Portal:Baseball/Did you know/1


 * ... that Negro league baseball executive Cum Posey organized the East-West League in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?
 * ... that Freeman Fitzgerald played football with Knute Rockne and once struck out 19 batters in a baseball game?
 * ... that despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by Baseball America, American baseball pitcher Nick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses?
 * ... that Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on Sabbath?
 * ... that when Roger Bresnahan adopted the use of shin guards in Major League Baseball on Opening Day in 1907, angry fans threw snow onto the field?