Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called it the hardest ball he had ever seen hit without benefit of the wind, while " Cubs ' batting coach batting coach Rogers Hornsby ," reported Les Biederman of The Sporting News, " said it was the longest he ever witnessed and manager Bob Scheffing agreed it was No. 1 in his book.

While in the training camp of the Millers camp for the springtime, Williams met Rogers Hornsby, who had hit over. 400 three times, including a. 424 average in 1924, who was a coach for the Millers for the spring.

On May 21, Williams passed Chuck Klein for 10th place, on May 25 Williams passed Rogers Hornsby for 9th place, and on July 5 Williams passed Al Simmons for 8th place all-time in career home runs.

He often touted Rogers Hornsby as being the greatest right-handed hitter of all time.

At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs ( behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx ), seventh in RBIs ( after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott ; Stan Musial passed Williams in 1962 ), and seventh in batting average ( behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O ' Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker ).

** Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, heart attack after cataract surgery ( b. 1896 )

* April 27 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player ( d. 1963 )

The grounds were home to bronze statues of Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Dizzy Dean, Rogers Hornsby, Red Schoendienst, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, James ' Cool Papa Bell, George Sisler, Jack Buck and most recently, Ozzie Smith.

Sabermetrician Bill James rated Dick Allen as the second most controversial player in baseball history, behind Rogers Hornsby.

Rogers Hornsby was the first to accomplish it, winning his first in 1922 and then leading all major leagues in 1925 en route to his second Triple Crown, both with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Said noted former player Rogers Hornsby, after watching Doby play one time in 1947:

In 1957 Hodges set the NL record for career grand slams, breaking the mark of 12 shared by Rogers Hornsby and Ralph Kiner ; his final total of 14 was tied by Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey in 1972, and broken by Aaron in 1974.

Rogers Hornsby, Sr. ( April 27, 1896 – January 5, 1963 ), nicknamed " The Rajah ", was an American baseball infielder, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas, the last of Ed and Mary ( Rogers ) Hornsby's six children.

Rogers Hornsby with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1917

Rogers Hornsby ( pictured on a 1922 baseball card ) takes a swing.

Rogers Hornsby with the Atlanta Braves | Boston Braves in 1928

Rogers Hornsby was so respected a hitter that once, when a rookie pitcher complained to umpire Bill Klem that he thought he had thrown Rogers a strike, Klem replied, " Son, when you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know.

They had a son, Rogers Hornsby, Jr., on November 15, 1920.

* The Official Site of Rogers Hornsby

Sandberg was only the third second baseman to hit 40 home runs ; Rogers Hornsby and Davey Johnson hit 42, and no American League second baseman has yet reached forty.

Regardless of the unceremonious end to the 1994 season, Kenny Rogers pitched the 12th perfect game in Major League history on July 28.

Rogers took on the role of Major Tony Nelson which was originally portrayed by Larry Hagman ( of the CBS TV series Dallas fame ) in the TV series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise the character he had originated.

The technique of purification of drinking water by use of compressed liquefied chlorine gas was developed in 1910 in the U. S. by Major ( later Brigadier General ) Carl Rogers Darnall ( 1867 – 1941 ), Professor of Chemistry at the Army Medical School.

The technique of purification of drinking water by use of compressed liquefied chlorine gas was developed in 1910 by US Army Major Carl Rogers Darnall, Professor of Chemistry at the Army Medical School.

This series was a fictionalized account of Major Robert Rogers, a colonial American fighter for the British in the French and Indian War.

Major Canadian cable companies include Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, Vidéotron and EastLink / Persona.

In 1767 Gage ordered the arrest of Major Robert Rogers, the former leader of Rogers ' Rangers who Gage had come to dislike and distrust during the war.

In the fall of 1757, Lord Howe had accompanied the famous ranger Major Robert Rogers on a scouting expedition.

Confederate Major Rogers ordered his men to retreat to the southwest and most did, though the Arkansans and some Texans remained on the field and attacked the relief column before withdrawing.

Major ownership groups include Standard ( Astral ), Astral, CHUM ( CTV Globe ), Corus, Rogers, Rawlco, CTV Globe, and Newcap.

Meanwhile, the hero of Northwest Passage was Major Robert Rogers and his company Rogers ' Rangers, although Rogers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War.

During Roberts ' research into Major Rogers, his researcher uncovered transcripts of both of Major Rogers ' courts-martial ( once as the accuser and once as the accused ), which had been thought lost for over a century, and these were published in the second volume of a special two-volume edition of Northwest Passage.

* On June 25, 2010, Citizens Bank Park hosted the first regular-season game in a National League stadium in which the designated hitter was used ; Major League Baseball moved the Phillies ' series against the Toronto Blue Jays from Rogers Centre to Philadelphia, citing security concerns for the G-20 Summit.

His. 750 slugging percentage in 1994 ranks as the 11th best single-season mark in Major League history and was the highest by a National Leaguer since Rogers Hornsby in 1925.

Major Robert Rogers formed a Ranger unit in 1757 to fight during the French and Indian War.

Major Rogers RM ; its claim on these grounds to be the oldest school corps was upheld by Field Marshal Earl Roberts in a letter to the Headmaster of 1904.

Kenneth Scott Rogers ( born November 10, 1964 in Savannah, Georgia ) is a former American Major League Baseball ( MLB ) left-handed pitcher.

Swindon won 5 – 2, with the scorer of two goals in the League Cup final – Don Rogers – scoring once and new acquisition Arthur Horsfield acquiring his first hat-trick for the club .< ref name =" angloleaguecupwin ">

In 1996 Carmarthen won the Welsh League and the Cyril Rogers Cup.

Also in 2000, Rogers bought the Arena Football League team, the New England Sea Wolves and after the 2000 season, Rogers moved them to Toronto and renamed the team the Toronto Phantoms.

For the 2005 season, Rogers Sportsnet also began airing National Football League ( NFL ) games, splitting late games across the Pacific and West feeds, and the East and Ontario feeds.

In the years since, Rogers Hornsby has been the only 3-time. 400-hitter in the National League ( 1922, 1924 – 25 ).

In the mid-1970s, two men, Harry T. Mangurian, Jr. and Beau Rogers, joined forces to establish a new North American Soccer League ( NASL ) franchise.

He finished second overall in the National League behind the 39 home runs hit by Rogers Hornsby.

Rogers Sportsnet and Réseau des sports ( RDS ) are the current national rightsholders, in English and French respectively, to Major League Baseball, and both air a variety of regular-season games ( which do not always correspond to those carried nationally in the U. S .) as well as the All-Star Game and the postseason.

Crawford finished the season with career highs in batting average (. 305 ) and home runs ( 18 ), joining Hall-of-Famer Rogers Hornsby as the only players in Major League history to increase their batting average and home run totals every year for five straight years.

Two years later, he repeated the honor while scoring 127 runs and batting. 379, second only to Rogers Hornsby among right-handed batters in National League history.

Major League Baseball players Matt Harrison, Hank Blalock, Chris Carpenter, John Rheinecker, Jeremy Bonderman, Alex Cobb, Kenny Rogers, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and Noah Lowry have recently been diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome.

He finished first in the National League with a. 401 batting average, the first player to hit over. 400 since Rogers Hornsby in 1925.

In 1936, Rogers was a candidate for the newly formed Social Credit League in Manitoba.

With the replacement of Minneapolis's Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome by Target Field in 2010, only two MLB stadiums, both in the American League East, are still using artificial turf: Tropicana Field and Toronto's Rogers Centre, which converted to a next generation AstroTurf in 2010.

The following night, he hit a home run in his first All-Star Game at-bat off American League starting pitcher Kenny Rogers.

The 2005 squad included a number of players who would later go on to grace Major League Soccer and the US Men's National Team, including Sacha Kljestan, Calen Carr, Robbie Rogers, Kamani Hill, and top scorer Kei Kamara from Sierra Leone, who knocked in 12 goals in his 14 starts.