Rogers Hornsby

Rogers Hornsby

Player Card | Career Stats
CAREER BATTING STATS
G H R HR RBI BA SLG
2259 2930 1579 301 1584 .358 .577
252 Results for rogers hornsby

Tigers, Twins and my award picks

Buster Olney

Carl Pavano seemed almost out of breath Sunday night, naturally, at the end of a day in which he and the Twins had won a game they had to win, after t...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009

Teagarden's ninth-inning, go-ahead single sinks Mariners

Associated Press

Taylor Teagarden hit a go-ahead single and the Texas Rangers scored three runs with two outs in the ninth inning to beat the Seattle Mariners 7-4 Friday night.

Recap | Box Score | Conversation | October 02, 2009

Three Strikes: Albert's trifecta edition

Jayson Stark

...exclusive list: • Ted Williams (1940s, AL): .356 avg., 234 HRs, 893 RBIs. • Rogers Hornsby (1920s, NL): .382 avg., 250 HRs, 1,153 RBIs. • Honus Wagner (1900s, NL): .351...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 21, 2009

Cracks in the AL contenders

Buster Olney

The count was full, the bases were loaded and Brian Fuentes fired a fastball at the lowest part of the strike zone Wednesday night, and when home plat...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2009

For a night, Penny is prime currency

Buster Olney

Mike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009

Three Strikes: Sunday insanity edition

Jayson Stark

STRIKE ONE -- TRIFECTA DEPT. So much bizarre stuff happened in Sunday's New York Mets-Philadelphia Phillies game at Citi Field, cyberspace barely has...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 24, 2009

Sandwich Awards: Phillies trio has the munchies

Jayson Stark

...a hit in one season. The current record is 135, held by the awesome quintet of Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein, Wade Boggs, Derek Jeter and Ichiro himself. At Ichiro's current rate, if he...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 21, 2009

Steroid Era gets a little less fun

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...runs than Jim Rice, Dale Murphy, Al Kaline, Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, Rogers Hornsby and a bunch of other Hall of Famers hit during their entire careers. In fact, he...

Blog | June 17, 2009

Stats Don't Lie

Rob "Stats" Guerrera, ESPNRadio.com

Rob "Stats Guerrera brings his trademark negativity from Mike & Mike in the Morning to ESPNRadio.com.

Story | Conversation | March 20, 2009

Pujols has two homers, including fifth slam of year, in Cards' victory

Associated Press

Albert Pujols hit a grand slam in the 10th inning for his second homer of the game and the St. Louis Cardinals rallied to beat the New York Mets 12-7 on Tuesday night.

Recap | Box Score | Conversation | August 04, 2009

Baseball's Triple Crown

ESPN Kids Writer

They say that good things come in threes. That's true in professional baseball, especially when it comes to the Triple Crown. Winning the Triple Crown is one...

Story | Conversation | July 21, 2009

Pujols pushing for Triple Crown history

Tim Kurkjian, ESPN The Magazine

Winning the Triple Crown is perhaps the most difficult thing to accomplish in baseball. But Albert Pujols has a legitimate chance to do it this season.

Story | Conversation | July 20, 2009

A visit with a living legend

...the career batting average of Cobb. "Williams hit .344, and that wasn't as good as Rogers Hornsby, either." He's right, of course. Hornsby ranks second all-time. The man, wearing a sweater...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 15, 2009

Steroids shouldn't preclude the HOF

Zev Chafets, ESPN The Magazine

Zev Chafets, author of Cooperstown Confidential, provides historic precedent on why steroid users shouldn't be exclusively kept out of the Hall of Fame.

Story | Conversation | May 21, 2009

Manny fallout: no excuses left

Howard Bryant, ESPN.com

Somebody has always had an excuse, a way to dismiss the latest steroid revelation in baseball. But no longer. Not after Manny Ramirez's suspension.

Story | Conversation | May 07, 2009