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July 9th, 1940
At Sportsman's Park, five National League hurlers combine to throw the first shutout in All-Star history. Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Whit Wyatt, Larry French, and Carl Hubbell three-hit the junior circuit, 4-0, with the help of Max West's three-run homer. ...
Not sure which is worse
If all the Super Bowl's commercials and pregame shows were strung together, their running time would be equivalent to the length of Gone with the Wind (238 minutes).
What a player!
Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
Superstitions, gotta love em
Former pitcher Turk Wendell used to brush his teeth and chew licorice between every inning
The good ol days
The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold.
It takes a lot of balls...
About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon championship.
Lefties unite!
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
Who's on first
The practice of identifying baseball players by number (corresponding to a player's position in the batting order) was started by the Yankees in 1929.
Not the fav
At horse race tracks, the favorite wins about 30 (or less) percent of the time.
Can't fly yet...
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
A man's sport
Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
Old Dogs and Young Bucks of the NFL
The oldest player in the history of the NFL was George Blanda who retired at the age of 48. He played as a quarterback for the Bears, Baltimore Colts, and the Oakland Raiders. The youngest buck award goes to Nigerian born, Amobi Okoye, who was drafted ...
The Short and the Tall of NFL
The shortest player to play in the NFL since 1990 is Trindon Holliday, who at 5' 5" is a receiver who spends most of his time on special teams as a return specialists. His small stature gives him dynamic speed and agility to elude the considerably larger players ...
The Scent Hounds
Scent hounds are a type of hound dog that primarily hunts by scent rather than sight. The scent hound breeds are generally regarded as having some of the most sensitive noses among canines. Some breeds are often kept as pets, especially the Beagle, Basset ...
Scooby Doo
What sport has a move named after the cartoon canine? A Scooby is a disc golf throw in which the player holds the disc with a backhand grip, positions it vertical next to their right ear, and throws the disc upside down so that it slides along the ground ...
Horseshoes
In horseshoes, the distance between pegs at their base is supposed to be exactly 40 feet at the base. The pegs are angled towards each other at a 15 degree angle so the tops of the pegs would be a few inches closer together. Ladies typically pitch from ...
Water Ski Shows
No one knows what Ralph Samuelson, the acknowledged father of water skiing, hoped to accomplish when he created the sport in 1922, but it was soon apparent that one thing he wanted to do was put on a "show" for his neighbors on the Minnesota lake where he ...
June 22nd, 1939
On this day in 1939, American boxer Joe Louis gave Adolph Hitler's 3rd Reich a punch in the nose when he defeated Max Schmeling in 124 seconds. So much for Aryan superiority; unfortunately, it would be 6 more years before the lesson was fully driven home. ...
Backwards Running
Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets celebrated his 100th home run by running the bases backwards. Some of Piersall's other stunts include, walking up to bat wearing a Beatles wig, talking to the monument of Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium, and climbing a grandstand ...
2013 NBA Finals
Tim Duncan is in line to be the first NBA player to win a championship in three decades if the Spurs manage to dethrone the Heat. There are four Final MVP’s participating in this series, with two each representing the West and East champions: Tony Parker ...
June 19th, 2000
It seems like a long time ago, but it was on this day in 2000 that Tiger Woods won the 100th US Open Championship at Pebble Beach with a final four-round score of 12-under-par, the first player in US Open history to finish the tournament at double-digits under-par. ...
Olympic Tug-of-War
Never heard of it? Actually, tug-of-war actually had a decent run at the Olympics, debuting at the 1900 Summer Games in Paris (a mixed team of Swedes and Danes took gold that year) and reappearing in the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis (the U.S. walked away ...
U.S. Open Winners
Willie Anderson, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus hold the record for the most U.S. Open victories, with four victories each. Hale Irwin is the oldest winner of the U.S. Open at 45 years and 15 days in 1990, while the youngest winner of the U.S. Open ...
June 16th, 1909
On this day, Jim Thorpe made his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount of the Eastern Carolina League with 4-2 win. His brief baseball career later caused him to forfeit the Olympic gold medals he won in the 1912 for the pentathlon and decathlon. Apparently ...
Whatever works...
Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox ate only chicken the day of a game and drew a "Chai" (Hebrew symbol for life) in the dirt before every at-bat