The Records
Streaks, milestones, and the numbers with asterisk-shaped shadows.
Baseball's history, kept honestly
Baseball History Blog covers the game's past through its record book: what the numbers meant in their own era, and which comparisons across eras hold up.
From 1876 to the pitch clock
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Worst Baseball Record Ever: 1899 Cleveland Spiders
Different measures name different modern-era teams: the 2024 White Sox for losses and the 1916 Athletics for lowest winning percentage.
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Catcher Stolen Base Records by Position Filter
John Wathan leads a position-aware single-season finding, while Bresnahan, Kendall, and Realmuto lead different career categories.
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Orioles vs. MLB Turnarounds: Two-Season Win Gains
Baltimore posted a 49-win endpoint gain from 2021–2023 and improved in both annual steps—one of two sustained climbs in MLB’s selected 14-team sample.
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1858 New York–Brooklyn All-Star Baseball Games
New York won the summer series between multi-club representative teams at Fashion Race Course—an early all-star model, though not an indisputable first.
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1903 AL–NL Peace Agreement: Terms and Impact
Negotiated January 9–10 in Cincinnati, it ended player and territory conflicts, kept two eight-club leagues and put disputes before a new National Commission.
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