Benny Kauff in the 1914 Federal League stole 75 bases without being caught while hitting .370 and was the fielding genius in FL history.  In 154 games, he had 211 hits including 44 doubles.  All of these stats were league leading and no one has come close.  But I can't forget about Levi Meyerle who hit .492 in 1871.  That will never be touched either.
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Carl Yastremski  1967  triple crown winner - led league in average, home runs, and RIB's and led the Sox to their IMpossible Dream Year
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Sad to say it is over. It was fun to watch and I wish he had broken the record. But even though he was 18 games away from the record, 18 games is HUGE on the tail end of that chase. If that record is ever broken, it will be a LONG time. Probably someone who won’t be born for a long time will eventually do it. That is a very tough record to break; I give him props for going 38. Had he continued it beyond today as the games got closer and closer to the Record 56 the pressure would have become really intense. I think it already was. In the long run, it is better for him and his team. Now he is out of the Limelight and can focus on what is most important, his team winning.
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The Big O had 1896 pts that season, plus 633 assists.  Sorry, but Wilt the Stilt had more assists that year, with 702.  Hell, Lenny Wilkens had more assists too, with 679 that year, AND he's a guard as well!  And... THREE guards had more points than Oscar that season... Dave Bing, Earl Monroe, and Hal Greer.
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I'll probably take heat for this, but I have to go with Bonds here.\n\nAaron had incredible longevity and consistency - he never hit over 50 home runs, yet holds the career home run record; very impressive. He also did this under intense scrutiny and racial tension - back then, people weren't excited about the Babe being passed by a black man (you might say the same thing is true today, but not to the same extent).\n\nHowever, even before Bonds allegedly (this has never been proven for sure, although it certainly looks like he did it) took steroids, he was doing things few players have ever done in the sport, like hitting for 30 home runs and stealing 30 bases in the same season, which he did a bunch of times (he even went 40/40 in '96). And then his stats are just unbelievable for the past 6-10 years. Not only his home run totals, either. His slugging percentage and walks (he barely got pitches to hit for a few years in a row) rivaled the Babe during this stretch. Sure, steroids (if he did take them) helped, but his innate ability and hard work had to have a big part of this. I mean, the guy was unpitchable for awhile. Aaron was never unpitchable or even close to it.\n\nIt's too bad Bonds has this steroid thing hanging over him.
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Cy young was a real person, so why can't he be a barometer by which to judge the performance of other pitchers?  Because he was so astoundingly great?  I'm not sure I understand your point . . .
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Many statisticians dont start counting stats until the AAFC NFL merger in 1949. The Browns pretty much dominated everybody from 1950-1955 then from 57-65 when Jim Brown came in(im sure he acounts for a lot ofTD's). Actually the Browns didnt really become a non success until about 74'
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C - Josh Gibson; can't forget about the Negro Leagues; Bench is definitely one to consider though\n\n1B - Lou Gehrig; in about 20 years, I may be putting Pujols here\n\n2B - Rogers Hornsby; consideration given to Nap Lajoie and Rod Carew\n\nSS - Honus Wagner; Ozzie Smith was the best defensive SS, and Ernie Banks was the best offensive SS, but Wagner is the best all around; probably the toughest position to pick\n\n3B - Mike Schmidt; Brooks Robinson was better defensively, but Schmidt was significantly better at the plate, which is why he gets the nod\n\nLF - Stan Musial; I know a lot of people are wondering about Williams here, but Musial had nearly 1000 more career hits, was a 24 time All Star and a 3 time MVP, not to mention the four World Series that he played in.  And he played in roughly the same time frame ('41-'63) as Williams ('39-'60), who was a 17 time All Star and won 1 MVP while playing in just one World Series.\n\nCF - Willie Mays; with some big considerations to Mantle, Cobb, and Oscar Charleston\n\nRF - Babe Ruth; all apologizes to Aaron (with his career HR and RBI records) and Clemente (with his 12 Gold Gloves), but it was Ruth's lifetime .342 average that really got me leaning this way...oh yeah, and he hit for quite a bit of power.\n\nSP - Walter Johnson; with a large amount of consideration given to Young, Spahn, Mathewson, Bob Gibson, Satchel Paige and Koufax, but it was Johnson's W's, K's, shut-outs (110) and lifetime 2.35 ERA that set him apart from the pack.\n\nRP - Eckersley; revolutionized the closer position, after spending 12 years as a starter\n\nPH - Lenny Harris, has more pinch hits than anybody else in the history of the game, and a .263 career average as a pinch hitter (not bad considering he has 800+ career PH AB's)\n\nHonorable Mention - Looking over the list of players that I didn't include, it's difficult to pick just one.  However, I'd have to go with Ted Williams for the Honorable Mention.  If he played just about any other position, he would have been my first choice.
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Hank Aaron played in 23 seasons, 3298 games and had 12364 at bats when he retired with 755 home runs. He was 42 at the time, when he broke Ruth's record in 1974 he was 40, with the first at bat of the season. It took him 11289 at bats to get to 714.\n\nRuth retired at the age of 40 in 1935. He played in 22 Seasons, 2503 games and had 8398 at bats to get to 714 home runs. Ruth has much less at bats since when he played the seasons were only 154 games. \n\nBonds is now 41. It took him 21 seasons, 2766 games and 9236 at bats to get to 714 home runs. \n\nAll of them were 39 years old the season they reached 700
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The New York Yankees celebrated "Lou Gehrigs Day" on July 4, 1939\n\nFans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been to ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, sends you a gift, that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in the white coats remember you with trophies, that’s something. When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know. So I close by saying that I might have had a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for. Thank you."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig
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It's 2 for 3, the error doesn't count as a bas hit but his at bat count. So it'ld be .667\n\nErrors and fielder's choices are not included in times reached base safely, because they caused or should have caused an out.
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the florida marlins, what a story. 6 players in the major leagues make more money in one year then the whole Florida Marlins team.
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Check @ Baseball America.com  They might have someone with the records. \n\nThey focus on minor league, collegiate, and high school baseball.
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Bob Gibson, # 45 for the St. Louis Cardinals.  Dominaiing, intimidating pitcher.  In one season, he had a 1.12 ERA, incredible and still a record.  The most famous bob gibson alive.  Go Cards!  Cubs Suck
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Easily the two most famous Los Angeles Dodgers in their L.A. history are Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.\n\nKoufax and Drysdale are both Hall of Famers, Koufax was THE  dominant pitcher of the 1960s, better than Gibson or Marichal, who were both awesome in their own right.\n\nDrysdale's HOF credentials are far less impressive than Koufax's, but Drysdale made it to the Hall in, I believe, his 10th year of eligibility.\n\nRoy Campanella never played for the L.A. Dodgers...he was paralyzed in an accident prior to their moving to L.A. in 1958. His last year was with the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1957.\n\nBoth Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson were flash-in-the-pans as Dodgers, Gibson being remembered for a lucky World Series Home Run, replayed endlessly on ESPN (as well as an undeserved MVP award in 1988), and Hershiser is remembered for his pitching dominance in 1988. Neither player is likely to ever make the Hall of Fame (unless Hershiser has one heck of a broadcasting career or something).\n\nbtw, Hershiser was 23-8 in 1988, not 23-1 per a previous post.\n\nFernando Valenzuela is probably the next-most-famous L.A. Dodger in their history...anyone who was a baseball fan in 1981 remembers "Fernando-mania".  His Cy Young award that year was also undeserved (Tom Seaver should have won it).\n\nFernando is also the answer to one of the better trivia questions I've heard...\n\nWhat player had the most career at-bats against (all time strikeout king) Nolan Ryan WITHOUT ever striking out against him... the answer is Fernando Valenzuela, who batted 12 times against Ryan and NEVER struck out!\n\nSteve Garvey would be the next-most-famous L.A. Dodger ever, and his consecutive game playing streak is, I think the N.L. record, but I'm not positive about that.\n\nWell, I just checked...Garvey DOES hold the N.L record for consecutive games played, with 1,207.\n\nThe top 6 consecutive game-playing streaks (only streaks over 1,000):\n\n1. Cal Ripken, Jr.\n2,632\n05-30-1982 to 09-19-1998\n \n\n2. Lou Gehrig\n2,130\n06-01-1925 to 04-30-1939\n \n\n3. Everett Scott\n1,307\n06-20-1916 to 05-05-1925\n \n\n4. Steve Garvey\n1,207\n09-03-1975 to 07-29-1983\n \n\n5. Billy Williams\n1,117\n09-22-1963 to 09-02-1970\n\n\n6. Joe Sewell\n1,103\n09-13-1922 to 04-30-1930\n\n\nGarvey's streak is probably superior to Gehrig's in one respect... During Gehrig's 14 year 'streak' (1925-1939), he only played every inning of every game once, that being in 1931 (but that year, he did play one game in RF, so he never played first during every inning of every game for an entire season, not even once). In every other year, he was replaced in at least one game, often more. There were a total of 69 games during that streak in which Gehrig was replaced, either in the field (66 times) or by a pinch runner (4 times)  or a pinch hitter (8 times).  Sometimes the pinch hitter or pinch runner WAS the substitute first baseman as well, which explains the slight overlap in these numbers.\n\nI'm guessing that Garvey, during his streak, probably played more consecutive innings at first base than Gehrig ever did, but I don't know how many consecutive complete games Garvey played.
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ESPN.com MLB section has information on every player, past and present.  But as far as their personal websites you'd probably have to look them up individually.  I've found some that were inaccurate that way too.
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Baseball Reference says Walt Dropo of the '52 Tigers, with 12.\n\nTed Williams has the record for most consecutive times on base, with 16 in '57.
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I've got to agree with DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak here.\n\nSome fun history about the streak:\n\nGame 57 was against Cleveland, who boasted one of the best defensive third basemen in the game at the time.  DiMaggio was robbed TWICE on backhanded stops down the line and thrown out.\n\nThe day after game 57... DiMaggio started another hitting streak of 26 games.\n\nSo do the math... if one of those hits would have gotten through in game 57... the streak would be 83 games.  That's more than half a season.