Major League Baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear in case their pants split during a game
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Major league pitchers are allowed to switch their throwing arm in the middle of an at-bat, but only if they have injured the other one
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Instead of crouching, catchers stood a few feet behind home until the early 1900s
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Ground rule doubles were counted as home runs until 1930
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The term "can of corn" (an easy-to-catch fly ball) relates to an old-time grocer's method of getting canned goods down from a high shelf by catching them in their aprons
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Only one major league ballplayer has been fatally injured during a game. Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was killed when struck in the head by a pitch on August 16, 1920
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To keep cool during games, Babe Ruth placed chilled cabbage leaves in the underside of his cap
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