Statistics from Outer Space!

This is a weekly feature on my radio program. I have edited all other sports out of it and here are the baseball ones:



1.) Hank Aaron compiled 6856 total bases in his career. Multiplied by 90 feet and converted into mileage, that is 116.864 miles.



2.) CC Sabathia led the majors with 3816 pitches thrown this season. Given the fact that an average pitch travels sixty and a half feet, that translates into a combined 43.725 miles traveled by Sabathia thron balls, and that doesn't even include warmups or pickoff attempts.



3.) Top ten under six feet tall home run hitters:

1. Willie Mays 660 - 5'11"

2. Harmon Killebrew 573 - 5'11"

3. Mickey Mantle 536 - 5'11"

4. Mel Ott 511 - 5'9"

5. Gary Sheffield 499 - 5'11"

6. Carl Yastrzemski 452 - 5'11"

7. Yogi Berra 358 - 5'8"

8. Dick Allen 351 - 5'11"

9. Willie Horton 325 - 5'11"

10. Ron Cey 312 - 5'10"



and top 7 who are 6'6" or taller:

1. Dave Winfield 465 - 6'6"

2. Dave Kingman 442 - 6'6"

3. Frank Howard 382 - 6'7"

4. Darryl Strawberry 335 - 6'6"

5. Richie Sexson 306 - 6'8"

6. Adam Dunn 278 - 6'6"

7. Tony Clark - 247 - 6'7"



4.) Pete Rose made an ML record 10,328 outs during his career. That's 382.52 complete 27 out games worth of outs.



5.) Satchel Paige tossed three innings of shutout baseball 9/25/65 on his 21,631st day alive.

Bill Monbouquette holds the record for striking out against the oldest pitcher (21,631 days old)

Carl Yastrzemski holds the record for getting a hit against the oldest pitcher (21,631 days old)



6.) The oldest man to get a hit was Jim O'Rourke, in 1904 at the age of 19,746 days old.



7.) Reggie Jackson struck out 2597 times. That's 7791 swings and misses. If you were to go to a batting cage at 15 swings for a dollar, you'd have to pay $520 to swing and miss that much.



8.) In 2003, the Dodgers paid Darren Dreifort $9.4 M

In 2004, the Mets paid Mo Vaughn $17,166,667

In 2005, the Dodgers paid Dreifort another $13.4 M

In 2006, the Yankees paid Carl Pavano $8 M,

The Astros paid Jeff Bagwell $19,369,019

Mike Hampton was paid $14,503,543

In 2007, Hampton collected another $14.5 M

Not a single game was played by any of the above in those given seasons.

$96,339,229 for nothing... and your chicks for free.



9.) In 1952, Virgil Trucks of the Tigers, was 5-19. Three of the wins were shutouts, two of the shutouts were no-hitters.



10.) Top 10 home run hitters to attend USC.
1. Mark McGwire 464
2. Dave Kingman 442
3. Fred Lynn 306
4. Bret Boone 252
5. Geoff Jenkins 221
6. Ron Fairly 215
7. Jacque Jones 165
8. Roy Smalley 163
9. Steve Kemp 130
10. Aaron Boone 126

...And the top 10 who attended Arizona St.
1. Barry Bonds 762
2. Reggie Jackson 563
3. Sal Bando 242
4. Rick Monday 241
5. Bob Horner 218
6. Alvin Davis 160
7. Hubie Brooks 149
8. Ken Phelps 123
9. Mike Devereaux 105
10. Ken Landreaux 91

11.) the top 10 lefty home run surrenderers:
1. Jamie Moyer 464
2. Frank Tanana 448
3. Warren Spahn 434
4. Steve Carlton 414
5. David Wells 407
6. Jim Kaat 395
7. Randy Johnson 392
8. Tom Glavine 356
9. Mickey Lolich 347
10. Kenny Rogers 339

12.) Top 9 Canadian HR hitters
1. Larry Walker (L) 383
2. Matt Stairs (L) 254
3. Jeff Heath (L) 194
4. Jason Bay (R) 149
5. Justin Morneau (L) 133
6. Corey Koskie (L) 124
7. George Selkirk (L) 108
8. Pete Ward (L) 98
9. Terry Puhl (L) 62

8 of 9 are Lefties. Crazy Canadians