Portal:Baseball/Did you know/9

... that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
... that Harry Blackmun's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
... that the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?
... that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"?