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:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)