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Sep 1, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Some of the strangest batting stance in MLB history. A 🧵 👇
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Aug 29, 2024 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Let’s keep it rolling. A thread involving insane stats from the legendary Ted Williams.
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Ted Williams was batting .400 coming into the last two games of the season, a doubleheader. His coach asked him to sit those games out so he could keep his historic average. He declined and proceeded to go 6-8 in that doubleheader and raised his average .406
Aug 28, 2024 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Time to share some of Rickey Henderson’s craziest stats. A thread you’ll want to check out. 🧵👇
Aug 20, 2024 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Time to create a “Crazy Barry Bonds stats” Thread.
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From 2001 until his retirement(2007) Barry Bonds drew a walk 1086 times, and swung and missed 686 times
Aug 10, 2024 • 20 tweets • 2 min read
Craziest Tony Gwynn stats. A thread you won’t want to miss
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Tony Gwynn career 4-hit games: 45. Career 2-strikeout games: 34.
Jul 25, 2024 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Some of the greatest baseball stadium quirks.
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Foul Territory at Oakland Coliseum
Jul 21, 2024 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Crazy Babe Ruth stats that sound fake but are very real.
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From 1919-1933 (15 years), Ruth hit 6 more home runs than Willie Mays hit in 23 years
Jul 19, 2024 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Best baseball ballparks that aren’t part of Major League Baseball.
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Appalachian State’s Beaver Field
Jul 7, 2024 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
MLB players with names that sound fake but are very real.