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In the NFL, Black or African American players made up just over 53% of rosters in 2023 — a majority share that sources report continued into mid‑decade discussions . By contrast Major League Baseball’...
By player demographics the NFL remains one of the most racially concentrated leagues in North America—closely trailing the NBA for the highest share of Black/African American players—while Major Leagu...
The claim “The Beatles were the first band to play at a baseball stadium” is partly true in the commonly told sense that their August 15, 1965 Shea Stadium show is widely credited as the first major s...
First-base candidates are not dominant on recent BBWAA ballots: in the 2025 BBWAA vote no player listed as a primary first baseman was elected, and only a few position players who spent significant ti...
The Selective Service lottery paired calendar birth dates with sequence numbers 1–365 (or 366) to set the order in which men of draft-age cohorts were processed and inducted; induction notices were th...
Gambling is deeply entwined with professional sports historically and especially since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban in 2018; bettors have wagered more than $330 billion across st...
No credible reporting in the provided documents indicates that any U.S. president has ever owned a professional basketball team; the sources instead document and presidential candidates, with particul...
Exclusive media rights mean leagues and event owners control where and how a game is shown, and streaming an opposing live event that infringes those rights exposes platforms and streamers to copyrigh...
Fox Sports faced multiple high-profile personnel and legal scandals across 2025 — including sexual-misconduct lawsuits that named talent and executives (Joy Taylor, Skip Bayless, Charlie Dixon) and th...
Available sources focus on recent professional sports drafts (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB) and prospect rankings; they do not discuss draft outcomes for politicians, entertainers, or business leaders or explai...
Professional status in 2025 remains concentrated in established major-team and global commercial sports — the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS and top international competitions — driven by large media rights,...
Major League Baseball games typically use far more baseballs than casual viewers expect: most reporting and equipment accounts put the common range at about 96–120 baseballs per nine‑inning MLB game, ...
Catfish Hunter was a pitcher throughout his professional career; he was not a southpaw. Multiple contemporary and retrospective records — including his Hall of Fame profile and major baseball referenc...