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We have all heard them - the kind of sports trivia that does not mean anything to the world, such as the baseball player with the highest career batting average on Wednesday night games. Or statistics on whether or not a golfer will score a better round while wearing red. We all have that one friend who keeps track of these meaningless factoids and uses them to impress people. The following facts, however, are sure to not only impress your friends but stump them and leave them wanting to find more on their own.
Coors Field, the stadium in which the Colorado Rockies play their home games, is built at the highest elevation in Major League Baseball at 5,183 feet above sea level. At about 1,500 feet elevation, the next highest baseball stadium in the league is, surprisingly, Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Phoenix is located in a valley and does not have a high elevation, but it just so happens that most other MLB stadiums are built next to a large body of water.
The Arizona Cardinals, a part of one of the worst divisions in football in the NFC West, weren't always in a Western Division. Even after they moved to Arizona in 1970, the Cardinals remained part of the NFC East division for 32 years. They are the furthest Western team to be a part of an Eastern Division in the history of professional sports.
The opposite is true for the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. Detroit is located in Eastern Michigan, just on the other side of Lake Erie as is Pennsylvania and New York, yet the Red Wings still belong to the Western Conference. Same goes for the Blue Jackets. In Fact, Detroit and Columbus are further East than cities such as Chicago, Indianapolis, and even parts of Florida.
There are always fun facts that you can find out on your own if you are willing to do a small amount of research. These facts aren't going to make you any new friends, and they certainly aren't going to get you any dates. But the purpose of stating these facts is solely to expand your knowledge of the wild and wacky world of sports and to show that anyone, if they put their mind to it, can discover interesting and unique facts about the sports they love.
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We have all heard them - the kind of sports trivia that does not mean anything to the world, such as the baseball player with the highest career batting average on Wednesday night games. Or statistics on whether or not a golfer will score a better round while wearing red. We all have that one friend who keeps track of these meaningless factoids and uses them to impress people. The following facts, however, are sure to not only impress your friends but stump them and leave them wanting to find more on their own.
Coors Field, the stadium in which the Colorado Rockies play their home games, is built at the highest elevation in Major League Baseball at 5,183 feet above sea level. At about 1,500 feet elevation, the next highest baseball stadium in the league is, surprisingly, Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Phoenix is located in a valley and does not have a high elevation, but it just so happens that most other MLB stadiums are built next to a large body of water.
The Arizona Cardinals, a part of one of the worst divisions in football in the NFC West, weren't always in a Western Division. Even after they moved to Arizona in 1970, the Cardinals remained part of the NFC East division for 32 years. They are the furthest Western team to be a part of an Eastern Division in the history of professional sports.
The opposite is true for the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. Detroit is located in Eastern Michigan, just on the other side of Lake Erie as is Pennsylvania and New York, yet the Red Wings still belong to the Western Conference. Same goes for the Blue Jackets. In Fact, Detroit and Columbus are further East than cities such as Chicago, Indianapolis, and even parts of Florida.
There are always fun facts that you can find out on your own if you are willing to do a small amount of research. These facts aren't going to make you any new friends, and they certainly aren't going to get you any dates. But the purpose of stating these facts is solely to expand your knowledge of the wild and wacky world of sports and to show that anyone, if they put their mind to it, can discover interesting and unique facts about the sports they love.