Really Interesting Sport Facts

Here are some Interesting Sport Facts

• Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.
• The first World Series was played between Pittsburgh and Boston in 1903 and was a nine-game series. Boston won the series 5-3.
• About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.
• The first puck ever used in a hovkey game was a frozen piece of cow crap.
• The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles, which is more than any other team.
• Fishing is the biggest participant sport in the world.
• It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
• Shaquille O’Neal wears size 22 shoes. He puts on a brand new pair before every game.
• Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. didn’t miss a game in 16 years. He played in 2,632 consecutive games from April 30, 1982 to Sept. 19, 1998.
• Before 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher
• More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.
• Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.
• The Boston Celtics have won the most NBA championships (17), including seven straight from 1960 to 1966.
• Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
• Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
• Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
• A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as 9-0.
• Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
• The record for the most major league baseball career innings is held by Cy Young, with 7,356 innings.
• Archery is the national sport in Bhutan,a Buddhist country in Asia.
• The fastest serve in a game of tennis was in 1963 by Michael Sangster. It was clocked at 154 mile per hour.
• South Korea is the birthplace of taekwondo, an olympic sport since 2000.
• Before the turn of the century, prize fighters fought bare fisted. Matches sometimes lasted more than one hundred rounds and were counted by knock outs.
• The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America’s Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.
• Pitcher Nolan Ryan played 27 seasons in major league baseball and struck out more batters in his career than any other pitcher
• To wear a “visor” on your helmet in the NFL, you have to have a doctors note. Almost all the visors in the NFL are prescription.
• If a horse wins a race “hands down” it means the jockey never raised his whip during the race.
• Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.