48- Baseball is Numbers

They say that to baseball players numbers are everything. In the movie "For Love of the Game" Kevin Costner's character says, "we keep track of everything." And they do.

These numbers I know:

714 Career homers by Babe Ruth

60 Homers by Babe Ruth in 1927

.367 Ty Cobb's career batting average

61 Homers by Roger Maris in 1961

31 Wins by Denny McLain in 1968

29 Mickey Lolich's uniform number

.406 Ted Williams batting average in 1941

511 Career wins by Cy Young

1976 The year they celebrated baseball's centennial

1984 the last year the Tigers won the World Series

11 Bill Freehan's uniform number

.297 Al Kaline's career average

399 Al Kaline career homers

58 Homers by Hank Grenberg in 1938

.361 Norm Cash's batting average in 1961