The first baseball caps were made of straw.
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The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
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When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.
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In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse in a game of tennis. Karsten Braasch, ranked 203, accepted the challenge and easily beat them, 6-1, 6-2.
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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
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The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
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