Jun 11th, 2009 | 8:25 am |

• Friday’s Starter for the Houston Astros Mike Hampton began walking at 8 months and was seperated from other 5 year olds because he throw too hard and was put with 8 year olds. Notre Dame, Florida, and Florida State recruited him to play football. In High School he could bench press 300 lbs and dunk a basketball. (Source New York Times Jan 17th 2000, p. D3

• Game 3 of the Los Angeles Lakers at Orlando averaged an estimated 10.01 million and a 4.2 rating/12 share among adults 18-49 for the primetime portion from 9-11 p.m

NBA Finals (ABC)
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 8.92 million (#3), A18-49: 3.7/11 (#1)
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 10.07 million (#2), A18-49: 4.2/11 (#1)
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 10.07 million (#1), A18-49: 4.1/11 (#1)
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 11.23 million (#1), A18-49: 4.7/14 (#1)

The Stanley Cups Finals, Game 6 (NBC)
8:00 p.m. – Viewers: 4.53 million (#3), A18-49: 1.8/ 6 (#2)
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 4.86 million (#3), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2t)
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 5.76 million (#3), A18-49: 2.3/ 7 (#2)
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 5.26 million (#3), A18-49: 2.2/ 6 (#2)
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 6.96 million (#3), A18-49: 2.8/ 8 (#2)
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 5.33 million (#3), A18-49: 2.2/ 6 (#2)

• Mike Piazza, Placido Polanco, Raul Ibanez, Orlando Palmeiro, Kiko Calero and Alex Sanchez, Mickey Rivers, Bucky Dent, Alex Fernandez, Jaime Navarro, Oddibe McDowell, Warren Cromartie, Steve Carlton, Gil Patterson and Kurt Bevacqua all played baseball at Miami Dade College.

• The American League developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, it gained major league status in 1901
• Joe Thurston 3B of the St Louis Cardinals went to High School with C.C. Sabathia at  Vallejo High School, in Vallejo, CA- oh and they are cousins http://tr.im/obRi
• The Tampa Bay Rays have now scored 5 or more runs in an inning 16 times this season, most of any team in the majors this season