BR Bullpen:Did You Know Archive10

This is an archive of articles that were featured on the Main Page as part of Did You Know? from December 16, 2022 to November 14, 2023

...what records Carlos Royer holds in Cuba?

...what was historic about Yoshitomo Miyaji's perfect game?

...what record Giichiro Shiraki held for 23 years?

...what historic hit Tsuguhiro Hattori had in 1952?

...what historic start Eleazar Jie Xian Ng made for Singapore?

...what team record Seiya Kinami set in 2019?

...what award Yasunobu Okugawa is the youngest winner of?

...that Octavius Catto was both a pioneer of civil rights and black baseball in Philadelphia, PA?

...what record Chi-Hung Liu set in Taiwan?

...what history Francisco Acuña made for Colombia in 2000?

...what Chia-Jung Liang accomplished that only had been done once before?

...that Coco Gómez was the first person to both play and manage in the Cuban Serie Nacional?

...that Yuma Tongu had the lowest average by a Pacific League batting champion?

...what award Mark Manaig won in 2023?

...in what country Marcel Giraud won a strikeout title?

...that the same player was the first pick of every single team in the 2014 CPBL Draft?

...that Bryan Woodall was the first CPBL pitcher to reach double-digit wins for three different teams?

...that Yoshio Gomi was the first Japanese pro player from Yamanashi Prefecture?

...what the Climax Series is in NPB?

...that Susumu Nakane was the first official batting champion in the Japanese Professional Baseball League?

...what disastrous decision the Softbank Hawks made in Game 3 of the 2023 Pacific League Climax Series' first round?

...that Seizo Furukawa was the first player to win back-to-back home run titles in Japanese pro ball?

...what crisis Yoshimasa Takesue came back from?

...what historic game Kotaro Mori pitched in 1940?

...what was unusual about the career trajectory of Shoji Toyama?

...what record Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara set in 2001?

...what Kazuki Kondo accomplished that no other NPB pitcher had done?

...what long-standing record Shoki Murakami just felled?

...what historic hit Noah Williamson had for the Swiss national team?

...that Shinichi Kato was the only NPB free agent ever to sign with the Kintetsu Buffaloes?

...what All-Star honor Soulapixa Khounchaleun took home in 2023?

...what award Kozo Ishioka was the first winner of?

...during what recent tournament Franky Quintana defected?

...what brothers made history in the 2017 CPBL Draft?

...what Tetsuya Matoyama was the first NPB catcher in 19 years to accomplish?

...what records Woo-jin An has set so far in his career?

...what Yasutomo Kubo accomplished in fewer seasons than anyone in Japanese history before him?

...what Toshiaki Okamura did that no NPB player would copy for 64 years?

...what award Motoyuki Akahori was the first five-time winner of?

...what honor Hirofumi Kono was the first player to take home?

...what All-Star honor Junmar Diarao won while a teenager?

...that Kazunori Nishimura is one of only two rookies to fan 300 in a NPB season?

...in what event Erwin Bosito hit .532 with 15 steals in 4 games?

...that Keiji Uezono had more wins in his Rookie of the Year campaign than in the rest of his NPB career combined?

...that Yukio Fujinami was the first player to win a NPB Rookie of the Year award as a position player without qualifying for the batting title?

...what unusual error Hiroshi Takamura committed?

...what was historic about Teruyoshi Kuji's Rookie of the Year campaign?

...that Andy Brown is the official national team artist of the Great Britain national baseball team?

...what impressive comeback Koki Morita made?

...what historic RBI Darren Seferina had for the Curaçao national team?

...what star Yukiya Yokoyama got his nickname due to?

...why Takeshi Suzuki did not break the Pacific League record for steals when he was well on pace in 1954?

...what firsts Samaria Benítez accomplished for Mexico in 2023?

...what Toshihide Narimoto did in 2001 to win Comeback Player of the Year?

...what history Raine Padgham has made?

...what pitch of Yuji Inoue made history in 1982?

...that Bryce Eldridge was the MVP of the 2022 U-18 Baseball World Cup as a two-way player?

...what Satoshi Takahashi was the first NPB pitcher to accomplish?

...that Takao Misono was the first pitcher to lead NPB in winning percentage three times?

...what record Toshio Kawanishi holds in the Japanese Professional Baseball League?

...what last-day heroics gave Masayoshi Miura his black ink in 1956?

...what Hirotoshi Masui was the first Pacific League pitcher to accomplish?

...what was unusual about the ERA title of Nobuyuki Ebisu?

...what Central League record Jiro Kanayama held for 33 years?

...what record Toshihiko Sei set in 1972?

...that Jean-Baptiste Meunier is one of two French players to homer in multiple Baseball World Cups?

...what history Goro Tsuchiya made for the Kokutetsu Swallows?

...what award Yoshiaki Ishimoto won twice?

...that Minoru Kakimoto pitched 1,402 career innings without throwing a single wild pitch?

...that Davis Schneider had the highest OPS by any major league player over his first 20 career games?

...what league Ed Hall holds home run and RBI records in?

...which players have won the NPB Comeback Player of the Year Award?

...what Central League record Masaaki Koyama has held for 60 years?

...what firsts Rosa Del Castillo has accomplished in her career to date?

...that Fullerton Union High School has had 4 alumni pitch major league no-hitters?

...what record Tadashi Wakabayashi has held since 1944?

...that Hisashi Yamada won more NPB All-Star Games than anyone else?

...that Wataru Nonin was the only JPBL veteran to be in Hiroshima when it was hit by the atomic bomb?

...that Yoshio Yoshida won a record nine Best Nine awards at short?

...what moves Rikuo Nemoto used to build the Seibu Lions into Japan's top team?

...what Shigeru Mizuhara was the second person to accomplish in Nippon Pro Baseball?

...what slew of records Masaichi Kaneda holds?

...what record Tetsuharu Kawakami has held since 1948?

...what unusual path Stone Garrett took to the big leagues?

...what Pacific League record Masataka Nashida set?

...that Mathias LaCombe was the first pitcher born and raised in France to be drafted by a MLB team?

...what the 1999 Cincinnati Reds were the last team to do?

...that Kaitlyn Ross won a hockey MVP in addition to her baseball Bronze Medal?

...how many records and famous firsts Fumio Fujimura accomplished in his historic career?

...that Yasumitsu Toyoda was the first Japanese shortstop to win a batting title?

...what Tomehiro Kaneda did in 1972 that no Pacific League hurler would do for the next 50 years?

...what notable firsts Genji Kaku accomplished?

...that Minoru Murayama has the lowest WHIP in NPB history?

...what unique accomplishment Tadashi Sugiura had in the 1959 Japan Series?

...what All-Star history Masayuki Kakefu made in 1978?

...what Taigen Kaku was the first Nippon Pro Baseball player to do?

...what was historic about the first career homer of Tomonori Maeda?

...that Atsushi Nagaike was the first player to win Fighting Spirit Awards in consecutive Japan Series?

...that Hiroshi Oshita had the first 20-homer season in Japan?

...that Isami Okamoto was the first batting champion born in the Showa era?

...what feat Naotaka Takehara was the third player to accomplish in Japan?

...what scandal overshadowed Suguru Egawa's fine career?

...that Ricky Jordan was the first player to homer in their first two MLB games?

...that Koji Minoda was the only NPB player to go 30-30 while also laying down 30 sacrifice hits?

...what records Shinji Hamazaki held for over 60 years?

...how Fumiya Nishiguchi was robbed of at least three no-hitters?

...what Susumu Yuki was the first Pacific League hurler to accomplish?

...what Kazuya Fukuura did that no Japanese batting champ had done before him?

...that Juzo Sanada had the first walk-free no-hitter in Japanese pro history?

...that Takeshi Koba managed the Hiroshima Carp to their first title, and also their second and third?

...what two historic wins Témesh Lourens got for Curaçao six months apart?

...that Shosei Go is the only player to win a batting title and pitch a no-hitter in NPB annals?

...what record Tzu-Hao Lin held?

...what records Hiroshi Gondo set in his rookie year?

...that Isamu Kida is the only player to win a MVP in his rookie year in Japanese pro history?

...that Shigeru Sugishita was the first player to win three Sawamura Awards?

...that Norihiro Akahoshi was the first NPB player to lead the league in steals his first five seasons?

...that Julian Vasquez had a 0.28 ERA in 56 games pitched one season?

...in what 2023 event Kevin Reyes won All-Star honors?

...that Kaoru Betto was the first NPB player to go 30-30 while hitting .300?

...to whom Keegan James lost his high school quarterback job?

...what big hit Carlos Paulino had in 2021?

...what league records Don Stokes holds?

...that Masaji Shimizu has coached three champion teams in three different events since 2019?

...that Tatsuji Nishimura was the first player in his franchise's history to win Comeback Player of the Year?

...that Shoki Kasahara was the first second-generation NPB starting pitcher?

...what record Kazunari Tsuruoka set in 2013?

...that Masao Fujii set a Pacific League record in 1999?

...what franchise record Mitsuru Sato set?

...in what 2023 event Lombardo Padilla won MVP honors?

...what record Hiroki Sanada holds in Taiwan?

...what event Taiyo Fujita led in ERA?

...that Isao Hirono is the only player in NPB history to hit two walk-off grand slams?

...what problems Jake Sanford has had to overcome?

...what record Yoshiyuki Sakakibara tied in 1978?

...what historic hit Shean Michel had for Curacao?

...what Kenta Aoshima was the first Yakult player to accomplish?

...that Fernando Villegas Jr. and his father both led the Mexican League in the same department?

...what history Tadayoshi Kawabe made in Japan?

...what MVP honor Randy Romero won in 2019?

...that John Carter and Marc Deschenes both won the Bob Feller Award?

...what record Tokitaka Minamibuchi held?

...what Central League mark Osamu Fukuma held for 17 years?

...that Katsumi Yamashita was the second player to lead both of Japan's minor leagues in home runs?

...what record Taisei Makihara set in 2014?

...that Julio Bracho threw the first Venezuelan League no-hitter?

...that Syed Muhammad Shah was the first Pakistani to win a full baseball scholarship?

...that Kevin Mendon was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the history of the NAIA College World Series?

...what Kazuki Kamizato was the 11th NPB player to do?

...what Seibu Lions record Tatsushi Masuda holds?

...that a record eight of the twelve teams picked the same player in the 1989 NPB Amateur Draft?

...that Yoshihiro Nakata was the first player from his team to win a home run title?

...what was unusual about Kichiro Sasaki's perfect game?

...that the 1993 Montreal Expos went 21-3 at one point of the season?

...that Matt Waldron became the first knuckleballer in the majors in two years?

...who are the mascots of the Spokane Indians?

...that Shuzo Arita was the first catcher to win Central League Comeback Player of the Year?

...that Junji Nakatani had the first Pacific League hit in a NPB All-Star Game?

...what big save Joaquín Acuña had for the Nicaraguan national team?

...that Glen Cullop gave up the final home run of basketball star Michael Jordan's baseball career?

...that Timothy Mena didn't make his international tournament debut until he was already 44 - and led the world championship in wins nine years later?

...what was pioneer investigative journalist Doris O'Donnell's connection to baseball?

...that Takenori Ikebe was the first outfielder to win a Diamond Glove Award in both of Japan's top leagues?

...that Mariano Casaldi had the first win for the Italian national team?

...what record Toru Ogawa set?

...what Olympic history Howard Drew made?

...what record Koichi Hada tied in 1974?

...that Kenta Abe went the longest between wins in NPB?

...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?