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Fast facts: Babe Ruth is credited with the invention of the modern baseball bat. He was the first player to order a bat with a knob on the end of the handle. Louisville Slugger produced the bat with which he hit 29 home runs in 1919. In 1994, the National League and American League Baseball MVPs were Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas, respectively. They were both born on the exact same day: May 27, 1968. In 1996, measuring 6 feet 6 inches, "Sir" Charles Barkley was the shortest basketball player ever to lead the NBA in rebounding. Baseball's last legal spitball was thrown by Hall of Famer Burleigh Grimes for the New York Yankees in 1934. Although the pitch had been outlawed 14 years earlier, those already throwing it were permitted to continue. In golf, a "Dolly Parton" is a putt on an especially hilly green. It's also known as a roller coaster. Basketball's three-point field goal distance, established by the NBA, is 22 feet. Internationally, it's set at 20 feet, 6.1 inches.

 

On this date: In 1847, the first U.S. telegraph company was established in Maryland. In 1924, the first Winter Olympics games closed at Chamonix, France. In 1936, radium E, the first synthetic radioactive substance, was produced. In 1942, Clinton Pierce became the first U.S. general wounded in action in World War II. In 1957, the first electric portable typewriter was placed on sale in Syracuse, N.Y. In 1982, the indoor distance record for a paper airplane (153 feet) was set in Tacoma, Wash. In 1998, Bill Gates got a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium.

 

Quotable... "For everything there is a season and ... as a new election season begins, I intend to rejoin the national debate." - former Vice President Al Gore.