According to the rules of Gaelic football, players may punch the ball, but the punching motion must be clearly visible to the referee. Players may not pick up the ball off the ground unless they first get their toe under the ball.
According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, clothing with team logos accounts for 60 percent of licensed pro sports merchandise sales — 45 percent of Americans own at least one item with a team logo on it.
According to the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, a tennis ball is supposed to bounce between 53 and 58 inches when it is dropped on concrete from a height of 100 inches. The concrete surface should be 4 inches thick.
Actor Tom Selleck often wore a Detroit Tigers baseball cap in his title role on Magnum, P.I. on television.
After his infamous 1997 ear-biting attack on Evander Holyfield, the Hollywood Wax Museum moved boxer Mike Tyson's figure to the Chamber of Horrors – next to the figure of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (from The Silence of the Lambs).
Akebono, the sumo wrestler superstar from Hawaii, weighs 516 pounds.
Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.
An article titled "The Game of Golf for Women," which ran in an 1894 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, contained this droll comment about the sexes playing the game: "A gallant gentleman will not cheat a woman, and a woman at all worthy of consideration will not cheat anyone at all."
An expert fly fisherman may have as many as 10,000 flies in his collection.
As of 1999, seven umpires are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame: Jocko Conlan (1974), Tommy Connolly (1953), Bill Klem (1953), Billy Evans (1973), Cal Hubbard (1976), Al Barlick (1989), and Bill McGowan (1992).
As of March 31, 2000, Pacific Bell Park became the new home for the San Francisco Giants. Unlike 3Com Park, the Giants' former ballpark, all seats at the state-of-the-art Pacific Bell Park face the baseball diamond to ensure good views of the action for attending fans. A huge glove in left field is clearly marked with a "502" sign, making it the most distant current outfield measurement sign in baseball. Barry Bonds hit the first official Giants home run on Opening Day, April 11, 2000.
At greatest risk of injury to a professional football player's anatomy is the knee, which is involved in 58 percent of all major football injuries.
At least 40 jockeys have died from accidents while racing horses since 1940.
At the famous Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of the Bronx, bleachers in right-center are often referred to as "Ruthville" and "Gehrigville". The green curtain in back of centerfield is sometimes raised and lowered like a window shade to force visiting batters to face a background of white-shirted bleacher fans, while allowing Yankees hitters to face a dark green background. It is sometimes removed in World Series play to sell more seats.
Auto racer Dan Gurney was one of the first U.S. drivers to use rear-engine race cars. He won the Le Mans race (1967), and finished second in the Indianapolis 500 twice (1968 and 1969).
Babe Ruth enjoyed hunting, fishing, boxing, and bowling. But perhaps his biggest athletic passion was golf. He loved the game and played whenever he could. His daughter Julia said in an interview that were it not for golf, he would not have known what to do with himself after he retired from baseball.
Babe Ruth holds the record for the longest complete game victory in World Series history. In 1916, as a member of the Boston Red Sox, Ruth went 14 innings to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Babe Ruth is credited with the invention of the modern baseball bat. He was the first player to order a bat with a knob on the end of the handle. Louisville Slugger produced the bat with which he hit 29 home runs in 1919.
Badminton is the world's fastest racket sport: a shuttle can leave the racket at a speed of almost 200 mph.
Badminton was first recognized as an official sport in the Olympic Games during the 1992 Summer Games. More than 1.1 billion people watched badminton's Olympic debut on TV.
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