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Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run on May 6, 1915.
The Lombardy trophy that is given to the Superbowl Champion team every year only costs $12,000 U.S.
In 1905, 18 men died from injuries sustained on the football field. President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and instituted safety measures to make the game safer.
The 'huddle' in football was formed due to a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate. His team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
The first Rose Bowl game was held in 1902 in Pasadena, California. The University of Michigan beat Sanford 49-0.
The distance between the pitcher's rubber and home plate in baseball is 60 feet, 6 inches.
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 old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
In a typical season major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.
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.
The first cover of "Sports Illustrated," in 1954, showed National League umpire, Augie Donatelli, behind the plate with two major-league stars: catcher Wes Westrum, and batter Eddie Matthews.
Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewicz)-won the women's 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12-second barrier. When she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.
Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.
(They have Olympic Badminton?! Thats more than enough trivia in itself!)
Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.
The Olympic Games were held in St. Louis, MO. In 1904, the first time that the games were held in the United States.
The high jump method of jumping head first and landing on the back is called the Fosbury Flop.
Eddie Arcaro, one of the greatest jockeys in horse race history, rode 250 losers before he won his first race. Ultimately, Arcaro won 4,779 races - including five Derby winners, six in the Preakness, and six in the Belmont Stakes, on such famous horses as Whirlaway, Citation, and Kelso.
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York in 1919, to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. This was the first time that the Belmont Stakes had been run as part of thoroughbred racing's most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -- the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Maryland
The first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in 1875 with Aristides as winner.
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.
About $800 million dollars worth of golf balls are used by golfers every year in the U.S.
The first NBA player to score 38,000 points was Kareem Abdul-Jabar in 1989.
The first Wimbledon Tennis Competition took place in 1877 solely as an amateur competition. Men's singles was the only event that took place. There were 22 competitors and the championship was won by Spencer Gore.
The first triple jump in figure skating competition was performed by Richard Button in 1952.
First Instant Replay was used during Army Navy Football Game at Municipal Stadium Philadelphia on December 7, 1963, invented by Tony Verna (CBS Director.)
In 1970, 127 runners ran the NY Marathon. In 1998, 32,000 did.
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