MLB Network launched a 24/7 network and many fans watched live games via mobile on what Macworld just called the Best Multimedia App of 2009.
A remarkable 73,367,659 fans marched into ballparks despite a deep recession -- the fifth-highest overall attendance in Major League Baseball history.
Not one but two Cy Young Award winners were involved in arguably the deal of the century, with Roy Halladay going to the Phillies and Cliff Lee to the Mariners.
What a year. What a decade. What a century. What a 134-year run this has been.
The national pastime is stronger than ever, still breaking in new generations of fans, still there for its longtime lovers, still churning out milestones and records and heroes, still making us scream and shout and shaping the very way sports everywhere are consumed. And yes, still producing Yankees world championships and Broadway parades.
The 2009 Major League Baseball calendar year was different from any other, but just similar enough to every one before it -- and that is why you keep coming back to it. The game is always there, weaving the past with the present and future -- and it will be there in full force at 2010 Spring Training with high hopes across the board.
What else will we remember most about this past year?
Daisuke Matsuzaka and Japan cleaned up in the World Baseball Classic again, winning it for the second time in two tries as Dice-K again went 3-0 to become 6-0 in the event's history.
Ichiro Suzuki, who celebrated with those Japan teammates, later reached 200 hits for a ninth consecutive season. The Mariners' leadoff man passed Wee Willie Keeler as the first to do that. Even more amazing is the fact it was Ichiro's ninth season.
Derek Jeter passed the immortal Lou Gehrig as the all-time hits king in Yankees history -- and his fans won't ever forget how he tied him on that three-hit night following a mini-slump.
The Dodgers were a runaway team for most of the season, but the National League West tightened and it was not until the frantic final weekend that it became clear they were the NL West champs and the resurgent Rockies were the NL Wild Card winners.
Jacoby Ellsbury set a Red Sox record for most steals in a season with 70, including a steal of home against the rival Yankees. Carl Crawford tied a Major League record with six steals in a game on May 3. And the face of basestealing history was put on a plaque as Rickey Henderson was inducted into the Hall of Fame, along with Jim
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