The team of Tommy Henrich, Joe DiMaggio, and Lefty Gomez (New York Yankees) set a record for winning the game 8 consecutive times, which was tied once by the team of Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, and Don Newcombe (Brooklyn Dodgers) during the show's final season, in 1979.
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Sports Challenge is believed to be completely intact; Classic Sports Network (now "ESPN Classic"), ESPN, and ESPN2 have all aired the series in the past, with The Walt Disney Company (which owns 80% of ESPN) presumably owning any format rights along with the episodes.
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Whoever was in the lead after the Bonus Biography won the game and $1,000 worth of Voit (later Rawlings) sporting goods for an announced junior athletic organization.
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Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge is a sports based quiz video game for Wii, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows platforms developed by Oxygen Studios and published by Oxygen Games.