interesting baseball facts
Interesting Baseball Facts
Here is a compilation on some interesting and funny facts on the most favorite sports of USA, baseball.
- One of the first question to come to your mind will be who invented baseball. The invention of this game is credited to Alexander Cartwright.
- There is no clear information about when did baseball start. However, the first World Series was played between Boston and Pittsburgh in 1903 in which Boston was the winner.
- The longest baseball game was between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers which lasted for eight hours and six minutes.
- New York Yankees hold the record of winning highest number of World Series titles (26).
- Another interesting baseball records is that Mickey Mantle, former Yankees right fielder, holds the record for most career home runs (18) and RBI (40) in World Series history.
- William Cummings invented the curveball and mastered it before any of the pitchers.
- Nolan Ryan holds the record for longest career in baseball history (1966 to 1993)
- Did you know that all baseballs are stitched by hand with two straight needles and up to 108 stitches each?
- Lou Gehrig is considered as the King of grand slam homers for hitting 23 in the entire span of his career.
- Connie Mack, manager of Philadelphia A has 3755 career victories to his credit, which is definitely more than any other manager in the history of baseball.
- In 1876, Levi Meyerle hit the first major league triple in baseball history.
- Cal Ripken, Jr. holds a record for not missing a single game in a whopping 16 years of span.
- In the MLB game, a single baseball is used only once.
- The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, located in Cooperstown, N.Y, was created in the year 1935 to celebrate baseball's centenary or the 100th anniversary.
- Babe Ruth, one of the most famous baseball players, used to place a leaf beneath his cap and change it every two innings.
- The world's largest baseball bat (length: 120 feet long; weight: 68,000 pounds) in history is located in the Louisville Slugger Museum, Kentucky.
- The shortest player in Major League history was Eddie Gaedel (3 feet, 7 inches), whereas the tallest player is Jon Rauch (6 feet, 11 inches) tall.
- Interestingly, the baseball inventor fired the first shot, which was aimed to be against the civil war.
- One of the funny yet interesting baseball rules is that before every game, umpires must rub around 6 dozen balls to get rid of the shine off the balls.
- In the baseball terms, the term 'battery' refers to pitcher and catcher combination; whereas an easy catch by the fielder is known as the 'can of corn'.
- Cal Hubbard, umpire in Major league, is the only umpire to be in football as well as baseball.
- Doc Medich was studying medicine off-season which was put into use when he was able to save a fan's life from heart attack.