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RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Giants - 01-05-2023
Mays, Mantle, Snider. None of the others. Four left to go.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - lex24 - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 10:46 AM)Giants Wrote: Mays, Mantle, Snider. None of the others. Four left to go.
Andruw Jones. Dale Murphy. Piazza. Cal Ripken
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BobK - 01-05-2023
Griffey Jr
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - lex24 - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 11:51 AM)BobK Wrote: Griffey Jr
Bingo. He was the one I missed (shouldn’t have). Murphy fell 2 HRs short.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Phogge - 01-05-2023
Trees down everywhere. Both our exits closed. PG&E overwhelmed. Hoping to get out tomorrow to have an extra day in Santa Clara prepping for Niners/Cards.
We lost a giant Laurel which the kids used to swing over the canyon below. They could get about 30' into the air but we've been worried about it for years. Whew, missed our writers cottage.
Very little computer time with no power. Rigged a Yeti and will have about an hour.
Good guess Mick... 1946. 115 wins and perhaps the all time ML attendance. Sal Taormina played on that team and on the'57 winners. Coached at Santa Clara when I played at State. Got a recruiting visit from SC coach Paddy Cottrell but nothing came of it.
it's kinda fun being banned. Just like JUG at SI.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Mick - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 02:47 PM)Phogge Wrote: Trees down everywhere. Both our exits closed. PG&E overwhelmed. Hoping to get out tomorrow to have an extra day in Santa Clara prepping for Niners/Cards.
We lost a giant Laurel which the kids used to swing over the canyon below. They could get about 30' into the air but we've been worried about it for years. Whew, missed our writers cottage.
Very little computer time with no power. Rigged a Yeti and will have about an hour.
Good guess Mick... 1946. 115 wins and perhaps the all time ML attendance. Sal Taormina played on that team and on the'57 winners. Coached at Santa Clara when I played at State. Got a recruiting visit from SC coach Paddy Cottrell but nothing came of it.
it's kinda fun being banned. Just like JUG at SI.
Didnt realize SI had JUGs (Judgment Under God) too, though it makes sense. My sons never had one, and I always wondered what happened to the students who received weekend jugs. I found out when I volunteered to help out at at BCP track meet. I ran the long jump, which meant I had to oversee two sullen, unhappy BCP students whose job it was to rake the long jump pit flat after every competitor's jump. A little over 100 competitors, three jumps each, 300+ rakes, and yours truly had to admonish them when it wasn't raked flat enough.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BobK - 01-05-2023
I have raked many a long jump triple jump pit. Always fun
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Mick - 01-05-2023
When was the last man killed by a grizzly bear in California, what was his name, and what was his connection to Stanford?
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BostonCard - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 02:47 PM)Phogge Wrote: Trees down everywhere. Both our exits closed. PG&E overwhelmed. Hoping to get out tomorrow to have an extra day in Santa Clara prepping for Niners/Cards.
We lost a giant Laurel which the kids used to swing over the canyon below. They could get about 30' into the air but we've been worried about it for years. Whew, missed our writers cottage.
Very little computer time with no power. Rigged a Yeti and will have about an hour.
Good guess Mick... 1946. 115 wins and perhaps the all time ML attendance. Sal Taormina played on that team and on the'57 winners. Coached at Santa Clara when I played at State. Got a recruiting visit from SC coach Paddy Cottrell but nothing came of it.
it's kinda fun being banned. Just like JUG at SI.
Stay safe, my friend!
BC
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - CompSci87 - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 05:26 PM)Mick Wrote:(01-05-2023, 02:47 PM)Phogge Wrote: Trees down everywhere. Both our exits closed. PG&E overwhelmed. Hoping to get out tomorrow to have an extra day in Santa Clara prepping for Niners/Cards.
We lost a giant Laurel which the kids used to swing over the canyon below. They could get about 30' into the air but we've been worried about it for years. Whew, missed our writers cottage.
Very little computer time with no power. Rigged a Yeti and will have about an hour.
Good guess Mick... 1946. 115 wins and perhaps the all time ML attendance. Sal Taormina played on that team and on the'57 winners. Coached at Santa Clara when I played at State. Got a recruiting visit from SC coach Paddy Cottrell but nothing came of it.
it's kinda fun being banned. Just like JUG at SI.
Didnt realize SI had JUGs (Judgment Under God) too, though it makes sense. My sons never had one, and I always wondered what happened to the students who received weekend jugs. I found out when I volunteered to help out at at BCP track meet. I ran the long jump, which meant I had to oversee two sullen, unhappy BCP students whose job it was to rake the long jump pit flat after every competitor's jump. A little over 100 competitors, three jumps each, 300+ rakes, and yours truly had to admonish them when it wasn't raked flat enough.
JUG was a new one on me, though I went to a Jesuit university. This article suggests a different etymology: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1996/03/16/who-got-jug/3af1ad57-ccfd-4f3d-981b-7f294fda7bc8/
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BobK - 01-05-2023
Name the 4 Hall of Fame baseball pitchers with more HRs than Ozzie Smith ?
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Giants - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 02:07 PM)lex24 Wrote:(01-05-2023, 11:51 AM)BobK Wrote: Griffey Jr
Bingo. He was the one I missed (shouldn’t have). Murphy fell 2 HRs short.
Yep. Six HOFers plus one (Jones) who might be elected later this month.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - skip75 - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 09:24 PM)BobK Wrote: Name the 4 Hall of Fame baseball pitchers with more HRs than Ozzie Smith ?Great question!
Don Drysdale comes to mind immediately. I'll have to think a bit harder to come up with more.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Giants - 01-05-2023
(01-05-2023, 10:02 PM)skip75 Wrote:(01-05-2023, 09:24 PM)BobK Wrote: Name the 4 Hall of Fame baseball pitchers with more HRs than Ozzie Smith ?Great question!
Don Drysdale comes to mind immediately. I'll have to think a bit harder to come up with more.
I would add Warren Spahn.
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BobK - 01-06-2023
Spahn and Drysdale are two.
Two to go
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Mick - 01-06-2023
(01-06-2023, 07:19 AM)BobK Wrote: Spahn and Drysdale are two.
Two to go
Don Newcombe. And Babe Ruth ... ;)
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BobK - 01-06-2023
No on Ruth and Newcombe
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Mick - 01-06-2023
(01-05-2023, 06:59 PM)Mick Wrote: When was the last man killed by a grizzly bear in California, what was his name, and what was his connection to Stanford?
I thought this was fun trivia. If you've been to the Pacific Ocean coast where Santa Cruz County meets San Mateo County, you've seen Waddell Creek. William W. Waddell (not William B. Waddell, founder of the Pony Express) had made a fortune in Missouri, lost it, and in 1861 moved to what is now Big Basin State Redwood Park where he commenced building a logging operation, along with chutes and two piers. In 1875, he was the last Californian mauled by a grizzly bear. He survived long enough to make it to a doctor, but succumbed to his injuries.
William Waddell's Arm
The logging business fell apart, and farmers took over the Waddell Watershed. In 1912, Thomas Hoover, the Dean of Stanford's Engineering school and brother to Herbert Hoover, purchased property from a dozen of those farmers and built several houses for his family. The Hoover family kept the housing until donating everything to the oldest state park in California -- the Big Basin Redwood State Park and the Sempervirens Fund in 1977, which is adjacent to the Thomas J. Hoover Natural Preserve.
History of Waddell Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Basin_Redwoods_State_Park
On idyllic days, my buddies and I would get an inflatable raft, pack up some refreshments and paddle up the creek as far as we could go. Great times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddell_Creek_(California)
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - BobK - 01-06-2023
Love the history Mick.
Back to HRs both of the two not yet named have NY Yankee connections
RE: Sports Trivia 2023 - Mick - 01-06-2023
(01-06-2023, 08:33 AM)BobK Wrote: Love the history Mick.
Back to HRs both of the two not yet named have NY Yankee connections
Allie Reynolds?