Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

I wasn't in the habit of batting my eyes at delivery men, but the moment I saw Johnnie, I knew he was different.

In spite of the very difficult batting conditions, however, Hobbs and Sutcliffe took their partnership to 172 before Hobbs was out for exactly 100.

England had a very strong batting side, with Wally Hammond contributing 905 runs at an average of 113. 12, and Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Patsy Hendren all scoring heavily ; the bowling was more than adequate, without being outstanding.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

His cheekbone was shattered, he nearly lost the sight of the eye, was unable to play for over a year, and never regained his earlier batting ability.

The result was skyrocketing batting averages, including some near. 500 ; Tip O ' Neill of the St. Louis Browns batted. 485 that season, which would still be a major league record if recognized.

The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.

In 1887, the stolen base was given its own individual statistical column in the box score, and was defined for purposes of scoring: "... every base made after first base has been reached by a base runner, except for those made by reason of or with the aid of a battery error ( wild pitch or passed ball ), or by batting, balks or by being forced off.

" Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive and loathed by many of his fellow professionals, but his career batting average of. 366 has yet to be bested.

Lajoie, nearly 40 years old was no longer a top hitter in the league, batting only. 258 in 1914.

Shortstop Ray Chapman, who often crowded the plate, was batting against Carl Mays, who had an unusual underhand delivery.

It was a blockbuster trade that swapped the AL home run co-champion ( Colavito ) for the AL batting champion ( Kuenn ).

Helton was blossoming into a young developed hitter, batting. 320 with 35 homers and 113 RBI ; Castilla, Walker, and Bichette also hit more than 30 homers each.

Helton, in his third full year in the majors, was becoming a bona fide superstar, winning the batting title with a. 372 average and also leading the league with 147 RBI while hitting 42 homers.

Marlins declined and Ramirez was dealt to the Dodgers where he would slug 17 home runs, drive in 53 runs with a. 396 batting average in only 53 games.

* Hanley Ramirez ( 2006 – 2012 )-As the main piece of the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell trade in the 2005 off-season, Ramirez was the face of the franchise during his tenure and a major offensive cog, having a 30-30 season in 2008, winning a batting title and finishing 2nd in MVP voting in 2009, and participating in three All-Star games.

He was 3rd in the AL in slugging percentage (. 600 ) – behind Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig, but ahead of Babe Ruth, and in RBIs ( 139 ), 6th in batting average (. 339 ), 7th in home runs ( 26 ), and 9th in on base percentage (. 404 ).

In 1935 Greenberg led the league in RBIs ( 170 ), total bases ( 389 ), and extra base hits ( 98 ), tied Foxx for the AL title in home runs ( 36 ), was 2nd in the league in doubles ( 46 ), slugging percentage (. 628 ), was 3rd in the league in triples ( 16 ), and in runs scored ( 121 ), 6th in on base percentage (. 411 ) and walks ( 87 ), and was 7th in batting average (. 328 ).

He was 2nd in the league in home runs ( 40 ), doubles ( 49 ), total bases ( 397 ), slugging percentage (. 668 ), and walks ( 102 ), 3rd in on base percentage (. 436 ), and 7th in batting average (. 337 ).

He was second in the league behind Ted Williams in runs scored ( 129 ) and OBP (. 433 ), all while batting. 340 ( 5th-best in the AL ).

He was well rid of her.

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

But all of this was rationalization.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

The grass in the meadows came fast, now that the warm weather was here.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

This was equivalent to 240 mg/lBOD on a 24-hr. basis.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

The pound troy was divisible into 24 pound carats of 240 grains troy each ; the pound carat was divisible into four pound grains of 60 grains troy each ; and the pound grain was divisible into four pound quarters of 15 grains troy each.

According to official figures, although the territory was at the time inhabited by 58, 240 Somali and 48, 270 Afar, only 14, 689 Somali were allowed to register to vote versus 22, 004 Afar.

The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes.

Despite decentralization and the sale of government assets, Cohdefor's remaining debt was US $ 240 million in 1991.

Early in Classical Greece, that the earth is a sphere (" round "), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes ( 276 BCE – 194 BCE ) accurately estimated its circumference.

However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

*" terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants – 240 men, women and children – and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.

Cartoon showing Landis delivering his sentence against Standard Oil, a fine of $ 29, 240, 000, to John D. Rockefeller, who was actually in Cleveland at the time

The maximum fine that Landis could impose was $ 29, 240, 000.

A federal republic was established in May 2008, with only four members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly voting against the change, which ended 240 years of royal rule in Nepal.

Another measure of the difference between these two similarly named but very distinct awards is their per-capita frequency of award: from 1946 to 1961 the average annual incidence of award of the Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 86, 500 adult U. S. citizens ; from 1996 to 2011 the average annual incidence of award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 20, 500, 000 adult U. S. citizens ( so on an annualized per capita basis, about 240 Medals of Freedom have been awarded per one Presidential Medal of Freedom ).

The 968 was powered by an updated version of the 944's straight-4 engine, now displacing 3. 0 L with 104 mm bore, 88 mm stroke and producing 240 PS ( 236 hp / 177 kW ).

The geographical position of Dacia Felix ( another name for the Roman province of Dacia ) made it difficult to defend against the barbarians, and during 240 AD-256 AD, under the attacks of the Carpi and the Goths, Dacia was lost.

A pound was 240 silver pence, and a mark was 160 silver pence ( i. e., 13 shillings and fourpence ).

Sextus Julius Africanus ( c. 160 – c. 240 ) was a Christian traveller and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD.

It is estimated that, between 1493 and 1793, sejms were held 240 times, the total debate-time sum of which was 44 years.

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