George Sisler

Sisler's daughter Frances Sisler Drochelman and other of his family members were in attendance when the record was broken. In 1999 he received the eighth-largest number of first base-category votes in fan balloting for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team and editors at The Sporting News named him 33rd on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players. 407 (the latter stat being the highest ever for a 600+ at-bat performance in MLB history) and ended the season by hitting.

Louis Browns). From 1920 until 2004 Sisler held the Major League Baseball (MLB) record for most hits in a single season a mark which still stands for the 154-game season in which he played. For the minor league baseball executive see George Sisler Jr.