The first official baseball hat was made of straw.
The first outdoor miniature golf courses in the United States were built on rooftops in New York City in 1926.
The first woman to play golf at St. Andrew's Golf Club in Scotland was Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1552. She was the club's founder.
The first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby was Diane Crump on May 2, 1970.
P.O.T.U.S Sports: U.S. President George Washington's favorite sport was fox hunting; Abraham Lincoln's was wrestling; Franklin D. Roosevelt's was swimming; John F. Kennedy's athletic passion was sailing; Richard M. Nixon's was football; and Ronald Reagan's favorite sport was horseback riding.
A 27-inch-high silver America's Cup holds no liquid – it is bottomless.
A cowboy in a rodeo bull riding competition must hang on for eight seconds. The same applies to bareback-bronc and saddle-bronc events.
A pro volleyball player can spike the ball at 80 miles per hour.
A scrum is rugby's equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all those playing the position of forward on both teams.
A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.
A top fuel dragster can accelerate from 0 to 100 miles an hour in 0.8 of a second; from 0 to 330 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds using 10 gallons of nitro-methane.
ABC-TV's Monday Night Football premiered in September 1970. Its three original commentators were Keith Jackson, Don Meredith, and Howard Cosell.
About 30 percent of NBA players sport tattoos, compared with about 4 percent of the nation's population.
According to manufacturer Spalding, the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.
According to one source, the Los Angeles Dodgers coined the term "high five." Outfielder Glenn Burke is credited with originating it in 1977.
According to research conducted a few years back, billiards champions have the highest average age of any sport, 35.6 years.
According to the Detroit Free Press, 68 percent of professional hockey players have lost at least one tooth.
According to the National Hockey League’s official rule book, an approved hockey puck must be made of vulcanized rubber or other approved material, measure 1 inch thick and 3 inches in diameter, and must weigh between 5˝ and 6 ounces.
According to the National Hockey League’s official rule book, the home team is responsible for providing an adequate supply of official pucks which must be kept in a frozen condition. This supply of pucks must be kept at the penalty bench under the control of one of the regular off-ice officials.
According to the official rules of baseball, no umpire may be replaced during a game unless he is injured or becomes ill.
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