Cool baseball related photos

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Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych with Big Bird, 1977. Photo was used for the cover of Sports Illustrated.

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The electronic umpire being tested during the Brooklyn Dodgers’ spring training in March 1950. The device relied on mirrors, lenses and photoelectric cells..

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Jimmy Piersall of the Mets hits the 100th home run of his major league career and celebrates by running around the bases backwards, June 23, 1963.

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Wendy Peffercorn

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Hank Aaron is mobbed after his eleventh-inning homer gave the Milwaukee Braves a 4-2 victory over the Cardinals and the National League pennant, September 23, 1957.

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Babe Ruth, Lloyd Waner, Lou Gehrig, and Paul Waner shake hands before the start of the 1927 World Series

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⚾️In the 1970s, the Oakland Athletics introduced "ball girls" (young girls who would sit in foul territory to retrieve baseballs grounded foul by batters).
⚾️Debbie Sivyer, was one of the first ones hired. She was paid five dollars an hour and would use the money to buy ingredients for what would become her famous cookies. She instituted a "milk-and-cookies" break for the umpires.
⚾️In 1976, at the age of 19, Sivyer married Randall Fields, taking the name she would soon use for her business, “Mrs. Fields”.
⚾️Mrs. Fields began her business in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, and at its height franchised 650 retail bakeries in the United States and over 80 in 11 different countries.