The infield fly rule while seemingly incongruous exists to prevent players from deliberately failing to secure an easy out in order to force their opponent into an almost certain double play (2 outs)
When a ball is hit into the air in play in the infield with 0 or 1 out already recorded and a player on first base, the umpires will call the infield fly rule immediately, the play becomes dead and the player who hit the ball is considered to be out
The large book in the ready room in TNG is The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare, open to pages 354-355. Visible on the page in three episodes is a photograph of Patrick Stewart performing in As You Like It in 1968. This means the real-life Patrick Stewart and his Shakespearean acting career are part of the fictional Star Trek universe.
Deep Space Nine co-creator and co-executive producer Michael Piller was an avid baseball aficionado who amassed tens of thousands of baseball trading cards in his lifetime. His mother, songwriter Ruth Roberts, created the "It's a Beautiful Day for a Ball Game" theme song for the Los Angeles Dodgers and "Meet the Mets" for the New York Mets.
James Doohan who plays Scott in the original series was shot 6 times on D-Day by friendly fire AFTER surviving the initial attack.
4 shots hit his leg, one blew off his finger and one bullet struck him in the chest, which was stopped from being fatal by a silver cigarette case in his pocket
Sportsball? Like in that episode of Star Trek?
I dunno sportsball.
Trivia: Shari Lewis wrote a TOS Episode: The Lights of Zetar.
This Shari Lewis:
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The Patriots and Steelers are the football teams that have the most superbowl wins with 6 wins each.
Tom Brady has 7 superbowl wins.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each player who’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in, and the next player goes in until he’s out. Once all the players who are in are out, the side that’s out comes in, the side that’s in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Two umpires stay out all the time, they decide when the players who are in are out. When both sides have been in and out twice, and all the players who are in are out, including those who are not out, that’s the end of the game.
And trivia would be that this moment in the LD/SNW crossover was improvised:
Sign stealing is the act of players and coaches on the field, watching the codes the catcher gives the pitcher, and relaying it between players via hand-signals and gestures to tell the batter what kind of pitch to expect.
In modern days, this even includes watching video-replay to capture the signs, and then counter-investigations identifying the sign-stealers and their methods.
Turns out there's a whole host of in-the-open sign language happening during stickball games.
The Immaculate Reception is fun to watch. Game's over and done, last possible play with the Steelers behind one point in the playoffs. The famous quarterback Terry Bradshaw is dodging around, trying to not get flattened, fires a missile, well... see for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywa3k9N___s
Used to like the NFL, only sport I ever watched. For two decades it's been formulaic (you know what sort of play is coming, the safest play) and commercial loaded, boring as shit now.
I'm happy to have learned via this series of tubes that I'm not so alone in my blissful ignorance of sportsball.
I was raised without religion and without sports, I was not explicitly denied these things, simply not provided them in my family. For that, I will always be thankful to my parents.
My god, the times I've been shunned for not following any sport. I mean, curling, darts, and bowling fans get more respect.
AM and PM stand for Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem, respectively.
Are you asking for Sports or Star Trek trivia? I can't tell. I'll do both.
Sports trivia: The Charlotte Hornets (NBA team based out of North Carolina) wear teal and purple uniforms because they were the first NBA team to hire a fashion designer to design their uniforms, and the designer in question, Alexander Julian, considered teal and purple his signature colors.
Star Trek Trivia: The NCC hull numbers are based on pre-1948 American airplane tail numbers. Nowadays American tail numbers start with an N, a maximum of 5 digits, at least one number followed by zero, one or two letters, excluding I or O. N123, N456A, N789AB, etc. N1701 is a valid American tail number, an in fact it is registered to a 1964 Cessna 172 in Minnesota. Bonus trivia: the aircraft registry is a matter of public record.
Before 1948, the category of the aircraft was noted by an additional letter after the N. NR123B would have been a Restricted category, like a cropduster. NG456T would have been a Glider. Most aircraft in the Standard category were given an NC number, so NC1701 was a valid registration at one point. Gene roddenberry made it look more ship-like by adding a C, to make it look more like USS.
And yes, Experimental aircraft got NX callsigns. The Spirit of St. Louis was registered NX211. That's exactly where USS Excelsior's NX-2000 and USS Bacula's NX-01 came from.
Star Trek Trivia: Captain Sisko and Captain Archer are both sports fans, Sisko loves baseball because Avery Brooks does in real life and Archer loves Water polo because Scott Bakula does.
Sportsball Trivia: NBA Hall of famer James Worthy played a very tall Klingon in an episode of TNG.
Star Trek Sportsball trivia: The expensive futuristic racquetball set designed for O'Brien and Bashir to compete in was reportedly so difficult to actually play on that they gave up and had them compete at darts instead.
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier:
Laurence Luckinbill was about four years younger than Leonard Nimoy while playing Spock's older half-brother.
Random trivia: Anyone who remembers the Allamaraine song will have it stuck in their head for hours.
"Allamaraine, count to four,
Allamaraine, then three more,
Allamaraine, if you can see,
Allamaraine, you'll come with me…"
Is the little book mostly knowledge about Parrises squares?
You gotta sport the balls until they score
Take me out to the holosuite... more like take me out of the holosuite.
Very specific question. Can someone explain when , how and why the onside kick exists in American football? I see it as some kind of last ditch hope things the losing team does.
Random trivia? Okay, England's greatest prime minister was Lord Palmerston
On Pointless when Xander asks a couple what sort of category they’d like to come up and they immediately confidently say “sports!”, only for them to just pretend they don’t see “Paralympic Horse Events” and “Kabaddi” among the choices.
Same, but reversed.
Sports are so much fun. Storylines and exceptional feats.
Did you know that when Bob Beamon jumped 8,90m in the mens long jump at the Olympics 1968, the record had barely moved 0,5m in the previous 50 years? He launched into such a violent jump that he almost fell forward. The old record was 8,35m.
Another fun fact is that since Bob wa American, he didn't understand how far he had jumped. When they told him the feets and inches, he had a seizure from the shock.
It’s easy. You just move the thing to the other thing.
The offside rule while touted as being stupidly complex and silly is actually as simple as "you can't receive a pass of the ball in the opponents' side if there are no defenders between you and the goal, excluding the keeper"
It stops players camping the goal area waiting for a pass.
The guy in the thing is also the guy in the other thing... And it's the SAME guy!
The food industry currently pushing to get people addicted to chips, decided the food pyramid, and people believed them straight up.
Benzodiaphine abusers have been known to see something known as the Hat man. If he gets you, you forget your dream.
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