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What are some of your favorite baseball oddities. Here are some of mine.

Don Mattingly hit six grand slams in one season, a major league record. Those were the only grand slams he hit in his 15-year career.

Also, Mattingly played all 15 seasons with the Yankees and did not get to the playoffs until his final season. After he retired, the Yankees won four of the next five World Series.

In the '90s and early 2000s the Braves won 14 consecutive division titles and won the World Series only once during that time. The Marlins, who were in the Braves' division for most of that time, have never won a division title, and did not even exist when the Braves' streak started, won the World Series twice during that time.

Scott Munninghoff is the only MLB player with both a 1.000 batting average and a 0.00 ERA.

• Team: Philadelphia Phillies, 1980
• Games pitched: 4
• Innings: 4.0
• ERA: 0.00
• At-bats: 1
• Hits: 1
• Batting average: 1.000

I've still always been fascinated by a pitcher named Scott Ruffcorn from the 1990's. He pitched in 30 games in his Major League career (including one I attended).

His team's record in those games: 0-30.

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Joel Youngblood got hits for two different teams in two different cities against two future Hall of Fame pitchers - Fergie Jenkins and Steve Carlton — all in one day.

Nolan Ryan played for all four 1961-62 expansion franchises (Mets, Angels, Astros, Rangers) and only those teams in his long career.

The Dodgers have won their division in 12 of the last 13 seasons. They won 106 games in the year they didn't win it. The Giants won 107 games that year, and that was the only season in the last nine years that they were over .500.

The Milwaukee Brewers are the only team to have been a part of four different divisions: The AL West, AL East, AL Central and NL Central...

Steve FInley played for six different teams in the NL West: All five current NL West teams, plus the Houston Astros when they were a part of that division...

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Anyone who played their Major League career exclusively in the National League between the years 1977 and 1992 played all of their regular season games in just 12 Major League ballparks. No interleague, no stupid games played in funny places...

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littlebeast13 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 24, 2025 8:22 pm

Anyone who played their Major League career exclusively in the National League between the years 1977 and 1992 played all of their regular season games in just 12 Major League ballparks. No interleague, no stupid games played in funny places...

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And in pretty much that same era, four teams... the Cardinals, Pirates, Phillies and Expos, all played 120 of their 162 games each year on artificial turf!

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Let’s add a new one. First ever first pinch hit grand slam in the WS.

Woooooot!!! Barger!

Harry Chiti, Brad Gulden, Dickie Noles, and John McDonald are the only four players in MLB history to have done what?

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been traded for themselves. Those trades where someone is traded for "a player to be named later"...that's how it happened.

I always am intrigued by pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm hitting a home run in his very first MLB at bat, and then never hitting another in more than 400 at bats over a 20-year career.