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To be a baseball fan is to be obsessed with numbers. 3000, 60, 500, 300, 3.00, .300, we all know what these numbers represent. (And what is it with the number three that makes it come up so much?)...
Jan. 25 1894 — Jim Corbett knocks out Charley Mitchell in the third round to retain the world heavyweight title. 1924 — The first Winter Olympics are held in Chamonix, France.
Plus Blake Brown on Ronny Mauricio, Jill Gearin on cows, the under-appreciated Eddie Mathews, and more.
1937 sees sixth World Series title, beginning of transferral of Yankee crown from Gehrig to DiMaggio
A new dynasty begins with a new superstar center fielder.