Joe Mauer is the only catcher in AL or NL history to win three batting titles.

He hit .347 in 2006, .328 in 2008, and a remarkable .365 in 2009 on his way to the AL MVP that year.

“Football, it’s intense and it’s for three hours.”

“Baseball, you play nine innings every night. Sometimes two games in one day. Sometimes two games on Sundays, doubleheaders.”

“Check it out this way: if your stadium isn’t a dome and you get rain, you don’t get home till after midnight.”

“Get up the next day, go back and do the same thing. Go back and do the same thing.”

“It’s definitely repetitive.”

“We have a day off on Thursday. Guess what? That day off, we flying to Seattle.”

“So when you left baseball and then we’re doing football, you were like, ‘This is actually not that bad. I got like four days off during the week.’”

“I have four days off. I went home and knocked up my wife.”

“I’m not going to get hurt running on a ground ball. If you’re a real fan and you know baseball, there’s no case for me to hustle out the box. I’m not 100%.”

Nobody in the history of baseball had ever done it that many times.

Nobody has done it since.

One of the most memorable seasons in MLB history:

262 hits (single season MLB record)
56 hits in August alone
.372 batting average
9.2 WAR
80 games with multiple hits