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Post by bobtailnag on Jun 30, 2018 11:00:16 GMT -5
Minutiae sports trivia. You can't find this kind of excitement anywhere else.
The first TV commercial to be aired during a sporting event was a Bulova watch ad during a baseball game between the Phillies and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1941. The Bulova Company had to pay $9.00 for the ad. Today the average cost of a 30 second ad is $344,827.00. If wagering costs at a track increased at the same rate, a 1941 $2.00 win wager today would now cost $76,600.00 |
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 1, 2018 7:07:49 GMT -5
The jockey that won a race when he was dead. You can't make this stuff up folks.
On June 4, 1923, the 35-year-old jockey was competing in a steeplechase at New York’s Belmont Park. A horse trainer and long-time stableman, Hayes had never won a race before and no one expected him to take the first spot that day while riding a 20-1 outsider named Sweet Kiss, a horse owned by Miss A.M. Frayling.
The odds didn’t seem to bother Hayes. What did seem to bother him was his heart. Sometime during the race, the Hayes suffered a heart attack and died instantly. However, he didn’t fall off of his horse. In fact, he remained in the saddle for the rest of the race and actually crossed the finish line first, winning by a head.
Despite the fact that he had died at some point while still on the track, no one was aware that anything had gone wrong until Miss Frayling and the officials went to congratulate Hayes, only to find out he was no longer alive.
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 12, 2018 9:42:06 GMT -5
When Disco won a game for the Detroit Tigers. You can't make this stuff up folks.
Chicago, 39 years ago today, Bill Veeck, no fan of disco, offered fans a ticket to a double header for a disco record and $0.98 with the plan to blowup the records between the games of the double header. They did it and thousands of records went flying in air and started a bon fire. Fans swarmed onto the field. Some one stole home plate. The umps finally called the game and the White Sox had to forfeit the 2nd game.
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Post by eye123 on Jul 12, 2018 9:54:07 GMT -5
Two thumbs up on this thread.....
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Post by tenfurlongs on Jul 12, 2018 14:06:31 GMT -5
Agreed! Keep 'em coming, Bobtail!
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 14, 2018 20:41:52 GMT -5
Why we love our mothers! You can't make this stuff up folks.
OLYMPIC CHAMPION T0ny Wilson and undefeated Steve McCarthy were meeting for the British light-heavyweight boxing crown in Southhampton England on September 21, 1989.Early in the third round McCarthy dropped Wilson with a flurry of punches. Wilson's 62-year-old mother, Minna, jumped into the ring and struck McCarthy in the head several times with the heel of her shoe. The damage required several stitches and McCarthy went back to his locker room to get his head stitched. When the referee ordered the fight to resume, McCarthy, thinking he won the fight, didn't come out so the referee awarded the fight to Wilson. "Thanks mom!"
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 16, 2018 12:10:36 GMT -5
This is a unique day. Today, and next Wednesday, are the only two days if the year where there will not be a major sports (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) live game on the air. Thank God for horse racing.
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Post by eye123 on Jul 16, 2018 21:00:37 GMT -5
feel this is a fitting place for this video
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 17, 2018 19:14:30 GMT -5
In the average MLB game lasting 9 innings, there are only 18 minutes of actual action. Spitting, cup adjustments, and fights do not count as "action".
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 21, 2018 8:36:23 GMT -5
Speaking of golf, when Jordon Spief won the Masters a few years ago, the amount he received for that win was only $62,000.00 less than Arnold Palmer's total career earnings. To all you parents out there. take that football out of your kid's hands and buy him some golf clubs.
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 23, 2018 8:51:45 GMT -5
In 1974 Chris Evert was the top money earner in two different sports - tennis and horse racing. 8>)
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 24, 2018 15:51:12 GMT -5
Hope some of the younger ones didn't missed the Chris Evert reference.
In the cast of the movie Angels In The Outfield included a few of the actual California players, one of which was Mathew McConaughey.
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Post by cherokeescot on Jul 27, 2018 12:30:44 GMT -5
Believe it or not but the deadline for posting picks for the Saratoga Cup contest is 12 noon eastern as it has been for the past 12 years !
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 27, 2018 21:42:14 GMT -5
I'm new in these parts and not acquainted with the local rules. My memory is shot to hell too. Does that mean my earlier picks didn't count and I still have 40 bullets in my magazine?
I apologize to all. No excuse.
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Post by bobtailnag on Jul 30, 2018 14:41:18 GMT -5
If you signed up for the Green Bay Packers season ticket waiting list today, you’d have to wait almost 1,000 years to get your tickets.
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Post by bobtailnag on Aug 3, 2018 19:08:34 GMT -5
We've all seen times when a football game had to be disrupted because a fan, drunk or sober, ran onto the field of play. That happened in the 1958 championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the NY Giants. But did it really?
The real story, which has mostly been verified, Stan Rotkiewicz, a statistician, apparently ran onto the field, playing a drunk to disrupt the game and give NBC time to fix a disconnected cable that blacked out the game on TV just as Unitas was driving for the winning score. According to his biography, Johnny Unitas didn’t buy the story because he thought no one could possibly act that well.
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Post by bobtailnag on Aug 7, 2018 13:01:19 GMT -5
Players were umpires?
The game was Aug 7, 1908, Giants vs Cubs. The day before the fans at the Polo Grounds pelted Umpire Jim Johmstone with bottles for tossing NY manager John McGraw for some infraction. This day McGraw gets even by refusing to let Johnstone enter the property. The other umpire (There used only 2 umpires in those day. I remember it well.), Bob Emslie refused to work with out Johnstone.
League rules stated that if no umpires were available each team could designate a member of the team to umpire the game. The Giants tagged Sammy Strang but Cubs manager, Frank Chance, refused to play without the regular umpires. Strang, who was the the umpire elect, awarded the Giants a win by forfeit. When Johnstone heard of it he declared a forfeit win for the Cubs. In the end the NL front office backed Johnstone..
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Post by bobtailnag on Aug 18, 2018 11:16:24 GMT -5
The slowest horse race ever?
In the St Ledger Trial Stakes in Birmingham UK, Ridge Wood faces Courier in a two horse race over a 1-5/8s. All the other horses in the race were scratched due to the ground being extremely hard. The trainers of both horses told their jockey not to run, fearing injury. At the start both horse just stood there. After a long pause the started cracked a whip behind the horses and they started to walk. The first 1/8th of a mile was clocked at one minute, 24 seconds. After 3/4 of a mile they broke into a gallop with Ridge Wood winning the race by 3 lengths in a time of 5 minutes and 13-4/5s seconds.
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Post by bobtailnag on Sept 29, 2018 9:42:33 GMT -5
How a rat changed the coverage of sports on Television in 1975.
It was the 12th inning of game 6 in the World Series. The Red Sox's Carlton Fisk hit a dramatic home run to win the game 7-6. Fisk was hopping down the first base line frantically waving his hands as if trying to help the ball stay in fair territory. The ball hit the foul pole and Fisk leaped in the air and the TV watchers saw it all but wasn't supposed to see any of it. Camera man Lou Gerard was posted inside the score board and was assigned to follow the flight of all the balls hit to the outfield, however he was distracted when he felt something on his leg and saw that a large rat was sniffing at his pants leg. That rat distracted him just long enough to leave the camera focused on Fist to get his now famous reaction shot. Since that time player reaction shots have become a staple in sports TV coverage.
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 3, 2018 8:54:08 GMT -5
109 errors? It happened!
One kid signed by the NYYs in 1948 was signed to play shortstop in the D league team in Kansas City. In the 2+ years he played SS he made 109 errors, 55 alone in 1949. He was a good hitter so they finally moved him to the outfield. His name was Mickey Mantle. |
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Post by tims70ar on Oct 3, 2018 16:30:29 GMT -5
109 errors? It happened!
One kid signed by the NYYs in 1948 was signed to play shortstop in the D league team in Kansas City. In the 2+ years he played SS he made 109 errors, 55 alone in 1949. He was a good hitter so they finally moved him to the outfield. His name was Mickey Mantle. |
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 5, 2018 9:00:14 GMT -5
Before the 1986 Super Bowl, NBC gave the viewers a blank screen to give them time to visit the bathroom. I wonder how much advertising cash cost them.
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Post by spanky126 on Oct 5, 2018 9:15:16 GMT -5
I remember this clearly. My brother and Dad were watching the game. I recall Dad talking Mom into letting us skip evening church service to watch the game.
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 10, 2018 10:33:09 GMT -5
When watching Sports teams making their draft selections even most of the fans at home can predict when a team just had a bad draft choice and that's just what happened with the Monreal Alouettes when they selected James Eggink one of their top choices in 1996. James Eggink died in 1995. |
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 17, 2018 15:34:41 GMT -5
How smart can a horse be?
The great Triple Crown winner Affirmed once got loose Hollywood Park prompting a track-wide search. He was discovered back in his own stall which he had found that one stall out of 2244 others. Think about that for a minute; we have a difficult time finding one winner in a field of 10.
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Post by spanky126 on Oct 17, 2018 16:38:16 GMT -5
Not sure if this qualifies here but I just saw something I found weird, never seen it before anyway. Brewers vs. Dodgers. 1st inning. LA throwing Kershaw. Brew Crew throwing Miley. Miley walks the first batter. Manager pulls him. No apparent injury. Announcers speechless.
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 21, 2018 10:05:37 GMT -5
Aug 8, 2011 - Steve Hatteburg of Boston becomes the only player in history to hit into a grand slam and a triple play in the same game.
Aug 23, 1999 St Louis Cardinal, Fernando Tatis, becomes the only player in history, to hit two grand slams in the same inning.
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 22, 2018 19:51:26 GMT -5
There's more than on way to win a race.
Ralph DePalma was leading the I Indianapolis 500 in 1915 when his car broke down in the 198th lap. He literally pushed his Mercedes a lap and a half to cross the wire and win the race.
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 25, 2018 11:20:04 GMT -5
Not exactly on target with the a Believe It Or Not but today is exactly 30 years ago when the Red Sox lost game 7 of the 1988 World Series in the 9th inning. Bill Buckner - need I say more?
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Post by bobtailnag on Oct 28, 2018 11:48:56 GMT -5
"Let the kids play". That's just what the referees did in the final play of the Miami Hurricanes/Duke Blue Devils game in 2015. With 6 seconds remaining in the game, the 'Canes pulled off a 8-lateral play taking 49 seconds when starting on their 35 yard line then backing them up to their own 3 yard line. The last lateral goes to Corn Elder who runs the length of the field to win the game. The next day the ACC suspends all the game's referees for missing 4 penalties during the play. Why not just call for a do over?
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