Baseball History at your finger tips . . .

A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Baseball was the frist sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.

Baseball’s home plate is 17 inches wide.

Before 1859, baseball umpires used to sit on rocking chairs behind home plate.

Black Betsy was the name of Shoeless Joe Jackson’s 44 ounce baseball bat.

It takes about 8 seconds for a ball bat to be made in a baseball bat factory.

Jackie Robinson was the only person to letter in four sports at UCLA. Of all of them, he supposedly like baseball the least.

Roger Maris, who hit 61 home runs in 1961 won only one home run title.

The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs.

The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.

Ty Cobb, the famous Detroit Tiger, made a small fortune as one of the first shareholders of Coca-Cola. He also collected old bars of soap from baseball locker-room shower stalls, then sent them home to be used by the sharecroppers on the farm he owned in Georgia.