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  • Baseball in the U.S can be traced back to the 18th century when amateurs used informal rules and improvised equipment
  • Today there are roughly 104, 077, 934 adult baseball fans in America
  • One in six men and one in nine women will attend at least one Major League Baseball game in a year
  • There are 12,386,344 possible plays in every baseball game
  • A regulation baseball has 108 stitches
  • A “can of corn” is a fly ball that’s easy to catch
  • The odds of a fan being hit by a ball are 300,000 to 1.
  • The Dodgers and The Cubs once traded their entire minor-league teams in 1957
  • During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be thesize and weight of a baseball, since “any young American man should be able to properly throw it.”
  • The first baseball uniforms were worn by the Knickerbockers in 1849 and included straw hats.