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Why athletes run around a track counter-clockwise.
Why athletes run around a track counter-clockwise.
As the heart is on the left side, for humans and animals, running counter-clockwise makes the centrifugal force in the body to act from left to right. Whereas, it is from right to left for clockwise running.
Superior venecava takes blood to the heart aided by heart suction. This vein carries blood from left to right. Centrifugal force due to counter-clockwise running helps this suction.
If we run clockwise, the centrifugal force impedes suction. That is why, in olden days, health officers ensured that all carnival merry-go-rounds were run only in the counter-clockwise direction.
Stairways in temple towers have only left turns for going up.
Clockwise running tires people easily, especially children.
As we know, that if we breathe from the left nose hole, cool air will go inside and if we breathe from the right nose hole, warm air will go inside. When we run on a circular track counter-clockwise, we will breathe from the right nose hole, which will warm up our body and we can run faster. As when we start a race, we first warm up our body and then start running.
1.Wrigley Field was not built for the Chicago Cubs but rather for the Chicago Federals (known as the “Chi-Feds”) of the short-lived Federal League. The Chi-Feds changed their name to the Chicago Whales in 1915, and are the last professional baseball team to call the ballpark at Clark and Addison their home field and win a respective league championship. When the Federal League folded at the end of 1915, Whales owner Charles Weeghman and a consortium of men including J. Ogden Armour and William Wrigley were allowed to purchase the Chicago Cubs and move them from the West Side Grounds in today’s Little Italy to the North Side.
2. Before Wrigley was built, the site was home to a Lutheran seminary. The Lutheran seminary moved to nearby Maywood as a result of the noise coming from the local elevated train. DePaul University’s athletic director, who was familiar with the site, advised Charles Weeghman to build his Federal League park at that location. “Weeghman Park” opened in 1914.
3. The famous ivy in the outfield was planted by former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck in 1937. Veeck, the son of former Cubs president Bill Veeck, Sr., would later own the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox. Veeck is also credited with the modernization of the concessions, as well as overseeing the 1937 bleacher and scoreboard construction. That said, the ivy, while planted by Veeck, was the brainchild of P. K. Wrigley, then owner of the club.
4. No baseball has ever hit the Wrigley Field scoreboard (installed, like the ivy, in 1937). The only ball of any kind to hit the scoreboard was a golf ball struck by Hall of Fame golfer Sam Sneed. Sneed teed off from home plate and hit the scoreboard in 1951. The scoreboard is still manually operated. However, the batter number, balls, and strikes are operated electronically. The controls are located in the press box.
5. There’s a big gate in right field. It’s commonly called the “elephant’s gate,” because it was built to bring elephants into the field for the circus. Beside circuses, Wrigley has held a number of events which necessitate those large doors. Today, fans can look through those doors all year round to see what is happening on the field; they’re kept open for viewing.
6. Cubs played a World Series in 1918 during Charles Weeghman’s third season of ownership, but actually played at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox, instead of Weeghman Park. While both Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field were designed by architect Zachary Taylor Davis, Comiskey was larger at the time. Weeghman, wanting more profits from more fans, had the games played at Comiskey. This gave the Boston Red Sox de facto home field advantage, as the Red Sox were much more familiar with Comiskey than the hometown Cubs were. The Red Sox were led by future Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, who would later play a major role in the 1932 World Series between the Cubs and the New York Yankees with his so-called “Called Shot.” Today, Wrigley Field has a larger capacity than the current home of the White Sox, U.S. Cellular Field.
7. There were actually two Wrigley Fields for some time. In 1925, in Los Angeles, William Wrigley built a ballpark named Wrigley Field for his minor league team. If you can’t make it to Wrigley Field in Chicago, you can play in Little Wrigley Field, a tee-ball field in Freeport, Illinois. “Little Wrigley Field” is a scale replica of the Friendly Confines, including a brick wall
8. Wrigley Field has long been a multi-sport facility. While it has long housed baseball, the NFL and the Chicago Bears also called Wrigley home from 1921 to 1970. Beyond that, professional wrestling, boxing, all-American girls baseball, the first international competition in softball, soccer, college football, professional basketball, concerts, religious revivals, a hippodrome, major motion pictures, and even rodeos have used Wrigley Field. The most unusual non-baseball event was probably a competition of the Norge Ski Club, in which Sgt. Alvin Torkle made a jump from where today’s press box currently stands to short center field.
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