• The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide. • Golf the only sport played on the moon - on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball. • Bill Klem served the most seasons as major league umpire - 37 years, starting in 1905. He also officated 18 World Series. • The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America's Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983. • Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.