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Major League Baseball player Madison Bumgarner hails from Hudson and author Jan Karon attended school here during her elementary years and John Wilson was recreation director for many years as well.
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* 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
* Jackie Robinson Day ( Major League Baseball )
He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
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* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
* Adrian Cann ( born 1980 ), Canadian Major League Soccer player
* Adrian Gonzalez ( born 1982 ), Mexican-American Major League Baseball player
Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
* 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike.
* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs
* Brian Bruney, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.
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The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).
They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League.
In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.
A $ 130 million franchise fee was paid to Major League Baseball.
Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".
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Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.
By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.
Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.
After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.
During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.
The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".
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To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.
An OPS of. 900 or higher in Major League Baseball puts the player in the upper echelon of hitters.
The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball ( MLB ) award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.
Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.
In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).
George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).
* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.
As of September 30, Johnson has recorded 50 saves, the tenth player to do so in Major League history.
* George Scott ( first baseman ), Major League Baseball player nicknamed " Boomer "
* List of Major League Baseball player – managers
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* Dutch Leonard ( left-handed pitcher ), Major League Baseball player
* Hack Simmons ( 1885 – 1942 ), Major League Baseball player
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.
* Matt Kata ( born 1978 ), Major League Baseball player
On August 15, Thome hit 599th and 600th homerun at Comerica Park to become the eighth player in Major League history to hit 600 homeruns, joining Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez.
* 1943 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player ( d. 1990 )
* Nemo Gaines, U. S. Naval officer and Major League Baseball player
* 1868 – Dan Burke, Major League Baseball player ( d. 1933 )
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