 So it used to be a baseball tradition, big time, back when it was just two leagues before division play started in 1969, that whatever team was in first place on the 4th of July was going to end the season in first place. Now, this didn't always happen, obviously, but it was sort of like this ongoing tradition that if you were in first place on the 4th of July, that was going to be where you ended up. So right now, looking at the Major League Baseball standings,