| Baseball leaders in various key categories of | | | | Home Runs: Hank Aaron 755; Barry Bonds 708 |
| our game of baseball should be listed to | | | | |
| enhance our focus on our men of summer.The | | | | Runs:Rickey Henderson 2,295; Barry Bonds |
| top of the heap, our already recognized | | | | 2,078Doubles:Tris Speaker 792; Craig Biggio |
| baseball favorites and leaders, are chased by | | | | 604 |
| everyone in the game of baseball.Salary | | | | |
| levels of our active players in major league | | | | Strike Outs: Nolan Ryan 5,714 Roger Clemons |
| today might lead one to think, holy moly, | | | | 4,502 |
| they are great. Quite to the contrary. We | | | | |
| will briefly take a look at the fourteen (14) | | | | Saves: Lee Smith 478; Trevor Hoffman 436 |
| major categories that defines greatness of | | | | |
| achievement.1.Hits 2.Runs Batted In | | | | Stolen Bases: Rickey Henderson 1,406; Kenny |
| 3.On-Base Percentage 4.Slugging Percentage | | | | Lofton 567 |
| 5.Total Bases 6. Home Runs 7. Runs 8. | | | | |
| Doubles 9.Strikeouts 10. Saves | | | | Triples: Sam Crawford 312; Steve Finley 112 |
| 11.Stolen Bases 12.Triples 13.Wins 14. | | | | |
| ShutoutsEight (8) categories deal with | | | | Wins: Cy Young 511; Roger Clemons 341 |
| hitting, four (4) about pitching, and two (2) | | | | |
| are in the general category. I will list the | | | | Shutouts: Walter Johnson 110; Roger Clemons |
| all time leader for each category and his | | | | 46The gap in any category between the all |
| numbers then the only active player with a | | | | time leader and his closest chaser in most |
| prayer to top him and his numbers.Spin the | | | | cases is almost insurmountable except for the |
| record at 33 rpm, 45 rpm or 78 rpm Barry | | | | exploits of Barry Bonds.The year 2006 for all |
| Bonds hitting on the record is right on | | | | practical purposes will go into the annals of |
| course at any speed.Hits: Pete Rose 4,256; | | | | baseball history as the year of Barry Bonds. |
| Barry Bonds 2,742 | | | | Win Lose or draw on the question of a |
| | | | published book one thing is an absolute, when |
| Runs Batted In: Hank Aaron 2,297; Barry | | | | considering his exploits, six of eight |
| Bonds 1,853 | | | | categories is not all bad.Batter Up---Let's |
| | | | Play BallMajor Wiley B. Channell USMC |
| On-Base Percentage: Ted Williams .482; Barry | | | | (retired) telling it like it is at for all |
| Bonds .442Slugging Percentage: Babe Ruth | | | | know about baseball.I haven't even had a |
| .690; Albert Pujols .621Total Bases: Hank | | | | hankering to read the book, "In The Shadows" |
| Aaron 6,856; Barry Bonds 5,584 | | | | but not shabby or shadowy by the numbers. |
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