Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015
By Larry Dobrow and Damien Jones
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No matter their favorite team or player, young sports fans can look to baseball legend Derek Jeter for information on America’s national pastime. Derek Jeter’s Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015 is jam-packed with facts about each of the thirty Major League teams. Brief team histories are peppered with Jeter’s handwritten notes and interwoven with cool trivia, covering everything from the sport’s start and the original Knickerbocker Rules to baseball’s weirdest superstitions. Not sure how to compute a slugging average? Want to know how many teams have won over 10,000 games? Ever wondered how many stitches are in a baseball? Fans will find answers to these and much more in this annual collector’s guide.
Larry Dobrow
Larry Dobrow has written about sports for CBSSports.com, American Way, and San Antonio magazine, among other publications, and about a range of entertainment and media topics for MM&M, MediaPost, Advertising Age, AARP, and Sound & Vision. He is not tall and thus not as in demand for pickup games of hoops as he was before his friends all enjoyed their growth spurts. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and sons.
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Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015 - Larry Dobrow
TEAM STANDINGS
Baltimore Orioles 96–66
New York Yankees 84–78
Toronto Blue Jays 83–79
Tampa Bay Rays 77–85
Boston Red Sox 71–91
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
THE STREAK
The Orioles have won 3 World Series titles and returned to the playoffs after a tough stretch during the first decade of the 2000s. But as much as for anything else, the team is still defined by the streak
—Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632 consecutive games played. It broke Lou Gehrig’s record of 2,130 games— which had been thought to be unbreakable.
Ripken was inked into the starting lineup on May 30, 1982. He broke the record on September 6, 1995. He didn’t take a day off until September 20, 1998. To put this into perspective, a streak of 324 consecutive games—2 straight 162-game seasons—is considered very impressive.
As much as for anything else, the Orioles are still defined by the streak.
1. When Cal Ripken Jr. became eligible for the Hall of Fame, he appeared on 98.53% of the ballots cast, the third-highest number in history. What 2 players appeared on a higher percentage of ballots?
2. In what came to be known as one of the most lopsided trades in baseball history, pitcher Milt Pappas was sent to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for which future Hall of Famer?
SECOND CALLINGS
Baltimore’s Jim Palmer wasn’t just one of the best pitchers in baseball history, winning 268 games and 3 Cy Young Awards as the American League’s best pitcher. He also had one of the game’s most unusual second acts. He served as a spokesman and model for Jockey underwear for nearly 2 decades. But his second career seems modest next to the ones enjoyed by . . .
Jim Bunning, U.S. Senator and Representative
His 224 wins, mostly with the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies, secured him a spot in the Hall of Fame, but Bunning is probably better known as a politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1998, then served 2 terms as a senator.
Moe Berg, Spy
Although he played for 15 years, Berg was hardly a typical Major League catcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, he spoke several languages. After his playing career ended, he served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, carrying out missions in Yugoslavia and Italy.
NEW YORK YANKEES
THE GOLD STANDARD
Since the franchise formally became known as the Yankees in 1913, it has succeeded to an extent unmatched in professional sports history. The team has won 27 World Series championships and 40 American League titles. Since the 1920s it has won at least 2 World Series titles in every decade, with the exception of the 1980s (during which the team still won a higher percentage of its games than any other team in baseball) and the 2010s.
Some of the game’s all-time greatest players have been along for the ride: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera, and of course Derek Jeter.
1. How many consecutive World Series games did the Yankees win between 1996 and 2000?
2. How many regular season and playoff games did the 1998 Yankees win, setting a single- season record?
TITLE TEAMS
If the St. Louis Cardinals won the next 15 World Series . . . well, they’d still trail the New York Yankees on the World Series leaderboard.
MOST WORLD SERIES TITLES
New York Yankees
27 wins (40 appearances)
St. Louis Cardinals
11 wins (19 appearances)
Oakland/Philadelphia Athletics
9 wins (14 appearances)
San Francisco/New York Giants
8 wins (20 appearances)
Boston Red Sox
8 wins (12 appearances)
Los Angeles/Brooklyn Dodgers
6 wins (18 appearances)
Cincinnati Reds
5 wins (9 appearances)
Pittsburgh Pirates
5 wins (7 appearances)
The Yankees have won 27 World Series.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
DIVISION BLUES
The Toronto Blue Jays enjoyed substantial success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They won 5 AL East titles in