So here's the way this started. I absolutely was not spending even more uncounted hours tooling around Baseball-Reference.com for random nuggets of baseball information, and I absolutely did not totally geek out when I discovered that Rube Waddell still holds the Orioles' franchise record for strikeouts in a game -- set in 1908, when the franchise was still the St. Louis Browns.
I mean, let's do some quick math here, that's 112 years ago. That's a long time! The Browns/Orioles have played approximately 17,525 games since Waddell struck out 17 batters, we're currently in the middle of the greatest strikeout era ever, and no pitcher has topped his total.