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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Who is THE BEST HITTER in MLB HISTORY?
Pete Rose who was banned from MLB for a life time broke Ty Cobb鈥檚 all-time hit record with his 4,192nd hit..Rose has the Most career hits - 4,256, Most career singles - 3,315,Most career doubles - 746 ,Most consecutive seasons of 100 or more hits - 23 , ,Most career games with 5 or more hits - 10 ,Most career total bases by a switch hitter - 5,752 and He had a 44-game hitting streak..
I think Pete Rose is THE BEST HITTER in MLB HISTORY.. Nobody can argue this as far as productivity in a hitter……………….
#3 all time career hits #1 all time in RBI’s #1 all time in home runs #10 all time in doubles .305 career average .555 career slugging percentage
Played in 3,298 games and had 3,771 career hits. That is amazing considering he had almost 500 more hits than games played in. That is an average of more than a hit a game in a 23 year career. Talk about consistency.
Ty Cobb was a great hitter in a time when pitching was not as dominant as years later. Cy Young was out of his prime when Cobb came into the league and Babe Ruth was the dominant pitcher of Cobb’s time and Ruth only won 94 games and back then they pitched on no rest in between starts sometimes. He should have had many more wins considering how many starts he made. People mention that Ty Cobb won the ”Quadruple Crown” in 1909, that he did, but they failed to mention that he led the league in HR’s with 9. He also led the league in RBI’s with 107. Those are some pretty weak numbers compared to the baseball that has been played over the last 75 years. Not that it matters but he also beat his wife regularly.
Therefore the best hitter (if you don’t know right now) in the history of baseball is………………….. HAMMERIN’ HANK AARON!
This guy that answered below me is crazy. I love Cal Ripken but he was a .275 career hitter. That is far from the best. Ted Williams! Missed 4 years of his prime to 2 wars as a pilot.
FU*K them
David Ortiz Rocks in baseball history
That’s nice, good for you.
I’ll take Ted Williams, and there’s at least 40 more players I’d take before putting Rose into my lineup.
Rose owns the major league record for outs, and owns it by a huge margin.
babe ruth
agree Pete Rose is the best like you said he has the most hits
go here: http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/play…
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Mountain bike history
Riding bicycles off-road goes back to the beginning of cycling itself. Road racing cyclist had long used cyclo-cross as a means of keeping fit during the winter, eventually becoming a sport in its own right with the first world championship in 1950. The French Velo Cross Club Parisien (VCCP) comprised about twenty-one young bicyclists from the outskirts of Paris, who between 1951 and 1956 developed a sport that was remarkably akin to present-day mountain biking. [1] The Roughstuff Fellowship was established in 1955 by off-road cyclists in the UK [2]
However the mountain bike has its origins in the modified heavy cruiser bicycles used for freewheeling down mountain trials in California, U.S.A. in the mid-late 1970s. At the time, there was no such thing as a mountain bike. The earliest ancestors of modern mountain bikes were based around frames from cruiser bicycles such as those made by Schwinn. The Schwinn Excelsior was the frame of choice due to its geometry. Riders used balloon tired cruisers and later modified them with gears and motocross style handlebars. They were called Klunkers. The term would also be used as a verb since mountain biking was not yet in use. They would race down mountain fireroads causing the hub brake to burn the grease inside, requiring the riders to repack the bearings. These were called ”Repack Races” and triggered the first innovations in mountain bike technology as well as the initial interest of the public. The sport originated in the U.S. state of California, on Marin county’s famous mountain, Mount Tamalpais. [3]
It was not until the late 1970s and early 1980s that road bicycle companies started to manufacture mountain bicycles using high-tech lightweight materials. Joe Breeze is normally credited with introducing the first purpose-built mountain bike in 1978. Tom Ritchey then went on to make frames for a company called MountainBikes which was a partnership between Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelley and Tom Ritchey. Tom Ritchey with his skills in frame building also built the original bikes. The company’s 3 partners ran into rough times and finally fell apart at the 1983 trade showTemplate:Fact. The designs were basically road bicycle frames (with heavier tubing and different geometry) with a wider frame and fork to allow for a wider tire. The handlebars were also different in that they were a straight, transverse-mounted handlebar, rather than the dropped, curved handlebars that are typically installed on road racing bicycles. Also, some of the parts on early production mountain bicycles were taken from the BMX bicycle. The first mass-produced mountain bikes were produced by Specialized in 1983 and were copies of Tom Ritchey’s frames, but they were not fillet-brazed, and were made in Japan. They were configured with 15 gears.
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