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Bart Swings
Bart Swings (Swings on Wings), Belgian inline and long-track speed skater born 1991 in Leuven; 2022 Olympic mass start gold, Belgium's first Winter gold since 1948, plus 2018 silver and many inline world titles.
Bart Veldkamp
Bart Veldkamp (born 1967, Den Haag), Dutch-born speed skater who won 10,000 m gold at Albertville 1992 for the Netherlands, then competed for Belgium, winning its first Olympic speed skating medal at Nagano 1998.
Bart Zoet
Bart Zoet (Hubertus Balthazar Zoet, 1942-1992), Dutch road cyclist, Olympic gold medalist in the 100 km team time trial at Tokyo 1964 with Karstens, Dolman, and Pieterse; professional 1965-1970.
Barthelemy Chinenyeze
Barthelemy Chinenyeze, French middle blocker (born 1998, Coudekerque-Branche), two-time Olympic volleyball champion Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024; clubs Toulouse, Tours, Vibo Valentia, Milan, Lube Civitanova, Fenerbahçe.
Bartholomew Ogbeche
Bartholomew Owogbalor Ogbeche, Nigerian striker born 1984 in Ogoja; ex-PSG youngest scorer, 2002 World Cup player, and ISL all-time top scorer with 63 goals for four clubs.
Bartitsu
Bartitsu, also spelled baritsu in the Sherlock Holmes stories, is a hybrid Victorian self-defence art created in 1898 by E.W. Barton-Wright in London, combining jujutsu, boxing, savate, and Vigny stick fighting; the original club closed in 1902 and the art survives through the post-2002 revival.
Bartle taxonomy of player types
Bartle taxonomy of player types: four MUD player types (Achievers, Explorers, Killers, Socializers) from two dimensions; basis of later models like Yee's motivations and Hexad.
Bartley Gorman
Bartley Gorman (1944/45-2002), English-born Traveller bare-knuckle boxer, self-declared King of the Gypsies 1972-1992 and undefeated champion of Britain and Ireland; uncle of Uriah Burton's line, relative of Tyson Fury.
Bartłomiej Kubkowski
Bartłomiej Kubkowski (born 1995), Polish marathon swimmer nicknamed "Foka"; first person to swim across the Baltic Sea, 160 km from Kåseberga, Sweden to Dziwnów, Poland in about 55 hours on his fifth attempt, 2 August 2026, raising ~850,000 zlotys for Cancer Fighters.
Bartok
Bartok, also called Bartog or Warthog, is a Crazy Eights-family shedding card game for 2-8 players in which the winner of each hand adds a new rule, and rule-breakers draw penalty cards.
Bartolo Colón
Bartolo Colón (Big Sexy), Dominican MLB pitcher (1997-2018), 247-188, 4.12 ERA, 2,535 strikeouts, 2005 AL Cy Young with the Angels; career wins leader among Latin American-born pitchers; 2012 testosterone suspension; 2024 Hall ballot drew five votes.
Barton Jahncke
Barton Jahncke, full name Barton Williams Benedict Jahncke, was an American sailor from New Orleans who won a Dragon class gold medal at the 1968 Olympics.
Bartosz Zmarzlik
Bartosz Zmarzlik (born 1995, Szczecin) is a Polish speedway rider with six FIM Speedway Grand Prix world titles (2019, 2020, 2022-2025), the only rider with four consecutive crowns, equal to Mauger and Rickardsson.
Barum Czech Rally Zlín
Barum Czech Rally Zlín (55th edition 2026) is the Czech Republic's oldest tarmac rally, an FIA ERC round since 1984 run around Zlín and Otrokovice; Jan Kopecký holds a record 12 wins in Škoda machinery.
Bas Dost
Bas Dost (born 1989, Deventer) is a retired Dutch centre-forward, 1.96 m tall, Eredivisie top scorer 2011/12 (32 goals), Wolfsburg DFB-Pokal winner 2015, 93 goals for Sporting CP, 18 Netherlands caps, retired September 2025 after a 2023 cardiac arrest.
Bas Rutten
Bas Rutten (El Guapo), Dutch mixed martial artist born 1965 in Veldhoven; King of Pancrase 1995 and UFC heavyweight champion 1999; retired on a 22-fight win streak; UFC Hall of Fame Pioneer Era inductee 2015.
Bas van de Goor
Bas van de Goor (Sebastiaan Jacques Henri van de Goor, born 1971) is a Dutch middle blocker, 1996 Olympic volleyball champion and two-time Olympic MVP, later founder of the Bas van de Goor Foundation for diabetes and sport.
Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadium
Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu, home of İstanbul Başakşehir FK in Istanbul, opened 26 July 2014; capacity 17,319 (TFF lists 17,067), TRY 178 million cost, LEED-certified, named after Fatih Terim.
BASE jumping
BASE jumping is parachuting from fixed objects: buildings, antennae, spans, and earth. Formalized by Carl Boenish in 1978 at Yosemite's El Capitan; far riskier than skydiving, with 540 deaths since 1981.
Base Set (Pokémon)
Base Set (拡張パック) is the first Pokémon TCG expansion, 102 cards, Japan October 20 1996, English January 9 1999. Print runs: 1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, 1999-2000; Charizard #4 is its most valuable card.
Baseball
Baseball: bat-and-ball sport, two teams of nine, nine innings, MLB's 162-game season. Origins via debunked 1839 Doubleday myth and 1905 Mills Commission; Hall of Fame in Cooperstown since 1939.
Baseball (ball)
Baseball (ball): the regulated sphere of cork-and-rubber core, yarn windings, and stitched leather cover used in baseball; 5 to 5.25 oz, 9 to 9.25 inches, 108 stitches; MLB and NPB versions differ in seam height.
Baseball (TV series)
Baseball, also known as Ken Burns Baseball, is a 1994 PBS documentary series by Ken Burns telling baseball's history in nine two-hour episodes called "innings," drawing 43 million viewers.
Baseball America
Baseball America, also called BA, is an American baseball media company founded by Allan Simpson in February 1981, bought by Miles Wolff in 1982 and moved to Durham, NC, known for draft, prospect, minor league, and college baseball coverage.
Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic baseball tournament at Tokyo 2020, held 28 July–7 August 2021; six teams competed, with Japan winning gold over the United States and the Dominican Republic taking bronze.
Baseball at the 2026 Asian Games
Baseball at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya), held 21-27 September 2026 in Okazaki and Toyohashi, Japan: eight teams, won by South Korea, which beat Japan 3-1 in the final for a fifth straight title; Chinese Taipei took bronze.
Baseball at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Baseball at the 2028 Summer Olympics: men's six-team tournament, 15–20 July 2028 at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles; seventh Olympic medal tournament, qualified via 2026 World Baseball Classic, 2027 Premier12, and a final qualifier; MLB participation unresolved.
Baseball at the Summer Olympics
Baseball at the Summer Olympics: men's Olympic tournament, demonstration sport 1900-1988, official medal sport 1992-2008 and at Tokyo 2020 and LA 2028, paired with softball, Cuba leads medals.
Baseball bat
Baseball bat: the batter's club, solid wood in MLB (max 2.61 in diameter, 42 in long), aluminum/composite elsewhere; BBCOR and USABat/USSSA standards, sweet spot physics, and 2025 torpedo bats.
Baseball Canada
Baseball Canada, legally the Canadian Federation of Amateur Baseball, is the national governing body for amateur baseball in Canada, incorporated in Ottawa in 1964 and running nine national championships each summer.