MLB umpires must wear black underwear... and 17 other baseball facts
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- Charlie Sheen once bought 2,615 tickets to a Major League Baseball game so he could improve his odds of catching a home run ball.
- The Albuquerque Isotopes minor league baseball team was named after a baseball team on The Simpsons.
- Bobby Richardson (New York Yankees) won the World Series MVP for a losing team.
- Tim Raines used cocaine between innings in the dugout, and would to slide head first to avoid breaking the cocaine vials he carried in his back pocket.
- Bill Voiselle wore the name of his hometown (Greenwood, South Carolina) on the back of his uniform.
- MLB umpires are required by rule to wear only black underwear in the event that they split their pants.
- On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD.
- Johnny Bench could hold seven baseballs in one hand.
- The first baseball uniforms were worn by the Knickerbockers in 1849. The uniforms included straw hats.
- In 1970, the owner of the Oakland A's, Charlie Finley proposed the use of orange baseballs. They were used in two exhibition games.
- When Jimmy Pearsall hit his 100th home run in 1963, he celebrated by running the bases in the correct order but facing backward.
- George W. Bush was the first United States president to own an MLB team (Texas Rangers).
- Dave Winfield intentionally killed a seagull during a game in 1983.
- The biggest Opening Day win margin came in 1955, when the Washington Senators beat the New York Yankees 19-1.
- The first Opening Day game played outside of the U.S. was in 1999, when the Padres faced the Rockies in Monterrey, Mexico.
- The Minnesota Twins turned two triple plays in the same game against the Red Sox on On July 17, 1990.
- Approximately 160,000 baseballs are used during an MLB season.
- MLB banned “spitball” in 1920, but they granted exceptions to 17 pitchers. The last “legal” spitball was thrown in 1934.
