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Albie Pearson?

Posted by Steve Lombardi on September 14, 2007

Six batters, since 1957, have more than one 5 BB games in their career:

                   Games Link to Individual Games 
+-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ 
Barry Bonds           3 Ind. Games 
Albie Pearson         2 Ind. Games 
Dale Murphy           2 Ind. Games 
Rickey Henderson      2 Ind. Games 
Dick Allen            2 Ind. Games 
Hank Aaron            2 Ind. Games

Albie Pearson?  I never would have guessed that one.  Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder for the answer.

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One Response to “Albie Pearson?”

  1. Andy Says:
    September 14th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    In 1962, Pearson was the shortest batter to get at least 50 walks that season:

    http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/rCUe

    Shortest by 4 inches...that why he got so many walks.

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