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- MLB players with 189 career wins include:
- Lefty Gomez
- Deacon Phillippe
- Doc White
- The St. Louis Cardinals and the visiting teams combined for 189 home runs at Busch Stadium during the 1998 season (155 additional home runs were hit on the road)
- Alex Rodriguez hit 189 home runs in his first seven seasons (while with the Seattle Mariners from 1994 - 2000)
- Quarterback Eric Crouch completed 105 of 189 passes while at Nebraska for 1,510 yards and 7 touchdowns in 2001, earning the Heisman Trophy
- The Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit race was held over 40 laps, about 189 miles, of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit at the Silverstone Circuit, England on March 19, 1978
- Travis Fulton is a mixed martial arts fighter and boxer with 189 wins (including 60 K.O.s)
- Monica Abbott pitched for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team from 2004-2007 with a winning record of 189-34
- In cricket, Sir Viv Richards scored 189 in a one day international for the West Indies against England in 1984, which contributed 69% of his team's score, and which remained the record for the highest individual ODI score for 13 years.
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