In a baseball game, second base is the most often stolen base.¹⁾

“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”, the unofficial national anthem of American baseball, is customarily sung in the middle of the seventh inning. Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer, who had never seen a baseball game, wrote it in 1908.²⁾

The first girl to triumph in a Little League World Series baseball game was Mo'ne Davis.³⁾

A big league baseball game has never included a female player. Effa Louise Manley (1897–1981), an American sports executive, is the first and only woman to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.⁴⁾

A big league baseball has a lifespan of 5-7 pitches. A regular game involves using around 70 balls.⁵⁾

Baseball originated in the United States but has now become a global sport. The International Baseball Federation now includes more than 100 nations. Outside of America, Japan boasts the biggest professional baseball league.⁶⁾

The L.A. Dodgers, a baseball team that was first established in Brooklyn, got their name from the legendary talent of the locals at “dodging” the city's trolley streetcar system.⁷⁾

In 1903, the Boston Americans won baseball's inaugural World Series.⁸⁾

Major League Baseball generated over $9 billion in gross income in 2014, an increase from $8 billion in 2013.⁹⁾

The New York Yankees, with 27 titles, are the baseball club with the most World Series victories.¹⁰⁾

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by children's book publisher John Newberry has the earliest recorded use of the word “baseball”.¹¹⁾

An easy fly ball is a “can of corn.” The phrase originated when former grocery store employees would use their aprons to retrieve cans that were dropped from a high shelf.¹²⁾

The Houston Astros' Craig Biggio (1965–) holds the record (285) for being hit by a pitch the most frequently.¹³⁾

Dr. David A. Peters discovered in 2008 that a head-first slide into a base is quicker than a feet-first slide.¹⁴⁾

More than any other element of the sport's equipment, baseball gloves have undergone development.¹⁵⁾