Choo was selected as the Most Valuable Player and Best Pitcher of the 2000 World Junior Baseball Championship. Choo signed a $1.35 million contract with the Mariners after the championship and converted to the outfield.

Thome played for six different teams, most notably the Cleveland Indians during the 1990s and the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox in the 2000s before ending his career with the Baltimore Orioles.

In 2016, Tebow announced he would pursue a career in professional baseball and signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets on September 8.

The Holy Grail of baseball cards is the illustrious Honus Wagner from the 1909-1911 American Tobacco Company set. There were only 200 ever made because Wagner didn't want to support tobacco use for his young fans. As of 2017, it was valued at approximately $2.8 Million.

Despite losing his right arm in a car accident as a child, Pete Gray appeared in 77 games for the St. Louis Browns in 1945, batting .218 with a .958 fielding percentage while playing center field.

Giambi underwent knee surgery before the 2004 season. He also endured a variety of health problems during the season including an inflamed knee, a respiratory infection, an intestinal parasite infection, and a benign pituitary tumor. As a result, Giambi appeared in just 80 games during the 2004 regular season, batting .208. He returned to the Yankees in 2005 and led the American League in walks (108) and on-base percentage (.440).

On July 17, 1990, the Twins became the first team in MLB history to turn two triple plays in the same game. Both were 5-4-3 triple plays, executed by fielders Gary Gaetti, Al Newman, and Kent Hrbek in a game against the Boston Red Sox.

Ultimately, the band of 18 rookies, including Brian McCann, Jeff Francoeur and Kelly Johnson, helped the 2005 Braves win the last of their 14 consecutive division titles.

Believing that Rose was the player who could put them over the top, the Phillies made him the highest-paid athlete not only in baseball, but in all of team sports, signing him to a four-year, $3.2-million contract as a free agent. Although they missed the postseason in Rose's first year with the team, the Phillies earned three division titles, two World Series appearances and their first ever World Series title (1980) in the following four seasons.

The "Mistake by the Lake" was just south of Lake Erie and was known for biting cold wind and, on hot summer nights, swarms of midges and mayflies.