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Record Watch
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... ) that I thought bore some discussion. First up is The Baseball Crank's list of the most impressive records in baseball history. Cy Young tops the list with his 511 wins, 7354.2 innings pitched and 749 complete games. Barring a major change in the way the game is played there isn't going to be anyone challenging those marks but what's most impressive is that there isn't anybody close to Young in the history of baseball. Next up is new Mets hitting coach Rickey Henderson's 1406 steals. He's 468 steals ahead of Lou Brock, a number that's good enough for 42nd on the All-Time list all by itself. That's another mark that no one's going to touch nor will anyone be breaking Nolan Ryan's strikeout total nor Mike Marshall's relief workload. ...
The Baseball Crank: Baseball’s Most Impressive Records
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The Baseball Crank: Baseball ...
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Doberman On The Diamond —
... - Baseball's 20 most impressive records. (Baseball Crank) ...
Records, Anyone?
Knuckle Curve —
... The Baseball Crank examines baseball’s most impressive records (as distinct from the ever-popular “unbreakable” records). For my money, Mike Marshall’s 106 appearances and 208 1/3 innings pitched in 1974 are just freakish. I can’t even begin to comprehend how he did that. ...
The path to Cooperstown: Tim Raines and the Tablesetters
The Hardball Times —
... . Rickey has one of those careers that just defies description without comically overstated superlatives, as I demonstrated when I looked at the game's most impressive records . Henderson gets docked slightly here by the metric I use here for the fact that he always missed some games here and there due to overtaxing his turbo-charged "hammies," but averaging 621 plate appearances per 162 scheduled games over a 14-year period really is not such a bad durability record. The important point for present purposes is that while Rickey's prime was longer than Raines'—and so was his ...
