Knowledge in a Nutshell on Sports - Softcover

Reichblum, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966099168 ISBN 13: 9780966099164

Publisher: Arpr Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Knowledge in a Nutshell on Sports has over 500 amazing, astounding fun facts-a treasure chest for trivia buffs. Do you know about the big league batter who caught his own home run? The great football team that never existed? This paperback book not only gives you facts...but the anecdotes behind the facts.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Reichblum, president of Century Features news service, is a former radio news and sports announcer. He is known as "Dr. Knowledge." For the last 55 years, he has collected wild, wacky, absolutely true facts and added the anecdotes behind the facts making the "Knowledge in a Nutshell" series a unique and one-of-a-kind collection. Whether you're eight or eighty, you'll have fun reading and enjoying Knowledge in a Nutshell on Sports. Knowledge in a Nutshell on Sports is one of a series of "Knowledge in a Nutshell" books. The first "Knowledge in a Nutshell" contains non-sports trivia facts and stories.

From the Back Cover

Crack open Knowledge in a Nutshell on Sports and find out about: * The 6-inch homerun
* Why golf courses have 18 holes
* The invisible field goal
So if you love wild, wacky, absolutely true sports facts; real-life bizarre accounts; or history so shocking the record books left it out, you'll have heaps of fun with this endlessly entertaining book.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

This sounds too good to be true-but it is In 1962, baseball manager Alvin Dark was watching one of his players, Gaylord Perry, in batting practice. Dark, looking at Perry's lack of power, said, "A man will walk on the moon before Perry hits a home run in the big leagues." Then, 7 years later, on July 20, 1969, Neal Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, and-incredibly-on that very day, Perry hit his first major league home run, in a game in San Francisco.

Great football team NEVER existed In 1941, a group of Wall Street Stockbrokers got together and invented a college football team which they named the Plainfield Teachers College. They began calling newspapers each week, giving the score of Plainfield's imaginary games. Newspapers, assuming the scores were real, printed them each Sunday. As the season went on, the stockbrokers had Plainfield undefeated and unscored on, and they sent out feature stories about the team. Finally, the hoax was revealed and Plainfield went down in history as a great team that never was.

He hits 3 homers into 3 states-in the SAME game Olympic champion Jim Thorpe played in a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border. He hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma. Then he hit a homer over the rightfield wall, into Arkansas. His third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield which was in Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arpr Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966099168
• ISBN 13: 9780966099164
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 196