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Fun Fact of the Day: In 2012, Josh Hamilton had a monstrous first half of the season, which resulted in all-star game voting history. He received a total of 11,073,744 votes from baseball fans. When he finally got his act together and re-emerged as a top prospect in 2007, many people praised his efforts and talents; considering he was one of the best prospects of all-time. A couple of Millions of votes for one player is not exactly rare, but 11 million + is another level, as the second most votes in all-star history was Chris Davis in 2013 with Continue reading Most All-Star Votes Ever→

Fun Fact of the Day: The first officially recorded game was on June 19, 1846, at the famously historical Elysian Fields between the New York Knickerbokers and the New York Baseball Club, resulting in a 23-1 win by the NY Baseball Club. From there on multiple amateur games a year were played until the National League was founded in 1875; the year professional baseball really started. Before that, many start up leagues died as quickly as another one formed. But, all in all, June 19, 1846, was the beginning of American History, the founding of this country’s great game.

Fun Fact of the Day: On April 30, 2002, Mets pitcher, Al Leiter became the first pitcher in history to collect at least one win against each major league team. Al may not have been an ace, but that record is still terrific. One may  think a record like that could be easily accomplished, but since there are so many inter league games each season, a win against every team for only pitching every 5 days is extremely hard to do. There are multiple MLB milestones set, but not all are by elite Hall of Fame worthy talent.