Top Ten Baseball Events by Tom Seaver : A Legendary List on Baseball Almanac

Top Ten Baseball Events

Terrific Tom Seaver won three-hundred eleven games, struck out more than two-hundred batters in nine consecutive seasons, won three Cy Young Awards, and was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame with a percentage higher than any other person in the hall. With that one sentence he deserves our attention. His lists are some of the best, most intelligently thought out, and insightful in baseball history.

"My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking them out." - Tom Seaver

Top Ten Baseball Events by Tom Seaver (1994)
Rank	Name
10.	(Roger) Maris's sixty-one home runs.
9.	(Nolan) Ryan's seven no-hitters.
8.	(Lou) Gehrig's 2,130 consecutive games.
7.	(Hank) Aaron's eclipsing of (Babe) Ruth's homer record.
6.	(Pete) Rose's breaking of (Ty) Cobb's hits record.
5.	(Sandy) Koufax's five straight ERA titles.
4.	(Walter) Johnson's 113 shutouts.
3.	(Joe) DiMaggio's fifty-six game hitting streak.
2.	(Jackie) Robinson's integration of baseball.
1.	(Babe) Ruth's sixty home runs in 1927.
Top Ten Baseball Events by Tom Seaver

On April 22, 1970, Tom Seaver set a record for consecutive strikeouts in a game with ten. Did you know that prior to the game he was presented his first Cy Young Award and finished the game with nineteen strikeouts?

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Tom Seaver also ranked the ten best pitchers and commented about both lists, "They're just lists, just one man's opinion. Ask me next year, and without looking I might fill them out differently."

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