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Latest Fact-Checks In Baseball

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Yvette McGee Brown
Yvette McGee Brown
stated on June 22, 2010 speech on urban issues:
"The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city."
True
By Aaron Marshall • July 30, 2010
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on July 27, 2010 in a comment on the John DePetro Show:
"I remember one of [Curt Schilling's] teammates said he painted his sock, the bloody sock."
False
By Cynthia Needham • July 27, 2010
Stuart Sternberg
Stuart Sternberg
stated on June 21, 2010 a press statement:
The Tampa Bay Rays' "prices have been judged the most affordable in all of professional sports."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 24, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on October 12, 2009 a television advertisement:
"Baseball and insurance are the only industries exempt from antitrust laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on Meet the Press:
"Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs."
True
By Bill Adair • September 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2008:
On which team he's rooting for in the World Series.
Half Flip
By Robert Farley • October 21, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg:
The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.
False
By Bill Adair • November 29, 2007
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