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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Leftcoast - 05-08-2026

Tough question due to the 1946 timing since there was no football in the years prior to that because of WWII.  I've got few clues - must be pre-WWII players coming back to football, right?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 05-08-2026

All graduated 1941-42 or close some played pro then military for all 4

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Leftcoast - 05-08-2026

(05-08-2026, 10:59 AM)BobK Wrote:  All graduated 1941-42 or close some played pro then military for all 4

Hmmhhh ... That's Chuck Taylor time, of tailgate grove fame, but I don't remember any 49er association?  Maybe Albert's backfield counterparts in the t-formation? Perhaps Standlee?

(Well, along with the grove Taylor was also an all-american, AD, and Wow boy but thank god for that grove!)

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 05-08-2026

Norm Standlee and Frankie Albert are two. Then a Guard and an End. Qwerty where are you ? You knew the End

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 05-08-2026

(05-08-2026, 01:18 PM)BobK Wrote:  Norm Standlee and Frankie Albert are two. Then a Guard and an End. Qwerty where are you ?  You knew the End

Hmmm I was thinking Billy Wilson or Gordy Soltau but neither of them went to Stanford.  Some more senior brain cells fading away, LOL.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 05-08-2026

Ok. Bruno Banducci and the Dean of Boys Fremont HS of Sunnyvale Hank Norberg

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 05-08-2026

Banducci, Gallarneau?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 05-08-2026

(05-08-2026, 02:43 PM)BobK Wrote:  Ok.  Bruno Banducci and the Dean of Boys Fremont HS of Sunnyvale Hank Norberg

Ha ha I was a good boy and never had to spend time in Dean Hank's office.  :)

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 05-10-2026

Two current major league baseball players have the same unique first and last name. They were both drafted by the same team, though one plays for another team. Both have the same birthday (August 25), born 12 years apart. They are unrelated.

Who are these players?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - HalloHaleakala - 05-10-2026

(05-10-2026, 06:35 AM)Mick Wrote:  Two current major league baseball players have the same unique first and last name. They were both drafted by the same team, though one plays for another team. Both have the same birthday (August 25), born 12 years apart. They are unrelated.

Who are these players?

Max Muncy!

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 05-10-2026

(05-10-2026, 07:23 AM)HalloHaleakala Wrote:  

(05-10-2026, 06:35 AM)Mick Wrote:  Two current major league baseball players have the same unique first and last name. They were both drafted by the same team, though one plays for another team. Both have the same birthday (August 25), born 12 years apart. They are unrelated.

Who are these players?

Max Muncy!

You are correct!
2 MLB players named Max Muncy have mind-blowing things in common for Dodgers, A's | Sporting News

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 05-11-2026

Upcoming RHP starter Trevor McDonald has 25 innings of MLB experience across five appearances. Three have been starts. In those three starts, he has 21 strikeouts, allowed one walk and two earned runs in 20 innings.

Only one other MLB pitcher since 1913 has recorded 20+ more strikeouts than walks, along with two or fewer earned runs in their first three MLB starts. Name that pitcher.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 05-11-2026

(05-11-2026, 02:27 PM)Mick Wrote:  Upcoming RHP starter Trevor McDonald has 25 innings of MLB experience across five appearances. Three have been starts. In those three starts, he has 21 strikeouts, allowed one walk and two earned runs in 20 innings.

Only one other MLB pitcher since 1913 has recorded 20+ more strikeouts than walks, along with two or fewer earned runs in their first three MLB starts. Name that pitcher.

Valenzuela?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 05-12-2026

(05-11-2026, 05:07 PM)Giants Wrote:  

(05-11-2026, 02:27 PM)Mick Wrote:  Upcoming RHP starter Trevor McDonald has 25 innings of MLB experience across five appearances. Three have been starts. In those three starts, he has 21 strikeouts, allowed one walk and two earned runs in 20 innings.

Only one other MLB pitcher since 1913 has recorded 20+ more strikeouts than walks, along with two or fewer earned runs in their first three MLB starts. Name that pitcher.

Valenzuela?

You are correct, Sir! Fernando Valenzuela is the only other pitcher to have achieved that feat.

Trivia question: who wore #7 for the Broncos before John Elway? Cal grad, Craig Morton, who passed away recently at the age of 83. 

When I was running track in high school, former Campbell HS of SJ/Cal Bears/Denver Bronco/Dallas Cowboy QB Morton used to visit our field and throw passes to whoever he could find. Incredible arm. Took over for Don Meredith as a Cowboy, went 10-2-1, led the Cowboys to their first NFC title in 1970, lost a Super Bowl, then lost another Super Bowl as a Bronco. Played in the NFL for 18 years. He was the John Elway of Cal, never playing on a winning team in three seasons as a starter. Still named first team all american and beat Gale Sayers and Joe Namath in Hiesman voting (won by John Huarte of Notre Dame).

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 05-12-2026

Couple of SF Giant teasers from the deep recesses of my memory:

1) Who got beaned his first day in the big leagues?  Who beaned him? (I was at that game, and you could hear ball crack bone up in the stands)

2) Heliot Ramos got some ink recently for being the first Giant in a while to start in LF two Opening Days in a row.  Who started in LF for the Giants their first day in San Francisco?

3) Who hit the first HR by an SF Giant?  Off whom?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Papa John - 05-12-2026

(05-12-2026, 07:08 PM)Mick Wrote:  <snip>

He was the John Elway of Cal, never playing on a winning team in three seasons as a starter. 

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Splitting hairs here, but John Elway played on a winning team at Stanford in 1980, which happened to be my freshman year. We went 6-5, and the team was ranked in the top 20 for several weeks. But the season lost its luster when we went splat in the last two games vs the University of Satan's Children and Cal. Would have gone to a bowl game--I think the Peach?--if we had beat Cal (and let's not bring up 1982, OK?).

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 05-13-2026

(05-12-2026, 09:15 PM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Couple of SF Giant teasers from the deep recesses of my memory:

1) Who got beaned his first day in the big leagues?  Who beaned him? (I was at that game, and you could hear ball crack bone up in the stands)

2) Heliot Ramos got some ink recently for being the first Giant in a while to start in LF two Opening Days in a row.  Who started in LF for the Giants their first day in San Francisco?

3) Who hit the first HR by an SF Giant?  Off whom?

1) Jim Ray Hart
2) Leon Wagner?  I know Mays and Kirkland were in center and right but I’m guessing “Daddy” Wags in LF. 
3) A guess - Cepeda off Drysdale?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 05-13-2026

1. Jim Ray Hart is correct. It was the 2nd game of a doubleheader after he got a couple of hits in the opener. Any guess who beaned him?

2. Not Daddy Wags.

3. Cepeda did go yard off DD that day but someone else got to Big Don first.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 05-13-2026

Jim King in LF.
Daryl Spencer SS HR

My friend says Bob Gibson beaned Jim Ray Hart

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 05-13-2026

(05-13-2026, 04:57 AM)BobK Wrote:  Jim King  in LF. 
Daryl Spencer SS HR

My friend says Bob Gibson beaned Jim Ray Hart

BobK rocks!

Story has it that Mays saw Jim Ray digging in with his feet and started yelling from the dugout to warn him not to do that against Gibby. Jim Ray found out the hard way. I was in the lower boxes down by 1st and could hear the crack when the ball hit him. Broken collarbone. Out six weeks but I guess he didn’t learn his lesson — Curt Simmons got him a day or two after he came back.

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