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1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons

1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)

1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)

1987 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter

1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter

1981 Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot

1973 Rahul Dravid, cricket batter, prolific Karnataka, Tests for India 96

1965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box

1956 Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75

1954 Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9

1953 New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk

1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter

1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game

1904 Jim Christy, righty cricket batter, Transvaal, Queensland and South Africa

1874 Baseball batter's box is officially adopted

1855 George Bonnor, cricketer, big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888



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