9/94Number of major league baseball players since 1876 who hit a home run the first time at bat: 69

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)

    Number of the 55 no longer playing who never hit another: 11

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)

10/88Ratio of annual spending on baseball cards to spending on tickets to major league games: 2:1

New York Times

8/94Number of times a baseball is weighed before being used in a major-league game: 5

Rawlings Sporting Goods (St. Louis)

5/90Number of former major league baseball players whose fathers are in the Hall of Fame: 9

Baseballistics by Bert Randolph Sugar (St. Martin’s Press, N.Y.C.)/Commissioner’s Office, Major League Baseball (N.Y.C.)

    Number of former major league players whose last names are palindromes: 7

Baseballistics by Bert Randolph Sugar (St. Martin’s Press, N.Y.C.)/Commissioner’s Office, Major League Baseball (N.Y.C.)

10/87Number of the 254 newspaper reporters covering major league baseball teams who are black: 4

USA Today (Arlington, Va.)