base on balls
baseball
Also known as: walk
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record by Henderson
- In Rickey Henderson
…Babe Ruth’s lifetime record for bases on balls (walks). When Ruth retired from baseball in 1935, he had 2,062 bases on balls, a testament to his ability to judge pitches and intimidate pitchers, and it was thought that the record would never be broken. Ted Williams (with 2,019) had been…
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rules of baseball
- In baseball: Getting on base
…common of these is the base on balls, also called a walk. Whenever the batter does not swing at a pitched ball and the ball does not cross the plate inside the strike zone (see below Defense: The putout), the umpire calls the pitch a ball. If four balls are…
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