hits record of 257 set by George Sisler, a standard that ... AT&T Park in San Francisco in ...
Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki became the first Asian player elected to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of ...
Reporters from two continents were flocking to see the Japanese outfielder chase the all-time major league hits record of 257 set by George Sisler ... File photo AT&T Park played host to the ...
Global baseball's hit king Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player elected to the Major League Baseball's (MLB) ...
He broke George Sisler's single-season hits mark of 257 in 2004. The new mark is 262. He played his last two games in 2019 in the Tokyo Dome against the Athletics, going 0 for 5 for the Mariners and ...
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then ...
1939 — Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler and George Sisler are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1956 — Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks captures the first of his NBA record four All-Star ...
Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Napoleon Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Eddie Collins, Lou Gehrig ...