Still Even More Little-Known Beantown (and Foxborough) Sports Facts!
Note: Patrick Scartelli has taken this week off from Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer. In his place is an excerpt from good friend of The15net dot com, sportswriter Mr. Stanislas Tecumseh Darden, Jr., with an excerpt from his book, ‘406 Little-Known Beantown (& Foxborough) Sports Facts!’
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Boston Celtics GM Danny Ainge traded the first overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft to Philadelphia for their third overall pick, and selected Jayson Tatum!
John Bucyk scored 545 goals as a member of the Boston Bruins!
The city of Boston has never hosted an Olympic Games!
Boston Red Sox center fielder Dom DiMaggio’s brothers Vincent and Joseph also played baseball professionally!
Former Bruins player Gregory Campbell’s nickname was and is ‘Soupy!’
Celtics mascot Lucky doesn’t take cabs!
During a 1961 game between the then-Boston Patriots and the then-Dallas Texans, a fan in a trench coat went into the end zone to bat down a potential game-winning pass!
From 1947 until 1999, no advertisements could be found on Fenway Park’s Green Monster!
In 1970, Robert Gordon Orr won the Norris, Art Ross, Conn Smythe, and the Hart Trophy, becoming the only player to win all four awards during the same season!
Dick Flavin is an American poet known as the “poet laureate of the Boston Red Sox!”
Boston Garden was the first arena to host the Stanley Cup Final and NBA Finals at the same time in 1957!
Coachmen love The Head of the Charles Regatta!
On Mother’s Day of 2007, the Red Sox erased a 5-run deficit in the bottom of the 9th inning, winning 6-5!
After losing the Snow Bowl playoff game in Foxboro to the Patriots, the Oakland Raiders reached the Super Bowl the very next season, and lost that game as well, 21-48! Quit whining about the officiating, losers!
Fenway Park has not hosted an All-Star Game since 1999!
The Boston Bruins were founded in 1924!
When Ted Williams played the final game of his career at Fenway Park on September 28, 1960, there were only 10,454 people in the stands, much fewer than the total number of people who would later claim to have been there!
The Boston College Eagles were charter members of the original Big East Conference!
There is no longer a GameStop location in Patriot Place!
Late Celtics star Reggie Lewis played his college ball in Boston as well, for Northeastern University!
David ‘Big Papi’ Ortiz has an Identical Best Friend, named Sixto!
The USS Constitution “Old Ironsides,” like many Navy vessels fields a baseball team!
Nina Kuscsik was the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon, which occurred in 1972!
The Bruins were the first NHL team to own a Zamboni and also the first NHL team to get rid of Zamboni, TD Garden have used Olympia Ice Resurfacers since 2015!
During his pro wrestling career, Pete Doherty, The Duke of Dorchester defeated Fred Marzino 28 times with no wins scored by Marzino!
Schaefer Stadium was originally built in Mexico as a soccer venue for the 1970 World Cup, and was purchased at discount by the Sullivan family, disassembled, transported stateside, and rebuilt in Foxboro!
The original Boston Garden opened in 1928 as ‘Boston Madison Square Garden!’
The Patriots record during Upton Bell’s tenure as GM was 9-19!
Former Red Sox skipper Walpole Joe Morgan meets broadcaster Joe Morgan every few months for lunch to exchange misaddressed fan mail!
Follow Mr. Darden at @StdSportswriter on Twitter.
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