Dave Kingman Stats & Facts
Dave Kingman Stats & Facts Dave Kingman Positions: Leftfielder, First Baseman and Third...
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Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Aug 10, 1985 | 400 Homerun Club | 0 |
Oakland’s Dave Kingman becomes the 21st player to hit 400 career home runs, belting a two-run shot off Matt Young in the 1st inning of the A’s 11 – 5 win at Seattle.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | May 4, 1984 | Ball Park, Batting Feat | 0 |
On May 4, 1984, Dave Kingman of the Oakland A’s hits a ball through the roof of the Hubert H....
Read MorePosted by Tom | Mar 29, 1984 | Transactions | 0 |
March 29, 1984 The Oakland A’s sign Dave Kingman as a free agent, he receives a two year...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Aug 14, 1981 | Homerun History | 0 |
Dave Kingman’s home run, a monstrous blast estimated to have travelled 515 feet, is, and will remain, the longest round-tripper ever hit in the 44-year history of Shea Stadium. Kong’s tape-measure home run, a solo shot over the left-center wall, comes in the fourth inning off Larry Christenson in the Mets’ 8-4 loss to Philadelphia.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 22, 1980 | walkoffs | 0 |
On April 22, 1980, Barry Foote hits a grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Chicago Cubs a dramatic 16-12 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cubs’ catcher finishes the game with eight RBIs.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | May 17, 1979 | 3 Home Run Games, Extra Innings | 0 |
On May 17, 1979, the Philadelphia Phillies outslug the Chicago Cubs, 23-22, overcoming a 21-9...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | May 14, 1978 | 3 Home Run Games | 0 |
On May 14, 1978, Dave Kingman of the Chicago Cubs hits three home runs, including a game-winning...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Sep 6, 1977 | Transactions | 0 |
1977 – The Angels acquire slugger Dave Kingman from San Diego for cash consideration. Nine days later, the Yankees will buy Kingman, making him the first player to wear four uniforms in four divisions in the same year. Kingman, who started the season with the Mets, will hit 26 home runs to set the mark for the most by a player with more than two teams.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Jun 15, 1977 | Transactions | 0 |
On June 15, 1977 forgotten on this sad day in Mets history, Dave Kingman, their exciting slugger...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Jun 4, 1976 | 3 Home Run Games, 3 homerun game | 0 |
Mets right fielder Dave Kingman, in the team’s 11-0 victory at Dodger Stadium, hits three home runs. Sky King’s two-run dinger and two three-run round-trippers drive in eight runs, a new club record.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Apr 14, 1976 | Homerun History | 0 |
1976 – In the 6th inning of today’s 6 – 5 loss to Chicago, the Mets’ Dave Kingman hits what will become widely regarded as the longest home run ever hit in Wrigley Field, estimated at 600 feet in many of the next day’s press accounts, with the putative “paper of record” going as high as 630. Some cold water is applied to these claims by longtime Cubs’ broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, speaking in 1982 with Paul Susman of Baseball Digest: “Brickhouse revealed that the ball was greatly helped by a strong wind of about 35 miles per hour. Brickhouse estimated Kingman’s blast in reality went about 500 feet.” To be fair to Kingman, the Cubs’ own scoresheet for this game estimates “530 to 550 feet,” which in conjunction with researcher Bill Jenkinson’s assertion of 530 feet as the distance between home plate and the point of obstruction, would suggest a typo or simple misreading as the culprit in the inflated Times estimate.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Feb 28, 1975 | This Day In Baseball | 0 |
The Mets purchase slugger Dave Kingman from the Giants. The 26 year-old first baseman/outfielder was drafted by San Francisco as the team’s first pick in the initial round of the secondary phase of the 1970 amateur draft.
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