Billy Hamilton's third stolen base on Tuesday gave him 146 for the season. (Getty Images)
With his 146th stolen base of the season on Tuesday night, Reds prospect Billy Hamilton passed former Major Leaguer Vince Coleman's pro baseball single-season record, which was set in 1983.
Hamilton, 21, is Cincinnati's No. 1 prospect, according to MLB.com and has spent the season with Class A Bakersfield and Double-A Pensacola. Hamilton had nearly as many stolen bases (146) as hits (150) as of the fourth inning of the first game of Pensacola's doubleheader Tuesday against Montgomery.
In Game 1, Hamilton stole three bases after reaching in his first two at-bats. He walked in the bottom of the first and stole second base, then singled in the bottom of the third and stole second and third.
Coleman set the record while with Class A Macon in 1983. He went on to steal more than 100 bases in each of his first three seasons with the Cardinals and recorded 752 stolen bases in a 13-year career, placing him sixth on baseball's all-time list.
The team presented Hamilton with the base to commemorate breaking Coleman's record.
Hamilton, a second-round pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, has not played in the big leagues. He began Tuesday having been caught stealing 33 times this season, good for a 82 percent stolen base success rate.
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