In Sports
- In soccer, the number of international goals scored by Mia Hamm for the USA women's team, an all-time record for either sex
- The 1927 New York Yankees Murderers' Row, which included Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, hit a combined 158 home runs
- Hall of Fame first baseman Johnny Mize hit 158 home runs with the St. Louis Cardinals (1936–1941), before being traded to the New York Giants
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)