Facts about Baseball
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During the 1919 World Series, eight Chicago White Sox players conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose games, resulting in lifetime bans from baseball in 1920.
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A standard baseball weighs between 5 and 5.25 ounces and measures 2.86 to 2.94 inches in diameter according to Major League Baseball official specifications.
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Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941 remains baseball's longest consecutive-game streak and has never been approached since.
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Cy Young won 511 career games between 1890 and 1911, a record that still stands as baseball's most unbreakable mark.
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On October 1, 1961, Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record that had stood for 34 years.
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Ted Williams finished his 1941 season with a batting average of .406, remaining the last player to surpass the .400 mark in Major League Baseball.
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The fastest recorded baseball pitch reached 105.1 miles per hour, thrown by Aroldis Chapman on September 24, 2010.
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In 1974, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record with his 715th career home run on April 8.