Since 1876, 1,214 different pitchers have hit at least one home run in the major leagues, with 567 of them hitting a single four-bagger and 71 hitting at least 10 career blasts. The most home runs in one season by all pitchers combined came in 1970, when 51 dingers were hit by hurlers.
The meaning of Jacob is supplanter. Jacob is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 5 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Ja-cob. Jacob is the anglicized form of the Latin Iacobus, which is a form of the Greek New Testament name Iakobos, itself a form of the Hebrew Old Testament name Ya-akov.
This very interesting medieval surname has a confused origin. Like the personal name and subsequent surname Jacob, it has its origins in the Hebrew given name Yaakov.This was Latinized first as Jacobus, and then in the period known as The Dark Ages upto the 11th century a.d., as Jacomus.The actual meaning of the name is also a matter for some dispute.his range from James, Jayume, and Jamie, to Giacomo, Cominetto, Motto, and Gimson! The personal name was widely used throughout Europe from the earliest times, whilst the hereditary surname is one of the first ever recorded anywhere in the world.