There have been some super slugger characters throughout the history of Major League Baseball. These players are also generally the most revered by fans because they can win the game at any point for the team. Great pitchers can give the team a great lead but often they are swapped out by the middle of the game when the great sluggers are called on to perform.
This is a list of the greatest sluggers in Major League history. So what makes a big slugger? Just one thing: home runs. Forget about finesse, a great batting average or on-base percentage: sluggers take it out of the park.
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May 1874: Visiting athletes from McGill University in Montreal introduce Harvard athletes to a rugby-like game that becomes the basis of American football. The next year Harvard introduces the game to Yale. A student named Walter Camp soon joins the Yale team and later becomes a coach who helps to standardize the rules of the game, including the system of downs.
There have been a number of ice hockey injuries that exceed even what you’d expect from a league that freely allows fighting and clashing of all sorts. Here is a countdown of the all-time top 10 bizarre hockey incidents:
The 1940-1946 Chicago Bears
Of all the sports that are played, basketball rules and regulations are probably the easiest to learn. The official basketball rules center around the smaller details of the game because the major rules involved are very simple. This is one of the reasons that basketball is so popular as a street sport since the rules are straightforward and consistent at all levels of the game.