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Still MORE Giants trivia - Mick - 08-19-2017

1.  Who stole more bases for the Giants, Barry Bonds or Bobby Bonds?

2.  Bonds led the majors with 73 home runs in 2001.  How many other times did he lead the majors in HRs?

3.  Barry Bonds had 90+ runs scored 16 times.  How many times did he lead the league?

4.  Barry Bonds led the league 12 times in this statistical category.  Name that category.

5.  The Giants and Yankees used to share the Polo Grounds from 1921 to 1923, when the Yankees moved to the "House that Ruth Built."  What was the motivating factor in the relationship between the Giants and the Yankees that caused the Yanks to build their own stadium?



Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - vppolo - 08-19-2017

I only knew the last two without looking them up.

1)  Incredibly, both Bobby and Barry Bonds each stole 263 bases for the SF Giants.

2)  Besides the 73 HR, Barry never solo led MLB in HR, tying in '93 with 46.

3)  Barry led the NL in runs scored in '92.

4)  Knew this one:  Barry led the league in intentional walks 12 times.

5)  Knew this one:  Essentially, the NY Giants evicted the Yanks due to jealousy over their success.

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Mick - 08-19-2017

Nicely done.  For #4, I would have also accepted bases on balls with 12 seasons leading the league,

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Phogge - 08-19-2017

With all due respect Polo please don't look up the stats until the others have a chance to do it by memory. Bobbbbb is so old he remembers when Connie Mack was still playing.

Thanks!

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - BobK - 08-19-2017

I'm probably the only  living person who saw Mack Play in a suit 😀

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - qwerty49 - 08-19-2017

Not only did you see Connie Mack live, but you also saw Macbeth live.

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Stymie - 08-21-2017

Other than me, did anybody else on this board watch both Pro Baseball and Pro Football at the Polo Grounds (RIP)?

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Mick - 08-21-2017

(08-21-2017, 01:58 AM)Stymie link Wrote:Other than me, did anybody else on this board watch both Pro Baseball and Pro Football at the Polo Grounds (RIP)?


I saw pro football and pro baseball at Candlestink Park.  Does that count?

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Phogge - 08-21-2017

Nope, pretty much was chained to the Sunset District in the Fifties. Bobb and I probably fought in the right field bleachers at Seals Stadium and in the East end zone at Kezar. He would have been the scrappy little kid with the Red Rider lunchpail. I did witness the 1959 eighteen K performance by Koufax against the Giants at the LA Coliseum on a family trip to Disneyland. Won on a Wally Moon "Moonshot" over the screen in leftield. 250' down the line and you had to see it to believe it.

The opening chapter of Don Dellio's "Underworld" deals with the fate of the Bobby Thompson baseball after it cleared the Polo Grounds wall in 1951. Priceless fiction relating a story about the ball which in reality has never been brought forward.

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Stymie - 08-21-2017

Mick link Wrote:I saw pro football and pro baseball at Candlestink Park.  Does that count?

Not really, but it beats me who only went to CP once in the 20+ years I lived the the  Bay Area. It was a typical summer day. Giants vs. Phillies in the mid 60's. 45 degrees with a 40mph mist cascading over the left field wall.  Willie M. melted an inside fastball high and long and the Philly LF just looked up and watched the ball fly over his head.  The wind  caught it and it landed softly 10 feet from the fence.  Even Willie thought it was a goner and jogged to a stand up double.

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Stymie - 08-21-2017

(08-21-2017, 05:27 AM)Phogge link Wrote:The opening chapter of Don Dellio's "Underworld" deals with the fate of the Bobby Thompson baseball after it cleared the Polo Grounds wall in 1951. Priceless fiction relating a story about the ball which in reality has never been brought forward.

OT, but I still think that Dellilo's "Falling Man" is the best GAN of this millennium.  I'll check out "Underworld" to compare and contrast.  I used to think that Roth's "Great American Novel" was in fact "itself" (as the Irish say...), but I re-read it recently, and it is not, alas....

Still worth reading, nevertheless, for BB aficionados.

Re: Still MORE Giants trivia - Phogge - 08-21-2017

And I"lol catch the other Delillo. Thanks for the tip.

BTW. I think The Caine Mutiny is the GAN, ever. But I was a Navy man.