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3 unusual facts about Sports Challenge


Sports Challenge

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.

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.

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.



see also

Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge

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.