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Nolan Ryan had the longest career in baseball history that lasted 27 years. He pitched for four different teams: the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.[
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On August 4, 1982, Joel Youngblood became the only player in history to get hits for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. He drove in two runs with a single in the third inning for the Mets in an afternoon game at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs, was replaced in center field by Mookie Wilson, and traded to the Montreal Expos. Youngblood rushed to Philadelphia in order to be with his new team, and hit a seventh-inning single. Interestingly, the two pitchers he hit safely against, Ferguson Jenkins of the Cubs and Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies, are both in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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The Minnosota Twins were the first team in major-league history to turn two triple plays in the same game, third-to-second-to-first, against the Boston Red Sox on July 18, 1990. Unfortunately they lost to the Red Sox 1 - 0
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While Jimmy Rollins had the most at bats in a single season with 716, the career at bats record is held by Pete Rose with 14,053 over a 24 year span with three teams
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At a 1978 Texas Rangers–Baltimore Orioles game, George “Doc” Medich (who had been a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh before becoming a professional baseball player) saved the life of a fan in the stands who was suffering from a heart attack.
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On July 27, 1930,Cincinnati Reds Ken Ash earned a win against the Chicago Cubs with just one inning of relief and with him only throwing one pitch. He came in in the sixth inning with two Cubs on base. His first pitch resulted in a wild 6-5-2-3-5 triple play. Ken Ash was pinch hit for in the bottom of the sixth and Cincinnati scored four runs to take the lead which they held. He remains the only pitcher to win a game throwing only one pitch.