Cold Hard Facts

Fact: Jimmy Rollins made his 14th straight Opening Day start for the Philadelphia Phillies, matching Cal Ripken's major league record for the most consecutive seasons starting at shortstop for the same franchise.

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Fact: Through the first 12 years of his career, Joe DiMaggio had more home runs (349) than strikeouts (333).

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Source: Baseball Reference

Fact: Yogi Berra (10) and Joe DiMaggio (9) are the only two players in MLB history who have played on nine or more World Series teams. 

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Source: Sports Trivia Championship

Fact: Boston Red Sox slugger, Ted Williams (1918-2002), missed almost five full baseball seasons while serving as a fighter pilot in WWII and in the Korean War and still managed to hit 521 home runs.

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Source: Wikipedia.

Fact: In 1996, Charlie Sheen paid $6,537.50 to buy 2,615 tickets to a MLB game at Anaheim Stadium, hoping to catch a home run ball. Sheen and three friends sat alone but no home runs were hit that day.

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Fact: The perfect inning (nine pitches, nine strikes, three outs) has only been achieved 46 times. 

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Source: Bleacher Report

Fact: Canadian Glen Gorbous holds the record for farthest baseball thrown at 445 ft. 10 inches on August 1, 1957.

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Source: Baseball Almanac

Fact: Of the 360 MLB pitchers who started this season, 124, or more than one-third, have had Tommy John surgery.

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Fact: The Yankees have 9 players making $15 million or more this season. The rest of the American League teams have 12 combined.

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Source: ESPN Stats & Info

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Fact: The actual playing time in an MLB game is nine minutes and 55 seconds, despite routinely finishing at around three hours.

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Source: Twitter