According to its Web site, MLB. com, Major League Baseball continues to recognize Cobb's final hit total as 4, 191, though independent research has revealed that two of Cobb's hits were counted twice.

According to the Ken Burns ' documentary series, Baseball, one of Mathewson's last words were to his wife: Now Jane, I want you to go outside and have yourself a good cry.

( According to Baseball Almanac, Hank Greenberg was the first with Pittsburgh in 1947.

According to the Society for American Baseball Research, there have been 684 triple plays in Major League Baseball from 1876 to April 4, 2011.

" According to the Baseball Almanac, the original doggerel appeared in Hern's column on September 14, 1948:

According to Garagiola's book Baseball Is a Funny Game, the Hill was called " Dago Hill.

According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is ended when a player has at least 1 plate appearance and no hits.

According to GameSpot. com, Baseball Mogul Online was " the world's first massively multiplayer online sports game ".

According to the Baseball Reference website ( www. baseball-reference. com ), Wynn is the " most linkable " player in baseball history.

According to both Marquard himself in The Glory of Their Times and the Baseball Hall of Fame's entry on him, the price paid for his contract was actually $ 11, 000, not $ 13, 000.

According to a recent study sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame that covers the organized ( post-1920 ) Negro leagues, Lloyd batted. 343 with a. 450 slugging percentage.

According to Negro league statistics compiled in a project sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Leonard's career batting average was. 320 and his slugging percentage was. 527.

According to Lee Allen, Cincinnati writer and eventual director of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Worcester club impacted the National League in another way in 1880 ; it was instrumental in having the Cincinnati Reds expelled from the league after the season, due to violations of the league rules against selling beer at the ballpark.

According to Bettman, a luxury tax similar to the one used in Major League Baseball would not have satisfied the league's cost certainty objectives.

According to The Fireside Book of Baseball by Charles Einstein, in the seventh game Frisch called time and walked over from second base to the mound to tell Dean " If you don't stop clowning around, I'll take you out of the game.

According to a starred review in Kirkus, Under the Baseball Moon was “… a work that is far beyond the ordinary.

According to Major League Baseball, Willie Harris has a recorded height of 5 ' 9 " and weighs 195 pounds.

According to the Inside Baseball portion of the April 27, 1987 Sports Illustrated, Boyd listed Haiti in the ' 87 Red Sox yearbook as his favorite vacation destination.

According to Tim Darnell, who wrote The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball, the Cubs changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name.

According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, the projected number of 2011 season hot dogs sold at Dodger Stadium was 2 million — establishing Farmer John Dodger Dogs as the leader in hot dog sales of all those sold in Major League Baseball ballparks.

According to Time magazine articles of the era, McLendon only paid Major League Baseball $ 1, 000. 00 per year for the rights to broadcast the games, but in 1951, the leagues raised the price to $ 250, 000. 00 per year, and prohibited broadcasts in any city which had a minor league franchise and in the northeastern and midwestern United States.

* According to the Ken Burns series Baseball, it is the number of stitches on a baseball.

According to an informal study by researchers at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the last manager to wear street clothes is believed to be Burt Shotton of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who last managed a game on October 1, 1950.

According to the 2006 Preview issue of Soap Opera Digest, it was briefly discussed that all ABC shows might do telenovela arcs, but this was rejected.

According to John Algeo in Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991, the first recorded usage of " Terror bombing " in a United States publication was in a Reader's Digest article dated June 1941, a finding confirmed by the Oxford English Dictionary.

According to Golf Digest, Palmer made $ 1, 861, 857 in 734 PGA Tour career starts over 53 years ; he earned an estimated $ 30 million off the course in 2008.

According to the U. S. State Department Digest of International Law the status of the mandate was not altered by the agreement between the United Kingdom and the Emirate concluded on 20 February 1928 which recognized the existence of an independent government in Transjordan and defined and limited its powers.

According to the Indian Readership Survey Round II of 2009, the readership for Reader's Digest is 3. 94 million, second only to India Today at 5. 62 million.

According to Soap Opera Digest magazine, Walker was at first hesitant to go on a recurring basis, but later warmed to the idea.

According to this view, that originates in the Roman Digest, to be a liber homo, a free man, means being in a state of non-dependence from another's arbitrary will.

( Alpena ) According to Tim Harrison, Editor in Chief & Publisher of Lighthouse Digest Magazine and President of American Lighthouse Foundation states “ There is no other festival like it in the United States.

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According to Soap Opera Digest, Pflug's highly publicized departure from the burgeoning drama was because her role called for sex-related scenes involving characters not married to each other, which conflicted with her Christian beliefs.

According to Rochester sports historian Douglas Brei, only six franchises in the history of North American professional sports have been playing in the same city and same league continuously and uninterrupted since the 19th century: the Rochester Red Wings, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals.

According to his official biography, the Phanatic is originally from the Galapagos Islands and is the Phillies ' biggest fan.

According to current owner and former team vice president Bill Giles, the Phanatic was created to attract more families to the Phillies home, Veterans Stadium.

( According to former general manager Frank Cashen, the Phillies offered Dykstra back to the Mets after the 1989 season, but the Mets refused.

According, then, to what I take to be the prevailing view, these rioters were merely a handful of irresponsible, Stalinist-corrupted provocateurs.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!