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- There Once was a 17 Year Old Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Back to Back
- Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn Once Struck a Spectator with Foul Balls Twice in the Same at Bat, The Second Time as She was Being Carried Off on a Stretcher
- Babe Ruth Once Punched an Umpire for Throwing Him Out of the Game. Ruth’s Replacement Then Threw a No Hitter
- There Once was a Professional Baseball Player Traded for Bats
- harlie Sheen Bought 2,615 Tickets to a Single Major League Baseball Game So He Could Improve His Odds of Catching a Home Run Ball
- Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays Were Both For a Time on Major League Baseball’s “Permanently Ineligible List”
- The Cincinnati Reds Were Briefly Renamed the “Redlegs” Due to the Second Red Scare
- Earned Run Average (ERA) was Not Originally Meant for Evaluating Pitching Skill
- The Name “Hot Dog” was Not Coined at a New York Giants Baseball Game
- Abner Doubleday Did Not Invent Baseball
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