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Baseball's most improbable achievements: throughout the game's history, some seemingly impossible feats have been accomplished at the major league level.
NOBODY HAS EVER SUCCEEDED IN repealing, manipulating or even mitigating the inexorable laws of probability at Las Vegas or Monte Carlo, but there are virtually innumerable baseball achievements that defy gargantuan odds against their ever taking place.
Such bucking of chance happens every year, and will in some form this season as it has every previous campaign since Abner Doubleday was in diapers. Last season, Bartolo Colon--now with the Chicago White Sox--became only the second pitcher in history to win at least 10 games in each of the two major leagues in the same campaign. Colon was 104 for Cleveland in the American League and 10-4 for Montreal in the National ...
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