- 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.