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| What a Heap
In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."
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| The Numbering System
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
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| Baseball is Odd
A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as 9-0. I guess that makes it more clear
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| Kentucky Longevity
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875), with the second being the Westminster Kennel Club Dog show (1876).
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| Javelin: Too Much Distance
When Uwe Hohn set a world record in the javelin throw of 104.80 m (343.8 ft), the International Amateur Athletics Federal decided to re-design the throwing spear to shorten tosses during competition. While we hate to see old records invalidated by changes ...
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| First Olympic Marathon
When the Olympic Games were revived in Greece in 1896, Spyridon Louis of Athens won the race in front of his countrymen in a time of 2:58:50. He never competed in a major race again and the silver cup given to Louis for his victory was sold for 541,250 pounds ...
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| Fastest Tennis Serve
Ivo Karlovic of Croatia holds the record for the fastest tennis serve officially documented at 156 miles-per-hour. That's faster than the average winning speed at the Indianapolis 500 many years and more than 50 mph faster than the fasted baseball pitch on ...
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| No brotherly love, I'm sure
Because they both lost so many players to WWII military service, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become the Steagles during the 1943 season
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| Things you may not want to see
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport
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| Greatness in less than an hour
In 1935 Jesse Owens broke four world records in 45 minutes
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| When men were men
Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds
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| Now all the covered stadiums makes sense
In the NFL, the home team must provide 36 footballs for outdoor games and 24 for indoor games
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| How big???
The original Stanley Cup was only seven-and-a-half inches high. It has since grown to over 30 inches.
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| Defying gravity
At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel
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| Pulling your weight
Tug of war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920. Now why'd we get rid of that???
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| Foul Passing
In 1910, an incomplete forward pass earned teams a 15-yard penalty.
If that were true today, Aaron Rodgers (league-leading 72.9 completion percentage) might be the only one with a job
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| You can stop counting now...
There are more than 350 dimples on a golf ball
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| The Key to Greatness
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool and changed it every two innings
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| Where's the beef?
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs
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| Monotonous Colors
Pittsburgh is the only American city with three sports teams that wear the same colors (black, and yellow)
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| Pitcher Longevity?
The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches. Yes, pitches...
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| Kareem, the collector
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer (38,387 points), collects rugs
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| Jerry West's Legacy
The silhouette on the NBA logo is Hall of Fame Laker Jerry West
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| Steve Young's Lineage
Steve Young is a great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for whom Brigham Young University is named
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| Succesfull Equality
At one point in August 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional team to field nine players who were either black or Latino. Coincidentally, this was the same year they won the World Series
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