- Some of these sports fun facts are old and some are much more recent.
These sports fun facts are about football, soccer, baseball and more. What’s your favorite sport?
During a game in 1957, a lady named Alice Roth was hit in the head with a ball. Specifically, it hit her in the nose and broke it. As she was getting taken away, the same player fouled the next pitch. It flew into the stands and hit Alice again! This ball hit a bone in her knee.
The name “bullpen” because a tobacco company named Bull Durham used to
put billboards in the shape of a bull on the outfield walls of the ballparks. Relief pitchers who take their warm-up tosses in the shade of those bill bull signs, hence the “bullpens.”
Deion Sanders is the only person in history to hit a home run in a Major League Baseball game and score a touchdown in the National Football League in the same week. This has got to be one of the most amazing sports fun facts.
Babe Ruth would keep cool on hot days by putting a wet cabbage leaf under his cap. He would change it out every few innings.
Cincinnati Reds player Johnny Bench could hold seven baseballs in one hand.
The seventh inning stretch came to be from former President William Howard Taft. In the middle of the seventh inning one game, he got up from his seat. Thinking the president was leaving the ballpark, everyone stood to show their respect. After stretching he retired to his seat for the rest of the game, and so did everyone else. We’ve been doing it ever since.
The song “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” was written by Jake Norworth in 1908. Before that, he had never even been to a baseball game and he didn’t even go to one until 30 years later!
Jim Abbott was one of the best pitchers in the history of the world. He threw a no hitter for the Yankees in 1993 and played for ten years. The coolest part about one of the best sports fun facts is that Abbott only has one hand! Lucky for him, you only need one hand to throw a baseball.
Every year, over 21 million hotdogs are sold at baseball
games.
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders were the worst professional team in baseball. They won just 20 games and lost 134. That was their last season.
In 1931, a seventeen-year-old girl struck out Babe Ruth. Jackie Mitchell, a leftie, was brought in to pitch to Ruth. After ball one, he missed her next two strikes and Babe was struck out.
Mitchell also struck out the great Lou Gehrig, on her next three straight strikes that left Gehrig swinging.
The shortest player in Major League was Eddie Gaedel. He was three feet, seven inches tall. His career was short, too, and the number on the back of his jersey? 1 /8, HA.
Back in the 1890s, there was a baseball player that was deaf-mute named Willian Ellsworth Hoy. Hoy was having trouble with the count, so his teammates asked the umps to create a system of signals to help everyone follow the game better and it’s still a part of baseball to this day.
Why are footballs called “pigskins?” No one knows why because footballs are actually made out of cow skin.
It takes 600 cows to make a season’s worth of NFL footballs. Wow, that is one
of the most striking of the sports fun facts.
Someone did the math and found out that a cow has a 1-in-17,420,000 chance of being made into a football that gets used at the Super Bowl.
The ball is only in play for about eleven minutes out of an average three hour long football game.
You’ve gotta be loving these fun facts. For more, read Sports Fun Facts Through The Years: Part Two.
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