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11 unusual facts about 1998 in baseball


Charlie Slowes

After eleven seasons with the Bullets, he joined the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998 as their radio play-by-play announcer, a position he held until 2004 when he joined the Nationals the next year.

Division Series

Throughout its existence, the Division Series has been best-of-five; however, both the method of awarding home-field advantage in the series and which games the team getting the advantage would host were changed in 1998.

Greg Schulte

Greg Schulte is an American sportscaster, and is best known as the radio play-by-play voice of the Arizona Diamondbacks Major League Baseball team, a position he has held since the team's inaugural season in 1998.

Gulf Coast League Devil Rays

The Gulf Coast Devil Rays were a Gulf Coast League team from 1996 to 1998.

Gulf Coast League Rays

The Rays returned to the Gulf Coast League for the first time since the 1998 season, when they were known as the Gulf Coast Devil Rays.

Jeff Sellers

Jeffrey Doyle (Jeff) Sellers (born May 11, 1964 in Compton, California) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox from 1985 through 1988.

Ken Grundt

He played from 1992 through 1998 for the San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox and Florida Marlins organizations, collecting a 31-19 mark with a 2.58 ERA and 35 saves in 288 appearances.

Roger Dean Stadium

Cliff Politte threw the first pitch in the stadium's history in spring training, 1998.

Tom Kramer

After three years of lackluster numbers, he retired from baseball as a minor leaguer at the conclusion of the 1998 season, having never made it back to the major leagues since his 1993 rookie debut for Cleveland.

Wendy Selig-Prieb

Wendy Selig-Prieb is the former CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers team in Major League Baseball, having served in that position from 1998 to 2004, during which time she was Major League Baseball's only female CEO.

Yankee Global Enterprises

In 1998, the Yankees had their most successful season in modern history, winning a combined total of 125 regular season and playoff games, culminating in a World Series championship.