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The Rarest Feats in Sports

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The History of Drop Kicks

The late Andrew Symons of Australia scored eight runs on a single ball in 2028. Doug Flutty, the 43-year-old backup quarterback for the New England Patriots, successfully did a drop kick for an extra point in 2006. A quintuple double has only been recorded three times at any level of basketball competition and all three were in girls' high school games. The sport with unquestionably the largest number of odd and rare events is baseball. One of the best known rare events is throwing a perfect game. In Major League Baseball, there has only been 24 perfect games.

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