The first ballgame played at the North Pole, 1960. Crewmembers of the USS Seadragon, a nuclear submarine, laid out the field with the pitcher's mound as close to the exact point of the North Pole as they could reckon it. Every time a ball was hit into right field it crossed the International Dateline, and was, therefore, hit into the next day. But when the right fielder threw the ball back in, it came back to "today"... or for him, "yesterday"... I guess.
And of course, being at the northernmost point possible, all of the players were technically "southpaws", second base was 12 hours away from home plate, and to round the bases, a player would technically go around the world.
Also there are months-long stretches of perpetual daylight, and others of steady darkness at the North Pole. So a baseball season there might involve several months of nothing but "day" games or several months of all "night" games.
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