Sports
The first official baseball hat was made
of straw Baseball is the only major sport that appears
backwards in a mirror.
Baseball legend Babe Ruth led the American
League in home runs 12 times.
Basketball is the most popular sport among college
women, followed by volleyball and tennis.
In hockey, the penalty box is often
referred to as the "sin bin."
Basketball's three-point field goal distance,
established by the NBA, is 22 feet. Internationally,
it's set at 20 feet, 6.1 inches.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather
and were stuffed with feathers.
Before 1859, baseball umpires were comfortably
seated in padded rocking chairs behind home plate.
The key word "amateur" was eliminated
from the Olympic Charter in 1971.
In the first Boston Marathon, 15 runners
competed. Ten of them finished the race.
Crowds of up to 15,000 are common for major
badminton tournaments in Malaysia.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York,
houses the largest collection of baseball cards: 200,000.
Instant replay added a new dimension to televised
sports when it was featured in a 1963 telecast of an
Army-Navy football game. In 1964, it became a
standard technique on television.
The official state sport of Alaska is dog mushing.
