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unusual facts about Double play


Double play

Records of double plays were not kept regularly until 1933 in the National League and 1939 in the American League.


Clint Compton

Compton then induced Roger Freed to ground into a run-scoring double play before Bill Robinson popped out to Carmen Fanzone for the final out of Compton's appearance, and as it would turn out, his major league career.

Mick Kelleher

That August 7, in the second game of a doubleheader against the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field, Kelleher, at 5-9 and 170 pounds, responded to Dave Kingman's hard slide into him on a double play attempt (Kingman was apparently angered over being hit by a Steve Renko pitch) by jumping on the 6-6, 210-pound Kingman's back and pummeling him with blows; the ensuing bench-clearing brawl resulted in the ejections of both players.


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1979 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Pete Rose pinch-hit in the sixth and bounced into a double play, and then entered the game, replacing Garvey at first and becoming the first player ever to appear in the All-Star Game at five different positions.

2004 Japan Series

In the middle of the infield, the Dragons were led by the amazing double-play tandem of Hirokazu Ibata and Masahiro Araki.

Central Institute for the Deaf

After Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals was hit on the head with a baseball while trying to break up a double play in Game 4 of the 1934 World Series, Goldstein arranged for Dean to have a hearing test at the institute.

Steve Bilko

During his brief stay with the Cubs, announcer Bert Wilson placed Bilko at the end of what he hoped would be a soon-to-be-famous double play combination of Ernie Banks, Gene Baker and Steve Bilko.