In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

Brett's batting average was at or above. 400 as late in the season as September 19, and the country closely followed his quest to bat. 400 for an entire season, a feat which has not been accomplished since Ted Williams in.

He won seven batting titles in total, a feat tied or exceeded by only five players ( Cobb ( 11 or 12, depending on the source ), Tony Gwynn ( 8 ), Honus Wagner ( 8 ), Rod Carew ( 7 ), and Stan Musial ( 7 )).

He and Ted Williams are the last two American League players to hit. 400, Heilmann having accomplished the feat in 1923 with a batting average of. 403.

Among England batsmen, only Allan Lamb and Andrew Flintoff have emulated this feat of batting on all five days, and both subsequent to Boycott.

That year he became the first player in major league history to hit 10 home runs in a season ( a feat he would never repeat ), while batting. 303.

He finished the season as the AL batting champion, and was the first Tiger player to accomplish the feat since Norm Cash in 1961.

Additionally, he accomplished the dubious feat of leading the league in home runs while having a lower batting average than the Cy Young Award winner, ( Steve Carlton,. 218 ).

Nicknamed " Memphis Bill ", he is most remembered for being the last National League player to hit. 400, a feat he accomplished by batting. 401 in.

His. 347 average was the highest in the Major Leagues, a feat not achieved by the previous three catchers to win NL batting titles.

In 1977, he was National League batting champion, a feat he repeated in 1978 when he was named the National League's MVP.

He repeated the feat on July 4, 1932, again against Reading, hitting a grand slam batting right-handed and three more home runs batting left-handed.

Though the pitch and the appalling quality of the opposing batting make this much less of a feat, his 17 for 48 ( 10 for 30 and 7 for 18 ) against Northamptonshire in a day on 1 June 1907 still stands as the best bowling analysis in the County Championship.

On each of his five tours he topped both the batting and bowling overall tour averages, yet another unique Giffen feat.

In his best batting year of 1883 Ulyett achieved the remarkable feat of scoring 1, 562 runs-eleven runs from being the leading run scorer-without a single century.

His 12 for 52 against the strong Surrey batting side on an admittedly damaged pitch was his finest feat.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

Crassus personally killed their king, Deldo, in combat, a feat which qualified him for Rome's highest military honour, spolia opima, but Augustus refused to award it on a technicality.

The originality of Descartes ' thinking, therefore, is not so much in expressing the cogito — a feat accomplished by other predecessors, as we shall see — but on using the cogito as demonstrating the most fundamental epistemological principle, that science and mathematics are justified by relying on clarity, distinctiveness, and self-evidence.

Hurst remains the most recent British-based player to notch a double hat-trick in a top-flight league match: he achieved this remarkable feat in a First Division match against Sunderland at Upton Park on 19 October 1968, which saw the Hammers defeat the Wearsiders 8-0.

To be considered a ' hack ' was an honour among like-minded peers as " to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style and technical virtuosity " ( Levy, 1984 p. 10 ) The MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club Dictionary defined hack in 1959 ( not yet in a computer context ) as " 1 ) an article or project without constructive end ; 2 ) a project undertaken on bad self-advice ; 3 ) an entropy booster ; 4 ) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack ( 3 ).

In 1263 troops commanded by Haakon Haakonarson repeated the feat but the ensuing Battle of Largs between Scots and Norse forces, which took place on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, was inconclusive as a military contest.

Botham scored a century and took 5 wickets in an innings in the same Test match on 5 occasions ; no-one else has managed this feat more than twice.

They continued on to complete the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean – and by its longest axis, Barrow, Alaska to Svalbard – a feat that has never been repeated.

That same year, Green Day, which had gone through a relatively fallow period commercially, took American Idiot to number one on both the U. S. and UK charts ; the band matched the feat five years later with 21st Century Breakdown.

Huston was also featured in a feat with super group Deltron 3030 on their self titled album for the song The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza.

Her work never ran because Babbage's machine was never completed to a functioning standard in her time ; the first programmer to successfully run a program on a functioning modern electronically based computer was pioneer computer scientist Konrad Zuse, who achieved this feat in 1941.

Petrarch recounts that on April 26, 1336, with his brother and two servants, he climbed to the top of Mont Ventoux (), a feat which he undertook for recreation rather than necessity.

Chuck Klein repeated the feat nearly 40 years later to the day, on July 10, 1936, at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.

Innocent could therefore live a period in which he was the effective sovereign of most of the peninsula, and on 27 October 1254 he celebrated the feat by entering the city of Naples.

Gougers are said to have migrated to the west from New England, a feat accomplished by a pair of gougers who clung to each other in a fashion comparable to, " a pair of drunks going home from town " with their longer legs on the outer sides.

Although it is a difficult feat to gain the lap on your own, it is not uncommon for the top riders to be able to do this in order to win the race.

Juventus was the first team in Europe to win all UEFA's official championships and cups and, in commemoration of achieving that feat, have received The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.

The most impressive feat during the season occurred on October 12, 1992, when Art Monk became the NFL's all-time leading pass receiver against the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football by catching his 820th career reception.

This feat is possible by extensive training on an encoding strategy by which the digits in a list are grouped ( usually in groups of three to five ) and these groups are encoded as a single unit ( a chunk ).

He was elected to the Presidency, also pledging to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, a feat that was accomplished in 1969.

From this point on, Wagner finished each act and sent it off for engraving before he started on the next-a remarkable feat given the unprecedented length and complexity of the score.

In 1971, the team's four starting pitchers, McNally, Cuellar, Palmer, and Pat Dobson, all won 20 games, a feat that has not been replicated.

The albums Automaton ( Slave with Ewer Device ), Binfen ( feat. Tan ) and Culduz, all released in the 1990s, are parts of a trilogy with the concept: " The Timeless and Boundaryless Context of Culture and Civilization ".

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards ( Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay ), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 ) and later by The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

The race serves as the middle leg of the Triple Crown, preceded by the 2, 000 Guineas and followed by the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three is now rarely attempted.

It also serves as the opening leg of the Triple Crown, followed by the Derby and the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three has been rarely attempted in recent decades.

In all, they appeared in the ABA Finals five times in the league's nine year history: a feat that was never bettered by any other ABA franchise.

In 1935, Hindemith was commissioned by the Turkish government to reorganize that country's musical education, and, more specifically, was given the task of preparing material for the " Universal and Turkish Polyphonic Music Education Programme " for all music-related institutions in Turkey, a feat which he accomplished to universal acclaim.

In particular, Palmer travelled to Scotland in 1960, having already won both the Masters and U. S. Open, to try to emulate Hogan's feat of 1953, of winning all three in a single year.

This feat was accomplished when the state tournament was open to all schools, before class basketball was instated.

After receiving their scores, they are overwhelmed with emotion to find that they have all passed, a feat done by few in the state.

Walden's new team drew nearly 1, 000 fans for their opening game on June 10, 1946 – an impressive feat for a town of just 4, 000 – but it was all downhill from there.

He achieved this feat on January 26, 2010 in London and in the process visited all the stadiums of the five Premier League teams in London.

His crowning achievement was the great victory near the Dvina River in the Battle of Kircholm ( modern Salaspils, Latvia ) on September 27, 1605, when with barely 4000 troops, mostly the famous heavy hussars, he annihilated a threefold larger Swedish army ; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the Pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.

Despite losing, Firpo gained substantial fame all over Latin America after this bout, as many people on different parts of that region spoke about his feat of dropping Dempsey.

This feat is unlikely to be repeated, as all dogs have been banned from Antarctica by the Antarctic Treaty nations since 1994, due to fears that they could transmit diseases to the native seal population.

The caves were all excavated by hand and even today they are viewed as an incredible feat of engineering.

Considering they were all dug by hand, the caves are often regarded as an incredible feat of engineering.

Kenny goes on to state that " it was no mean feat to have placed almost all of Clough's poetry in the public domain within a decade, and to have secured for it general critical and popular acclaim.

* 1894 is Major League Baseball's highest scoring season as Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season ( 1220 ) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs ; in addition, Philadelphia Phillies bat. 349 for the season with all four outfielders above. 400, but finish fourth despite the feat

Among their leaders were the first women's World All-Around Champion Vlasta Děkanová ( 1934, 1938 ) and Věra Čáslavská who won outright all ( 5 ) European, World and Olympic All-Around titles during an Olympic cycle from 1964 to 1968 — a feat never matched by any other gymnast ( male or female ).

The Buffalo All-Americans had success during its first couple of APFA seasons, posting a 9-1-1 regular season record in 1920 where they became the first professional NFL team to win by margins of 20 or more points in each of its first four games, an asterisked record which was not tied until the 2007 New England Patriots ' offense duplicated the feat against other ( all ) professional and league teams on October 1, 2007 ; the asterisked record is because in the early NFL, the All-Americans played several non-league opponents in their first four wins in 1920.

He remarks, "' Halloween III ' manages the not easy feat of being anti-children, anti-capitalism, anti-television and anti-Irish all at the same time.

Fifteen different runes can be obtained in any particular game, and obtaining all of them is generally considered an extra feat.

The feat had previously been accomplished by Mickey Cochrane, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Johnny Bench and Carlton Fisk, all in the Baseball Hall of Fame.