- 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.
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- Black Betsy was the name of Shoeless Joe Jackson's 44 ounce baseball bat.
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- The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs.
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- A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches.
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- Baseball games between college teams have been played since the Civil War.
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- A superstition in baseball is to never lend your bat to anyone or you will be jinxed.
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- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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- Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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- Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of baseball's greatest batters, ran a liquor store after he was banned from baseball.
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- The Baltimore Orioles opened the 1988 baseball season by losing the first 21 games and 107 altogether for the entire season.
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- The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles.
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- The first World Series baseball playoffs occurred in 1903.
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- In 1946, the New York Yankees became the first baseball team to travel by plane.
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- Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series.
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- Elmer Smith was the first player to hit a grand slam in a World Series.
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- Missouri has been to most NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four.
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- A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature.
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- The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82.
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