The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the only city in the U.S. with three sports teams that all wear the same colors.

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In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."

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Max Baer once shouted out in the middle of a world title boxing fight 'Ma, he's killing me!'

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Decatur, Illinois was the original home of what is now the Chicago Bears (then the Stalley Bears.)

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The sport with highest ratio of officials to participants is tennis. A singles match should have 13; ten linesmen, one net, one foot-fault, plus an umpire.

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More Hollywood films have been made about boxing than about any other sport

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The Yale Crew team was the first college sports team, started in 1843. The Yale-Harvard crew race was the first, and the longest-running American intercollegiate sports event. The first race was held in 1852.

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Jackie Robinson was the only person to letter in four sports at UCLA. Of all of them, he supposedly liked baseball the least.

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The only person to be elected to both the baseball and football Hall of Fames is Cal Hubbard.

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A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down

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The NBA (National Basketball Association) is celebrating its 62nd year. The top-payed player that first year was the Detroit Falcon's Tom King who made $16,500. He managed this salary by not only playing for the team (salary $8,000 plus a $500 signing bonus) but also by convincing the team owner to hire him to be the publicity manager and business director for which he was paid an additional $8,000. Photos exist of King, still in his uniform with a typewriter on the bleachers, hammering out a press release after a game

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Rules govern the size, weight, compression, and performance of tennis balls. However, until 1978, a player could legally use absolutely anything as a tennis racket.

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Chuck Conners, best known as "The Rifleman," played for the Boston Celtics in the first year of the NBA (National Basketball Association). His game was not much to speak of. He could run, and he could rebound, but he was a poor shot, averaging 4.6 points a game while making only 24% of his field-goal tries at a time when 28 to 30% was respectable. He was more renowned for his theatrical antics

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There is all of 6 grams of gold in an Olympic Gold medal.

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St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.