Barry Bonds, the all-time home run leader, is the only member of the 500 home run/500 stolen bases club. While that is impressive on its own, it is mind-blowing that he is also the only player in the 400 home run/400 stolen bases club.
In a span of just 45 minutes, Jesse Owens set 3 world records and tied another during the 1932 Olympics.
Wilt Chamberlain NEVER fouled out of an NBA game.
Babe Ruth bought his 700th home run ball from a fan for $20 ($431.51 today).
Cal Hubbard (1900-1977) is the only person in both the NFL and MLB Hall of Fame.
Tiger Woods hit his first hole in one at the age of 8.
The longest tennis match in history took place at Wimbledon in 2010. The match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days.
With 1,870 unintentional walks and 688 intentional walks, Barry Bonds traveled 43.6 miles during his MLB career.
John Catalon was acquitted of murder when filming for Curb Your Enthusiasm supported his alibi that he was at Dodger Stadium during the crime.
MLB catcher Harry Chiti was once traded for a “player to be named later.” After a poor performance with his new team, he was traded back to his former team. To this day, he is the only player to be traded for himself.
Pittsburgh is the only city where all the major sports teams (Steelers, Pirates, and Penguins) wear the same colors (black and yellow).
Umpires are required to wear black underwear just in case they split their pants.
The average MLB team uses 850,000 baseballs each season.
Muggsy Bogues (5’3″) is the shortest ever player in the NBA. At one point in his career, he played with the tallest player ever, Manute Bol (7’7″)
Most NASCAR teams use nitrogen instead of air in the tires.
Olympic gold medals have not been solid gold since 1912.
Shaq attempted just 22 3-pointers in his career. Of those 22, he made 1.
The average soccer player runs 7 miles during a game.
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Actually it's 30 teams x 162 is 4860 games, 850,000/4860 =174.8 ball per team per game, still agree that's not correct
2 teams per game, so Kill was right.
No, your math is not straightforward. "Ten dozen" = 120. 120*2430 = 291600. That is less than 1/3 of your claim of 900K, which was for all of MBL combined. So the original post of 850K per team per year is clearly bunk.
my normal simply run-off-the-mill car has nitrogen in it's tires.
The normal compressed air used to inflate tyres is made up of 78% nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour. So all tires are full of nitrogen and having pure nitrogen in normal car tires does nothing for you.
#4 Refs kissed his butt more than they did MJ's. He was a bum!