Ok....so tonite I did my very first 7th inning stretch. Lol what a milestone! Yay astros! :) Anyways yeah...so until the other day I didn't know what the 7th inning stretch was...I just thought it was like a longer inning or something. ...but yeah....in my history book it said this:


"The seventh inning stretch" This baseball tradition, where fans often stand up to stretch in the middle of the seventh inning, does not have a completely reliable history. One claim is that in 1869, all the cincinati red stockings players stood during the seventh inning to seek relief from thehard wooden benches on which they were sitting, another popular story asserts that in 1910, president william howard taft stood to stretch himself; thinking that the president was leaving, fans at the washington senators game also stood out of respect."


And now I know! :)

-sAmI-