Throughout modern baseball, a few core statistics have been traditionally referenced — batting average, RBI, and home runs.

The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers.

Many modern baseball theorists believe that a new pitch will swing the balance of power back to the pitcher.

* Ralph Andreano's 1965 book, No Joy in Mudville laments the dearth of heroes in modern baseball.

In addition, Young pitched three no-hitters, including the third perfect game in baseball history, first in baseball's " modern era ".

It was there that Young had pitched the first game of the 1903 World Series, as well as the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

There is also the " inside-the-park " home run, increasingly rare in modern baseball, where the batter reaches home safely while the baseball is in play on the field.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

* 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

At the time of his 200th win in April, Martínez had the highest winning percentage of any 200-game winner in modern baseball history ( he eventually slipped. 003 behind Whitey Ford ).

* 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

* May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football ( collegiate and professional ), and also played professional baseball and basketball.

One of the first major films to use anachronism was Buster Keaton's The Three Ages, which included the invention of Stone Age baseball and modern traffic problems in classical Rome.

Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.

Cartwright was officially declared the inventor of the modern game of baseball by the 83rd United States Congress on June 3, 1953.

New York City librarian Robert W. Henderson documented Cartwright's contributions to baseball in his 1947 book Bat, Ball, and Bishop, which Congress cited in recognizing Cartwright as the inventor of the modern game.

The primary complaint is that touting Cartwright as the " true " inventor of the modern game was an effort to find an alternative single individual to counter the " invention " of baseball by Abner Doubleday.

It was, however, a frustrating year for the polished professional, who had begun his career with a winner and found himself playing for the losingest team in modern baseball history ( with a record of 40-120 ).

Other amenities included Olympic-sized public pools, parks, " greenbelts ", baseball fields and playgrounds, and a shopping center located in Tullytown borough that was considered large and modern at the time of its construction ( and in fact was the largest east of the Mississippi ).

Much contemporary use of the words venal or venality is applied to modern professional athletes, particularly baseball, basketball and American football players in the United States and soccer players all around the world.

It was the first modern baseball stadium, as it was the first to be built entirely of reinforced concrete.

Most Chinese martial arts schools still train extensively with the dao, seeing it as a powerful conditioning tool and a versatile weapon, with self defense techniques transferable to similarly sized objects more commonly found in the modern world, such as canes, baseball or cricket bats, for example.

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.

It was no great feat, of course ; but he was the first recorded Alpinist of modern times, the first to climb a mountain merely for the delight of looking from its top.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

In the 1984 county season, Hadlee completed a feat rare in the modern age by doing the county ' double ' - scoring 1000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season.

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.

The feat has been achieved 23 times in the history of major league baseball — 21 times since the modern era began in 1900,

This completed a string of five consecutive clear wins of major tournaments, a feat that had not previously been accomplished in modern chess.

In the preface to the drama he mentions that he was asked to set the text to music only one month before the performance ; he composed the music in two weeks, and copied the parts and rehearsed it in the remaining two weeks, a feat which would be impressive even in the modern age.

This was an enormous feat of engineering, compared even to today's modern standards, and it is still possible to make out the original loops and turns of the Clwyd using satellite imagery.

Although all programs were once live, the use of video tape means that very few television programs in the modern era have ever attempted such a feat.

Three world champions won world titles in three different divisions, a feat no single fighter had accomplished since 1903 ; Tony Canzoneri, Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong cemented their place in boxing history by achieving this feat ; Armstrong was the first, and will be the only, world champion to reign in three divisions at the same time: modern boxing rules ban boxers from reigning in more than one division at a time.

However, in the modern era, with outfields less spacious, the feat has become increasingly rare, happening only a handful of times each season.

Youkilis became just the third modern major leaguer ( since 1901 ) ever to bat over. 300 with more than 100 RBIs during a season in which he spent at least 30 games at both first and third base ; St. Louis ' Albert Pujols ( 2001 ) and Cleveland's Al Rosen ( 1954 ) are the only other players to accomplish the feat.

The canal opened in 1894, and has been described as " a feat without precedent in modern history ".

Furthermore, aside from Woods, he is the first golfer to win three of six consecutive majors in 25 years, since Tom Watson accomplished the feat in 1983, something that only four other players – Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Lee Trevino had previously achieved since the modern " Grand Slam " of four majors began to be recognized in the 1950s.

Northerly's weight carrying feat eclipsed Sydeston's modern day record of 57 kilos ( set in 1990 ), while Fields Of Omagh won two Cox Plates over the next four years.

A rare feat in the modern era of baseball, Herr remains the last NL player to drive in 100 or more runs in a season while hitting fewer than 10 home runs.

Acting as the climax to the lengthy chase sequence, the jump manages to achieve a height of 30 ' over a 128 ' in distance — a feat which would not be easily replicable without the use of modern CGI.

He is considered a military visionary and a distinguished combat commander, famous for having commanded the Gulf War coalition VII Corps in the highly successful " Left Hook " maneuver against fourteen Iraqi divisions, a number of whom were Iraqi Republican Guard, defeating or forcing the retreat of each with fewer than 100 American casualties lost to enemy action, a feat unmatched in modern warfare.

All on board electronics were protected by a water-resistant clear plastic case, meaning the car could be driven through water without damage-a feat very few modern R / C vehicles can perform.