This is the most “The European mind can’t comprehend this” moment of my life. One of my friends said, “Punch me five times tomorrow and I’ll still think this isn’t real.”
Things that have been invented since Grover Cleveland Alexander set the Phillies record for consecutive scoreless innings in 1911:
The zipper
Sliced bread
Numbers on baseball jerseys
Chocolate chip cookies
Traffic lights
The Titanic
Automated Ball Strike System