In pro sports when a longtime superstar player announces before the season that he will retire following that season there is some sort of "farewell tour". When the player's team plays its last game or series in the city of an opponent the other team will give him some sort of gift. When that player plays his last home game it is customary for his own team to give him a rocking chair, signifying that the player is old, washed up and has nothing better to do than sit in a rocking chair. Last year the all time greatest closer in baseball, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees retired. Rivera only threw one pitch, a cut fastball but it was nearly unhitable and a great number of batters over the years came away from an encounter with Rivera with a broken bat. The rocking chair that the Yankees gave Rivera was hand crafted from pieces of bats broken by his pitches. Pretty cool chair
It's cool, but I don't think it qualifies as a 'Little Known Fact'. I thought that was a well known fact. Maybe I'm wrong.
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