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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 08-04-2024
Mick dateline='[url=tel:1722785387' Wrote: 1722785387[/url]']
What do these pitchers have in common (all except the last one):
Pedro Martinez
Don Drysdale
Steve Carlton
Greg Maddux
Roger Clemens
CC Sabathia
John Smoltz
Barry Zito
Jake Peavy
Blake Snell
None of them pitched a no-no.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-04-2024
(08-04-2024, 09:33 AM)Giants Wrote:Mick dateline='[url=tel:1722785387' Wrote: 1722785387[/url]']
What do these pitchers have in common (all except the last one):
Pedro Martinez
Don Drysdale
Steve Carlton
Greg Maddux
Roger Clemens
CC Sabathia
John Smoltz
Barry Zito
Jake Peavy
Blake Snell
None of them pitched a no-no.
And they all won Cy Young awards....
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - skip75 - 08-04-2024
(08-04-2024, 10:37 AM)Mick Wrote:And they all pitched at least 2 complete games(08-04-2024, 09:33 AM)Giants Wrote:Mick dateline='[url=tel:1722785387' Wrote: 1722785387[/url]']
What do these pitchers have in common (all except the last one):
Pedro Martinez
Don Drysdale
Steve Carlton
Greg Maddux
Roger Clemens
CC Sabathia
John Smoltz
Barry Zito
Jake Peavy
Blake Snell
None of them pitched a no-no.
And they all won Cy Young awards....
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 08-04-2024
Good one Skip :)
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-04-2024
(08-04-2024, 11:51 AM)skip75 Wrote:Here's the # of career complete games for each of those pitchers.(08-04-2024, 10:37 AM)Mick Wrote:And they all pitched at least 2 complete games(08-04-2024, 09:33 AM)Giants Wrote:Mick dateline='[url=tel:1722785387' Wrote: 1722785387[/url]']
What do these pitchers have in common (all except the last one):
Pedro Martinez
Don Drysdale
Steve Carlton
Greg Maddux
Roger Clemens
CC Sabathia
John Smoltz
Barry Zito
Jake Peavy
Blake Snell
None of them pitched a no-no.
And they all won Cy Young awards....
Steve Carlton, 254 (had 30 in 1972, which adds up to more than the bottom three pitchers' career complete games combined)
Don Drysdale, 167
Roger Clemens, 118
Greg Maddux, 109
John Smoltz, 54
Pedro Martinez, 46
CC Sabathia, 38
Jake Peavy, 15
Barry Zito, 12
Blake Snell, 1
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-07-2024
Who is the only U. S. President to have obtained a patent?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - PAsportsfan - 08-07-2024
I guess Carter or someone in the 1700’s
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - 82lsju - 08-07-2024
(08-07-2024, 07:40 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote: I guess Carter or someone in the 1700’s1800's
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-08-2024
1849, Abraham Lincoln.
"Lincoln's patent, No. 6,469, was granted on May 22, 1849, for a device for "Buoying Vessels Over Shoals," when he was back in Springfield practicing law after one term as an Illinois congressman in Washington. His idea, to equip boats with inflatable bellows of "india-rubber cloth, or other suitable water-proof fabric" levered alongside the hull, came as a result of river and lake expeditions he made as a young man, ferrying people and produce on the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. At least twice his boats ran aground on sandbars or hung up on other obstacles; given the Big River's ever-shifting shallows, such potentially dangerous misadventures happened often. Freeing a beached vessel usually involved the laborious unloading of cargo until the boat rode high enough to clear the snag. According to Harry R. Rubenstein, chair of the Division of Politics and Reform at NMAH, Lincoln "was keenly interested in water transportation and canal building, and enthusiastically promoted both when he served in the Illinois legislature." He was also an admirer of patent law, famously declaring that it "added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.""
Abraham Lincoln Is the Only President Ever to Have a Patent | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-09-2024
Only two MLB pitchers have won three world championships by age 25. Both have San Francisco Bay area ties. Who are they?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - skip75 - 08-09-2024
(08-09-2024, 10:42 AM)Mick Wrote: Only two MLB pitchers have won three world championships by age 25. Both have San Francisco Bay area ties. Who are they?MadBum and ???
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - terry - 08-09-2024
Maybe a Yankees pitcher in the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-09-2024
Madison Bumgarner (WS '10, '12, 14) and Vida Blue (WS '72, '73, '74)
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-10-2024
With today's victory in the USA vs. France gold medal basketball game, Steph Curry joins an exclusive club that has achieved the following:
1. Olympic gold medal
2. NBA championship
3. Regular season MVP honors
4. NBA finals MVP
Apart from Curry, eight other NBA players have those four select credentials. Who are the eight?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 08-10-2024
(08-10-2024, 07:11 PM)Mick Wrote: With today's victory in the USA vs. France gold medal basketball game, Steph Curry joins an exclusive club that has achieved the following:
1. Olympic gold medal
2. NBA championship
3. Regular season MVP honors
4. NBA finals MVP
Apart from Curry, eight other NBA players have those four select credentials. Who are the eight?
Two right off the bat…
Michael Jordan
Labron James
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - PAsportsfan - 08-10-2024
Tim Duncan
Kobe
Shaq
Magic
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-10-2024
(08-10-2024, 10:20 PM)Giants Wrote:(08-10-2024, 07:11 PM)Mick Wrote: With today's victory in the USA vs. France gold medal basketball game, Steph Curry joins an exclusive club that has achieved the following:
1. Olympic gold medal
2. NBA championship
3. Regular season MVP honors
4. NBA finals MVP
Apart from Curry, eight other NBA players have those four select credentials. Who are the eight?
Two right off the bat…
Michael Jordan
Labron James
Both correct. Three down (Jordan, James, Curry)
(08-10-2024, 10:26 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote: Tim Duncan
Kobe
Shaq
Magic
Kobe, Shaq, Magic all correct. Tim Duncan, no.
Jordan, James, Curry, Kobe, Shaq, Magic. Six down, three to go.
Hints: One of them played today.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 08-10-2024
Mick dateline='[url=tel:1723356416' Wrote: 1723356416[/url]']
Hints: One of them played today.
KD
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 08-11-2024
Bill Russell
RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 08-11-2024
(08-10-2024, 11:28 PM)BostonCard Wrote:Mick dateline='[url=tel:1723356416' Wrote: 1723356416[/url]']
Hints: One of them played today.
KD
Correct! Seven down, two to go. (Durant, Jordan, James, Curry, Kobe, Shaq, Magic). Two more hints. One played on a TX team, one played in the Northeast...
(08-11-2024, 06:59 AM)BobK Wrote: Bill Russell
Right team, wrong player.