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List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders

MLB career stolen bases leaders list: Rickey Henderson holds the record with 1,406 steals (1979-2003), 468 ahead of Lou Brock's 938; covers rules history, top-10 rankings, success-rate thresholds, and 2023 rule-change effects.

List of Major League Baseball franchise postseason droughts

MLB franchise postseason droughts: streaks without playoffs, World Series appearances, titles, or series wins. Guardians lead title droughts since 1948; Angels lead berth droughts; Mariners never reached a World Series.

List of Major League Baseball home run records

MLB home run records: Barry Bonds holds the single-season mark (73 in 2001) and career mark (762); Aaron Judge's 62 in 2022 is the AL record; Cal Raleigh hit 60 in 2025.

List of Major League Baseball longest winning streaks

MLB longest winning streaks: 1916 Giants 26 games (with a tie), Cleveland 2017 22, Cubs 1935 21, A's 2002 20; also Expansion Era 15+ streaks and per-franchise records.

List of Major League Baseball mascots

List of Major League Baseball mascots: 28 of 30 MLB clubs have mascots as of 2024; Yankees, Dodgers, Angels do not. Covers Mr. Met (1964), Phillie Phanatic (1978), salaries, lawsuits, Chief Wahoo retirement, and Mascot Hall of Fame inductees.

List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

The list of Major League Baseball no-hitters covers 327 games in which pitchers allowed no hits over at least nine innings, a count MLB has maintained since 1991.

List of Major League Baseball perfect games

List of Major League Baseball perfect games: 24 official AL/NL perfect games, from Lee Richmond (June 12, 1880) through Domingo Germán (June 28, 2023); includes Don Larsen's lone World Series perfecto and rarity modeling.

List of Major League Baseball pitchers who have thrown an immaculate inning

Immaculate inning: three strikeouts on nine pitches in one inning. 123 recorded in MLB history as of 2026; none 1929-52; most (3) by Sale, Scherzer, Koufax; Astros first with two in one game (2022).

List of Major League Baseball players from Japan

Japanese-born players in Major League Baseball: 84 players through 2025, from pioneer Masanori Murakami and Hideo Nomo to Shohei Ohtani, transferred mainly via the MLB-NPB posting system.

List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican MLB players: 302 Major Leaguers including Negro Leaguers, starting with José "Gacho" Torres (1926) and Hiram Bithorn (1942, first AL/NL), through Hall of Famers Clemente, Cepeda, Rodríguez, and Martínez.

List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs

MLB players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs under the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program: 50/100/lifetime penalty ladder, from Palmeiro and Ramirez through Biogenesis, Rodriguez's 162-game ban, Mejía's lifetime ban, and recent 80-game cases.

List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle

List of MLB players to hit for the cycle (batting for the cycle): batters who hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game; 354 total occurrences, only postseason cycle Brock Holt 2018 ALDS.

List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat

This list covers the 146 Major League Baseball players who homered in their first big-league at bat, a feat first achieved by Mike Griffin and George Tebeau in 1887.

List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable

MLB records considered unbreakable: DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak (1941), Cy Young's 511 wins and 749 complete games, Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games, Henderson's 130 and 1,406 steals, Cobb's .366 average.

List of Major League Baseball retired numbers

List of Major League Baseball retired numbers: uniform numbers withdrawn by MLB clubs, beginning with Lou Gehrig's No. 4 (1939); Jackie Robinson's No. 42 is retired league-wide; the Yankees lead with 22 retired numbers.

List of Major League Baseball single-game home run leaders

MLB single-game home run record: four home runs by one player, achieved by 21 players from Bobby Lowe (1894) to Kyle Schwarber (2025); no one has hit five; Shawn Green's 19 total bases record tied by Nick Kurtz.

List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

The members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are the 354 players, managers, umpires, and executives elected to the museum in Cooperstown, New York, since 1936.

List of Minor League Baseball leagues and teams

Minor League Baseball leagues and teams: since 2021, 120 affiliated clubs in 11 leagues (International, Pacific Coast, Eastern, Southern, Texas, Midwest, Northwest, South Atlantic, California, Carolina, Florida State) under MLB's Professional Development League, plus partner leagues.

List of most expensive sports cards

Most expensive sports cards: record is the 2007-08 Upper Deck Jordan/Kobe dual logoman at $12.932M (2025), ahead of the 1952 Topps Mantle at $12.6M; 2026 saw $11M Ohtani and $8.04M Flagg sales.

List of New York Yankees managers

New York Yankees managers: the 33 field leaders of the AL franchise (formerly the New York Highlanders, 1903-1912). Joe McCarthy is the winningest (1,460-867, .627); Stengel won 7 World Series; Billy Martin managed five times; Aaron Boone is current.

List of people banned from Major League Baseball

People banned from Major League Baseball: the Black Sox eight (1921), Phil Douglas, O'Connell and Dolan, owner William Cox, Pete Rose (1989), and Tucupita Marcano (2024); Manfred's May 2025 ruling ended bans at death.

List of worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records

Worst MLB season records: 1899 Cleveland Spiders 20-134 (.130) all-time worst; 2024 White Sox 41-121 (.253) modern-era loss record, breaking the 1962 Mets' 40-120; 2003 Tigers 43-119.

Little Big League

Little Big League is a 1994 Castle Rock comedy, Andrew Scheinman's directorial debut, in which 12-year-old Billy Heywood inherits the Minnesota Twins and manages them himself; it grossed $12.3 million and features MLB cameos.

Little League Baseball

Little League Baseball, also called Little League International, is a nonprofit youth baseball and softball organization founded in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1939, with about 2 million players in more than 80 countries.

Little League World Series

Little League World Series: annual August baseball world championship for 10- to 12-year-olds in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania; 20 teams (10 US, 10 international) qualify through district-to-region play; Chinese Taipei leads with 17 titles.

LoanDepot Park

LoanDepot park, formerly Marlins Park, is the Miami Marlins' retractable-roof MLB ballpark in Little Havana, Miami. Opened 2012, capacity 37,442 (smallest in MLB), renamed March 31, 2021 in a roughly $10 million-a-year naming rights deal.

Logan Henderson (baseball)

Logan Henderson (Logan Blake Henderson) is a Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher, born 2002 in Houston. NJCAA Pitcher of the Year at McLennan CC, 2021 fourth-round pick, MLB debut April 20, 2025 with 9 strikeouts.

Long Beach Coast

Long Beach Coast (also the Regulators) is an independent Pioneer League professional baseball team founded in 2026, playing at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, co-owned by Warren G, managed by Troy Percival.

Longest professional baseball game

Longest professional baseball game: Pawtucket Red Sox vs. Rochester Red Wings, Triple-A International League, McCoy Stadium, 1981; 33 innings, 8 hours 25 minutes, suspended at 2-2, Pawtucket won 3-2 on Dave Koza's single.

Lorenzo Cain

Lorenzo Lamar Cain, American former MLB center fielder (2010-2022) for the Brewers and Royals; 2014 ALCS MVP, 2015 World Series champion, two-time All-Star, 2019 Gold Glove winner, career .283 hitter.