I can’t figure out how to post this as a question but it’s an interesting fact that I just read in an article about Aaron Rodgers became just becoming the fifth quarter back with more than 500 passing touchdowns. The Top 6 are:
Brady (649), Brees (571), P. Manning (539), Favre (508), Rodgers (503) and Rivers (421)
All of the above were selected to the 2010 Pro Bowl (starter or reserve).
Not a question, but it could be a trivia answer: Stan Musial finished his career with 3, 630 hits. 1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road.
That is a very interesting stat, and looking it up I discovered another: neither 2010 Pro Bowl starting QB (Manning and Brees) actually played in the game because both of them were in the Super Bowl!
Who is the all time NBA leader in most games played?
As to this, it was just the conditions of the time.
1968 was Gibson’s great season but as compared to his league he really was almost as good in 1969 and 1970. But 1968 was a bizarrely terrible year for hitters, and Gibson was a bit lucky on balls hit into play.
I had a small list of guesses. Turns out one of them was right. Some of the rest of the top 10 (and top 50) surprised me, including a couple that played for 8 different teams.
The answer surprised me too, which is why I asked it.
The same question for NHL players also reveals a surprising answer. I thought I knew, but my pick is a close third.
I don’t think many would get the answer for the NFL, either.
Most baseball fans will know who the MLB record-holder is. Mad props though to the Japanese leader, Katsuya Nomura, who played over 3000 games there (and incidentally hit 657 home runs and won the Japan Series twice. And he was a CATCHER. That’s… amazing.
A lot of people will know #2 in the NHL and NFL. I had no clue about the #1 spots for those.
Before anyone complains, I specifically mean the NHL. Spoilers; it isn’t Gordie Howe, but yes I do know Howe played many more additional games in the WHA, when he was still more than good enough to play in the NHL.
Howe would be the NHL record holder, too, were it not for the fact that for pretty much his whole career the NHL only played 70 games a year. There is a pretty strong argument to be made that Howe was the most physically durable athlete in ANY major North American pro sport.
I saw this one going around social media:
Who is the NBA career leader in steals:
Ben Simmons $177,243,360
My guess was #2. And my personal favorite player of all time was #13.
I thought the “Most games played” would have a trick answer like “the organist at Madison Square Garden”.
“Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs.” - Tim McCarver
Speaking of Bob Gibson, not only does he hold the record for the lowest ERA for an NL Cy Young winner (1.12 in 1968), he also holds the record for the highest (3.12 in 1970).
Gibson played baseball collegiately at Creighton University, in his hometown of Omaha. He also played basketball there and averaged over 20 points per game over his career. Following this, he played two years for the Harlem Globetrotters before signing with the Cardinals.
Wilt Chamberlain also played with the Globetrotters including a tour of the USSR in 1959
No came came out and said the answers, so the all time leaders in games played
For MLB;
Pete Rose, 3562
For the NHL:
Patrick Marleau, of all people. 1779
For the NBA:
Robert Parish, 1611
for the NFL:
Morten Andersen, 382
LaBron is fourth and will probably be second by the end of the season or damn close. If he plays next year he could take the record.
Who is the only person to be the overall #1 pick in two separate MLB drafts?
Danny Goodwin, who was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 1971 and the Angels in 1975.
And he played only 252 MLB games with a WAR of -1.7