Soccer on sunday magic tree house book 24 paperback mary pope. Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of sports trivia with this new slamdunk addition to the very popular weird but true series. Here is a list of 16 unusual and weird sports facts you might not know. Interesting facts and sports stories sports trivia 2 by bill oneill was a great read. Flush with delightfully useless and sometimes even useful information about sports, movies, music, politics, american and world history, and much more, the book is the most extensive reference guide in the. As long as you have a small collection of interesting or even insightful sports facts. Brain waves can be used to power an electric train. The covers of the first printed books were considered artworks. Sonic the hedgehog has registered itself in guinness book of world. There is no shortage of competitive sports around the world.
Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of sports trivia with this new slam dunk. With the slowest week of sports upon us and no professional games being played, its been an agonizing few days. The book is divided into sections covering history, animals, food. According to the wall street journals own calculations, the 17 minutes and 58 seconds of action includes balls in play, runner advancement attempts on stolen bases, wild pitches, pitches balls, strikes, fouls and balls hit into play, trotting batters on home runs, walks and hitbypitches, pickoff throws and even one fakepickoff throw. Only one city has won three major sports championships in the same year. Pages can include considerable notesin pen or highlighterbut the notes cannot obscure the text. According to the official major league baseball rule book, baseball games are to last 9 innings or two and onehalf hours, whichever comes first. A collection of curious, weird, and totally not boring things to know is a collection of illustrations by mike lowery and handwritten tidbits about the obscure, unusual and simply random.
Have you ever ridden a motorcycle while being attacked by a monkey. Yet, whilst making headline news, coverage of the scandal is aimed at obscuring any. Uncle johns bathroom reader extraordinary book of facts. Uncle johns bathroom reader extraordinary book of facts combines the most intriguing, enlightening material from nine previous bathroom reader favorites into one concise volume. Director francis ford coppola found the cat in the studio and handed it to marlon brando before the shot. Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of sports trivia with. The record for highest score in a hockey game belongs to the 2008 slovakian womens team, which beat bulgaria 820 in a preolympic qualifier. Featuring obscure, unbelievable, intriguing, and engaging facts about some of the worlds most popular and not so popular ball sports, discover well over 250 fascinating nuggets of information on the sports, the balls, the players, the history, and lots more. They were covered in drawings, leather and even gold so there wasnt a place for the author s name. My son enjoys reading sports books for kids, especially anything related to football.
This is totally subjective of course but my initial list of unusual sports around the world was 30 sports long. So when you say out loud ugh, cant find a good book to read, know. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour. Latest, general, all the types of questions youll get here. National geographic kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through awardwinning magazines, books, website, apps, games, toys. The most obscure sports around the world that youve. We provide you some good collection of sports questions. Soccer is the only major world sport in which you cant use your hands to manipulate the ball or object of play. Here is an alphabetical list of over 100 unusual sports, which we have discovered around the world. If you love football facts, the football fanbook is for you.
They can obscure the issues rather than providing clarification. When jimmy pearsall hit his 100th home run in 1963, he ran the bases in the correct order but facing backward to celebrate 2. Top 10 facts about sport there is a great deal of sport going on at the moment, so lets catch up on a few facts not from rio. Bog snorkeling bog snorkeling began in the uk over a friendly bar chat and evolved into an obscure sport replete with an annual championship. The sport involves participants who don snorkeling gear and squirm their way through 150 feet of slurry and bog without using conventional swimming techniques i. A booklovers journey through curiosities of history, which is available from michael omara books. If you love football facts, the football fanbook by gary gramling from sports illustrated kids is for you. I decided to choose 10, even though i was gutted to miss kok baru which is one of the most unique sports around the world. Check out our 100 bizarre, interesting and fun facts that will blow your mind. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days 2. Sf writer isaac asimov 19201992 is the only author to have published a book in. This seems to be another case of journalism that is intended to obscure the facts rather than shine light on them. The worlds deepest postbox is in susami bay in japan. Detroit in 1935, when the lions won the nfl title, tigers won the world series and red wings took the stanley cup.
At the age of 100, fauja singh broke 8 world records for centenarians in athletics in one day. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. More information about this seller contact this seller 1. As long as you have a small collection of interestingor even insightfulsports facts. Singh broke the records for the 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000 meters and the mile even though he did not develop the ability to walk until he was five years old. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. This was a great collection of many sports stats and trivia. Guinness book of world records official representative seyda subasigemici said that philippines got the title for the most number of sky lanterns flown simultaneously with 15,185 lighted lanterns beating romania at 12,740. Interesting facts and sports stories sports trivia volume 1 bill oneill. More than 100 million people hold hunting licences. Dont get caught not knowing the true origin story for kleenex, or what a beefalo is. Even if you are a hardcore fan of football, there may still be many things that you dont know about this amazing sport. Mark mcgwires recordsetting 70 home runs in the 1998 season traveled a total of 29,598 feet, enough to fly over mount everest. To help you channel that feeling once morewell, actually, 150 times.
He still plays ice hockey, and is known as the expert on obscure rules and history of the game because of this book. Herequestionsgems you can find quiz questions about sports and their answers. Discover tons more zany fun, focused totally on the subject of sports. The last legal spitball and other littleknown facts about sports barbara seuling includes such obscure sports facts as. Some of the sports listed below are quite mainstream sports, but i have included them here as i think they are a little unusual, the people who partake in the sport may be a little unusual, or they are just not. Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world. Theyll be able to head back to school with a whole mess of fun sports facts 300, to be exact. The last legal spitball and other littleknown facts about. Where bill finds all of these obscure facts is a conundrum, but in our searches for incidental trivia and random facts, we simply turn to this terrific book. I like to specialize in the obscure, or lesser known facts about teams, players, owners, and stadiums. A study was conducted that showed customers in a bookstore were 3. If you enjoy these interesting book facts, we have hundreds more in our book, the secret library.
What makes these interesting sports for me is the facts people actually play them somewhat regularly. Whether thats reading a new, motivating book, or listening to a song that speaks to your soul, there are plenty of resources to help your health thrive on any given day. The word love used in tennis scoring is derived from the french loeuf meaning egg or zero. Movie trivia facts you wont believe readers digest. Sport books for children huge discounts at the book people. And once youve picked your jaw up off the floor, dont miss these 50 random facts that will simply astonish you. So step up to the plate to get 300 allnew amazing facts plus photos. Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world. Book may be a price cutter or have a remainder mark.
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