The only MLB team that ...
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Team
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has a 34 foot difference between the height of the outfield fence at the left field foul pole and the right field foul pole.
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Red Sox
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had a 107-year drought between World Series championships
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Cubs
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has a pool beyond the right field fence that can be used by fans during the game.
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Diamondbacks
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had never had a pitcher pitch a no-hitter, until Joe Musgrove accomplished the feat in 2021.
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Padres
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is based in Canada.
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Blue Jays
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had players intentionally lose a World Series
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White Sox
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removed the satanic reference from their team name in 2008.
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Rays
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has a white elephant team logo on its jerseys.
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Athletics
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has never played in the World Series.
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Mariners
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cheated for several seasons by using an extensive sign-stealing scheme replete with trashcan banging.
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Astros
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has won the World Series on a game 7 walk-off home run.
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Pirates
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lost the first 21 games of a season.
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Orioles
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had a team owner who was also the MLB commissioner and orchestrated the transfer of the team from the American League to the National League.
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Brewers
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has been based in two different countries.
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Nationals
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has won the World Series representing 3 different cities.
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Braves
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as much as they hate to admit it, started play in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles before relocating to their current city in 1903.
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Yankees
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has lost the Worlds Series a record 14 times.
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Dodgers
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is US-based and has won both World Series it has participated in
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Marlins
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has been partially owned by a U.S. president.
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Rangers
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has won two World Series in their current city thanks to one of the largest home-field advantages in MLB history - winning all 8 home games and losing all 6 road games in those two series.
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Twins
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didn't finish last in their division until 1952, which was 51 years after their founding in 1901 as one of the eight charter American League franchises.
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Tigers
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was once partially owned by Bob Hope, and which broke the color barrier in the American League with Larry Doby in 1947 and the legendary Satchel Paige in 1948.
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Guardians
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traded a player for himself when, in their debut year of 1962, they acquired Harry Chiti from the Indians for a "player to be named later," who turned out to be Chiti himself when they sent him back to the Indians a few days later.
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Mets
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has retired the "uniform number" of a singing cowboy actor.
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Angels
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has had 3 brothers playing the outfield at the same time when Felipe, Matty & Jesus Alou took the field on September 15, 1963.
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Giants
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has retained the same team name since joining the National League in 1890. In fact, it is the oldest continuously run, single-name, single-city franchise in American professional sports.
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Phillies
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holds the Major League record for season attendance with 4,483,350 fans attending their home games which were held in a football stadium during their inaugural season in 1993.
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Rockies
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still plays in the city where they faced their crosstown rivals in the 1944 World Series. Their opponents moved to Baltimore in 1954.
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Cardinals
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was named for a Midwest livestock show.
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Royals
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had a pitcher pitch no hitters in consecutive starts when Johnny Vander Meer did it in 1938.
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Reds
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