I thought I'd mention some events, milestones, etc. that have taken place in my baseball universe that might have been overlooked because they have usually had less direct relevance to our main characters.
* Honus Wagner (1907-1909) and Ty Cobb (1907, 1910, 1916) are the only players to win three MOB awards. Doc Miller (NL 1911, 1912),
Tris Speaker (1914, 1915) and Joe Jackson (1912, 1913) have all won two times.
*The only player who was a star in "real" baseball who has also won an NL MOB was Wagner. Other NL MOB's have included the likes of
Sammy Strang,
Fred Beck, and
Rube Ellis. By far the biggest "surprise" winner of the MOB was a player I'd never heard of at all...
Bert "Jesse" James. Even in my world, James didn't become a regular player until his breakout 1916 season.
* The AL winner with the least significant "real" career was . Well, I suppose it would REALLY be
Pat O'Farrell... 
* Del Mason has FOUR MOP awards to his credit (1910, 1911, 1915, 1916). His teammate Roy Hitt has won twice (1912, 1914), as have Three Finger Brown (1907, 1908) and the AL's Bill Burns (1909, 1912) and Ed Summers (1913, 1914).
* "Real" stars otherwise haven't had much luck with the MOP. Walter Johnson has only won once;
Christy Mathewson never has. Brown, Addie Joss and Rube Marquard are the only other real-life Hall of Famers to win the MOP.
Joe Wood has one MOP to his credit.
* Three "real" HOF'ers have won Newcomer of the Year awards: Walter Johnson, George Sisler, and Sam Rice.
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Tris Speaker has won eight Slick Fielder awards in his career. No other player in the history of either league has won more than four.
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Bill Carrigan has won the last two AL Slick Fielder awards at catcher.
Pat has never won one, although I think the voters made a mistake at least once by passing him by.
* Ten players have had six hits in a single game. Joe Jackson and
Al Burch (!) are the only players to do it twice, and the feat hasn't been pulled off since 1913. Burch, even more impressively, went six for six both times. Most of the men with six hits took seven AB's to do it. Jackson went 6-6 once.
* No player has hit three home runs in one game.
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Joe Wood has struck out at least 15 batters in a single game ten times. He holds the one-game record with 18 Ks, which he's achieved twice. Walter Johnson has to his credit the only 17-strikeout performance, and the Big Train has whiffed at least 15 men in a game three times. That's one fewer than Long Tom Hughes, however.
* Seven pitchers have thrown no-hitters. They include Ralph Glaze, Harry McIntire, Jack Pfiester, Ed Summers, Hooks Wiltse,
Bill Crouch , and Grover Cleveland Alexander.
* Summers has the league's only perfect game.
Coming up next: some all-time single season leaders.