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A Cabbage Leaf. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
Bank Robber. John Dillinger played second base in 1924 for Martinsville, Indiana. He never made it to the big leagues.
They all wore the same number. Sandy Koufax with the Dodgers, Elston Howard with the Yankees, and Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns all wore the number 32.
Milwaukee Braves. The year was 1957, four years after moving from Boston, the Milwaukee Braves beat the New York Yankees in the World Series 4 games to 3 led by Joe Torre, Hank Aaron, and Warren Spahn.
Harmon Killebrew . Killebrew was this model. He started his career with the Washington Senators. 573 home runs later in 1975, he retired from baseball after serving many years with the Twins. Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers was the NBA logo in the 20th century.
Detroit Tigers. He was a Tiger at heart from 1953 until 1974 for 22 loyal seasons. This great outfielder retired with 399 home runs.
He is in the baseball and football hall of fame. (He has eleven fingers., He is blind in one eye., He was in the 1948 Olympics for wrestling). Major League umpire Cal Hubbard is the only person in both the baseball and football Hall of fame. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. It would be 3 more years before an umpire was inducted. Al Barlick was inducted in 1979.
3ft 7in. Eddie Gaedel was the 3ft 7in dwarf who played in only one game against the St. Louis Browns and the Detroit Tigers. In the second inning of a double-header, St. Louis manager, Zach Taylor, sent the 3ft 7in 65-pound Eddie Gaedel up to bat. Gaedel stood in a crouch up at the plate, giving pitcher Bob Cain a strike zone of about one and a half inches. Gaedel was walked on four straight pitches.
Cy Young. Steve Carlton is the only pitcher to win a Cy Young with a last place team in the 20th century. He did it with the 1972 Phillies. He went 27-10 on a team that only won 56 games.
New York Yankees. Of course this was the year Don Larsen pitched his perfect game in the World Series. The Yankees won this series in 7 games, and Larsen pitched his perfect game in Game 5.
Ralph Branca. Branca came into the game in relief in the bottom of ninth inning. He was known for choking in the clutch. He gave up the homer on a low fastball.
Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, and Christy Matthewson. Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, and Cy Young didn't made it in the on the first try. They all did make it later on though. The fist five were inducted in 1936, the first year of the Hall.
Willie Mays . It was 1951, and Mays was a rookie. It was in the final game of the season, a playoff game to decide the National League Pennant.
Top of the fifth. A lot of people say it was the bottom of the ninth with a full count. But the Yanks were at Chicago so it couldn't have been the bottoom of the ninth.
f. The 1969 World Series was won by the New York Mets in 5 games against the Baltimore Orioles. The O's won the first game, but the "Amazins" swept the rest.
Frank Robinson. Frank won the Triple Crown in '66, and was followed by "Yaz" in '67.
f. It was in 1998, and it was Wells, but it wasn't the Indians. It was against the Minnesota Twins. Wells was in his 12th season as a Yankee, and he ended up winning the 1998 ALCS MVP award.
Washington Senators. The Senators played at Griffith the frist time they were created. They started playing there in 1911.
Nobody. This was a strike year, there was no World Series played.
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