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Lou was considered to be one of the greatest players of all time in baseball. Despite his parents contradiction with him pursuing the sport, he still pushed for it and ended up with a baseball scholarship. In 1923, he began playing for the New York Yankees.

He was recognized to be the American League Most Valuable Player which gave him the nickname the “Iron Horse”. He was able to play for a total of 14 years without missing any single game. He played for 2,000 games – a record which no one was able to break for five decades.

He quit baseball when he found out he had a spinal disorder called ALS.

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Also known as Randy Johnson, this great baseball pitcher was born on September 10, 1963 in California. He was famous because despite his being left handed, he still greatly stood out in baseball history as an amazing and talented pitcher.

He currently plays for Arizona Diamondbacks in the world of Major League Baseball. He has also achieved a lot of baseball exploits with being a Cy Young Award Winner for five consecutive times. He has always been celebrated for his fastballs in every game he worked hard in which he regularly approaches with a ball that travels for a hundred miles per hour.

He retired from the Major League Baseball on January 5, 2010.

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Born on November 21, 1969 in Pennsylvania, Ken is an MLB players for the Cincinnati Reds team. It was in 1987 when he was first drafted as an amateur for the Seattle Mariners and then he became an asset for the team.

His debut in the MLB world was on April 3, 1989. His combined perseverance and natural talent on the field made him one of the most recognized players in the baseball scene. He even collaborated with Nike and came up with the Nike Air Griffey Max.

He was Baseball Digest Magazine’s Rookie All Star Team in the 1989 issue and he will remain forever a legend in the history of baseball.

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Have you ever wondered, where and when baseball started? Who invented baseball? Well. No one precisely knows the answers to these questions, but settlers in America brought with them the English games of cricket, rounders and the similar townball, which gradually evolved into the game we know today.

The first known reference to “baseball” as a game was in 1791 in Massachusetts where a town bye-law banned it from the proximity of the town meeting house. There is also a detailed account of a game of base ball in Ontario, Canada in June1838.

However, in 1845 the ‘Knickerbocker Rules’, named after the breeches worn at the time, were devised to regularize the playing of baseball. Alexander Cartwright was given credit for shaping baseball into what it is today. On September 23, 1845, Cartwright published “Rules and Regulations of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.” These 20 rules are the basis of the rules of the present Major League Baseball (MLB). The Knickerbockers became the first team to wear uniforms.

More years later and baseball had become so popular that professionals started to play for the better and richer teams and the game was transformed. The success of this formula and the popularity of the game itself led to the foundation of a National League which was the first true major league.

Although baseball started in England it has come a very long way from its humble origins.