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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 07-06-2025

(07-06-2025, 09:31 AM)BobK Wrote:  Trivia. This pitcher 20-6 record in two leagues and won the Cy Young.  Traded during the season the only Cy Young winner to pitch in two leagues and win the award. Who?

I think you're talking about Gaylord Perry, Cy Young winner with the Indians and the Padres...I think.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 07-06-2025

(07-06-2025, 11:35 AM)Mick Wrote:  

(07-06-2025, 09:31 AM)BobK Wrote:  Trivia. This pitcher 20-6 record in two leagues and won the Cy Young.  Traded during the season the only Cy Young winner to pitch in two leagues and win the award. Who?

I think you're talking about Gaylord Perry, Cy Young winner with the Indians and the Padres...I think.

Not Perry.  He won his Cy Young’s by pitching a complete season with each club.

BC is looking for a player who was traded during the season in which he won the award.  Great Q.  I don’t know the answer.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 07-06-2025

W/respect to the greatest single season, I'll go with Pedro Martinez in 2000, because:

 - Posted a 1.74 ERA during the height of the steroid era in which leaguewide ERA was 4.92. For perspective, Clemens finished second in ERA that season with a 3.70!
 - His ERA+ was 291, best of the Modern Era (since 1900).
 - Posted the lowest-ever WHIP of any pitcher to throw more than 50 innings in a season at 0.7373.
 - Led the league in strikeouts with 284, shutouts with four, fewest HRs per nine innings, most strikeouts per nine innings.
 - Walked just 32 hitters, though he admittedly hit 14 batters.
 - Best single season strikeout to walk ratio in AL history.
 - Gave up one or fewer runs in 17 of his 29 starts.
 - 15 double digit strikeout performances including 17 in a 1-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
 - He went 18-6. In his six losses, he had 60 strikeouts, eight walks and gave up 30 hits with a 2.44 ERA and averaged eight innings/start.

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(07-06-2025, 11:51 AM)Giants Wrote:  

(07-06-2025, 11:35 AM)Mick Wrote:  

(07-06-2025, 09:31 AM)BobK Wrote:  Trivia. This pitcher 20-6 record in two leagues and won the Cy Young.  Traded during the season the only Cy Young winner to pitch in two leagues and win the award. Who?

I think you're talking about Gaylord Perry, Cy Young winner with the Indians and the Padres...I think.

Not Perry.  He won his Cy Young’s by pitching a complete season with each club.

BC is looking for a player who was traded during the season in which he won the award.  Great Q.  I don’t know the answer.

Got it. No idea.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 07-06-2025

Rick Sutcliffe 4-5 in the AL 16-1 with the Cubs all in 1984.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 07-06-2025

Nolan Ryan gave up only one walk off HR in his career
What former Catcher hit it ?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PAsportsfan - 07-06-2025

Johnny Bench???

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 07-07-2025

Bob Brenly.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 07-07-2025

I know too hard. The catcher became a famous manager

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 07-07-2025

(07-07-2025, 07:15 AM)BobK Wrote:  I know too hard.  The catcher became a famous manager

Bochy?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 07-07-2025

Bochy is correct

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 07-09-2025

No right answers, just curious as to your opinion.

Who is the best MLB player never to have made an All-Star team (in the All-Star team era)?
Tough call. Maybe Eric Karros, former Rookie of the year. Five seasons 30+ HRs and 100+ RBIs. No All Star. Mike Torrez had 185 wins, most wins by pitcher to not make an All Star team.

Which player had the best single season but did not make an All-Star team?

For me, it's Don Newcombe, 1956. Newcombe had already made three All-Star teams prior to serving two years in Korea and one All Star team in 1955 when he went 20-5. But in 1956, he exploded. 27-7, won the MLB Cy Young Award (just one was given in both leagues that year) and won the Most Valuable Player, had league best WHIP. Didn't make the All-Star team. Next most wins were Antonelli and Spahn with 20. Robin Roberts (19-18), who led the league in losses that year and the next year, made the all star team, as did Joe Nuxhall (13-11) and Bob Friend (17-17), who started for the NL.

McCormick's Cy Young year, he went 22-10. No All Star. Mays, Haller and Marichal made it that year from the Giants. And Bryce Harper, Jimmy Rollins, Justin Morneau, Chipper Jones, Juan Gonzalez, Terry Pendleton, Willie Stargell, Kirk Gibson. Dave Parker, Hank Greenberg and Robin Yount all won MVPs but didn't make the all star team. Greenberg's was most interesting. Led the AL with 25 HRs and 101 RBIs at the All-Star break in 1952, but there was this fella named Gehrig in front of him, and Gehrig played all nine innings the two prior all star games. They didn't even have another first baseman on the team. And Greenberg went on to become the first unanimous MVP.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 07-09-2025

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6475374/2025/07/08/mlb-all-quarter-century-never-all-star-team/

Apropos your question, I just saw this article.  Pretty amazing that Mike Mussina didn’t go to an all star game in this century.  Of course he went to an all star game five times in the 90’s so he wouldn’t be a good answer to your question.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 07-18-2025

Who has the most PGA tour earnings without having won a tournament.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 07-18-2025

(07-18-2025, 06:56 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  Who has the most PGA tour earnings without having won a tournament.

BC

Point of clarification: does that include overseas golfers who have won overseas but haven't won in the USA? And does it include American golfers who have won on the mini-pro tours, but haven't won on the PGA tour?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 07-18-2025

It is a foreign player, but it’s money he’s made on the PGA tour.  He’s won foreign events, but never PGA ones.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 07-19-2025

Fleetwood not Mick but can’t recall first name

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - terry - 07-19-2025

Isao Aoki?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 07-19-2025

(07-19-2025, 06:56 AM)BobK Wrote:  Fleetwood not Mick but can’t recall first name

Tommy Fleetwood has never won a PGA event, that's true. 34 years old, 9th in FedEx Cup standings, five top 10s already this year, over $31 mms. in career earnings. Eight international wins. Been on PGA Tour since 2018, has played in 160 events.

Parallel question: most successful golfer to have never won a major? Probably Matt Kuchar, 47 years old, nine-time winner on tour, 15 runners up, 16 third place finishes, 119 Top 10s, $61 million in official winnings. Lost the 1996 U. S. Amateur to Tiger Woods. Was the low amateur at both The Masters and the U. S. Open. 4x Ryder Cup, 5x Presidents Cup, 3x World Cup. Led 2010 tour in winnings. No majors. Best majors finish, 2nd at The Open in 2017, third at the Masters in 2012, 6th at the U. S. Open in 2010 and seventh at the PGA in 2015.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 07-19-2025

Nice job Bob.  Tommy Fleetwood is the answer:

https://www.wsj.com/sports/golf/tommy-fleetwood-pga-tour-british-open-037bf216?st=PNoBms&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

He’s #5 in the World Golf Rankings and the only one in the top-25 never to have won a PGA tournament.

Quote:All those shortfalls haven’t stopped Fleetwood from profiting off his skills. He has earned $31.2 million in PGA Tour events, mostly thanks to 42 top-10 finishes. That also puts him in a league of his own: No player without a PGA Tour title is within $10 million of his earnings.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 07-19-2025

(07-19-2025, 08:32 AM)Mick Wrote:  

(07-19-2025, 06:56 AM)BobK Wrote:  Fleetwood not Mick but can’t recall first name

Tommy Fleetwood has never won a PGA event, that's true. 34 years old, 9th in FedEx Cup standings, five top 10s already this year, over $31 mms. in career earnings. Eight international wins. Been on PGA Tour since 2018, has played in 160 events.

Parallel question: most successful golfer to have never won a major? Probably Matt Kuchar, 47 years old, nine-time winner on tour, 15 runners up, 16 third place finishes, 119 Top 10s, $61 million in official winnings. Lost the 1996 U. S. Amateur to Tiger Woods. Was the low amateur at both The Masters and the U. S. Open. 4x Ryder Cup, 5x Presidents Cup, 3x World Cup. Led 2010 tour in winnings. No majors. Best majors finish, 2nd at The Open in 2017, third at the Masters in 2012, 6th at the U. S. Open in 2010 and seventh at the PGA in 2015.

IMO, Lee Westwood holds the title of greatest w/o a major.

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