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Guiness Book of Baseball World Records
"The Guinness Book of Records" English edition is distributed in seventy different countries, with another twenty-two editions in foreign languages. Sales of all editions exceed seventy-million and their records are verified through an advanced accreditation process that is unrivaled. Here are the records they choose to list specific to baseball.
Note: Many of these records have in fact been broken and you should check our Record Book section for up-to-the-second records. These records are simply put here as they appeared in the print edition of the book and when they update their records, we will update this page.
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"(Kevin) Brown's pitches have so much movement that they've been described as 'nasty' and 'filthy' as well as some unprintable names." - Bernie Wilson of the Associated Pressd his job every day." - Hall of Famer Bill Dickey
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Biggest Contract
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The biggest baseball contract is an average of $15 million per year for seven years. It was signed by Kevin Brown
of the LA Dodgers on December 12, 1998. On completion, Brown's contract will be worth a total of $105 million.
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Fastest Base Runner
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The record for the fastest time for circling the bases is 13.3 seconds, set by Evar Swanson at Columbus, Ohio in 1932. His average speed around the bases was 18.45 mph.
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Fastest Pitch
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The greatest reliably recorded speed at which a baseball has been pitched is 100.9 mph by Lynn Nolan Ryan (California Angels) at Anaheim Stadium in California on August 20, 1974.
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Longest Home Run
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The record for the longest estimated home run in a major-league game is 634 ft., by Mickey Mantle for the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, in September 1960.
New research (link) by Bill Jenkinson of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, overturns that estimate and instead gives the mark to a 575 ft blast by Babe Ruth hit on July 18, 1921 in Detroit.
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Longest Throw
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Glen Gorbous (Canada) threw a baseball 445 ft. 10 inches on August 1, 1957.
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Longest Throw
By A Woman
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Mildred "Babe" Didrikson threw a baseball 296 ft. on July 25, 1931.
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Most Spectators
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An estimated 114,000 spectators watched an exhibition game between Australia and an American services team during the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, on December 1, 1956.
The record for attendance for a single game in the US is 92,706, for a game between the LA Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox on October 6, 1959.
The record for the highest season's attendance ever in all major-league baseball games is 70,372,221 in 1998.
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