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| Umpire Call. At Jack Russell
Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp
played "Three Blind Mice" following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor.
The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected
from the game. |
| Bats. In a typical
season major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of
Louisville sluggers. |
| Youngest Major League Baseball Player.
Pitcher Joe
Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game in
1944. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major league baseball, was only
15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against
the St. Louis Cardinals. |
| First Football Huddle. The
'huddle' in
football was formed due to a deaf football player who used sign
language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see
the signals he used and in turn huddled around him. |
| First Football Helment Logo.
The first
professional football team to sport an insignia on their helmets was
the Los Angeles Rams in 1950, who hand painted yellow horns on their
blue leather helmets. |
| The only father
and son to hit back-to-back
home runs in a major league baseball game:
Ken Griffey, Jr., and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., both of the Seattle
Mariners in a game against the California Angels on September 14th,
1990. |
Baseball is Different. Ever
wonder why
baseball coach's and managers wear uniforms, while in football,
basketball, hockey and soccer they do not. Just try to image a
football coach suited up in a uniform, pads and helment along the side
line! Baseball is one of the fewest sports that does not
use a clock. Referee's in most sports wear black and white
striped shirts except in baseball.
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Innings. When baseball
first started, games were played until one team reached 21. The concept
of limiting a game to nine innings rather than 21 runs was introduced
in 1857.
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| First World Series. The
Pittsburgh
Pirates of the National League met the Boston Pilgrims of the American
League in the first World Series. Boston won the eight-game series 5-3.
The next year, the National League champion New York Giants refused to
play Boston. Since 1905, the World Series has been played every year
except 1994 when it was cancelled by a players’ strike. |
| In 1986 Roger
Clemens strikes out 20 batters in a single game. |
Silhouettes on Sports Logos.
The silhouette
on the National Basketball Association logo is Jerry West. The
solhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.
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Score of a Forfeit. A
forefeited
game in baseball is scored 9-0, while in football it's recorded as a
1-0 score.
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Thanksgiving Day Football. The
Detroit Lions started the tradition of playing on Thanksgiving Day in
1934 when G. A. Richards bought the team in Portsmouth, OH and moved it
to MIchigan. To boost attendance, he scheduled a Thanksgiving Day
game that year against the World Champion Chicago Bears. The game
drew 26,000 fans, or 11,000 more than the previous attendance high. The
Lions have played ever since on Thanksgiving Day. The Dallas
Cowboys started playing on Thanksgiving Day in 1966.
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Highest
Scoring Football Game. The
Washington Redskins defeated the New York
Giants, 72-41 on November 27, 1966. The combined 113 points are the
most ever scored in an NFL game. 16 touchdowns were scored in the
game.
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| Baseball Big Ones. The highest
number of innings played in a
Major League Baseball game is 26 when the
Brooklyn Dodgers (NL) and the Boston Braves (NL) played to a 1-1 tie on
May 1, 1920.. The biggest shutout
was 22-0 when the Cleveland Indians defeated the NY Yankees on August
31, 2004. . The Cubs also did the same beating the Pirates 22-0
on 9/16/75. The team for scoring the most runs in one game is when the Boston Red Sox scored 29 against the St. Louis
Browns on June 8, 1950. The Chicago White Sox tied the record five
years later when they defeated the Kansas City Athletics 29-6 on April
23, 1955.. The highest score
for two teams is 49. Chicago
Cubs beat the Philadelphia
Phillies, 26–23 on Aug. 25, 1922, at Wrigley Field (then Cubs Park) in
Chicago. |
Basketball Big Ones. Tallest
NBA Basketball Player. Gheorghe Muresan
of the Washington Bullets, who made his
professional debut in 1994, is 7-ft 7-in tall.. He was born in
Romania. The highest
aggregate score in an N.B.A. game is 370, when the Detroit
Pistons (186) beat the Denver Nuggets (184) at Denver
on December 13, 1983. Overtime was played after a 145-145 tie in
regulation time. The most points
scored by an individual in an
NBA game is 100, by Wilt Chamberlain, when he played for the
Philadelphia 76ers against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962.
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| Longest Softball Game. The longest game of softball played was 95 hr 23 min
at Ed Janiszewski
Park, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, Canada on June 29 - July 3, 2005. |
| Hockey Big Ones. The highest score
in men’s international hockey occurred when India
defeated the USA 24-1, at Los Angeles, California, USA, in the 1932
Olympic Games. The most goals
scored by one team in an NHL game was 16, by the Montreal
Canadiens in defeating the Quebec Bulldogs 16-3 on
3/3/1920. The most goals
by two teams in a game was set by the Montreal Canadiens beating
the Toronto St. Patricks 14-7 on 1/10/1920. The Edmonton Oilers
tied the record by beating the Chicago Blackhawks on 12/11/1985 by a
score of 12-9. |
Low
Scoring Basketball Game!
On
March 7, 1941, the Las Animas (Colorado) High School defeated the La
Junta
High School Basketball team,...
.....2
to 0,... in Overtime!
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High
Scoring Basketball Game!
In
a senior international match, Iraq scored 251 points against Yemem's 33
at New Delhi, India in Nov. 1982 at the Asia Games.
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Great Individual Sports
Feats!
Wilt Chamberlin scored the most
points by an individual in a professional basketball game. He
scored 100 points on March 2, 1962. His team, the Philadelphia
Warriors won 169 to 147 over the New York Knicks. Wilt's chance to
score more ended with 46 seconds left because fans stormed the court
when he reached 100 points. After reaching 99 points, he missed
his next three shots. He finally hit the century mark on a slam
dunk! Wilt was 36 for 63 on field goals and 28 of 32 on free
throws, plus this was before three pointers were even a part of the
game!
Kobe Bryant scored 81 points on Jan. 22, 2006, the most since Wilt
Chamberlin.
Pitching Gem
Kerry Wood with the Chicago Cubs allowed just one hit and struck out 20
Houston Astros in a 2-0 victory on May 6, 1998.
Sack Artist
Derrick Thomas of the Kansas City Chiefs has an NFL record SEVEN sacks
in one game against the Seattle Seahawks on Nov. 11, 1990.
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Highest
Basketball Scoring Individual!
Mats
Wermelin, 13 years old from Sweden, scored all 272 points in 272 to 0
win
at a regional boys tournament in Stockholm, Sweden, on Feb. 5, 1974.
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High
Scoring Hockey Game!
The
final score of South Korea's victory over Thailand in the championship
game of the Asia-Oceania junio tournament was 92 to 0! Donghwan Song
scored
31 goals for South Korea! |
SUPER Prime Time
Who
was the first person to play in a World Series Game AND Super Bowl
Game?...it
was "Prime Time"...Deion Sanders.
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Women
in Baseball Through the Years
- 1867- a group of
black women form the Dolly Vardens, the first prefessional women's
team.
- 1875- On Sept.
11th, the "Blondes" and "Brunettes", play before a
paying crowd in Springfield, IL.
- 1890's- Suffragist
Amelia Bloomer designs loose-fitting trousers ideal
for women to play sports, popularizing the Bloomer Girls baseball teams
that often beat men's teams.
- 1943- Cubs owner
Phillip Wrigley forms the All-American Girls Softball
League. Eventually it would evolve into the All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League, the basis for the movie "A League of
Their Own".
- 1953- Marcenia Lyle
Alberga-- better known as Toni Stone-- replaces
Hank Aaron at middle infield for the Negro Leagues Indianapolis
Clowns. A year later, she plays for the Kansas City
Monarch's.
- 1994- The all-femal
Colorado Silver Bullets barnstorm across the
country, playing men's teams at every stop. They last for four
years.
- 2005- On May 14th,
11-year old Katie Brownell, of Oakland, NY, throws a
six-inning PERFECT GAME, striking out ALL 18 batters she faces.
Her jersey ends up in the Hall of Fame, next to the hats of Roger
Clemens and Greg Maddux.
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Rare
Drop Kick
Doug Flutie, the back up quarterback of the New England
Patriots, scored a drop kicked an extra point following a touchdown on
Jan 1, 2006 against the Miami Dolphins. The last drop kick for
points was by the Bears Ray "Scooter" McLean in the NFL championship
game on Dec. 21, 1941, two weeks after the bombing of Pearl
Harbor. Believe it or not, the dropkick remains a
legal
maneuver in the National Football League today. It still exists in the
NFL's official rule book. Rule 3, Section 8 defines the dropkick as, "a
kick by a kicker who drops the ball and kicks it as, or immediately
after, it touches the ground." |
Most
Popular Sport at Nudiest Colonies
Volleyball is the
most popular sport played in American nudist camps.
Source :
www.funtrivia.com
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104
mph Softball Pitch
Eddie Feigner was credited with
pitching a softball UNDERHAND at 104 mph. The fastest major
league baseball pitchers rarely exceed 100 mph, but Feigner was
actually clocked at 104 mph! He also struck out Willie Mays,
Roberto Clemente, Brooks Robinson, Maury Wills and Harmon Killebrew in
a 1967 exhibition game at Dodger Stadium.
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Record
Collector
Who holds the record for the most records in baseball? Nolan
Ryan. He pitched in the big leagues from 1966 to 1993. When
he retired, he owned or shared more than 40 American & National
League records!
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Busy
Day
Joel Youngblood of the New York Mets made history when he shows up at
Wrigley Field in Chicago on August 4, 1982. In the third inning,
he hit a two-run single off Cubs pitcher Fergie Jenkins. The next
inning, he was told that he'd been traded to the Montreal Expos-- and
that they were waiting for him. He packed his goods and caught a
plan to Philadelphia. He joined the Expo's lineup late in the
game and singled off of Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton. Joel made
the records books for being on TWO different teams, batting against TWO
future Hall of Famer's, and getting hits off BOTH of them...ALL ON THE
SAME DAY! |
A
League of Her Own
On July 31, 1935, the Cincinnati Reds oversold tickets for their night
game. To avoid a potential riot, they allowed the extra
fans---8,000 in all-- to stand along the foul lines. It was so
packed that the players had to muscle their way through the crowd to
get to the field. When Reds batter Babe Herman was trying to make
his way to the plate in the bottom of the eighth, a nightclub singer
named Kitty Burke grabbed the bat from the surprised player and told
her friends, "Hang on to him, boys, I'm going to take his turn at
bat." Sure enough, Kitty went to the plate against Cardinals Paul
"Daffy" Dean. The bewildered pitcher shrugged and lobbed a ball
to the blonde bombshell. Burke swung ferociously but only to hit
a slow roller to first base. Dean scooped up the ball and tagged
her out (to a round of boos from the crowd). Although the at-bat
didn't officially count, it was---and still is-- the only time a woman
has hit in a major league game.
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Football Team Scores 72
Points....In A Single Quarter!
On Oct. 30, 2007, the Smith Center, KS High School
Football Team scored a national record 72 points in the first quarter
of it's football game against the Plainville, KS team. The Smith
Center Redmen, the three-time defending 2A-1A state champion from
north-central Kansas, improved it's record to 9-0 by beating Plainville
by a final score of 83-0. The prior record for most points in a
quarter for a high school team was 66 for a Prescott, AZ team in
1925. Smith Center has a powerful rushing attack with 485 yards
in 36 carries for the game. They used 14 different rushers for
the game. The Smith Center team NEVER punted. In fact, Smith
Center hasn't punted ALL SEASON! The victory was its 50th in a
row! They average 71 points per game and has out scored its
opponents this season 640-0!!
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