i need strange sports facts?

Question

my class needs Some strange sports facts a lot who gives me the good ones and the most gets 10 ponts

Answer 1

-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998.

-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players.

-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence.

-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.

-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona

- The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937

-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947.

-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet.

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- THE SLIHOUETTE ON THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION IS JERRY WEST

- THE SILHOUETTE ON THE MAJOR LEAGUE OF BASEBALL LOGO IS HARMON KILLEBREW

- PISTSBURGH, PENNSLYVANIA IS THE ONLY CITY IN THE USA WITH 3 SPORTS TEAMS THAT ALL WEAR THE SAME COLOURS

- SEVEN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNERS EVENTUALLY WENT ON TO WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD

- A FOREFITTED GAME IN BASEBALL IS RECORDED AS A 9-0 SCORE. IN FOOTBALL IT IS RECORDED AS A 1-0 SCORE

- IN 1986 DANNY HEEP BECAME THE FIRST PLAYER IN A WORLD SERIES TO BE A DESIGNATED HITTER (DH) WITH THE INITIALS "D.H"

- THE ONLY PERSON TO BE ELECTED TO BOTH THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME AND THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME IS CAL HUBBARD

- KRESIMIR COSIC IS THE ONLY NON-AMERICAN PLAYER IN THE NBA HALL OF FAME

- DECATUR, ILLINOIS WAS THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE CHICAGO BEARS

- THE 1957 MILWAUKEE BREWERS WERE THE FIRST TEAM TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES AFTER BEING RELOCATED.
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In the NBA, Shaq wears the biggest shoes, he wears size 22.

The first puck used in a game of ice hockey was a frozen cow patty.

Jai-Alai is the world's fastest ball game. A small, hard ball is thrown at a granite wall at speeds of around 188mph (303km/h) using scoops that are latched to the players' hands.

Q: What travels faster: a serve from Andy Roddick, a slapshot from Jarome Iginla or a fastball from Pedro Martinez?
A: Andy Roddick's serve is the fastest. Some of his serves have traveled at 149 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour)!

Peach baskets were used in the first basketball game.

Q: A game in which players kick a ball with their feet is called soccer in North America but football everywhere else in the world. Where does the term "soccer" come from?
A: The word soccer comes from an abbreviation of the word association - which was a reference to The first Football Association, which was formed in England in 1863.

Q: The national sport of Afghanistan is called buzkashi. What is the object of this game?
A: Buzkashi is a sport where teams score points for carrying a goat's carcass across a goal line, while riding on a horse.

In 2002, Takeru Kobayashi ate 50 hotdogs in 12 minutes to set a new world record for hotdog eating.

Randall Simon of the Pittsburgh Pirates fined $432 during the 2003 baseball season for attacking a woman dressed up as a sausage with a baseball bat

Boxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from the 1997 fight after he bit Evander Holyfield's ear twice. The second time he actually took a piece out of Holyfield's ear.

Before 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher.

In the National Hockey League, home teams wear white jerseys and visiting teams wear dark jerseys. That's because back in the 1960s, the league figured it would be more difficult to keep white uniforms clean while players were on the road.

You've probably heard people say, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." Well that phrase comes from Ancient Rome. The only rule during Roman wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Biting, kicking and scratching were allowed but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

You might think a yo-yo is just a fun toy. But it started out as a weapon in the Philippine Islands in the 16th century. It weighed four pounds and had a 20 foot cord. It was introduced to the United States as a toy in 1929.
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In 1884 Barney Gilligan a catcher with the Providence Grays was caught stealing home base 3 times in one game.

Until 1964 the NFL did not permit players who were Muslim or Buddhist.

Arthur "College Boy" Irwin, a pitcher in the 1880s with Detroit and St. Louis, was given his nickname by teammates because he could read.
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The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

Answer 2

Strange Sports Facts

Answer 3

Monopoly does not need to worry about inflation in their games, while the state department needs to worry about the US. The reason Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work is that there are people who live in tiny isolated villages where everything is within a fraction of a mile away from each other, and it costs a fortune to get a car shipped there by barge.

Answer 4

The man with the highest number of hits in baseball is not in the Hall of Fame. The Boston Bruins attempted 83 shots in one game of 3 periods against the Blackhawks and the Hawks only gave up 3 goals.

Answer 5

Eazy goin has got it but it was 3rd base that the umps sat in a chair,hense the quote by umpires "you got the rockin chair tonight"