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At the time of his retirement in 1975, Gibson ranked second only to Walter Johnson among major-league pitchers in career strikeouts. When describing Gibson’s career, his former all-star teammate Tim McCarver jokingly remarked, "Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.”
Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred."
Since then, Gibson not only holds the new record for career batting average, but also the records for career OPS with 1.177 and slugging percentage with .718, as well as the single-season records in all three categories. Gibson set the both single-season records for OPS and slugging in the 1937 season with 1.474 and .974, respectively, and the ...
Total career innings pitched. Current total in parentheses * ... Bob Gibson* 3,884.1 47 Sad Sam Jones: 3,883 48 Jerry Koosman: 3,839.1 49 Bob Feller* 3,827 50
Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 ...
1 Batting titles. 2 On-base percentage. ... The following lists describe which players hold the most titles in a career for a particular category. ... 4 Bob Gibson ...
Brock's .391 World Series batting average is the highest for anyone who played over 20 series games. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] His 14 stolen bases in World Series play are also a series record. [ 39 ] Brock's 13 hits in the 1968 World Series tied a single-series record previously made by Bobby Richardson in 1964 against his Cardinals' team, and was in turn ...
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career batters faced. In baseball statistics, Batters Faced (BF), also known as Total Batters Faced (TBF), is the number of batters who made a plate appearance before the pitcher in a game or in a season. This is a list of the top 100 leaders. Cy Young is the all-time leader, facing 29,565 batters in his career ...