• As a player, he never lived up to his promise and would serve in utility roles for the Dodgers, Angels, Padres, Mets and Mariners before retiring in 1979. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • He had a career high 30 home runs in 1979, and led the American League with 22 home runs in 1981, the year Grich won his only Silver Slugger Award. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Thrice he was an American League All-Star with the Angels in 1979, 1980, and 1982. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • He had 12 home runs as an American League All-Star in 1979, and a career-high 29 home runs in 1987. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • His singles from that decade include perhaps his biggest smash, "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" from 1970, "Amazing Love" from 1973, "We Could" from 1974, "Hope You're Feelin' Me (Like I'm Feelin' You)" from 1975, "My Eyes Can Only See as Far as You" from 1976, and "You're My Jamaica" from 1979. (musicianguide.com)
  • In 1979, as the Orioles won the American League pennant, Skaggs batted .248 and appeared in both the ALCS and World Series. (blogspot.com)
  • His 36 homers in 1979 helped propel the Angels to a division title, their first, also winning an MVP award. (halosheaven.com)
  • Baumgarten posted a win-loss record of 13-8 in 1979, and was sixth in the American League with three shutouts . (wikipedia.org)
  • [2] He finished fourth in American League Rookie of the Year voting, and was voted to the 1979 Topps All-Star Rookie Team. (wikipedia.org)
  • Frank Robinson was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. (blackpast.org)
  • On May 11, 1982, he was one of two players that the Angels sent to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for pitcher Doug Corbett and infielder Rob Wilfong. (starsfanmail.com)
  • 1982 - J. J. Hardy, American baseball player. (webplus.info)
  • Baumgarten played for the Chicago White Sox from 1978 to 1981, and Pittsburgh Pirates in 1982. (wikipedia.org)
  • In his career, Frank Robinson played for the Cincinnati Reds (1956-1965), Baltimore Orioles (1966-1971), Los Angeles Dodgers (1972), California Angels (1973-1974), and Cleveland Indians (1974-1976). (blackpast.org)
  • He managed for the Cleveland Indians (1975-1977), San Francisco Giants (1981-1984), Baltimore Orioles (1988-1991), Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals (2002-2006). (blackpast.org)
  • He played for 24 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1992, most notably for the Baltimore Orioles. (wikimili.com)
  • Over his 11-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, Tatís played for the Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Montreal Expos, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Mets. (wikimili.com)
  • He played his entire 21-year baseball career for the Baltimore Orioles (1981-2001). (memorabilix.com)
  • Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed 'The Iron Man,' is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop and third baseman with the Baltimore Orioles from 1981 to 2001. (sportsmanist.com)
  • Baseball's all-time Iron Man is Cal Ripken, Jr. He retired from baseball in 2001 after a hall of fame career spanning 21 seasons, all with the Baltimore Orioles. (sportsmanist.com)
  • Calvin Edwin Ripken Sr. (December 17, 1935-March 25, 1999) was a Major League Baseball coach and manager who spent 36 years with the Baltimore Orioles organization as a player, scout, and coach. (sportsmanist.com)
  • He played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1981 to 1991, most notably as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers with whom he was named an All-Star player and won a world championship in 1988. (wikimili.com)
  • Mike DiGiovanna has been covering Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Times since 1995 and spent 19 years as the Angels beat writer and two seasons on the Dodgers. (latimes.com)
  • He pitched that summer at the Dodgers' California League affiliate in Bakersfield and 1955 at Triple-A Montreal. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In 1956, Don Drysdale made the jump to the majors, both starting and pitching from the bullpen for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The ensuing decade (from 1957-1966) marked a period of Dodgers' domination in baseball. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. (glabarre.com)
  • When the Dodgers signed Robinson, it heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. (glabarre.com)
  • He played in Major League Baseballas a left fielder and third baseman from 1959 to 1976 for ten different teams, most notably for the Los Angeles Dodgers where he was a two-time National League batting champion. (glabarre.com)
  • 1947 - Dodgers manager Leo Durocher was suspended for one year by commissioner Happy Chandler for "the accumulation of unpleasant incidents" detrimental to baseball. (thespread.com)
  • He played with Hank Aaron in Atlanta and won a World Series with the Dodgers in 1981. (fox40.com)
  • And now here's Rob McMillin of the 6-4-2 Angels/Dodgers Double Play Blog for a complete story on the Angels First MVP. (halosheaven.com)
  • The second baseman from Muskegon, Michigan had 154 home runs with the Angels from 1977 to 1986. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Even though I pretty much don't collect baseball memorabilia any longer, I did purchase a 1977 yearbook in good condition for myself a few years ago. (startspreadingthenews.blog)
  • Skaggs made his major league debut in 1977 and had his most successful season. (blogspot.com)
  • [3] He was a left-handed starting pitcher for coach Jay Bergman 's Florida Gators baseball team in 1977. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the twentieth round of the 1977 Major League Baseball Draft . (wikipedia.org)
  • Lodi was the only team in the Quakes' franchise lineage (besides the 1994 Rancho Cucamonga squad) to win a California League Championship, with victories coming in 1973, 1977 and 1981. (milb.com)
  • December 2, 1980: Geoff Zahn was signed as a free agent by the Angels. (wikipedia.org)
  • December 8, 1980: Dan Whitmer was drafted from the Angels by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1980 rule 5 draft. (wikipedia.org)
  • In his long and prolific career, Pride has garnered many of his industry's major awards, including being named top male country artist of the 1970s by Cash Box magazine in 1980. (musicianguide.com)
  • Welcome to the 1980 Topps Baseball Card Project. (blogspot.com)
  • Mainly though, this blog is inspired by my Dad who during the summer of 1980, fully introduced me to the great game of baseball through these cards. (blogspot.com)
  • On July 2, 1980, Baumgarten pitched a one-hitter for the White Sox against the California Angels . (wikipedia.org)
  • Frank Robinson played twenty-one seasons as a major league baseball player and was the first black manager in both the American and National Leagues. (blackpast.org)
  • He played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball ,primarily as an outfielder . (wikimili.com)
  • His minor league baseball career spanned seventeen seasons,from 1894 until 1910. (wikimili.com)
  • He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) during six seasons between 1996 and 2004, primarily with the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers. (wikimili.com)
  • for his final two seasons in the big leagues, he was used primarily as a relief pitcher who also occasionally served as an outfielder and pinch hitter. (wikimili.com)
  • If you were in the minor leagues or were not an active Major Leaguer in that season, you would not be allowed to continue using the spitball in the future seasons. (answers.com)
  • A baseball broadcaster for 55 seasons, Harwell spent 42 of his seasons in the booth calling games for the Detroit Tigers . (detroitsportsnation.com)
  • After one year with the California Angels, he finished his broadcasting career back with the Tigers for ten more seasons. (detroitsportsnation.com)
  • Remy was a career .275 hitter with 208 stolen bases over 10 major league seasons. (bostonglobe.com)
  • This 6-foot-1 right-hander won 14 games for the Reds in 1954 and 1955, before returning to the minors in 1956 where he helped propel the Southern Association's Atlanta Crackers to league crowns the next two seasons. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • The switch-hitting outfielder played seven big league seasons with the Orioles and the Washington Senators between 1959 and 1968. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • Ed made his big league debut in 1974, and he would go back and forth between the majors and minors for the next two seasons. (catchershome.com)
  • During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949-the first black player so honored. (glabarre.com)
  • 2003 - Detroit became the second major league team to start successive seasons 0-7 after a 9-6 loss to Kansas City. (thespread.com)
  • He would spend seven seasons working up the minor league ladder and was a member of a successful 1976 Rochester Red Wings squad. (blogspot.com)
  • N.C.A.A. championships, from 1970 to 1974, and he had 41 winning seasons coaching baseball at U.S.C. from 1942 to 1986. (baseball-fever.com)
  • Guerrero played in parts of eight big league seasons, logging a little more than 2400 plate appearances across 697 contests. (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • Ross Baumgarten (born May 27, 1955) is an American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for five seasons in the late 1970s and early 1980s. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, Ripken holds or shares many major league records including most consecutive games played (2294), most seasons played (20), and most total bases (6747). (sportsmanist.com)
  • January 23, 1981: Joe Rudi, Frank Tanana and Jim Dorsey were traded by the Angels to the Boston Red Sox for Fred Lynn and Steve Renko. (wikipedia.org)
  • He played for the California Angels, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, and Milwaukee Brewers between the years 1981 and 1994. (starsfanmail.com)
  • After completing his senior year at West Covina High School in California and being selected with the 14th overall pick in the first round of the 1978 amateur draft by the California Angels organization, Brunansky spent the next four years working his way up the Angels' minor league system. (starsfanmail.com)
  • The designated hitter and outfielder from Los Angeles, California had 222 home runs with the Angels from 1978 to 1990. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • While pitching for the White Sox's Appleton, Wisconsin minor league club in 1978, Baumgarten was 9-1 with a 1.82 earned run average (ERA) as a starting pitcher, and earned promotion to the White Sox major league club. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bonds, who made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986, played for San Francisco from 1993 to 2007. (answers.com)
  • 1986 - Jim Presley of the Seattle Mariners hit home runs in the ninth and 10th innings for a come-from-behind 8-4 opening day victory over the California Angels. (thespread.com)
  • Documenting the 1986 ProCards minor league baseball card team sets through autographs. (blogspot.com)
  • My introduction to minor league baseball cards came from the 1986 ProCards team sets. (blogspot.com)
  • Like a lot of Angel Fans, Don Baylor was my favorite Angel up until October of 1986, if ya know what I mean. (halosheaven.com)
  • On April 19, 1981, he made his debut in the major leagues and went on to appear in 11 games that season. (starsfanmail.com)
  • He was bad in his debut season in 1981 at the age of 21, and his next season, injuries limited him to a half season. (vivaelbirdos.com)
  • 1975 - Frank Robinson became the first black manager in major league history by making his debut as player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. (thespread.com)
  • 1993 - The Colorado Rockies beat the Montreal Expos 11-4 for their first win and set a National League record for attendance in their home debut. (thespread.com)
  • In 1975, Robinson became a player-manger for the Cleveland Indians, making him the first African American manager in major league baseball. (blackpast.org)
  • 1993 - Carlos Baerga of the Cleveland Indians became the first player in major league history to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in the same inning. (thespread.com)
  • One or more runs were given up in 25 recorded no-hitters in MLB history, most recently by Ervin Santana of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in a 3-1 win against the Cleveland Indians on July 27, 2011. (wiki2.org)
  • The Red Sox sold the team to the California Angels in 1965 and they became the Seattle Angels. (historylink.org)
  • The list includes the California Angels (1965 to 1996), the Anaheim Angels (1997 to 2004), and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2005 to 2015). (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Drysdale lead the National League (NL) in games started every year from 1962 to 1965, as well as in innings pitched in 1962 and 1964. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Lodi came into the California League after the 1965 California League season, when the team operating in Salinas folded, leaving only five teams remaining in the league. (milb.com)
  • The franchise in Modesto, which hadn't operated in the 1965 season, was reactivated and run by now-former California League President Joe Gagliardi. (milb.com)
  • The six-foot third baseman played baseball at Arizona State University with his future Oakland teammate Rick Monday & seven others who made the major leagues. (centerfieldmaz.com)
  • Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Sr. is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman and Minor League Baseball (MiLB) manager. (wikimili.com)
  • Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "Iron Man", is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and third baseman. (memorabilix.com)
  • Ed played in the minors in 1983 and 1984, but never made it back to the big leagues. (catchershome.com)
  • 1969 - The Montreal Expos played their first regular-season game - the first international contest in major league history - and defeated the eventual world champion New York Mets, 11-10, at Shea Stadium. (thespread.com)
  • In 1988, he became the first African American manager in the American League. (blackpast.org)
  • Kirk Daniel Cousins (born August 19, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). (webplus.info)
  • He managed minor league and independent league teams between 1985 - 1988. (catchershome.com)
  • The outfielder from Kingston, Jamaica had 156 home runs with the Angels from 1988 to 1990, and from 1993 to 1996. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • The Lake Elsinore franchise relocated from Palm Springs and was an Angels affiliate from 1994-2000. (handlebar-online.com)
  • In 1994 the Storm set a California League attendance record for a first year franchise with 357,123 fans. (handlebar-online.com)
  • He had 26 home runs with the Angels as an All-Star in 1994. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame , 1994, by the Veterans Committee. (astrosdaily.com)
  • The first was in an 8-6 Angels win over the New York Yankees in game two of the American League Divisional Series, and the second was in a 2-1 Angels win over the Minnesota Twins in game three of the American League Championship Series. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • He had one dinger in game two of the American League Divisional Series, an 8-6 Angels win over the New York Yankees, another home run in game three of the American League Divisional Series, a 9-6 Angels win over the Yankees, and two more home runs in an 11-10 Angels win over the San Francisco Giants in game two of the all-California World Series. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox. (wikimili.com)
  • Jerry Remy (right) chats with Carlton Fisk, then with the White Sox, before a game in April 1981 at Fenway Park. (bostonglobe.com)
  • He arrived in the big leagues in 1968 with the White Sox and played with them until May 1976 when he was traded to the Yankees for Ken Brett and Rich Coggins. (startspreadingthenews.blog)
  • The lone Angels hit was a single by Rod Carew in the top of the seventh inning, and the White Sox won the game, 1-0. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mr. Flora, chief operating officer who played for the California Angels and the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1990s, said the goal of TC Sports is to provide players and guests with the "finest sports facility in the country by returning it to the standards the city and our guests expect. (sportsplexoperators.com)
  • The most recent major league no-hitter by a single pitcher was thrown on August 9, 2023, by Michael Lorenzen of the Philadelphia Phillies against the Washington Nationals . (wiki2.org)
  • February 2, 1981: Dave Skaggs was released by the Angels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dave Skaggs hit three home runs in his major league career and two of them were against Rick Wise. (blogspot.com)
  • Few people realize that although the Quakes go back to the start of the 1993 season here in Rancho Cucamonga, the franchise traces its roots back to 1966 and Lodi, California, and had made successive stops in Ventura and San Bernardino before landing in Rancho Cucamonga. (milb.com)
  • The league had operated with eight teams in the past and was therefore determined to get three more teams into the fold for the 1966 season. (milb.com)
  • He kindly autographed my 1981 Fleer card and responded to my questions, as shown below. (catchershome.com)
  • In 1961, Major League Baseball named Robinson the Most Valuable Player (MVP). (blackpast.org)
  • In or around 1960 he left the Negro league for a class C team in Great Falls, Montana, and even won a brief trial with the major league Los Angeles Angels (now the California Angels) in 1961. (musicianguide.com)
  • After his big league playing days were over in 1984, Remy grew to be the face and voice of Boston's vaunted baseball franchise as a color analyst on NESN. (bostonglobe.com)
  • After the 1984 season, the Chicago Cubs decided to move all of their Minor League teams east of the Mississippi River and pulled out of Lodi. (milb.com)
  • Dugdale took over the latter in 1907 as a franchise in the new Northwestern League, renamed the team the Giants, and built the city a new baseball stadium at Yesler Way and 12th Avenue. (historylink.org)
  • In 1967, brothers Dewey and Max Soriano won a major league franchise for Seattle in anticipation of construction of a new domed stadium, which voters approved the following year. (historylink.org)
  • On Sunday, Tigers fans will rejoice to celebrate the decorated careers of former franchise greats, Alan Trammell and Jack Morris, as they are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. (detroitsportsnation.com)
  • In the 13th feature of an extensive series, we will take a look at the top 10 hitters of every Major League Baseball franchise. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • For example, the teams now operating in San Bernardino and High Desert can each trace their roots at one times through Salinas, California.However, during the 19 years that Lodi had a California League entry, it was always the same franchise. (milb.com)
  • The owner of the franchise, Lodi resident Michelle Sprague, was unable to find an MLB partner for the 1985 season, so she deactivated the team for the year and eventually sold the team to a group headed by former major leaguer Ken McMullen, who took the team to Southern California. (milb.com)
  • Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. (glabarre.com)
  • A precocious hitter, he was named The Sporting News' Minor League Player of the Year in 1970, coming up to the big club for good in 1972. (halosheaven.com)
  • The designated hitter from Oshu, Japan has 171 home runs with the Angels since 2018. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1890 to 1905 for the New York Giants, Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos / Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, and Boston Americans. (wikimili.com)
  • Though the Angels think very highly of Maddon, it appears unlikely that he would return to Anaheim any time soon. (latimes.com)
  • The LA Angels Tickets are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California. (duttonsbrentwood.com)
  • The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Tickets are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. (duttonsbrentwood.com)
  • Nolan Ryan holds the record for no-hitters in the major leagues with seven. (wiki2.org)
  • It begins with the first pro game, played on May 24, 1890, covers the golden ages of regional play at Dugdale Park and Sicks' Stadium, and traces the brief career of the Pilots and the Mariners' ascent to the best record in Major League baseball in the first half of the 2001 season. (historylink.org)
  • Shortly before Spring Training began in 1981, the Angels released him but was quickly signed by the Seattle Mariners. (blogspot.com)
  • His MLB career came to a close when he was released by the Mariners going into the 1981 campaign. (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • The following season, he broke big league camp on the Mariners' roster. (milb.com)
  • In his first year, the outfielder tied for the most homeruns, made the National League All-Star Team, and was National League Rookie of the Year. (blackpast.org)
  • This biographical article relating to an American baseball outfielder born in the 1870s is a stub . (wikimili.com)
  • Traded to Oakland for Reggie Jackson just days before the season started in 1976, the Angels won a bidding war for Baylor's services, acquiring him to the tune of the then-extravagant sum of $1 million. (halosheaven.com)
  • After his 1976 season with Oakland, where his hand injury clearly hurt his power (he hit only 15 home runs, and had a stretch of 19 consecutive games where he failed to homer), he signed with the Angels, saying "I'm looking forward to playing in Southern California. (halosheaven.com)
  • In 1976, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League . (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a Class A - Advanced team in the California League, and is a farm team of the San Diego Padres. (handlebar-online.com)
  • It is a Class A - Advanced team in the California League, and is a farm team of the San Diego Padres. (handlebar-online.com)
  • He began the year as a New York Met and also played for the San Diego Padres and the California Angels. (startspreadingthenews.blog)
  • The leftfielder from Los Angeles, California had 272 home runs with the Angels from 1995 to 2008. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • He surpassed the 56-year-old record when he played in his 2,131st consecutive game on September 6, 1995, against the California Angels in front of a sold-out crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. (memorabilix.com)
  • When the Angels won the 2002 World Series, Glaus had seven postseason home runs that year. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • He's the only manager in major league history to take five different teams to the postseason. (fox40.com)
  • Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker is seen during batting practice before Game 6 of the baseball AL Championship Series against the Texas Rangers Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in Houston. (fox40.com)
  • The 1981 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing with the 5th best overall record in the American League West with 51 wins and 59 losses. (wikipedia.org)
  • The season was suspended for 50 days due to the infamous 1981 players' strike and the league chose as its playoff teams the division winners from the first and second halves of the season. (wikipedia.org)
  • A newsletter about everything baseball from the Globe's Red Sox reporters, delivered weekdays during the season and weekly offseason. (bostonglobe.com)
  • He hit .307 in the strike-shortened season of 1981, but knee problems shortened his career. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Ott was traded to the California Angels early in the 1981 season. (catchershome.com)
  • He led the American League with an Angels single season record 47 home runs in 2000. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • In 2002 and 2003, he was an American League All-Star in back-to-back years and had 29 home runs each season. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Carlos May was a Yankee until mid-September when he was purchased by the California Angels, just weeks before the post season. (startspreadingthenews.blog)
  • HOUSTON (AP) - Dusty Baker has retired as manager of the Houston Astros, ending an illustrious 26-year career as a big league skipper highlighted by a World Series win last season. (fox40.com)
  • He spent a season-plus bouncing on and off the St. Louis roster before being traded again in May '76 - this time to the Angels for a pair of players who never reached the majors. (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • After one season in Pittsburgh, his major league career ended. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ripken began his career with the O's in 1981 when they traded for him during the season right before its start. (sportsmanist.com)
  • He was dealt to the Mets for Jeff Reardon on May 29, 1981. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • The loquacious skipper's next big league gig came with the Mets from 1996 to 2002. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • But Pride still held on to his dream of becoming a major league ballplayer, and did not heed Sovine until a 1964 tryout with the New York Mets convinced him that he did not have what it took to make it in professional baseball. (musicianguide.com)
  • Frank Robinson died in Southern California on February 7, 2019 at the age of 83. (blackpast.org)
  • The 11-time American League All-Star had 30 home runs as the American League Rookie of the Year in 2012, 36 home runs as the American League MVP in 2014, 29 home runs as the American League MVP in 2016, and a career-high 45 home runs as the American League MVP in 2019. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • The play was eerily reminiscent of one in which then-Angels infielder Tommy La Stella fouled a ball off his right leg and suffered a fractured tibia in June 2019 . (latimes.com)
  • He won a baseball-record seven National League Most Valuable Player awards (1990, 1992-93, 2001-2004). (answers.com)
  • That was the first of three years Glaus was an American League All-Star with the Angels (also honoured in 2001 and 2003). (thesportsdaily.com)
  • In 2001, he was given the title of senior advisor to baseball operations . (sportsmanist.com)
  • This catch helped preserve the Red Sox's victory and advanced them to the 1990 American League Championship Series. (starsfanmail.com)
  • After only two games, the Orioles sold Skaggs to the California Angels. (blogspot.com)
  • Drafted out of North Torrance High School in Lawndale, California, Skaggs was a 6th round selection of the Orioles in the 1969 amateur draft. (blogspot.com)
  • He played in the Senior League during 1989-90 and has been an attendee at Orioles Old-Timers Games. (blogspot.com)
  • Like Frank Robinson before him, Don Baylor came to the Angels after a long stint with the Orioles. (halosheaven.com)
  • Cal Ripken, Jr., an Orioles star, was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. (sportsmanist.com)
  • After retiring from playing, Ripken became the director of scouting for the Orioles before being promoted to assistant general manager in 1981. (sportsmanist.com)
  • The only player to win the Dick Howser Trophy twice, he is a College Baseball Hall of Fame inductee. (wikimili.com)
  • In 1981, he was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and named the recipient of the Ford C. Rick Award for "major contributions to baseball" as a broadcaster. (detroitsportsnation.com)
  • Decades later, Remy was famous to a new generation of local baseball fans, ever self-deprecating as he sat in the broadcast booth and told hilarious stories of visiting Studio 54 with Hall of Fame teammate Dennis Eckersley when the two were young ballplayers in the swinging 1970s. (bostonglobe.com)
  • He has been involved with the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame for more than 16 years, including a two-year stint as the museum's acting curator. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • The Hall of Fame rightfielder from Nizao, Dominican Republic had 173 home runs with the Angels from 2004 to 2009. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Donald Scott Drysdale was a Hall of Fame pitcher who was one of the biggest names in American baseball in the 1960s. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. (glabarre.com)
  • He will be missed in the baseball world as he has been close to Tommy Lasorda and Hall of Fame manager and USC bat bay Sparky Anderson. (baseball-fever.com)
  • He has been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee . (sportsmanist.com)
  • Inducted into Texas Baseball Hall of Fame , 1996. (astrosdaily.com)
  • The corner infielder from Tarzana, California had 198 home runs with the Angels from 1998 to 2004. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Former major league infielder Mario Guerrero has passed away, his family told reporters over the weekend (relayed by Enrique Rojas of ESPN ). (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • Born in Fall River, a Globe All-Scholastic in 1970, he found himself playing second base for manager Dick Williams and the California Angels just five years after graduating from Somerset High. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Guerrero never posted particularly strong offensive numbers, but clubs trusted him enough as a defender to give him nearly 4600 innings of shortstop work in the big leagues. (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other baseball players in the past have taken money to throw games, some were caught, some were not, but the players who had good careers are still in Cooperstown. (answers.com)
  • We flashback to that memorable day in 1981 in Cooperstown, when Ernie delivered his induction speech. (detroitsportsnation.com)
  • In 1956, Robinson became a major league player with the Cincinnati Reds. (blackpast.org)
  • He holds the major league record for runs batted in (RBI) in an inning, a feat that he achieved by hitting two grand slams in one inning during a game on April 23, 1999, becoming the only player in MLB history to do so. (wikimili.com)
  • MLB roundtable: What's the most unbreakable record in baseball history? (memorabilix.com)
  • Drysdale pitched in five World Series, led the league in strikeouts three times, and threw 49 shutouts, including a record setting 58 1/3 scoreless innings. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In 1968 he pitched his record-tying fifth straight shutout on the day of the California presidential primary and was congratulated by Robert Kennedy in the speech he gave just before he was assassinated . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • 2006 - Cory Sullivan tied a major league record by hitting two triples during a seven-run fifth inning, helping Colorado rout San Diego 10-4. (thespread.com)
  • The Baseball Library incorrectly claims that he holds the major league record for hit-by-pitches with 267, when in fact he falls behind Hughie Jennings (287), Craig Biggio (273), and Tommy Tucker (272) on that list, and behind Brian Downing and David Eckstein on the Angels. (halosheaven.com)
  • The best power hitter on a powerful offensive Angels team that year, Baylor played in every game, was first in runs scored and RBIs in the majors (his 139 RBIs still stands as a club record), and fourth in home runs. (halosheaven.com)
  • In 1981, the Baltimore Colts allowed an NFL-record 533 points defensively. (duttonsbrentwood.com)
  • Quintana entered with an 0-2 record and 10.13 ERA and - despite striking out nine - departed with a 10.59 ERA, the highest mark for a pitcher in his first five games (minimum 15 innings) with the Angels, topping Trevor Bell's 9.53 ERA in 2009 and Julio Teheran's 9.17 ERA in 2020. (latimes.com)
  • Dedeaux, who guided Southern California to a record 11 NCAA baseball championships and helped mold such major league greats as Mark McGwire, Randy Johnson and Tom Seaver, died Thursday. (baseball-fever.com)
  • California to a record 11 College World Series championships and sent some 60 players to the major leagues, died Thursday in Glendale, Calif. He was 91. (baseball-fever.com)
  • In baseball , a no-hitter or no-hit game is a game in which a team does not record a hit . (wiki2.org)
  • Ripken's 2,632 consecutive game played is an American League record. (sportsmanist.com)
  • Gates will open at noon as the Padres are scheduled to take batting practice before the Padres/Kansas City Royals Major League Exhibition game on April 4 at Storm Stadium. (handlebar-online.com)
  • Class A-Advanced Baseball The Lake Elsinore Storm are a minor league baseball team that calls Lake Elsinore home. (handlebar-online.com)
  • Who are the Lake Elsinore Storm baseball team? (handlebar-online.com)
  • November 2016) The Lake Elsinore Storm is a minor league baseball team in Lake Elsinore, California, United States. (handlebar-online.com)
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  • Instead, he found his fortune in a new Seattle team, the Klondikers, and a new Pacific Northwest League. (historylink.org)
  • In 1938, Brewer Emil G. Sick bought the team for $100,000 upon the recommendation of Teamster leader and baseball fan Dave Beck. (historylink.org)
  • Following his retirement, Brunansky was offered the position of head coach of the baseball team at Poway High School in Poway, California, in the year 2004. (starsfanmail.com)
  • Own the official team flag of your favorite Major League Baseball squad with this entry in Wincraft's three-foot-by-five-foot flag collection. (sportsposterwarehouse.com)
  • He had to be on the team, I had the baseball card, from that year, that said he was. (startspreadingthenews.blog)
  • Baker told the newspaper that he'd like to move into an advisory role in baseball, either with the Astros or a team closer to his Northern California home. (fox40.com)
  • In 80 games, he batted .287 and was named to the Baseball Digest All-Rookie Team. (blogspot.com)
  • The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles, California. (duttonsbrentwood.com)
  • The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. (duttonsbrentwood.com)
  • Major League Baseball (MLB) officially defines a no-hitter as a completed game in which a team that batted in at least nine complete innings recorded no hits. (wiki2.org)
  • Michael Brooks Kieschnick is an American former professional baseball left fielder and pitcher. (wikimili.com)
  • Scioscia, who has guided the Angels to the 2002 World Series championship and six American League West titles in 15 years, has four years and about $20 million left on his contract and has "no plans" to step down. (latimes.com)
  • When the Angels won the 2002 World Series. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • January 13, 1981: Ron Romanick was drafted by the California Angels in the 1st round (4th pick) of the 1981 amateur draft (secondary phase). (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1962, he finished third in the MVP voting after leading the major leagues in batting average, hits and runs batted in. (glabarre.com)
  • 1962 - The Houston Colt .45s, in the first major league game played in Texas, beat the Chicago Cubs 11-2 before 25,000. (thespread.com)
  • Houston's first major-league manager, 1962 . (astrosdaily.com)
  • His .346 batting average edged out Frank Robinson's .342 for the National League batting crown, and his 230 hits and 153 RBIs led the major leagues. (glabarre.com)
  • The rightfielder from Long Beach, California had 299 home runs with the Angels from 1992 to 2006. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • Remained active in Houston-area baseball, coaching Karl Young League until shortly before his death in 1992. (astrosdaily.com)
  • He began his career with the Reds minor league affiliate, the Ogden Reds, where he first experienced segregation. (blackpast.org)
  • A graduate of Columbia University, Collins holds major league career records in several categories and is among the top few players in several other categories. (wikimili.com)
  • Following his big league career, Valentine worked as a drug/alcohol counselor in Lancaster, Calif. He has since moved to the Dallas area where he serves as a counselor at a local church. (cooperstownersincanada.com)
  • He had 22 home runs as the American League Rookie of the Year in 2018, had a career-high 46 home runs as the American League Most Valuable Player in 2021, and leads the American League with 44 home runs in 2023. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • During an 18-year baseball career, Davis batted .294 with 153 home runs, 2,121 hits and 1,052 runs batted in. (glabarre.com)
  • However, Skaggs never enjoyed the same level of success at the plate during the remainder of the his major league career. (blogspot.com)
  • He did not return to the major leagues and his four year major league career came to an end. (blogspot.com)
  • A day after he was drilled in the right elbow by a 93.4-mph fastball, Angels right-hander Shohei Ohtani was scratched from Monday night's scheduled start against the Tampa Bay Rays at Angel Stadium. (latimes.com)
  • José Quintana, who started in place of Shohei Ohtani, gave up five runs in 3 2/3 innings and took the loss in the Angels' 7-3 defeat to the Rays. (latimes.com)
  • Pro ball was revived in 1898 by the portly Daniel E. Dugdale, a former big-league catcher who arrived in Seattle with the notion of striking it rich in the Klondike Gold Rush. (historylink.org)
  • Robert Raymond Boone is an American former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who was a four-time All-Star. (wikimili.com)
  • Ed Ott is a former big league catcher with over 4,100 innings of MLB playing time under his belt. (catchershome.com)
  • The history of baseball is filled with highly touted pitchers who blow out elbows, injure shoulders, hurt backs, and damage knees throwing a baseball 60 feet 6 inches from an elevated mound to home plate, and never make it to the big leagues. (sabr.org)
  • Southpaw Dave Roberts appeared to be one of those pitchers whose major-league ambitions seemed to be derailed by injuries and chronic pain before it started. (sabr.org)
  • Baseball-Reference and Fangraphs evaluate pitchers differently. (vivaelbirdos.com)
  • For the Major League Baseball pitchers who have completed this feat, see List of Major League Baseball no-hitters . (wiki2.org)
  • It is theoretically possible for opposing pitchers to throw no-hitters in the same game, although this has never happened in the major leagues. (wiki2.org)
  • After leaving the Astros, Ott continued coaching in the minor leagues, semi-pro and independent leagues, as well as some brief time on the Detroit Tigers' staff. (catchershome.com)
  • Player signed June 13, 1981. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thomas Vincent Fleming (November 20,1873 -December 26,1957) nicknamed "Sleuth",was a professional baseball player. (wikimili.com)
  • Born in San Diego, California, he is the son of MLB player Ray Boone, and he is the father of two major leaguers: Bret Boone and Aaron Boone. (wikimili.com)
  • Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr. , nicknamed " Cocky ", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. (wikimili.com)
  • John Rikard Dempsey is an American former professional baseball player. (wikimili.com)
  • Paul Rapier Richards was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and executive in Major League Baseball. (wikimili.com)
  • Michael Allen Marshall , nicknamed " Moose " is an American former professional baseball player and current commissioner of the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs. (wikimili.com)
  • But all this started because he was a terrific baseball player. (bostonglobe.com)
  • He's a former baseball player, a current coach, a husband and a Dad. (catchershome.com)
  • A four-time All-Star with the Angels, Guerrero Sr. had 39 home runs in 2004 when he was named the American League Most Valuable Player. (thesportsdaily.com)
  • And Carlos May wasn't just a good player, he was also pictured on a baseball card with his brother Lee May. (startspreadingthenews.blog)
  • Herman Thomas Davis Jr. (March 21, 1939 - April 3, 2022) was an American professional baseball player and coach. (glabarre.com)
  • and right now (the Angels) are one less player away. (halosheaven.com)
  • He is the only player in major league history to play 2,300 straight games and finish with a batting average over.300. (sportsmanist.com)
  • Jesse Cail Burkett , nicknamed " Crab ", was an American professional baseball left fielder. (wikimili.com)