The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, have hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have quite reached expectations.

In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen home runs, a closing spurt never matched.

When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

Hurricanes occasionally hit the islands, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

Hurricanes occasionally hit the islands, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

As of the end of the 2008 season, players who have hit 115 or more career sacrifice flies:

Successful teams often combine both styles, with a speedy runner or two complementing hitters with power, such as the 2005 White Sox, who despite playing " small ball ", still hit 200 home runs that season.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

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.

Guerrero hit 29 home runs and had a. 300 batting average in the 2010 season with the Texas Rangers.

After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.

Andres Galarraga, a year after winning the batting title, hit 31 homers, and teammate Dante Bichette hit 27 ; projected over a 162-game season, the two would have hit 43 and 37 homers, respectively.

The quartet combined to hit 139 homers in the 1995 season, with Bichette leading the way with 40.

However, outfielder Ellis Burks picked up the slack with an All-Star season, batting. 344 with 40 homers and 128 RBI — one of three Rockies to hit forty or more homers that season, along with Galarraga and Castilla.

The team set a major-league record by scoring 658 runs at home on the season, and Burks and Bichette became the first pair of teammates since Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson of the 1987 New York Mets to both steal 30 bases and hit 30 homers in the same season.

In 2004, the Rockies acquired Vinny Castilla, who had been with the club for its inaugural 1993 season, once again, and he hit 35 homers.

No punts hit the scoreboard during the entire 2009 regular season during an actual game.

In addition, late-season call up Jeremy Hermida, a highly-regarded prospect who has been compared to the Atlanta Braves ' Jeff Francoeur, hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first major-league at-bat and a game-tying two-run homer in the last game of the season.

* Cody Ross ( 2006 – 2010 ) — Ross had a three homer game in his first season with the Marlins and in his five years with the Marlins hit. 265 with 80 home runs and 297 RBIs.

However he began to break into being a regular starter in 1981 and forging a prolific strike-force alongside Alan Smith, Lineker hit 19 goals in all competitions in the 1981 – 82 season.

He hit 58 home runs in 1938, equaling Jimmie Foxx's mark for the most home runs in one season by any player between 1927 ( when Babe Ruth set a record of 60 ) and 1961 ( when Roger Maris surpassed it ).

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.