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.366 -- Career postseason batting average compiled by Eddie Murray in 44 games. |

Eddie Murray becomes the 38th first-ballot Hall of Famer. Doug Pensinger/Allsport |
2 -- Runner-up finishes in American League MVP voting (1982 and '83). Murray finished among the top 10 seven times in the AL and once in the NL. |
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3 -- Players in major league history who collected 3,000 hits along with 500 homers: Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Murray (3,255 and 504). |
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6 -- AL Rookie of the Year winners who played for the Baltimore Orioles: Ron Hansen (1960), Curt Blefary (1965), Al Bumbry (1973), Murray (1977), Cal Ripken, Jr. (1982) and Gregg Olson (1989). |
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8 -- All-Star Games. Murray is one of 88 players selected in both leagues. |
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11 -- Games in which Murray homered from both sides of the plate, a major league record. Ken Caminiti, Chili Davis and Mickey Mantle did it 10 times.
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15 -- Seasons in which Murray played in 150 or more games. Only Ripken (15) and Pete Rose (17) can make the same claim. |
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19 -- Grand slams. Murray was a career .410 hitter with the bases loaded. |
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20 -- Consecutive seasons in which Murray drove in 75 or more runs, a major league record. Murray posted six 100-RBI seasons (1980, 1982-85 and 1993). |
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33 -- Home runs in 1983, a career high. Murray is the only member of the 500 home run club who never posted a 40-homer season. |
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117 -- Game-winning RBIs, an AL record (official statistic from 1980-88). |
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128 -- Sacrifice flies, a major league record. Other noteable rankings: 6th in at-bats (11,336), tied for 6th in games (3,026), 8th in RBIs (1,917), 8th in total bases (5,397), 12th in hits (3,255) and 17th in doubles (560) and homers (504). |
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996 -- RBIs in the 1980s, tops in the decade. Dale Murphy and Mike Schmidt were tied for second-best with 992. |
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2,413 -- Games played at first base, a major league record. A three-time Gold Glove winner, Murray also owns the career record for assists (1,865). |