You're at a ballgame, you catch a foul ball, and you start counting the red stitches because apparently that's the kind of person you are. How many stitches are on a regulation Major League baseball? 88 108 144 216 None Quick — which U.S. state has the longest coastline? Hint: it's so far out in front that it beats all the others combined. Florida California Alaska Texas None There's a famous story that President William Howard Taft accidentally invented the seventh-inning stretch in 1910 by standing up to stretch his legs, and the whole crowd rose with him. What's the truth? It's completely true — Taft started it in 1910 People were already stretching in the seventh inning decades before Taft The stretch was invented by the New York Yankees in the 1920s There was never a seventh-inning stretch until the 1940s None The first Super Bowl was played in January 1967. It holds a TV record no Super Bowl has matched before or since. What was it? It was broadcast simultaneously on two different networks It was the first event ever shown in color It had the largest TV audience of any program in history It was watched by zero people because nobody owned a TV yet None We all "know" Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown in 1839. According to baseball historians, how much of that is actually true? All of it — Doubleday wrote the first rulebook Most of it, though he had some help Essentially none of it — there's no evidence he had anything to do with baseball He invented the rules but someone else built the first field None On August 26, 1939, something happened that would change how Americans watched sports forever — the first televised Major League Baseball game. During that broadcast, the announcer did something for the very first time on TV that we now see hundreds of times every single game. What was it? He used instant replay He performed the first live in-game TV commercials He interviewed a player between innings He read the score off a scoreboard graphic None Time's up
