General Sports Trivia
As sports fans, we spend a lot of time enjoying our favorite pastimes. We sit with friends at bars, in living rooms, or in sports venues talking about the teams, the players, and the highlights. Here are some fun sports facts and bits of general sports trivia to add to the next conversation.
FOOTBALL
The price for tickets to the first Super Bowl in 1967 ranged from $6 to $12. Today, they can cost thousands of dollars!
In 1990, the San Francisco 49ers became the first team to score 50 points in the Super Bowl. They were also the first team to win five Super Bowl titles.
Deion Sanders played with San Francisco in 1994 and with the Dallas Cowboys in 1995. Both teams went to the Super Bowl and both teams were victorious. Prior to that, Deion Sanders played with the MLB Atlanta Braves and went to the World Series in 1992. He is also the only player in professional sports to have scored a touchdown and hit a home run in the same week.
BASEBALL
Cy Young was credited to be the first pitcher of the Modern Era to pitch a perfect game. Actually, the very first professional baseball pitcher do this was Lee Richmond on June 12, 1880 with the Worcester Ruby Legs.
The first black player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame was Jackie Robinson in 1962. The first woman to be inducted was Effa Manley in 2006, not as a player, but as a team owner/manager.
Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. both played for the Seattle Mariners. They are the only father and son players in MLB to have hit back-to-back home runs in a MLB game.
BASKETBALL
The Lakers have made the most appearances at the NBA finals but do not have the most NBA titles. They have 30 attempts with 15 victories. The Celtics have the most wins with 17 in 20 appearances.
The lowest scoring game in NBA history was between the Pistons and Lakers in 1950, 19 to 18.
One reason the New Jersey NBA team was named the Nets was because it rhymed with the other local professional teams, the Mets and the Jets.
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