30 Odd Baseball Facts Nobody Tells You About

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26Oakland Athletics

Oakland Athletics

In the early 70s, the Oakland Athletics paid their players $300 bonuses to grow mustaches.


27. In the 1920s, Edd Roush, a Cincinnati Reds outfielder was ejected from a major league baseball game for sleeping in the outfield.


28. Dick Stuart, one of the worst defensive players in baseball history, once received a standing ovation for successfully grabbing a loose hot dog wrapper out of the air. It was the first thing he had managed to pick up all day, and the fans realized it could very well be the last."


29. Baseball player Bill Bergen was an awful batter who hit .170 for his entire 11-year career and at one point went 46 at-bats without a hit, but teams kept him around because he was such a good catcher.


30. Major League Baseball banned the "spitball" in 1920, though they granted exceptions to exactly 17 pitchers. The last "legal" spitball was thrown in 1934.

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