In 1978 this Cincinnati Red set a modern-day National League record with a 44-game hitting streak
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Pete Rose Consecutive Games Hitting Streak by Baseball Almanac  Pete Rose's forty-four (44) consecutive game hitting streak is presented in detail at ... Cincinnati Red Pete Rose's hit streak ended forty-four games later on August 1, twelve games shy of the record set by Joe ... The streak not only carried through the 1978 All-Star Game (Rose was the leadoff hitter in a National League win),...
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Reds Timeline - Cincinnati Reds - MLB.com  Nuxhall  at 15 years, 10 months and 11 days  yields five runs and retires ... 18: The Reds set a team record (since broken) by hitting eight homers in one ... It's the most victories recorded by the Reds at home in the modern era. ... 1978, -, July 31: Pete Rose extends his hitting streak to 44 consecutive games, a mark topped...
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Consecutive-Game Hitting Streaks - SABR  DiMaggio's first target was his own high of 23 consecutive games, set one year ... of 25 (set in 1967), then the Cincinnati modern one-season high of 27 achieved ... When Rose passed Tommy Holmes' modern-day National League high of 37 ... game of 1896 and the first 44 NL games of 1897, but hitting streak records are...
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The New York Times: This Day In Sports  Show All Days, Site Search: ... Indians, 4 to 3, but the famous hitting streak of Joe DiMaggio finally came to an end. ... then surpassed the American League and modern record of forty-one games set ... The following day he soared past it for No. ... to matching it, hitting in 44 consecutive National League games in 1978. photo.
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Hitting streak - Wikipedia  In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the number of consecutive official games in which a player .... Major League Baseball recognizes two hitting streak records: Longest hitting streak in one season, ... but his streak included two games (#22 and #44) in which his only "hits" were walks. ... Cincinnati Reds  Pete Rose, 44, 1978.
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Schoendienst, Red | Baseball Hall of Fame  Schoendienst led the league with 200 hits in 1957 and helped the team to consecutive pennant ... He wore a major league uniform as a player, coach, or manager for seven decades. See career statistics. From the collection. DID YOU KNOW. that Red Schoendienst hit eight doubles over a three-game span, a Major League...
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Babe Ruth Hits His 60th Home Run, 1927 - EyeWitness to History  By the last game of the season he had tied his record  he needed only one more. ... He needed 17 to do it in the last month, or better than one every two days. He did it of course. The 60th was made in Yankee Stadium against Washington. ... Babe came up in the eighth inning and it was quite probable that this would be his...
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Pete Rose - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  In 1975, Pete was named the World Series Most Valuable Player, Sports Illustrated ... When he broke Ty Cobb's career record for hits, on September 11, 1985 against ... manager in major league history with the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1986. ... There were questions raised about the timing of the release, as observers...
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3,000 hit club - Wikipedia  Pete Rose is the all-time MLB hits leader with 4,256 hits. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 3,000 hit club is the group of batters who have collected 3,000 or more regular-season hits in their careers. Cap Anson was the first to join the club on July 18, 1897, although his precise career hit total is unclear. ... the MLB hit leader until September 11, 1985, when Pete Rose collected his...
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D'backs' 100th just the start - Tucson Citizen Morgue, Part 2 (1993 ...  Oct 4, 1999 ... The Diamondbacks also had a .712 winning streak following the ... he also led the National League in innings pitched (271 2/3) and complete games (12). His strikeout total of 364 was the fourth-highest ever and he tied ... Arizona became only the sixth team in history, and first team since ..... 1998 1999.
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Riverfront Stadium - Wikiwand  Riverfront Stadium, also known as Cinergy Field from 1996 to 2002, was a ... Reds of Major League Baseball from 1970 through 2002 and the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League from 1970 to 1999. ... Right field  330 ft (100 m) ... money by having their football and baseball teams share the same facility.
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The Big Red Machine  Online Cincinnati Reds site of the The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Kentucky ... The Reds' "Great Eight" were the best ever, as judged by history, the ... No team has ever been more dominant than the '76 Reds. ... Even if one were to remove Rose's major-league record of 3,562 career games, the Reds' starting seven played...
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Dingers by the Decade - Baseball Roundtable  Dec 4, 2013 ... In 1920, Yankee slugger Babe Ruth out-homered every other AL team. .... Cravath, who hit his 116 homers in 8 seasons (1912-19), led the NL in round ... In 1920, Ruth broke his own season home run record of 29, ... the NL in home runs three times during the decade, with a career-best total of 41 in 1923.
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Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak: 20 fun facts | Newsday  May 11, 2016 ... DiMaggio, in his second year with the Yankees, had a respectable Series, ... Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, the longest in baseball history, ... DiMaggio was voted the American League MVP that season over ... The longest hitting streak since DiMaggio established the record was 44 games by the...
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715! Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record - NY Daily ...  Apr 8, 2015 ... Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's home run record ... his 715th home run in a game on April 8, 1974 against the Dodgers at ... Leading off the second inning, the first time up, Al Downing did not ... when he has broken one of the most revered records in the world? .... Both were 40 years old when they did it.
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Top 99 Trivia Answers - Baseball Roundtable  How many intentional walks did Roger Maris get in his 61 home run season? ... Vic Damone's Cincinnati Dancing Pig, a hit in the 1950s, was revived in the ... Name the teams that hold the record for most home runs in a game in the NL and AL. ... (From 1956-66 there was only one Cy Young winner each year, and Kaat...
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Pete Rose - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com  He holds the major league records for games (3562), at bats (14053), hits (4256), ... He also has the most RBI of any player without a season of 100 or more (1314, ... He is the only player in major league history to play at least 500 games at five ... manager in major league history with the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1986.
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Pee-Wee Wanninger - Wikipedia  On June 1, 1925 Lou Gehrig started his famous 2,130 game consecutive streak when he pinch hit for Wanninger. For the season, Wanninger had a .247...
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1970 in baseball - Wikipedia  The following are the baseball events of the year 1970 throughout the world. .... Major league baseball returns to Wisconsin after a 4-year absence as the Brewers ... times in two games, a National League record that will be topped in 1998 when the ... the former star pitcher at Carson-Newman College (with whom he won an...
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Cincinnati Reds - Wikipedia  [1]- In 1994, a players' strike wiped out the last eight weeks of the season and all post-season. ... They have won five World Series titles, nine NL pennants, one AA pennant, and 10 ... to finance the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds and managed to acquire the lease on the Reds ... World War II and age finally caught up with the Reds.
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Joe Bauman 70th Home Run Ball - The Baseball Reliquary  Joe Bauman blasting one of his record-setting 72 home runs in 1954. ... the Class-C Longhorn League, shattered professional baseball's single-season home run ... But he didn't catch the record-setting home run ball, and that always galled him. ... he was upset beyond words and vowed that he would never again attend a...