NJTank Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 The New York Mets won a World Series before winning an opening day game, including a loss in 1969 the expansion Expos. The Mets lost their first eight season openers. They are 31-9 since. www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcgd Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Only 2 franchises have won a World Series the first year in a new stadium.The St. Louis Cardinals in 2006The New York Yankees...twice! Both Yankee Stadiums had inaugural year world champs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDixonDesign Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Only 2 franchises have won a World Series the first year in a new stadium.The St. Louis Cardinals in 2006The New York Yankees...twice! Both Yankee Stadiums had inaugural year world champs!Red Sox did it first year in Fenway, in 1912... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadragon76 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 College Basketball fact time...-The only team among the BCS schools to never reach the NCAA's is Northwestern.-The newly formed Great West Conference becomes the first conference whose tourny champ will NOT have an auto bid into the NCAA Tournament (Instead, the champ gets an auto bid into the CollegeInsider.com Tourny) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 A member of the Boston Red Sox led the Major League in Stolen Bases. Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasatch Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 In 2005, Utah became the first school to produce #1 overall draft picks in both the NFL Draft and NBA Draft for the same year. Alex Smith was picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2005 NFL Draft, and Andrew Bogut was picked first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasatch Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 In 2004-2005, the Utah Utes went 11-0 during the regular season and defeated Pittsburgh 35-7 in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, becoming the first team from a conference without an automatic Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bid to go to a BCS bowl game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tBBP Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Only one Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB has ever been a league All-Pro. That QB was...Trent Dilfer.Not exactly strange, but often forgotten...Emmitt Smith is NOT the all-time leading rusher in Florida Gators history. That distinction belongs to...Errict Rhett.Speaking of Emmitt...Emmitt was a Gator in college, wearing orange and blue. Emmitt was also a Gator in high school, wearing...orange and blue. *Disclaimer: I am not an authoritative expert on stuff...I just do a lot of reading and research and keep in close connect with a bunch of people who are authoritative experts on stuff. || dribbble || Behance || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epper Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 The NFL's All-Time leader in Punt Return average is Roscoe Parrish.Even more amazing, he has been benched as the Bills' punt returner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadmanLA Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Here's one...The Phoenix Suns have the fourth-best all-time winning percentage in NBA history. They've won 55.9 percent of their games; the Lakers are #1 at 61.8%, the Celtics are #2 at 59.4%, and the Spurs #3 at 57.9%. They're also the winningest franchise in NBA history to never win a championship.On the opposite end of the spectrum...the Washington Wizards franchise has the worst all-time winning percentage among teams that have won at least one NBA title (45.6 percent) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustDevil61 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 From last night's Spurs/Jazz game, Andrei Kirilenko played 37 and did not log a single rebound. I don't think I've ever seen someone play 30 min., let alone 35+ min. a night, and at least get a couple rebounds. AKA @LanRovr0 on Twitter LED Sig Credits to packerfan21396 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Lee Trevino holds golf's all-time record for being struck by lightning during play -- the only record Tiger Woods hopes to not own before he retires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJMorris3 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Stan Musial hit 475 home runs without ever leading the league in homers for a single year.Eddie Murray hit 504 home runs without ever leading the league outright in homers for a single year.Al Kaline hit 399 homers without hitting 30 in any one year.Incidentally, Eddie Murray had the highest batting average of any major league player in the 1990 season, and failed to win a batting title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigga Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Despite three attempts to purchase an NHL franchise for (much) more than market value, Jim Ballsille does NOT own an NHL franchise. On January 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, NJTank said: Btw this is old hat for Notre Dame. Knits Rockne made up George Tip's death bed speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedleyLamarr Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 College Basketball fact time...-The newly formed Great West Conference becomes the first conference whose tourny champ will NOT have an auto bid into the NCAA Tournament (Instead, the champ gets an auto bid into the CollegeInsider.com Tourny)If I remember correctly, when the Mountain West Conference was formed, their champion wasn't given an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament in their first season. This is the reason why the NCAA Tournament is now at 65 teams instead of 64...because the selection committee wanted to keep the number of at-large berths at 31.Sammy Sosa is the only player in MLB history to have three seasons of hitting 60+ HR's. In each of those three seasons, Sosa didn't lead his league in HR's..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasatch Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Sosa is the only player in MLB history to have three seasons of hitting 60+ HR's. In each of those three seasons, Sosa didn't lead his league in HR's.....Another interesting fact.....he won't make the Hall of Fame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Stan Musial hit 475 home runs without ever leading the league in homers for a single year.Talking of Stan Musial, you will of course know he had 3,630 career hits. 1,815 of those were at home, 1,815 were on the road. *takes shower after quoting stat learnt from George Will* 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 The National League is actually classified as Quadruple-A. thanks to crkraider22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 The National League is actually classified as Quadruple-A.Bill Simmons does not know everything. And the NL Champion has won 2 of the last 4 World Series. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run at Toronto's Maple Leaf Park on September 5, 1914 I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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