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Yogi Berra’s Incredible Feat for the Yankees That No Slugger Will Ever Match

New York Yankees won the 1950 pennant, edging out the second-place Detroit Tigers by three games and the third-place Boston Red Sox by four games.

The Yankee scored 914 runs, averaged 5.90 runs a game, batted .282 and hit 159 home runs. They had 687 walks and struck out 458 times, which includes 47 walks and 72 strikeouts by pitchers.

Try to find a team that has more walks than strikeouts since about 1970.

In 1950, almost no one but Branch Rickey and Allan Roth knew about on base percentage, which didn't become an official statistic until 1984. The 1950 Yankees had an on base percentage of .367.

Now we come to a statistic that seems incredible today but one that has gone almost unnoticed. In 1950, the only Yankees with at ...

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