While watching Julio Franco pinch hit I got to wondering about odd sports statistics they actually never mention. Not the usual ones, like the batter with the most home runs in a night game against a left handed pitcher in the 7th, 8th, or 9th inning with the wind blowing toward right field with attendance of greater than 40,000 fans and a Kansas governor whose name begins with either a W, K, or T. I’m talking about the silly ones.
The one I’d like to know: When was the last televised game that Julio Franco played in when the announcers did *not * mention his age?
Oh, yeah. Go Cards.
June 19, 1923, when he pinch-hit for the Philadelphia Athletics against the Washington Senators.
On a related note, wouldn’t you love to see the AFLAC trivia question be"
SGT Schwartz
Old school: I’d like to know the quantity of glue Howard Cosell used to hold his hair piece in place. 
For much of the first half of his career the only coverage of baseball games was done through drawings on the walls of caves.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers haven’t scored a touchdown on a kickoff return since they entered the NFL in 1976.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers haven’t played in a televised game during which that wasn’t mentioned since at least 1996.
Strike that. What I’d really like to know is what were the Opening Day odds on the Detroit Tigers winning the 2006 American League pennant?
it’s not often metioned, because most people believe that eleventy-billion isn’t a real number. but it is. and the odds were exactly eleventy-billion to one for the tigers to win the al*
cite: 84.371% of all statistics are made up on the spot.