In Sports
- The car number of Kurt Busch's Ford when he won the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series championship.
- Don Larsen pitched a perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series on October 8, 1956. He threw a total 97 pitches
- The jersey number 97 has been retired by the Phoenix Coyotes to honour Jeremy Roenick, he is the only sportsman in the world with 97 retired.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)