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In that season, he batted. 291 with a league-best 125 RBI and 47 home runs, leading the team to the playoffs and winning the National League's Most Valuable Player award, the first by a Giant since Willie McCovey in.
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Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.
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.
Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.
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.
Cesar Cedeno led the club with 81 RBIs and the league with 40 doubles, but batted just. 264 and had 102 strikeouts in his second season with the Astros.
was Bench's finest statistical season ; he became the youngest man ( 22 ) to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award, hit. 293, led the National League with 45 home runs and a franchise-record 148 Runs batted in, and helped the Reds win the National League West Division.
Clemente was promoted to the team's starting lineup the following season and batted. 288 as the team's leadoff hitter, and by season's end, on February 19, 1954, Zorilla had signed Clemente to a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Triple-A affiliate, the Montreal Royals.
Early in the 1960 season, Clemente accumulated 25 runs batted in ( RBIs ) in 27 games in May and finished the month at. 353 to lead all National League batters.
Sosa batted. 260 with 8 home runs and 25 RBIs in his first season with the Cubs.
Sanchez ended the 2009 season batting. 293 with 41 runs batted in and 22 walks.
Although Williams hit. 344, his power and runs batted in were down from the previous season, with 23 home runs and 113 RBIs.
From May 17 to June 1, Williams batted. 536, with his season average going above. 400 on May 25 and then continuing up to. 430.
On his first game back, Williams hit a home run, and he batted. 356 in 320 at bats on the season, lacking enough at bats to win the batting title over Al Kaline, who batted. 340 in 1955, while hitting 28 home runs and driving in 83 runs, while being named the " Comeback Player of the Year ".
That season Cobb was 18 years old, the youngest player in the league by almost a year, and he batted. 240 in 41 games, enough to win a lucrative $ 1, 500 contract from the Tigers for 1906.
He finished the 1907 season with a league high. 350 batting average, 212 hits, 49 steals and 119 runs batted in ( RBI ).
Rose batted only. 245 with 121 hits, and found himself benched during the latter part of the ' 83 season, appearing periodically to play and pinch hit.
Though he only batted. 259 for the Expos, his average jumped to. 365 with the Reds, as he managed them to a 19 – 22 record for the remainder of the season.
In the entire history of Major League Baseball through the 2008 season, only 57 non-pitchers are known to have batted right and thrown left, and Henderson is easily the most successful player in this exclusive group.
He batted. 345 in 134 games during his record-setting season with Modesto.
He batted. 430 for the month of August ( 30 games ), and his season average was at. 403 with five weeks to go.
During the 1991 – 92 Australian season, Taylor batted consistently in a 4 – 0 series victory over India.
With the Red Sox battling as part of a four-team pennant race, Yastrzemski hit. 513 ( 23 hits in 44 at bats ) with five home runs and 16 runs batted in over the last two weeks of the season, and finished a mere one game ahead of the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins.
He finished the season with a. 270 average along with 11 home runs and 53 runs batted in to earn his third Silver Slugger Award.
Santiago ended the season with a career-high 30 home runs along with 85 runs batted in for the last place Phillies.
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The forthcoming season in Pittsburgh also promises to be of unusual interest.
Of course, I shall conduct Mahler and Bruckner works in the coming season, as usual.
The season, between spring and summer, belongs to life in its carefree aspect.
The economy seems to be sailing along on an even keel and the 1961 hurricane season and auto strikes are at an end so they can't be blamed in November.
He got off to an exceptional start last season, and under the circumstances probably won't duplicate it.
Richards got a great performance out of his combination of youth and experience last season.
It seems that open season upon veterans' hospitalization is once more upon us.
Unfortunately the cafes might not make enough money to support themselves during the off season.
So far this season, Broadway's premieres have included twice as many adaptations and imports as original American stage plays.
There never was a season before, but now they want to thin 'em out on account of the drouth ''.
Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.
For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
Pick the flowers, keep the soil dampened, and each of the pegged-down branches will take root and become a little plant and go on blooming for the rest of the season.
Once you become an avocado fan, you will look forward to the season each year with eager anticipation.
-- After 52 rainless days, moisture finally came to Del Mar, resulting in but one workout during the week for most of the horses, and leaving us with less than half our total average rainfall during the season.
But no one complained when they wound up, regardless of season, in venison pies.
Many hours of spring cleaning will be saved, however, if you remove the main drain grate when you close the pool season in the fall.
Fishing interest calls for a check of the species found, quantity and size, the season they are available, and the stocking program of the fish commission.
The direction, velocity, and season of these winds should be noted as to just how they will affect the recreation use and your maintenance and operation of the area.
Close to two million game birds were harvested on 1,500 commercial and private shooting preserves, and on State Game Commission-controlled upland game areas during the 1960-61 season.
The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.
Occasionally, you may come across one or two bumblebees in the cold season, when you are turning over sods in your garden, but you have to be a really keen observer to see them at all.
males and mating females do not emerge until later in the season.
The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2,000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the scavenging larvae of certain beetles and moths.
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