Only four players have hit more homers in their first 250 career games than Rudy York, and that included four grand slams for the Tigers in 1938, his second full season. Scooter Gennett, meanwhile, had homered just 35 times over his first four big league seasons before he became the first...
As of February 2024, Margaret Court held the record for the most women's Grand Slam tournament victories. Hailing from Australia, Court won 24 Grand Slams in an illustrious career which spanned the 1960s and 1970s. Until recently, Court's record applied to both men's and women's...
ARLINGTON --Adolis Garcíabuilt his career by embracing the extremes. After all, he is “El Bombi,”the American League Championship Series MVP; a villain booed mercilessly like he was Michael Jordan in Houston; the rare player that can strike out four times and then smash a grand slam; an...
1 in the ATP, has won four grand slams since turning 30. And that, you guessed it, ties a record. --Dan Hajducky Annika Sorenstam LPGA Dominance Rating: 10.3 Stop us if you've heard this before: How can a golfer who hasn't picked up a club professionally in the past ...
In that same 1936 game, he became the first major league player to hit two grand slams in one game. Lazzeri was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1991. Birthplace: California Dig Deeper 23 Athletes with Epilepsy Also ranks #32 on The...
"Howard the Duck" is a lot of things. It's the first movie based on a Marvel Comics-created character since "Captain America" thrilled kids with a black-and-white serial in 1944. It's also the first bomb of George Lucas' career. And it's the only movie, or at least the only mai...
Filed under Grand SlamsJanuary 15, 2014 Un-Australian Heat Australian Open, Days 1 -3 The persistent theme through the first three days of the 2014 Australian Open was heat, evident in the desperate struggles of all players to complete their assigned matches, and the even mightier struggle of...
Serena also made individual history in England, nailing her 22nd grand-slam singles title to tie tennis great Steffi Graf for the most grand slams in the Open era (Margaret Court, who has 24 total grand slam wins, is next in Serena’s sights). Also, to the delight of fans, she ...
If Nadal can win most of his nineteen Grand Slams with an RM on his wrist, then it’s safe to assume that it can withstand being worn as a daily beater. Availability Price The TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 300 GMT is available as of now and is part of the permanent collection. ...
and Australian Opens, and even Steffi Graf, the winner of 22 Grand Slam singles titles in her career, had fallen multiple times to Seles in the course of this run. Monica looked like she would go on to win many more Grand Slams—and if not for the incident that took place between her...