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Dale Long
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Birthdate: 2/6/1926 Died: 1/27/1991
Height / Weight: 6' 4" / 210 lbs. Place of Birth: Springfield, MO, USA
Bats / Throws: L / L

Baseball Historian Biography

May 28 1956 News of the Day

Dale Long, Pittsburgh Pirates slugging first baseman set a major league record by hitting a home run in eight consecutive games. He lined the record breaker off Brooklyn's mound master Carl Erskine in Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.


Pitching Statistics
Year Team G GS W L SV CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WP HBP BK ERA
14 years   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Batting Statistics
Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS IBB HBP SH SF AVG OBP SLG
1951 PIT (NL) 10 12 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .167 .167 SLG
1951 SLB (AL) 34 105 11 25 5 1 2 11 10 22 0 0 0 1 0 0 .238 .310 SLG
1955 PIT (NL) 131 419 59 122 19 13 16 79 48 72 0 1 6 1 6 4 .291 .362 SLG
1956 PIT (NL) 148 517 64 136 20 7 27 91 54 85 1 0 11 0 0 11 .263 .326 SLG
1957 PIT (NL) 7 22 0 4 1 0 0 5 4 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 .182 .296 SLG
1957 CHC (NL) 123 397 55 121 19 0 21 62 52 63 1 1 4 1 1 4 .305 .383 SLG
1958 CHC (NL) 142 480 68 130 26 4 20 75 66 64 2 0 9 2 0 6 .271 .357 SLG
1959 CHC (NL) 110 296 34 70 10 3 14 37 31 53 0 0 2 0 0 3 .236 .306 SLG
1960 NYY (AL) 26 41 6 15 3 1 3 10 5 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 .366 .435 SLG
1960 SFG (NL) 37 54 4 9 0 0 3 6 7 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 .167 .262 SLG
1961 WSA (AL) 123 377 52 94 20 4 17 49 39 41 0 0 5 1 0 6 .249 .317 SLG
1962 NYY (AL) 41 94 12 28 4 0 4 17 18 9 1 0 0 0 0 2 .298 .404 SLG
1962 WSA (AL) 67 191 17 46 8 0 4 24 18 22 5 1 0 1 0 2 .241 .307 SLG
1963 NYY (AL) 14 15 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .250 SLG
14 years   1013 3020 384 805 135 33 132 467 353 460 10 3 39 7 7 39 .267 .341 .SLG



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