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Jul 15, 2020

TIL Babe Ruth believed that his birthday was February 7, 1894. However, when he applied for a passport he looked up his birth certificate and found his birthday listed as February 6, 1895, nearly a full year later than he thought.

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Feb 14, 2020

TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.

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Dec 24, 2019

TIL That the full lyrics of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" reveal the song was a feminist anthem about a woman wanting to go see a baseball game rather than go on a date to a show.

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Dec 17, 2019

TIL in 1992 Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Joe Carter pulled an amazing prank on teammate Derek Bell by pretending to raffle off his car mid-game. He rode onto the field in it and the announcer read off a fake winning ticket

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Dec 13, 2019

TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.

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Sep 19, 2019

TIL the first time a switch hitter went up against a switch pitcher they kept alternating stances until the umpires stopped the game

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Apr 25, 2019

TIL a Japanese company makes chopsticks out of broken baseball bat's.

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Apr 22, 2019

TIL in 1900s there was a death row inmates baseball team and their executions were dependent on their performance.

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