BR Bullpen:Did You Know Archive

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Did you know...

...that Yasuhiro Takai broke the single-season and career Japanese records for pinch-hit homers?
...that Juan Colato led the 2017 Central American Games in OPS while still a teenager?
...that Kozo Kawai was the only Nippon Pro Baseball umpire who had over 1,000 hits as a player before switching roles?
...that Shozo Shigematsu was the first NPB player to hit a sayonara homer and a lead-off homer in back-to-back at-bats?
...what controversy surrounded the signing of Haruyasu Eto?
...what unusual game John Lower pitched in 1905?
...that Katsuya Morinaga was the first batting champion from the Hiroshima Carp?
...what record Shoji Arakawa holds in NPB?
...what tournament Yusuke Masago won MVP in?
...that Saburo Hirai won the first Best Nine at shortstop in the Central League?
...that Yukihiko Machida was the youngest home run champ in Japan?
...what defensive records Fujio Ueda set?
...what famous bunt this baseball card of Shigeru Ishiwata (pictured) memorializes?
...what MVP honor Edwin Diaz took home in 2023?
...what Japanese record Shuhei Takahashi tied in 2020?
...what records Shinji Imanaka set?
...that Kazuyuki Ono has won more games in the Japanese minor leagues than anyone else?
...how a scorekeeper's error cost Gianluca Cibati a Triple Crown?
...what Nippon Pro Baseball fielding record was set by Junichi Fukura?
...what year Kazuhiko Ishimine reached in a record 56 straight games?
...what big win Osman Gutiérrez had for the Nicaraguan national team in 2022?
...what scary injury Brad Holman had in 1993?
...what award Kazuyuki Shirai won in 1991?
...what record Satoru Yoshioka set in Japan?
...that Keita Sano was the lowest draft pick to win a batting title in Nippon Pro Baseball?
...what historic hit Cheng-Chung Chen had?
...that Long-Shui Tai was the first pitcher to win the CPBL Rookie of the Year?
...what historic home run Genichi Murata allowed?
...what Shih-Hao Liu accomplished that no CPBL player had done before?
...what record Yu-Hsun Chen set in 2023?
...how one big inning earned Duque Hebbert a contract?
...what Taiwan Major League record Tian-Lin Chang holds?
...what historic trade Liang-Tsung Ke was involved in?
...that Yuki Okabayashi was the first player born in the 21st Century to win a batting award in Nippon Pro Baseball?
...that Huai-Shan Chen was the first CPBL player to turn two triple plays?
...what big win Graham Spraker got for the Great Britain national team?
...what history Kou Matsukawa made in 2022?
...in what league Tsung-Hui Tong was the penultimate MVP?
...what records Chuang-Chen Chueh set in 1998?
...what historic first Kuang-Chi Huang accomplished?
...what unusual feat Gio Brusa and Jalen Miller pulled off?
...what Chin-Yi Cheng did that no one else did in the Taiwan Major League's history?
...what career record Chih-Hao Chang set?
...what Ming-Te Chen was the first Mercuries Tigers pitcher to accomplish?
...what single-season record Jen-Wen Hsiao has held since 2001?
...what records Chang-Rong Chiu holds in the Taiwan Major League?
...what event Ashley Stephenson led in steals?
...that Ching-He Chuang was one of two players to play regularly as both a pitcher and hitter in the same season in Taiwanese history?
...that Kuo-Hui Kao set the CPBL home run record in 2015 but didn't win MVP?
...what historic hit Jong-do Lee had in South Korea?
...what Takumu Nakano did that no Central League rookie shortstop had ever done?
...what Chun-Yang Tsao was the first person to accomplish in the CPBL?
...that Keiji Takahashi was the first Yakult Swallows hurler to throw his first shutout in a Japan Series?
...what history Yoshito Fujino made in 1944?
...what records Chien-Lin Kuo set?
...what legends Jackie Mitchell struck out to draw national attention?
...what Taiwanese record Kao-Chun Huang set?
...what college record Andy Bruce holds?
...that Yi-Chuan Liu was the oldest native pitcher in CPBL history?
...what historic hit Yu-Hsiang Tsai had in the Taiwan Major League?
...what record Shugo Maki broke that the legendary Shigeo Nagashima had held since the 1950s?
...what award Jyun-Yue Tseng took home in 2021?
...what record Che-Yuan Wu set in 2021?
...how Al Hall was disgraced by his team's ownership?
...that Akira Iwamoto had the first hit in the history of the Hiroshima Carp?
...what team Emmett Kelly famously entertained for?
...that Ben Joyce has thrown the fastest pitch in college baseball history?
...what records Tzu-Hao Chen had set?
...what Mike Loree was the first foreign player to accomplish in the CPBL?
...what long-standing mark Yen-Wen Kuo broke in 2015?
...what history Tsuruo Otsuka made in 1939?
...what CPBL record Chieh-Hsien Chen set?
...what team record Yen-Ching Lu set in 2022?
...that Jim Wilson was the first professional baseball player from Africa?
...in what event Ben Moore won MVP honors?
...that George Vanderbeck is the founder of the Detroit Tigers?
...what collegiate record Garrett Wittels threatened?
...what the National Defense list was?
...that Matt Mervis led the minor leagues in RBI in 2022?
...what Kun-Yu Chiang was the youngest player in franchise history to do?
...that Daniel McGrath won an ERA title his last year in the minors?
...why Maverick Handley served as both catcher and umpire at the same time?
...what record Michael Wielansky set as a college freshman?
...what 2023 event Elián Miranda led in homers?
...that Yadir Drake was the first person to play for the Cuban national team after previously representing a different nation?
...what historic start Marcelo Parker made for the Salvadoran national team?
...that the list of living major league players from the 1950s now has less than 170 names?
...what notable game Dai-An Lin caught?
...that Oscar Angulo won a batting title by a whopping .125?
...in what tournament Yeudis Reyes was the All-Star reliever?
...that Atsuki Yuasa was the first independent league alumnus to make the Japanese national team?
...what historic win Harold Araúz got for Panama?
...what crucial start Omar Bencomo Jr. made for Venezuela?
...that Jeremias Pineda won a MVP in a season he split between two teams?
...why the signing of Seong-min Kim by the Baltimore Orioles caused an international crisis?
...why minor league owner Frank D. Lawrence sued major league baseball in 1959 a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court?
...that Denzel Clarke is the son of an Olympic athlete?
...what huge homer Martin Mužík had for the Czech national team?
...what historic game Emir Darce pitched in Nicaragua?
...that David Winkler won Czech Coach of the Year while still an active player?
...that Ivan Acuña coached for the French national team before he ever played for them?
...in what country Sandy Bermúdez won a batting title?
...that Darren Baker made the national baseball news 20 years before he made the Futures Game?
...what infamous incident made Jason Bradley reconsider his career as an umpire?
...that Margaret Donahue was the first woman to work her way up to an executive position in a major league front office?
...that Ben Serunkuma and Umar Male were the first players to be signed by a MLB team from their country?
...that Kerry Fitzgerald was still an active player until age 60?
...what history Syed Ali Shah made for Pakistan?
...what year Yuya Yanagi won his ERA title?
...what numerous firsts Laura Hirai has accomplished so far?
...what two countries Nikau Pouaka-Grego has represented in international competition?
...what Japanese record Noboru Shimizu set in 2021?
...that Filip Smola has had both the best and worst batting averages in international tournaments?
...why pitcher Hiroshi Ogawa made the news fifteen years after retiring as a player?
...what historic start Lucas Ramón made for Argentina?
...that Bob DeFelice recently retired with the second-longest tenure in college coaching history?
...what impressive feat Perry Lychak pulled off in 1981?
...what was Melissa Ludtke's role in opening up the profession of sportswriter for women?
...what huge contribution Lukáš Ercoli made as a late addition to the Czech national team in 2022?
...what unusual accomplishment José Lozada pulled off in 2014?
...what big run Yasutaka Shiomi scored in 2021?
...that Shane Priest coached for the French national team two months before becoming a pitcher for them?
...that Jakub Kubica was among the top 20 in Extraliga annals in career walks before he turned 25 years old?
...what historic hit Jesús Ustariz had in 2018?
...that Franco Pérez had Argentina's first save in a World Baseball Classic qualifier?
...what 2016 event Yoimer Camacho led in strikeouts?
...how Anfernee Seymour celebrated with the Union Jack?
...what history Kristýna El Ghannam‏‎ made for the Czech Republic in 2022?
...what Kai-Fa Chen was the first player to do in the Taiwan Major League?
...that Emma Patry was the first player to homer for the French women's national team?
...what tournament Ming-Yung Hsieh led in steals?
...what Adari Grant accomplished in 2022 that no one from the Bahamas had done before?

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