Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:37 AM
--*sport trivia:
**In a typical season major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.
**Steve McPeak built and rode a unicycle that was ten stories tall. The greatest skill was not in riding the machine, but in building it so that the chains would not fall off the sprockets.
**The first perfect game in baseball history was achieved by John Lee Richmond on June 12, 1880.
**The ancient American Indian game of lacrosse involved teams of up to 1,000 players.
**Until the 1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves.
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