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 Sec19Row53My 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 drjayphdThe 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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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.
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Bob Miller and Bob Miller from the 1962 Mets. Both pitchers.
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Originally posted by Mr. BoffoI 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.
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.
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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Originally posted by Sec19Row53If 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.
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.
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. - Euripides
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.
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.
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. - Euripides
"Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help." - Isaiah 58:7 (New Living Translation)
Which pitcher, in the last 10 years, got a win in a game where he never even threw a pitch?
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"...Oh, the band is out on the field!! He's gonna go into the end zone! He's gone into the end zone!! -- Joe Starkey -- November 20, 1982 -- The Play --
There's a long history of former boxer and football players in wrestling but what about baseball?
Person 1 This pro basball player was the son of a wrestler Person 2 This wrestler was the son of a pro baseball player
Extra credit for who knows what Person 2 did when he was mocked for being a wrestler by another athlete, who also had something extra that should have made him twice as good as Mordecai Brown.
There's a long history of former boxer and football players in wrestling but what about baseball?
Person 1 This pro basball player was the son of a wrestler Person 2 This wrestler was the son of a pro baseball player
Extra credit for who knows what Person 2 did when he was mocked for being a wrestler by another athlete, who also had something extra that should have made him twice as good as Mordecai Brown.
I'm stumped on number one, but wouldn't Dale Torborg be the answer to number two? I mean, he's since retired form wrestling.