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Show What's year Sports A ? In area, what is the largest larg-est field in a game where a ball is used? " ANSWER: Polo. The regulation regula-tion field covers 12.4 acres. The heaviest heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion also held the title the shortest length of time. Who was he, and how long did he hold the title? ANSWER: 270-lb. Primo Camera held the title for 350 days. Walker Smith, Jr., was one of the greatest fighters of all time. What was his "ring" name? answer: Sugar Ray Robinson. In a college football game, what position would a player wearing the number num-ber 00 most likely play? ANSWER:, According to A-T-O Inc.'s Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, use of the number 00 is not allowed in - college football. i i i i TTTTT Carl Yastrzemski went 4 for 4 on the last day of the season to lead the Boston Red Sox to the 1967 American League pennant in the tightest race in AL history. Boston placed ninth in 1966. The New York jQiauts trailed the league-leading Brooklyn Dodgers by 13 games as late as Aug. 12, 1951. However, the Giants won 37 of their last 44 games and defeated the Dodgers in the final playoff game, 5-4, on Bobby Thomson's three-run three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. With two wins and two saves against the Chicago White Sox in the 1959 World Series, Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Larry Sherry is the only pitcher in World Series history to be involved in all four victories. The St. Louis Cardinals' Car-dinals' Bob Gibson came the closest to winning three games twice in the World Series. He beat the Boston Red Sox three times in 1967 and posted a 2 1 record against the Detroit Tigers in 1968. |