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Obscure Sports Trivia Information
Sports fans love to brag about their trivia knowledge. Many of the facts out there are pretty commonplace, almost shameful if you don't know them. Whether it's Babe Ruth's career home run total, Michael Jordan's jersey number, or anything else like this, they've become a part of pop culture.
Here are some more that may interest you. They cover all sports, and some of these are simply amazing. There's no doubt that you'll be pretty surprised by some of the things that you see.
During a game in 1972 between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the St. Louis Blues, the Penguins scored a total of 5 goals in a period of two minutes and seven seconds, the most ever scored in such a short time.
During a 1966 tennis match between Rodger Taylor and Wieslaw Gasiorek at the Kings Cup, a total of 126 games were played between the two. Eventually, officials insisted upon a draw.
In the 1971 Indianapolis 500, A.J. Foyt stopped for gas during the 14th lap. Amazingly clocking in at just 9 seconds, this was the fastest gas stop in the history of auto racing - and probably the world.
A man by the name of Robert Wyler, from Glendale, CA, has played as many as 1,000 games of chess, all through the mail.
Every year in baseball, over 900,000 baseballs are used during the course of a season. Almost enough to pay one player's salary!
Almost as interesting is the fact that over 41,000 tennis balls are used each summer at the Wimbledon tennis championships. That's a lot of tennis.
Jack Robinson, a golfer with one arm, amazingly hit two holes in one during a four day period on the same course.
In ancient Japan, there were contests held on a weekly basis to see who could fart the loudest and the longest. How's that for a weird sport?
The Olympics in ancient Rome were played by completely nude athletes. No one wore anything at all.
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