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• In 2003 Baltimore Blackbird Jorge Cavos hit 59 HR's en route to the Babe Ruth Award. During that season he homered 3 times in a game twice and became the only player in ABL history to homer 4 times in a single game in San Diego June 2nd. That was just 8 days after his 2nd 3 homer game of the year.

• On July 15th, 2001 Joey Elliot (BUF) set the ABL single-game strikeout record fanning 19 New York Punishers in 8.1 IP. His next start he would set the record for K's in consecutive starts (34) when he fanned 15 Chicago Hitmen in just 7.2 IP.
• Ryan Ferguson (PIT) Hiromoto Ito (SAN) Kyle Parmalee (PIT) Jon Del Bianco (MON) and David Gullion (PHX) all fanned 18 batters in a single 9 inning game.

• There have been 26 no-hitters in the 20-year history of the league. No pitcher has thrown more than one.
• August 29th, 1996 Landon Camus of Denver struck out 11 Phoenix Roadrunners to record the 1st perfect game in league history.
• On March 31st, 2005 Ft Worth Cowboy Andy Bowe struck out 2 for the earliest perfect game in league history. Pittsburgh's Ryan Ferguson tossed the earliest no-hitter when he fanned 9 on opening day 1994.

• The single-season HR record is held by three men. Gabe Rodriguez hit 65 in the ABL's inaugural season, Jeff Weathers joined him in 1992 and Mike Murphy did it in 1999.
• There have been 8 seasons of 60 or more HR's and the all-time leader with 685, Mike Murphy is the only player to do it more than once as he has achieved the mark in 3 different seasons. His 685 are 96 more than runner up Micah Tufts (who had one of the 60 homer seasons). Murphy is the all-time leader and still being active he is 157 HR's ahead of the next active player, SS Ralph Helf of the Lexington Rebels.

• In 20 years just 4 players have managed to drive in 150 or more runs with Dallas Texan Justin Walk being the last to do it, and the only player to do it twice.
• San Jose Hawk Jeff Weathers set the all-time mark in 1992 when he hit 65 HR's and drove in a record 194 runs on his way to the Patriot League's MVP.

1. There have been 22 occasions on which an ABL pitcher has won 20 games.
2. In 1994 Charlotte's Chris Green set the single-season mark going 24-7 en route to 1 of his 4 Koufax awards. Two time Koufax winner William Marcial has the record with 3 such seasons (1998, 1999, and 2002, all for the Dallas Texans. He is a 37-year-old FA as of today, finishing his 6-year contract with New England last year)

• There have been 4 “Triple Crowns” in ABL History, 2 hitting, and 2 pitching.

1. 1993 Micah Tufts (AUS) .365-53-140
2. 1995 Jordan Rincon (SJ) .367-61-143
3. 1996 Oscar Booher (OH) 21-5 2.50 289 K's
4. 2000 Jeff Hall (PROV) 20-7 2.90 295 K's

• There are 5 members of the 500+ HR club, just two active (*)

1. Mike Murphy* 685
2. Micah Tufts 589
3. Jorge Cavos 560
4. Mark Robinson 537
5. Ralph Helf* 528

• 37-year-old Free Agent Darin Weiner is the closest active player to 500, with 448.

• The 3000 strikeout club has 9 members with 6 still active (*)

1. William Marcial* 3573
2. Chris Greene 3403
3. Luis Rivera* 3358
4. Pat Rienstra* 3356
5. Ross Ritchie 3157
6. Ryan Rackley* 3132
7. Brian Cannon* 3118
8. Ryan Ferguson 3110 (HOF)
9. Joey Elliott* 3034

• Dallas' Jeff Hall is the closest active player to 3000 entering 2010 with 2982.

• Here is the IBL Hall of Fame class entering the 2010 calendar year, voting for this year's class will be revealed in a few weeks With it expected to be a large class. Favorites to be inducted are:

1. RF Jordan Rincon (.299/.375/.601 491 HR 2 x MVP 4x SS 7x AS)
2. 1B Tony Romero (.308/.364/.515 383 HR 1323 RBI RotY, MVP, 2x GG 4x SS 4x Postseason series MVP 4x World Champion 11x AS)
3. LF Micah Tufts (.319/.383/.606 589 HR 1535 RBI 3x MVP 7x SS 8x AS)
4. 1B Justin Walk (.299/.362/.562 405 HR 1187 RBI 4x MVP 4x SS 5 time postseason series MVP 2x World Champion 7x AS)