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Before Ruth, another “Babe” made baseball history when rookie Charles “Babe” Adams pitched 3 winning games for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1909 World Series to beat the Detroit Tigers. He was born in 1882 in Tipton (pop. 5,521).

first appeared: 5/11/2003

Humans howl along with the wolves at weekly Wolf Howls in Wolf Park, an educational and research wildlife center in Battle Ground (pop. 1,323).

first appeared: 5/4/2003

Jack Butcher, whose teams won 806 basketball games during his 45-year coaching career at Loogootee High School in Loogootee (pop. 2,741), was named National High School Boys Basketball Coach of the Year for 2002.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

In the early 1940s, a large pond on the George Colglazier farm disappeared overnight in a heavy rain to reveal the entrance to Bluespring Caverns near Bedford (pop. 13,768).

first appeared: 4/20/2003

President Thomas Jefferson drafted the 1802 plans for Jeffersonville (pop. 27,362) with checkerboard squares, some left open for “trees and turf” to purify the air.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

In 1902, Eugene Shireman of Martinsville (pop. 11,698) bought 200 goldfish to raise in his farm ponds. Today, Grassyfork Fisheries has 600 ponds and sells 40 million fish a year.

first appeared: 4/6/2003

In 1967, Memorial Stadium at Indiana State University in Terre Haute became the first outdoor football stadium with Astroturf.

first appeared: 3/30/2003

Covering 500,000 square feet, the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University in Bloomington is one of the largest college student unions and includes a 186-room hotel.

first appeared: 3/23/2003

In the 2000 Census, 85 percent of Gary residents reported their race as black or African-American, the highest percentage of any city in the nation.

first appeared: 3/16/2003

Open since 1902, the Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend is the state’s oldest zoo.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

Cannelton (pop. 1,209) celebrated the transformation last June of the 1849 Indiana Cotton Mill into 70 apartments. The 67,000-square-foot limestone mill once was the largest industrial building west of the Allegheny Mountains.

first appeared: 3/2/2003

Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne houses the nation’s largest genealogy collection in a public library.

first appeared: 2/23/2003

Maple Leaf Farms, based in Milford (pop. 1,550), processes 14 million ducks a year, making it the nation’s top duck producer.

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Indiana Wants Me hit No. 1 on the pop music charts in 1970. R. Dean Taylor, a Canadian singer-songwriter, recorded the song.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

Butch Polston of Charlestown (pop. 5,993) does a booming business outfitting Elvis Presley impersonators. He’s the only person authorized (by the original designers) to make Elvis’ signature jumpsuits.

first appeared: 2/2/2003

Rensselaer (pop. 5,294) is named after James Van Rensselaer, who arrived from New York in 1839 and established the town of Newton, which later adopted the name of its founder.

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Based in Bedford (pop. 13,768), the Indiana Limestone Institute of America serves the construction industry by disseminating information on the native building material.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

Virgil “Gus” Grissom, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, was born April 3, 1926, in Mitchell (pop. 4,567) and in 1961 became the first Hoosier in space.

first appeared: 1/12/2003

Chartered in 1783, Clarksville, (pop. 21,400) which bills itself the “Oldest American Town in the Northwest Territory,” originally was part of a 150,000-acre land grant to Gen. George Rogers Clark and his men for their service during the Revolutionary War.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

In the early days of Purdue University football, the Boilermakers were called other names as well, including the Haymakers, Railsplitters, Sluggers, and Cornfield Sailors.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

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