Most Consecutive Hits, Career (7) - Thurman Munson, NY-A on Oct 19, 1976 (2); Oct 21, 1976 (4); Oct 11, 1977 (1).
Highest Slugging Average (7 Game Series) - Gene Tenace (OAK-A) .913 in 1972
Hitting Home Run in First Two WS At-Bats - Gene Tenace (OAK-A), Oct 14, 1972
Notable Catcher Achievements in WS
Yogi Berra is tied with Frankie Frisch (Giants/Cards) for MOST WS career doubles (10)
Tim McCarver is tied with 11 others for 2nd place on career WS Triples with 3
Yogi Berra is 2nd in career WS runs scored (behind Mantle's 42) with 41. Elston Howard is 7th with 25
Yogi Berra (1956) & Sandy Alomar Jr. (1997) are tied for 3rd on the Single Series RBI record with 10. Gene Tenace (1972) & Gary Carter
(1986) along with 5 other MLB'ers had 9 RBI's
Bill Dickey (1936), Johnny Bench (1976) & Thurman Munson (1978) are tied for 2nd place (with 15 others) with 5 WS RBI in One Game
Elston Howard (Sept 28, 1955) and Gene Tenace (Oct 14, 1972) hit a homerun in their first WS At-Bat (two of only 33 MLB'ers to do so thru 2010)
Yogi Berra is the ONLY catcher to have hit a WS Grand Slam Homerun (Oct 5, 1956)
Carlton Fisk is the only catcher to have hit a WS Game-Ending Homerun (1975 Game 6, 12th Inning)
Most Home Runs (7 Game Series) - 4 - Gene Tenace (OAK-A) 1972
Most Base-on-Balls (5 Game Series) - 7 - Mickey Cochrane (PHI-A) 1929
Most Base-on-Balls (7 Game Series) - 11 - Gene Tenace (OAK-A) 1973
Yogi Berra, Gene Tenace, Johnny Bench and Gary Carter are the only catchers to have WS Multi-Homer Games (2)
Yogi Berra (NY-A 1947), Elston Howard (NY-A 1960), & Jim Leyritz (NY-A 1999) WS Pinch-Hit Home Runs
Most Doubles (5 Game Series) - 4 Rick Dempsey (BAL-A) 1983
Most Extra Base Hits (5 Game Series) - 5 Rick Dempsey (BAL-A) 1983
Catchers Who Hit a SINGLE, DOUBLE, TRIPLE, HOME RUN (WS Cycle) in One World Series:
Hank Gowdy 1914 Boston Braves
Elston Howard 1960 New York Yankees
Tim McCarver 1964 St. Louis Cardinals
Johnny Bench 1976 Cincinnati Reds
Buster Posey (SF-NL) is the 5th Rookie (and the 1st Rookie Catcher) to hit a Home Run in the World Series,
which he did on October 31, 2010 in the 8th inning in Game 4 at Texas to cap off a Giants win (4-0).
Dubious Catcher Achievements in WS
Charlie Silvera holds the record for World Series Splinters.
Silvera, the Yankees' backup catcher from 1948 to 1956, was eligible to play in the Fall Classics of 1950-1953, 1955-56, but didn't
appear in any of the 37 Series games in those six years. Silvera got his one taste of glory in 1949, going 0-for-2 in his only World Series game.
Miscellaneous WS Catcher Trivia
Mickey Grasso is the only former Prisoner Of War (POW) to play in a World Series.
He was held by the Germans in North Africa during World War II. He subsequently caught 322 games for the Giants, Senators, and Indians (1946-1955). In 1954 he played in the WS for the Indians.
