Portal:Baseball/Did you know/9


 * ... that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear?
 * ... that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
 * ... that Harry Blackmun's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
 * ... that the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?
 * ... that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"?