- Babe Ruth an American baseball player, wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
- Pittsburgh in U.S. is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
- "Diddle for the middle" is a slang expression used for the start of a darts game. Opposing players each throw a single dart at the bull's eye (The centre of the board). The person who is closest starts the game.
- Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.
- Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
- Olympic Badminton rules say that the birdie has to have exactly 16 feathers, The Kansas City Museum is home to the world's largest shuttlecock - 48 times bigger than normal ,18 feet tall and weighing 2500 kilo.
- Until the 1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves
- Three consective strikes in bowling is called a "Turkey". The term originated in the 1800s when at holiday time, the first member of a team to score three strikes in a row won a free turkey. Tokyo has the world's biggest bowling alley.
- Tessenjutsu is a deadly martial art in Japan that is based solely on the use of a fan. The national sport of Japan is Sumo wrestling.
- The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "The King Is Dead."
- The word "Karate" means "empty hand."
- Olympic testing of athletes for Anabolic steroids began in 1976.
- Soccer gave us the term "Melee." It means a "confused mass".
- The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America's Cup, sailing of two Yatchs. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.
- Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
- A badminton shuttle can easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).
- Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.
- Ethiopia, an African country, is the birthplace of one of the best runners in the 20th century:Abebe Bikila, who won consecutive olympic marathon gold medals in 1960 and 1964
- Archery is the national sport in Bhutan, a Buddhist country in Asia.
- South Korea is the birthplace of "Taekwondo", an olympic sport since 2000.
- Dunking (dunk is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both hands over the rim) a basketball is against the law in Belgium and can earn a week in jail and a €750 fine.
- The term "Mascot" comes from an 1800s St. Louis Browns player named Abraham Mascot who had Elephantiasis and entertained fans between innings.
- The first puck ever used in a Ice hockey game was a frozen piece of cow crap
- Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia are building a 27-hole golf course on the border between the three countries, with nine holes in each country. Much of the area proposed for the golf course is currently a minefield.
- We 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.
- Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
- Korfball is the only sport played with mixed teams, consisting of 4 men and 4 women.
- James Naismith, a teacher at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, is credited with inventing basketball in 1891.The first hoops were actually just peach baskets and the first backboards were made of wire.
- On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten times more than males while playing sports
- Wild Bill Hickok was killed playing poker, holding two pairs - aces and eights, which has become known as 'Dead Man's Hand'.
- The sport Lacrosse was initially played by Native American Indians. They played the sport to prepare for war.
- The 'Huddle' in football was formed due to a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
- The distance between the pitcher's rubber and home plate in baseball is 60 feet, 6 inches.
- The great Yankee slugger Babe Ruth, who began his career as a pitcher, had a favorite pitching trick that has rarely been duplicated. He was able to throw two Baseballs in such a way that the balls remained parallel to each other all the way from his hand to the catcher's glove. Ruth was famous for this stunt and would demonstrate it on request.
- Gymnastic floor exercises are performed on a mat measuring 12 by 12 meters, roughly half the area of a basketball court.
- The rings in men's gymnastics are placed 250 centimeters off the floor, which is about the height of a standard ceiling.
- Female gymnasts execute precise movements on a balance beam that is only 10 centimeters wide -- about the width of a paperback novel.
- Those bicycle racers that complete the grueling Tour de France will have ridden about 3800 kilometers -- the straight-line distance from New York to Phoenix.
- After survey it is discovered, while playing Children sweat less than adults, making it harder for them to cool off.
Games lubricate the body and the mind - Sports facts
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