The 30 - Topic #7

Baseball and the Number 30

Fun Facts about my favorite sport and the number of the age I will be turning all too soon.

If you add the number of teams in the American League to the number of teams in the National League, there are exactly 30 Major League Baseball Teams

The Number 30 Uniform has been retired by the following teams for the following players:

Giants - Orlando Cepeda Angels - Nolan Ryan

Expos - Tim Raines

30 years ago in 1979 (the glorious year I was born), the following baseball happenings occurred:

-Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame -Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play -Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22 (an almost unheard of score for a baseball game!), on 50 hits with 11 home runs (11 HR's in one game??) -Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time -Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hits, hits his 400th HR & is 15th to get 3,000 hits -Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base -"Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers -KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925). -St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career -Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time -Billy Martin, manager for the Yankees, is involved in a barroom altercation in which he punches a Minnesota Marshmallow Salesman, Joseph Cooper. Cooper requires 15 stitches, Billy Martin is fired as Yankee manager (for the 2nd time).