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This book is dedicated to all the millions of informationjunkies out there who cant get enough useless knowledge.Heres a little more!

MASCOT MUSINGS

A squirrel nest is known as a drey.

The largest squirrel on Earth is the Indian giant squirrel, which can grow to three feet in length.

The African pygmy squirrel is only about four inches long, including the tail.

A squirrel can use its tail as a parachute should it fall from a tree. The tail can also be used to cushion a hard landing and to communicate with other squirrels.

The largest concentration of squirrels in the United States is found in Washington, DC. Lafayette Park, across from the White House, is known as the Squirrel Capital of the World.

Squirrel meat can be substituted for chicken or rabbit in recipes.

Squirrels have been kept as pets and are said to be as easy to train to do tricks as dogs.

Twiggy the Waterskiing Squirrel is a novelty act in which a squirrel has been trained to water-ski on two little foam skis behind a remote-control boat.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

GO! NADS!

The Rhode Island School of Design hockey team is called the Nads. Their team cheer is Go Nads! The basketball team is the Balls. Their slogan is When the heat is on, the Balls stick together.

Arizonas Scottsdale Community Colleges teams are known as the Fighting Artichokes.

Illinoiss Teutopolis High Schools teams are the Wooden Shoes.

The University of California Santa Cruzs mascot is the banana slug.

THE NEW YORK BORROS?

The New York Jets were almost named the Borros, after the five boroughs. However, someone in the organization was wise enough to realize that many would call them the jackasses instead.

The Baltimore Ravens got their name because of the citys association with Edgar Allan Poe.

The Orlando Magic were nearly called the Juice.

ON ICE

Sixty-eight percent of professional hockey players have lost at least one tooth.

The term hat trick was first used in cricket, not hockey, in 1858, when H. H. Stephenson received a hat for taking three wickets in consecutive balls. (Whatever that means.)

Former Chicago Blackhawk Bill Mosienko holds the National Hockey League record for the fastest hat trick, when he scored three goals in just twenty-one seconds against the New York Rangers on March 23, 1952.

THATS A LOTTA POINTS

Danny Heater, of Burnsville, West Virginia, scored 135 points in a high school basketball game on January 26, 1960.

In 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222 to 0, for the biggest blowout in college football history. John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy would later be named, coached Georgia Tech.

HOMEMADE SPORTS

Ralph W. Samuelson invented water-skiing in 1922, when he steam-bent two eight-foot-long pine boards, strapped them on his feet, and was towed behind a motorboat on Lake Pepin, Minnesota.

Scott and Brennan Olson of Minnesota invented Rollerblades in 1980 when they took hockey skates and replaced the blade with three in-line wheels.

VROOOM!

The Indianapolis 500 is the worlds largest single-day sporting event, with more than a half million spectators attending.

The gasoline-powered engines of NHRA Pro Stock cars produce approximately 1,200 horsepower. By comparison, the average new minivan has about 250 horsepower. The nitromethane-powered engines of NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars produce about 7,000 horsepower. These cars can go from 0 to 100 miles per hour in less than 0.8 second.

In 1955, during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the car driven by Pierre Levegh flew into the crowd, killing him and eighty spectators. This was the most catastrophic accident in motor sports history.

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

Alexander Cartwright invented the first baseball field and the early rules of the game in 1845.

The first recorded baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1846, between Alexander Cartwrights New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club and the New York Base Ball Club (aka the New York Nine). The latter won the game 23-1 in four innings. Cartwright served as umpire and imposed a six-cent fine on players for swearing.

The basic layout of the baseball diamond has remained relatively unchanged since the original Knickerbocker Rules of the 1840s.

In early games, innings were one out, balls caught on one bounce were outs, and throwing the ball at base runners to make them out was legal.

Up until 1884, pitchers had to throw the ball underhand.

Before 1893, pitchers threw from a square, known as a box. They were allowed to get a running start in the box.

In the first college baseball game, played in 1859, Amherst defeated Williams 73-32, in twenty-five innings.

In 1929, the Yankees became the first team to use uniform numbers regularly (the Cleveland Indians had previously done so, but briefly). Numbers were assigned by the players position in the batting order. Since Babe Ruth batted third, he was assigned 3. Lou Gehrig, who batted cleanup, was number 4.

BOYS OF SUMMER

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Doc Ellis claimed he was high on LSD when he threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on June 12, 1970. Ellis was called in to pitch on short notice, after having taken the drug earlier in the day.

Satchel Paige was the oldest rookie in Major League Baseball history when he debuted with the Cleveland Indians in 1948, at the age of forty-two.

On April 23, 1999, Fernando Tatis, of the St. Louis Cardinals, who had never hit a grand slam in his career, hit two in the same inning, making him the only major leaguer ever to do so.

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