The Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame is a collection of plaques, mounted on a brick wall in the Ashburn Alley section of Citizens Bank Park. He is also the Phillies franchise leader in at-bats, extra base hits, outs made, plate appearances, RBI, runs created, runs scored, sacrifice flies, strikeouts, times on base, total bases and walks. The remaining home runs were hit while Schmitty was playing first (36), pinch hitting (2) and shortstop (1).ĥ48 - Mike Schmidt hit 548 home runs, joining the 500 Home Runs Club on April 18, 1987, and holds the Major League record for most home runs ever hit by a player who spent his entire career with just one team ( Philadelphia Phillies).Ģ,404 - Mike Schmidt played in 2,404 games, all of them with the Philadelphia Phillies, the all-time team leader in games played in a Phillies uniform. “This is no more than cheap PR and an attempt to fulfill an order by Russophobes in the US," he said, in comments distributed by Russian news agencies.Mike Schmidt Miscellaneous Items of InterestĤ - Mike Schmidt hit four home runs in one game on April 17, 1976, the first (and to date only) third baseman with 4 home runs in 1 game.Ħ - Mike Schmidt won six Silver Slugger Awards, including five consecutive (1980 through 1984, then one more in 1986), and only one player in history has more at third base, Wade Boggs (8) - not one other third baseman in history has won more than four.ġ0 - Mike Schmidt won ten Gold Glove Awards, including nine consecutive (1976 through 1984, then one more in 1986), and only one player in history has more at third base, Brooks Robinson (16) - not one other third baseman in history has won more than eight.ġ2 - Mike Schmidt was named to twelve All-Star Games (1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989).Ģ0 - Mike Schmidt came up to the show in 1972 wearing #22, Roger Freed was wearing #20 (19), but starting in 1973 Schmidt wore #20, never stopped wearing it the rest of his eighteen year career, and after he retired the Phillies retired it.Ģ8 - Mike Schmidt was ranked twenty-eighth by The Sporting News when they released their list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players in the history of baseball.ģ0 - Mike Schmidt was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round of the 1971 Major League Baseball Draft with the 30th overall pick - click the 1971 dDraft to see the 29 players taken before Schmitty.ĥ09 - Mike Schmidt left the field with 548 career home runs (see #548 below), but "only" 509 of those homers were hit while he was playing third base - the Major League Record for Home Runs by a Third Baseman (hit while playing third). Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, groused that the allegations should not have been made public.
Underscoring the extent to which corruption has begrimed Russian officialdom, US law enforcement officials recently unsealed an indictment charging dozens of current and former Russian diplomats with insurance fraud for allegedly bilking at least $1.5 million from the American Medicaid system.
Meanwhile, Georgia was the region’s shining star, making a strong year-on-year improvement to come in at 55.Įlsewhere, Ukraine ranked a disturbingly low 144th, and Moldova came in 102nd.
Azerbaijan (tied with Russia in the 127th place) and Armenia (94th) both made slight progress this year over 2012’s results. The Caucasus was comparatively cleaner, though still rather rank. And Kazakhstan took a wrong turn compared with its 2012 ranking, registering 140th this year. Tajikistan (154th) and Kyrgyzstan (150th) did not lag far behind.
Once again, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan found themselves near the very bottom of the rankings, tied in 168th place with Syria. Burkina Faso, the name that Upper Volta adopted back in 1984, ranked 83rd, one of the better results among West African states.Īs for other formerly Soviet countries, the latest Transparency International index presented a depressingly familiar picture: most states in the Caucasus and Central Asia are cesspools of graft, some more malodorous than others.Ĭentral Asia in general could be described as a rabbit hole of venality. The recently released Corruption Perception Index for 2013, compiled by the watchdog group Transparency International, ranks Russia 127th out of 177 countries surveyed. There was a Cold War-era saying – attributed to various Western leaders, including Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Schmidt – that mocked Russia as being nothing more than “Upper Volta with missiles.” These days, when it comes to corruption, Russia can only wish it compared favorably to Upper Volta.
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