In Sports
- Roger Maris hit his 60th home run in Game 159 (vs. the Baltimore Orioles) on September 26, 1961
- NFL quarterback Tommy Kramer threw 159 career touchdowns with the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints
- Norm Johnson had 159 field goals with the Seattle Seahawks from 1982 to 1990
- In professional darts, 159 is the lowest score a player can achieve with no available checkout.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)