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Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. didn't miss a game in 16 years. He played in 2,632 consecutive games from April 30, 1982 to Sept. 19, 1998.

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Joe Sewell (Cleveland Indians) only struck out three times during the entire 1930 season (353 at bats). Two of them were in the same game.

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Baseball stars from the National League and the American League played the first All-Star Game in 1933. The National League has won 43 of the 84 games. The game ended in a tie twice. In 1961 rain in Boston prevented extra innings and the game ended in a 1-1 tie. And in 2002, the game went 11 innings with the score knotted at seven before it was finally called off due to a lack of pitchers.

During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be the size and weight of a baseball, since “any young American man should be able to properly throw it.”

Nick Maddox played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1907-1910. At the age of 20 years and ten months, he became the youngest pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter in major league history.

He is also my husbands grandfather on his mothers side!!

Cool Jaime!!

In the mid-1800s, you could be put out between the bases by having the ball thrown directly at you. Players were resistant when the rule was changed — “patching,” as it was known, was an important and masculine part of the game.

Uniforms

the freeway series

Pitcher's mound

Former Yankees right fielder Mickey Mantle holds the record for most career home runs (1, RBI (40) and total bases (123) in World Series history

The first baseball uniforms were worn by the Knickerbockers in 1849 and included straw hats.