Not only is Atlanta Braves rookie catcher Evan Gattis one of the biggest surprises of the baseball season, he's also inspiring lore online as if he were Chuck Norris or The Most Interesting Man in the World.

For example: Gattis Facts on Twitter, which aren't actual facts, but funny "facts" — "Evan Gattis doesn't mow his lawn. He just looks at it and dares it to grow." You know, that kind of stuff.

Or this new video from the MLB Fan Cave, which imagines that Gattis' backstory of quitting baseball and working odd jobs was actually a cover for a secret agent life.

Gattis was named National League rookie of the month for May on Monday, an honor also bestowed upon him in April. So far this season, Gattis has hit 12 homers and driven in 32 runs, elevating himself from an injury fill-in for Brian McCann to a fan favorite.

(Getty Images)With another month of the baseball season past, here's a list that's sure to please the home run gawkers among us. It's the longest home runs of the May. Just like we did in April, we wanted to show you baseball's top five homers of the month. Because of ties, you get six this time.

Two of them are from Boston Red Sox slugger Mike Napoli, who seized the top of this list on May 1. He hit two home runs against the Toronto Blue Jays that weren't bested the rest of May. Data for this comes from ESPN's Home Run Tracker — which calculates how far homers actually travel.

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A dead body was found Monday on board the yacht of Boston Red Sox owner John Henry.

The Boston Globe is reporting that police believe the death to be a suicide and that the dead man, approximately 28-30 years old, might have been working on the yacht, which is named Iroquois.

Here's more from The Globe:

Boston police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca said firefighters and police responded to the Iroquois for a medical emergency about noon.

Fiandaca said they found a 28-to-30-year-old male in cardiac arrest. Efforts were made to revive the man, but he was later pronounced dead.

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It's June now, which means this year's All-Star Game isn't some distant matter anymore. In fact, MLB released the first round of vote leaders for the American League on Monday, with some very familiar names at the top.

Miguel Cabrera — in a development that should surprise no one, considering how good he's been this year — leads all AL players with 1,500,165 votes. New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano is second overall with 1,235,230 and Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout in third with 1,190,676 votes.

Despite being a seven-time All-Star, Cabrera has never been elected a starter. That should change this year. Starters will be announced July 7 for the July 16 game. In-stadium voting ends June 28, but online voting continues until July 4. National League top vote-getters will be announced on Tuesday.

Here's a closer look at the top vote-getters so far — including one glaring inclusion.

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Have a baseball road trip coming up? Well, in a bid to help you with your upcoming journeys, Big League Stew has solicited the help of the locals. Over the next month or so, we'll be hitting up our usual guest blogger crew to feature 10 tips for enjoying each of the 30 ballparks like the locals do. Have a suggestion in addition to the ones listed here? Make sure to list it in the comments below.

Greetings from Milwaukee, a wonderful place to live on the shore of Lake Michigan and much more laid back than our rival city of Chicago 90 miles to the south. The winters are long in southeastern Wisconsin, and thus, when summer finally arrives, the good folks of Milwaukee are ready to go all out. Be it attending one of the many summer festivals, enjoying Lake Michigan or one of the other numerous lakes in the area, or just having a cookout with some buddies, there is plenty to occupy our time in the summer months.

However, over the past five years or so, the place to be in summer has been Miller Park. Since 2007, the Brewers have drawn over 2.75 million fans each season, eclipsing the 3 million fan mark in three of those years (in the smallest market in MLB, no less). The Brewers have rewarded fans with some solid play over that time. A wild card appearance in 2008 and a division title and NLCS appearance in 2011 have the fans wanting more. When the Brewers are playing well, the whole vibe around town improves. While the 2013 season is off to a bad start, there are plenty of pieces in the Brewers lineup that have us hoping for future success. Ryan Braun is Ryan Braun. Carlos Gomez is finally playing up to his potential (and just signed an extension), and Jean Segura has the look of a perennial All Star.

It’s hard to believe that the Brewers have been playing in Miller Park for 13 seasons. Miller Park is located about two miles west of downtown Milwaukee right off of I-94. Miller Park was constructed just beyond the outfield wall of old County Stadium and has all the amenities a modern ballpark should have. But it also has some of the coziness of County Stadium now that it has broken itself in. With that in mind, let's start our tour of Miller Park and the Brewers baseball experience.

The 'Casey' statue in Viera, Fla., popular with fans and birds. (AP)

Ernest L. Thayer wrote "Casey at the Bat," the definitive baseball poem by most standards, in spring 1888 at Worcester, Mass. The San Francisco Examiner printed it June 3 of the same year — exactly 125 years ago. It's 575 words and 52 lines long and ends with the star player striking out (SPOILER ALERT!) with the game on the line.

Bill Ballou of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette puts it thusly:

That is probably the ultimate appeal of “Casey at the Bat.” It reflects baseball's core reality. The game, as the late Commissioner Bart Giamatti once wrote, is designed to break your heart.

If you've read the poem before, or had it read to you, the best way to experience it might be to read Ben Henry's remarkable conversion of the poem into baseball card form (BLS H/N: CBS Eye on Baseball).

But, if you're just a text person:

Tom Hanks lied in "A League of Their Own." You're darned right there's crying in baseball, and there's likely much more of it than players ever will let the public see. However, during an unguarded moment Sunday night, right-hander Ramon Ortiz of the Toronto Blue Jays couldn't help himself after leaving a game because of a strained right elbow. And, because Ortiz is 40 years old — he's the second-oldest starting pitcher in the AL after Andy Pettitte of the Yankees — any kind of elbow injury threatens his career.

With his team trailing the San Diego Padres by two runs in the bottom of the third inning, Ortiz threw a pitch to slugger Chase Headley and dropped to one knee for a moment — apparently realizing immediately something was wrong. Ortiz got to his feet, turned around, started to walk and slammed his glove to the ground with his left hand. Surrounded by teammates and, soon, Blue Jays' staff, Ortiz squatted down and started to cry. Just a brutal moment for anyone to watch, much less experience himself.

It was easy for teammate Steve Delabar to tell that something seriously was wrong. From the Toronto Star:

Jeter and LaPallo (AP)When Bernando LaPallo dropped by Yankee Stadium to visit Derek Jeter and his teammates this weekend, many people said he didn't look like his claimed age of 111.

Turns out that there's good reason for that. The Arizona resident has no way to prove his age and a consultant with Guinness World Records tells the Associated Press that verified age claim records show LaPallo was born in 1910, not 1901. That would make him 102 or 103. Still rather impressive for a guy who looks in his 80s, but not quite 110.

But, hey, what's 10 years when you're getting unfettered access to one of the biggest teams in the universe? LaPallo won over the New York Yankees, Major League Baseball and many national outlets, including this one, with his appearance. He claims to have met Babe Ruth before the legend's major league debut and that he attended Yankees games when they were known as the Highlanders and played at Hilltop Park.

For his part, LaPallo is sticking with his claim that he's the second oldest man in the world.

From the Associated Press: