Baseball Records Registry: The Best And Worst Single-Day Performances And The Stories Behind Them

Baseball Records Registry: The Best and Worst Single-Day Performances and the Stories Behind Them

On May 1, 1920, the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins battled to a 1-1 tie--after 26 innings, the longest major league game ever. While the Braves-Robins game featured impeccable pitching and fielding, the same cannot be said of the Kansas City Athletics game against the Chicago White Sox on April 22, 1959. On that day, the Chisox scored 11 runs in the seventh inning on only one base hit. These historic games and 246 others are fully covered in this unique reference work. Through meticulous research the author has unearthed many heretofore unknown baseball records and has corrected many others that have been erroneously reported for decades. For each game, there is a narrative that details the records and the personalities behind them, along with a comprehensive boxscore and photos of the games hero or goat. Many entries also include tables and charts, as well as contemporary newspaper cartoons or artwork. Fully indexed.