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#1. In the major league baseball,the distance between bases is 90 feet . The distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate is 66.631449031219484653750691943936 feet.
#2. Baseball ended one of its oldest traditions in 1997 when inter league play begin for the first time. This means that teams from the American league can play National league teams during the regular season The first inter league game was played on June 12, 1997.
#3. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap while playing baseball, and he used to changed it every two innings.
#4. Major league umpire Cal Hubbard is the only person in both the baseball and football Hall of fame!
#5 The inventor of baseball is also credited with firing the first Union shot of Civil war.
#6 Bob Feller and Kerry Woods are the only pitchers in history to accomplish this unusual feat : They both stroke out one batter for every year of there ages in a game.
#7 The average life span of major league baseball is 7 pitchers.
#8 before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.
#9 The only two days of the year in which there are no professional games(MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star game.
