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  • The team that scored more runs than any in the National League slugged its way to the win, pounding out 10 hits as every non-pitcher in the starting lineup reached base.

    Cardinals Inch Closer to Series Matthew Futterman 2011

  • To make himself eligible for the pro draft a year early, he finished high school, enrolled in junior college, tore that up, signed up with the baseball super-agent Scott Boras, and this week, the Nationals gave him a contract that could be worth at least $9.9 million, a record amount for a non-pitcher and a record amount for a 17-year-old.

    Week In Baseball Reviewed 2010

  • Only one has signed so far, Anaheim's Kendry Morales, aka the best non-pitcher to escape Cuba.

    USATODAY.com - A warm-up for a winter of wondering 2004

  • The prototypical light-hitting catcher that a team keeps because he manages the pitching staff well, Ausmus is just about the last non-pitcher in the Astros lineup you'd expect to hit a game-tying home run.

    weekend recovery seerinc 2005

  • The only non-pitcher in the Indians 'crop of four first-round picks turned down a Miami scholarship to sign with Cleveland.

    USATODAY.com - Farm regains its focus to grow more talent 2002

  • Scouts proclaimed him the finest non-pitcher out of Canada since Larry Walker emerged from woodsy Maple Ridge, British Columbia.

    Minor league farm report 2000

  • Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki last month became the first Japanese non-pitcher to join a major league team, signing with the Seattle Mariners.

    New York Mets 2000

  • Mets, the second non-pitcher from Japan to join the majors.

    Winter Meetings scorecard 2000

  • Oldest non-pitcher: Pete Rose at 44 years, three months and two days (1985).

    All-Star Game trivia 1999

  • Bill Bergen, a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, went 0 for 46 in 1909 to set the record for the longest hitless streak by a non-pitcher.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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