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Bobby Cox, career leader in ejections, with 162. Below is a list of most ejected managers in Major League Baseball history as of the end of the 2024 season. Former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox holds the record with 162. [1] Cox, John McGraw, and Leo Durocher are the only managers with at least 100 career ejections. [2] [3]
Ejections and penalties are also incurred due to interference of a play. For example, if an ordinary foul is called (one blast of whistle) and the defensive player does not disengage, an ejection can be incurred. If an ejected player fails to promptly make their way to the penalty box, the offensive team will be awarded a penalty shot.
Gaylord Perry, who pitched in Major League Baseball for 22 seasons, authored Me and the Spitter, detailing how he doctored balls with saliva and other substances during his career Baseball personnel have cheated by deliberately violating or circumventing the game's rules to gain an unfair advantage against an opponent.
Money problems—the escalation of his best players' salaries (due both to their success and to competition from a new, well-financed third major league of the Federal League in 1914–1915), combined with a steep drop in attendance due to World War I—led to the gradual dispersal of his second championship team, the 1910–1914 team, who he ...
Jerry Blake Layne (born September 28, 1958) is an American umpire in Major League Baseball who has worked in the National League between 1989 and 1999, and throughout both major leagues since 2000. He wore uniform number 24 in the NL, but when MLB merged the AL and NL umpiring staffs in 2000, Layne was forced to switch to number 26, as AL ...
Major League Baseball's first immaculate inning was accomplished by John Clarkson of the Boston Beaneaters against the Philadelphia Quakers on June 4, 1889; [2] and the most recent by Ryan Pepiot of the Tampa Bay Rays on September 18, 2024. Use of the term "immaculate inning" first appeared in newspaper reporting after 2000.
(Top) 1 General. 2 Batting. 3 Pitching. 4 Baserunning. 5 ... List of Major League Baseball records includes the following lists of the superlative statistics of Major ...
The World Series is the culminating best-of-seven championship series of major league baseball, and has been played since 1903, with the exception of 1904 and 1994. It is played between the National League and American League champions.