BR Bullpen:Did You Know Archive/MiLB
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This is an archive of articles under the scope of minor league baseball that were featured on the Main Page as part of Did You Know?.
[edit] Did you know...
- ...that Jimmy Claxton was the first black player featured on a baseball card?
- ...that Reggie Otero led the Canadian-American League in batting average in 1942 and won a record seven titles in the Venezuelan League?
- ...that Art Shamsky was a roommate of Pete Rose when they were in the New York-Penn League and that Shamsky later homered four times in four at-bats?
- ...that Teo Acosta won five minor league batting titles but never played a day in the major leagues?
- ...that while Mac Suzuki was the Salinas Spurs' clubhouse boy in 1992 he pitched one inning for club.
- ...that Morgan Burkhart won the Frontier League's MVP and Triple Crown winner in 1998, with a .404 average, 36 homers and 98 RBI and was named as the Independent League Player of the Year by Baseball America.
- ...that Moe Hill won five consecutive home run titles in the Midwest League in the 1970s.
