My one claim to fame in baseball: I made an unassisted triple play in a slow pitch church league.
I was playing second base and runners on first and second took off on a pitch. I ran to second base, anticipating a throw from the catcher. But the hitter slapped a line drive directly over second base as I arrived there. I jumped up and caught the ball and came down down on the base, doubling up the runner from second. The runner from first was almost at the base and I tagged him.
It all happened without much conscious thought on my part and at the end, everyone on the field and in the stands just went very quiet while they tried to assimilate what had happened. The umpires ruled it a triple play and pandemonium broke out.
I never had any comparable experience throughout my playing time up to college freshman.
That's just one of the many things that makes baseball special. For six months there are multiple games every single day, and every single game has the potential to be a perfect game, or to produce an unassisted triple play, or an inside-the-park home run, or a cycle, etc., etc., etc.
I really wish now I had gotten into watching baseball as a little kid in the 60's. My mother's brothers would come and watch the weekly games on NBC and I'd just stare in absolute confusion. There was only one sport I cared about, and that was that there perfessional rasslin'! Baseball was kind of boring compared to that.
Meanwhile, while I knew nothing about baseball and cared nothing for it, I ironically became absolutely enchanted by baseball history. I would check out books about the old players (Babe Ruth and before) and would just eat it up. I didn't even understand all the records I was reading about, but it was just so . . . fascinating! Yet watching modern players on television didn't appeal to me at all. And just think, if only I had been watching games on TV I would have seen the likes of Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays.
My love of baseball came to me very late, and I'm sure I still don't know all the rules (especially regarding balks, which I've given up on trying to understand). That's why when I see something weird like this, my first thought is "so this is something else I'm just now learning about!"
Anyway, congratulations to you on your UTP.