Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate. new
There is a hidden obscenity on the bottom of Bill Ripken's bat in the 1989 Fleer baseball card.
A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature.
A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches.
A superstition in baseball is to never lend your bat to anyone or you will be jinxed.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
Baseball games between college teams have been played since the Civil War.
Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.
Black Betsy was the name of Shoeless Joe Jackson's 44 ounce baseball bat.
Elmer Smith was the first player to hit a grand slam in a World Series.
In 1946, the New York Yankees became the first baseball team to travel by plane.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry said, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Apollo 11 landed on the moon carrying Neil Armstrong, Gaylord Perry hit his first home run.
Missouri has been to most NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four.
Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of baseball's greatest batters, ran a liquor store after he was banned from baseball.
The Baltimore Orioles opened the 1988 baseball season by losing the first 21 games and 107 altogether for the entire season.
The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional baseball team.
The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles.
The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82.
The first World Series baseball playoffs occurred in 1903.
The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs.
