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1969 was the first year of divisional baseball, precipitated by the expansion of each league from 10 to 12 teams. [3] The Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots joined the American League. The San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos joined the National League. Before 1969, the first place team in each league advanced directly to the World Series.
The title marked an appropriate end for the greatest individual season in Dodgers history, one in which Ohtani became the first player in history to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases.
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
The nickname "Mets" was adopted: being a natural shorthand to the club's corporate name, the "New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.", [19] [20] [21] which hearkened back to the "Metropolitans" (a New York team in the American Association from 1880 to 1887), [1] and its brevity was advantageous for newspaper headlines.
It was a year ago this week that Shohei Ohtani agreed to a historic 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the largest in sports history – and 64% more than the highest ...
'An amazing day in my life' The 6-foot-2, 222-pound left-handed hitter and thrower turned 18 and decided to forgo the 2021 Korean Baseball Organization amateur territorial draft.
Wilson greets fans alongside Mike Piazza before catching a ceremonial first pitch. William Hayward "Mookie" Wilson (born February 9, 1956) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder and coach who played for the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays over 12 major league seasons.
Jul. 20—ANDOVER — An iPhone. A pair of sandals. And a baseball. Those three items — plus months of bench press and free weights — became the life-changing differences for Sean Sullivan ...