This Boston Red Sox player won back-to-back titles 3 times:1941 & '42, 1947 & '48, & 1957 & '58
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Boston Red Sox - Wikipedia  The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played ..... As all three players were well regarded in BostonLewis had been a key...
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Ted Williams - Wikipedia  Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918  July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a left fielder for the Boston Red Sox from 19391942 and 19461960. .... Williams played back-up behind Vince DiMaggio and Ivey Shiver on the...
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List of Major League Baseball batting champions - Wikipedia  In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by .... No player has definitively won batting titles in both the American and ...... "Three cheers for Chipper Jones and his pursuit of .400".
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List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders - Wikipedia  In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to ... The first home run champion in the National League was George Hall; in the ... home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in ... A player has hit 50 or more home runs 42 times. ..... Boston Red Sox
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Jackie Robinson - Wikipedia  Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919  October 24, 1972) was an American ... With the track and field squad, he won awards in the broad jump. .... The Boston Red Sox held a tryout at Fenway Park for Robinson and other ... Rickey replied that he needed a Negro player "with guts enough not to fight back.
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NBA.com: Larry Bird Bio  For 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, from 1979-80 through 1991-92, Bird ... Bird was a 12-time All-Star and won three straight regular-season MVP awards (1984-86). ... He became only the third player (and the first non-center) to win three .... in free throw percentage (.896), an unheard-of accomplishment for a forward.
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Local Yankee fans remember 'The Boss' - *GJ_FOSTERS_NEWS ...  Jul 14, 2010 ... New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died on Tuesday at age 80. ... For everything about the man and his legacy was massive  a ... purchased the Yankees in 1973 for $10 million, the club was merely a ... By comparison, the Red Sox have won just 12 pennants and seven World Series titles.
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Recap - 1960s | The Official Site of the BOSTON CELTICS - NBA.com  Boston's victory set up a Hawks-Celtics Finals for the third time in four years. The 1960 matchup saw the two teams split the first four games once again. ... after he scored 61 points in Game 5 the Lakers led the series, three games to two. ... Boston waltzed through postseason play to a sixth straight championship, ousting the...
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Catchers are changing ... starting at the top - ESPN.com  Apr 25, 2007 ... Sandoval back in picture for Red Sox this year .... John Roseboro (1968), Tim McCarver ('60s and '70s), Butch Wynegar (1977) and Brian...
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New York Yankees - National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC  His batting feats include 184 RBI in 1931 (the AL record), 23 career grand slams (the ... "The Yankee Clipper" won 3 Most Valuable Player awards ('39, '41, '47), 2 batting ... He holds Series records for home runs (18), RBI (40), runs (42), walks (43), ... He also stared in the World Series, collecting 71 hits while playing on 10...
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Why Joe DiMaggio's 56-Game Hit Streak Is So Enduring - WSJ  May 13, 2016 ... Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game hitting streak, which he embarked on 75 years ago ... No one else has come close to his mark, and changes in Major League ... Teams in 1941 carried eight or nine pitchers on a 25-man roster, said ... had a 14-game streak last year, or Michael Brantley, an outfielder for the...
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The Insane Facts Behind DiMaggio's Hit Streak - Blackwing  Jul 15, 2016 ... Here are the the 17 most interesting facts we discovered about Joe ... Joe DiMaggio won the American League MVP award in 1941 over ... DiMaggio's failure to extend the streak just one more game may ... He did not whiff for the final 32 games of the hitting streak, and not again until July 26, 42 games later...
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40-40 Club : 40 Home Runs and 40 Stolen Bases on Baseball ...  Baseball Almanac presents the 40-40 Club : 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases. ... speed at forty home runs and forty stolen bases during the same season. ... 1988 Oakland Athletics ... Who will be the fifth player in baseball history to join? ... By comparison, in the seasons that they became members of the 40-40 Club, Barry...
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Jimmy Piersall: Fear Strikes Out - Boston Baseball History  Jul 31, 2013 ... Jimmy Piersall overcame mental illness to become one of the most ... Commenting on his election to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, Piersall told me, To ... Billy Goodman [Red Sox infielder 1947-1957] was on deck and he...
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Mickey Mantle remains a powerful influence 60 years after Triple ...  Jun 18, 2016 ... Yankees to honor his Triple Crown season on June 24. ... YankeesSportsBaseball ... a crown and holding three bats, one each for home runs (52), runs ... I guess everybody just assumed he was going to hit one out of the ballpark. ... Costas became close to Mantle during the player's years in retirement.
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Spare Shots: Introduce more diversity to bowling - The Record  Jan 17, 2016 ... Branham had 23 perfect games, won five major titles, including the ... And other sports now are year 'round so it's harder to get bowlers ...... 2, 1997 when Jeremy Sonnenfeld rolled three consecutive perfect games in ... USBC-Approved 900 Series (29). Jeremy Sonnenfeld (R), Lincoln, NE, Feb. 2, 1997.
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Jim Piersall | Society for American Baseball Research  His mother battled mental illness for most of Jimmy's childhood, often ... 1 Piersall got into six games with the Red Sox in late September 1950, ... on May 24, in a fight with Yankees infielder Billy Martin, at whom Piersall had been screaming insults. ... After he sat shaking in my office for some time, he finally told me Piersall...
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30 key figures to the Yankees' 1996 World Series title | SILive.com  Aug 30, 2016 ... The year was 1996 and the New York Yankees not only won the ... newest dynasty as they'd go on to win the World Series four times in five years. ... The slideshow includes 30 key figures that helped the Yanks take home the 1996 title. ... in the ALCS after batting .474 (9 for 19) with five extra-base hits, six...
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Joe Louis - Wikipedia  In the 29 months from January 1939 through May 1941, Louis defended his title thirteen times, a frequency unmatched by any Heavyweight Champion since the...
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Sandy Koufax - Wikipedia  Sanford "Sandy" Koufax is a former American Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher. He pitched 12 seasons for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to ... He won three Cy Young Awards in 1963, 1965, and 1966, by unanimous votes, making him the ..... He managed to pitch and win two more games.
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Morning Buzz, October 17, 2003 - SportsBusiness Daily ...  Oct 17, 2003 ... The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 6-5 last night in Game Seven of the ALCS on a .... The Morning Buzz offers today's back page sports covers from some of the nation's major metropolitan tabloids: ... This sports superstar of 1973 bears the name of one of the six major organs of the United Nations....