What do they rub on baseballs before they make it out to the minor and major league games?
How did the ball in Castaway get the name Wilson?
Episode Transcript
Well that was kind of random. Mel dying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's see some random facts for the day. I got
some good one. So the screenwriter who wrote Castaway, it's
been a week alone on a deserted island for research.
A volleyball washed up on shore, which is where he
got the idea for Wilson. Every baseball that's used to
the major and minor leagues is actually rubbed with special
mud from New Jersey before it shipped or used in
(00:26):
a game. The cliff Notes version of the Scarlet Letter
actually outsells the actual book almost four to one. The
founder of Jersey Mike Subbs. His name's not Mike. He's
a guy named Peter Konkroh who worked at a shop
called Mike Subs in New Jersey when he was in
high school and decided to buy it, franchise it, and
(00:46):
through its one hundred and forty ninth and final show,
Taylor Swift's Erastour sold more than two billion dollars in tickets,
double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour
in history. The tour ran from March of twenty twenty
three to December of last year. That's pretty crazy,
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