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Baseball Fun Facts
Baseball has a long and storied history, and for good reason is considered our national pastime. If you love history and sports as much as i do I think you will enjoy reading some of the interesting facts I’ve come across in my baseball reading and research.
- The Baseball Hall of Fame’s first class election results were announced on Feb. 2, 1936, and featured Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner.
- The Baseball Hall of Fame first opened to the public on June 12, 1939 on Main Street in Cooperstown, New York.
- President William Howard Taft started the presidential Opening Day pitch tradition when he threw out the first pitch on April 14, 1910 in a game where the Washington Nationals played the Philadelphia Athletics.
- The fan favorite Take Me Out to the Ballgame song was written by Lyricist Jack Norworth and composer Albert Von Tilzer in 1908 and first played in the majors during game four of the 1934 World Series where the St. Louis Cardinals played the Detroit Tigers. Let me root, root, root for the home team,
- Civil War major general Abner Doubleday is recognized by the The National Baseball Hall of Fame as the inventor of the game of baseball in 1839.
- The first record of the playing of The Star Spangled Banner for a Major League ballgame was during game 1 of the 1918 Word Series with the Boston Red Sox playing the Chicago Cubs.