From the Bleachers
The best baseball stories don't come from the press box — they come from the cheap seats. We take real fan comments, check the facts, and retell them the way they deserve.
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The fourth-highest batting average in baseball history
and, until 2025, a permanent blacklist
★ For the record ★
200 strikeouts in each of his first two seasons
the first pitcher in the modern era to do it
4
straight years leading the NL in outfield assists
If he could hit like Joe and Joe could talk like him, they'd have made one great guy.
Pops
he held the whole clubhouse together
114 strikeouts
in more than 7,000 career at-bats — once every 63 trips to the plate
Facing that Orioles infield was like trying to throw a hamburger through a brick wall.
★ For the record ★
In 85 years, nobody ever hit a fair ball out of the old Yankee Stadium.
Not Ruth. Not Gehrig. Not DiMaggio.
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Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season, the first player in history to pull it off.
Fred Lynn, center field, 1975
The greatness was quieter in 1938. It was greatness all the same.
The only time I ever saw Maglie laugh on a baseball field.
the 1978 line — unanimous Cy Young
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