The first major league pitcher to reach 1000 strike outs had to be Tim Keefe, who played for several teams from 1880 to 1893 and recorded a career total of 2,521 strike outs. Cy Young was probably the second pitcher to reach 1000 SO. Young pitched from 1890 to 1911 and had a career total of 2,803 strike outs. Young also holds the all time record for most wins (511), most losses (313), most starts (816), most complete games (750) and most innings pitched (7,357).
For batters, that was Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees on September 16, 1966 against the Minnesota Twins. The Twins pitcher who recorded Mantle's 1500th strikeout was Jim Merritt.
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The Cincinnati reds were the first baseball club to pay a player, therefor making it the first professional team in major league baseball.
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Jackie Robinson.
He is credited as the first African-American professional baseball player.
He was the first African American Professional Baseball player and he broke the color barrier for baseball.
In MLB, that was Babe Ruth who struckout for the 1000th time in the 1930 season. Ruth was the MLB leader in career strikeouts (with 1330) until 1964 when he was surpassed by Mickey Mantle.
The Cincinnati Reds are recognized as the first ever professional baseball team.
The Triple Crown is awarded to a Major League Baseball player who is ranked first in three major categories. For hitters it is batting average, home runs and runs batted in. For pitchers it is earned run average, wins and strikeouts.