In Sports
- In darts, 60 (treble-twenty) is the highest score which can be achieved with a single dart.
- New York Yankees Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927 during a 154-game season; although the record was broken three times since then (Roger Maris, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds) those records were set during a 162-game season.
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
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