Great Baseball Feats, Facts, and Firsts

The all-time winners and losers, old games, new games, stars, scandals, and scores Discover the unconventional facts, the offbeat feats, the historic moments, and the one-of-a-kind characters that have kept baseball flying for more than 150 years. This comprehensive and updated volume features all the need-to-know stats, scores, and strikeouts every die-hard baseball fan wants. Relive baseball's best, through the 2004 postseason and beyond: * Randy Johnson becomes the first pitcher in history to notch both 4,000 career strikeouts and a perfect game-and in the same season, no less! * In winning his 300th game, Greg Maddux raises the membership in this exclusive club to 22 and also raises speculation that he will be the club's final member. * The Red Sox become the first team in history to rally from a 3-0 deficit in postseason play to win the ALCS-and go on to win their first World Series in eighty-six years. All the information that every baseball fan will refer to again and again-before, after, and during games, and over the long winter months when it feels like spring training will never come-is right here in Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Firsts 2005!Nemec, David is the author of 'Great Baseball Feats, Facts, and Firsts', published 0000 under ISBN 9780451214744 and ISBN 0451214749.