The Big Number: 8 Random Baseball Facts
Sunday, May 26, 2013
With baseball season in full swing, test your knowledge with these tidbits:
- Each game has nearly 12.5 million possible plays.
- The odds of being hit by a baseball at a game? About 300,000 to 1.
- More than 100 stitches make up a regulation baseball.
- A single Ultra-Maxi Duty caster can hold about 121,300 baseballs.
- A major league baseball lasts only 5-7 pitches on average.
- Back in the 1800s, umpires sat in padded chairs behind home plate.
- Major U.S. baseball fields use Hamilton trailers to move cold beer, hot dogs and other concessions.
- Only two days in a year have no professional sports (NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.) – the days before and after the MLB All-Star Game.