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|  #22 Posted on 28.12.05 1748.49
Reposted on: 28.12.12 1749.10 | Originally posted by cfgb
My favorite: Four men have hit 61 or more home runs in a season. One pitcher has struck out all four. Name that pitcher.
I had to think LONG and hard about that one ... However, there's only one pitcher that comes to mind as having been around that long....
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That's just wild...
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Especially considering he and Maris were only in the league together for one season and faced each other in only two games.
Originally posted by DirtyMikeSeaver
Who's the only person to have their number retired by the Toronto Blue Jays?
Unless it's some announcer or non-player, I'd say it would have to be
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Here's one of the top of my head: Who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base for the Yankees? | AWArulz
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| #23 Posted on 28.12.05 1859.46
Reposted on: 28.12.12 1859.48 | Originally posted by BigSteve
Originally posted by DirtyMikeSeaver
Who's the only person to have their number retired by the Toronto Blue Jays?
Unless it's some announcer or non-player, I'd say it would have to be
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Here's one of the top of my head: Who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base for the Yankees?
Yours
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Oops, that's who Gehrig replaced! Gehrig, oh, that was a guy withh a similar name to his main rival on the team.
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Toronto - I was thinking
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| #24 Posted on 28.12.05 1910.22
Reposted on: 28.12.12 1910.28 | Originally posted by AWArulz
Father-Son - most HR
Les Bonds.
Originally posted by AWArulz
Brothers - Most wins
Les Perrys.
Who's the only person to have their number retired by the Toronto Blue Jays?
Here's a hint: if you replaced the words "Toronto Blue Jays" with the words "Seattle Mariners", the answer would be the same.
Also, Wally Pipp was replaced BY Lou Gehrig, not the other way around.
EDIT: A-HA! This one has been bugging me...
Originally posted by Sec19Row53
My favorite - What do the following players have in common:
Henry Aaron
Babe Ruth
Willie Mays
Ron Santo
Dwight Gooden
Darryl Strawberry
Don Kessinger
They all started their careers and ended their careers in the same city but on different teams. (Aaron - Milwaukee Braves/Brewers, for example) Right?
Oh, and this...
Originally posted by drjayphd
The only one coming to mind was one I thought up for a less-fanatical crowd: This pair of teammates shared nothing, besides a team, name, and position. (Hopefully there's only one answer.)
...has got to be Ken Griffey (Sr. and Jr.), I'd think.
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| #25 Posted on 28.12.05 1921.13
Reposted on: 28.12.12 1921.27 | Originally posted by JayJayDean
Originally posted by AWArulz
Brothers - Most wins
Les Perrys.
Nope.
Give ya a hint. Gaylord was a junker. So you were right there. Both of These brothers were junkers. Beat the Perrys by about 10-15 wins.
(edited by AWArulz on 28.12.05 2022) | BigSteve
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| #26 Posted on 28.12.05 2036.23
Reposted on: 28.12.12 2036.33 | Originally posted by AWArulz
Originally posted by JayJayDean
Originally posted by AWArulz
Brothers - Most wins
Les Perrys.
Nope.
Give ya a hint. Gaylord was a junker. So you were right there. Both of These brothers were junkers. Beat the Perrys by about 10-15 wins.
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Oh, I guess that would be the Niekros then.
That Toronto question was dumb. Trick questions are supposed to be misleading, but that's a bit much. *Grumble, grumble*
Here's another to go with my earlier one: Who replaced Cal Ripken? Not when he moved from Shortstop to 3B but when he finally sat out a gmae in '98.
...has got to be Ken Griffey (Sr. and Jr.), I'd think.
Could be, but Jr. is a CFer while Sr. was a RFer. When he was on the M's with his son, Sr. played LF. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, since they're both Ken Griffeys who played OF for the early '90s Mariners.
(edited by BigSteve on 28.12.05 2150) | Mr. Boffo
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| #27 Posted on 28.12.05 2051.48
Reposted on: 28.12.12 2051.48 | I think drjayphd's question is to name two players who had the same name, played on the same team, and played the same position, but were unrelated.
If so, the answer is
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Bobby Jones and Bobby Jones, who were both pitchers who played for the Mets in 2000. |
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| #28 Posted on 28.12.05 2101.28
Reposted on: 28.12.12 2101.40 | Or!
Bob Miller and Bob Miller from the 1962 Mets. Both pitchers.
(edited by Eddie Famous on 28.12.05 1901) | drjayphd
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| #29 Posted on 28.12.05 2201.55
Reposted on: 28.12.12 2201.59 | Originally posted by Mr. Boffo
I think drjayphd's question is to name two players who had the same name, played on the same team, and played the same position, but were unrelated.
If so, the answer is
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Bobby Jones and Bobby Jones, who were both pitchers who played for the Mets in 2000. |
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Winner. I shoulda specified they were unrelated; I was hoping that the "shared nothing" bit would have covered the fact that only one was a lefty, one was a starter while the other relieved, etc. Didn't know about the Millers either... shows what happens when you don't know your history. | jfkfc
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| #30 Posted on 3.1.06 1434.20
Reposted on: 3.1.13 1436.29 | My personal favorite, once asked by a local Bennigan's bartender, "Name the MLB career home-run leaders by letter of the alphabet, using the first letter of the player's last name." Hank Aaron would be the leader for the letter "A".
Hank Aaron 755
Barry Bonds 708
José Canseco 462
Andre Dawson 438
Darrell Evans 414
Jimmie Foxx 534
Ken Griffey, Jr. 536
Frank Howard 382
Pete Incaviglia 206
Reggie Jackson 563
Harmon Killebrew 573
Greg Luzinski 307
Willie Mays 660
Graig Nettles 390
Mel Ott 511
Rafael Palmeiro 569
Mark Quinn 45
Babe Ruth 714
Sammy Sosa 588
Frank Thomas 448
Willie Upshaw 123
Greg Vaughn 355
Ted Williams 521
No one with a surname starting with X has played in the Major Leagues.
Carl Yastrzemski 452
Todd Zeile 253 |
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| #31 Posted on 3.1.06 1538.50
Reposted on: 3.1.13 1538.57 | If you want your boy to make the baseball Hall of Fame, what first name has had 100% of its eligible members inducted?
Hint - This will drop to 67% in a few years.
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|  #32 Posted on 3.1.06 2055.31
Reposted on: 3.1.13 2057.09 | Originally posted by Sec19Row53
If you want your boy to make the baseball Hall of Fame, what first name has had 100% of its eligible members inducted?
Hint - This will drop to 67% in a few years.
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| Robin! From Robin Roberts to Robin Yount, it's been a goodie until that fool Robin Ventura came into the league and decided to get his ass kicked by Nolan Ryan right out of the gate, proving he was destined for nothing. |
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| #33 Posted on 4.1.06 2055.00
Reposted on: 4.1.13 2059.02 | | My favorite has always been "who was the first black player to play in the American League." A shame that maybe 1% of the people who recognize Jackie Robinson as the first major leaguer to integrate the league recognize this guy, as it was the same season, and he went through the exact same thing as Robinson, as he was the first black ballplayer to play at half the ballparks in the U.S. | bash91
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| #34 Posted on 4.1.06 2140.37
Reposted on: 4.1.13 2143.20 | My favorite, simply because I went to high school with his older brother, is what player hit for the cycle with his first 4 hits in the Majors?
In answer to MoeGates' question,
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| Larry Doby, the most forgotten pioneer in baseball. |
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| #35 Posted on 5.1.06 0424.07
Reposted on: 5.1.13 0425.55 | The question about the first black AL player brings this up:
Who was the first black (African-American) to play in the major leagues?
No, it wasn't Jackie Robinson. And it's not a trick question referring to some other definition of "black" or to someone who only played in spring training or something. | MoeGates
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| #36 Posted on 5.1.06 1518.27
Reposted on: 5.1.13 1518.48 | My namesake, Moses Fleetwood Walker.
This is kind of debateable, because there weren't great records kept back in the 1870s and 80s, and there wasn't really an entity known as "Major League Baseball" like there is now.
Still, the point is that baseball was never officially segregated, and only became completely white in the 1880s. Before that there was the odd black player here and there. |
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