What single play on a baseball field requires the most thought and strategy?
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Ferguson's 26-year reign stretches beyond those of all coaches in the history of the NBA or NHL. In baseball and the NFL, meanwhile, only four men have stuck around a single team longer: The Philadelphia Athletics' Connie Mack, the New York (baseball) Giants' John McGraw, the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry, and the Green Bay Packers' Curly Lambeau.
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To many, the single season home run record in Major League Baseball was once held by a gentleman of honor, class and dignity.
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If the Baseball Writers Association of America does decide that no one will gain entry into the Hall of Fame this year from their election, it would mark the third time since 1970 the baseball writers have failed to produce a single candidate worthy of enshrinement.
While the home run meant more to the game, the single resonated: Cano is now more than halfway to one of baseball's greatest personal milestones: 3, 000 hits, a mark reached by only 28 players, including teammate, Derek Jeter.
As is now well known, Maris' breaking of Ruth's single-season home run record 37 years ago did not sit well with baseball traditionalists and establishmentarians.
Not a single candidate for induction in 2013 received sufficient support from voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, the Hall announced Wednesday.
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The core of Mr Selig's argument is that baseball is not really a collection of individual teams, but a single national enterprise that, to be successful, must give each participant an equal chance to win every year.
Generally, those that have actually led to lengthy work stoppages share the common trait of a single lightning rod issue, like football players trying to win free agency in the 1980s or baseball owners trying to institute a salary cap in the 1990s.
Owen is one of a handful of baseball players who, despite otherwise solid careers, are remembered as goats thanks to a single play that helped blow a big game for his team.
Many baseball fans already attach a mental asterisk to Bonds' career home run record or Mark McGwire's single-season home run record.
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