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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 08-29-2023

(08-29-2023, 11:47 AM)Giants Wrote:  Walker, Beck, Harrison - three rookie pitchers who started consecutively for SF.  The last time this happened was 2003.  Who were the pitchers?

I'm guessing Heston was one.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Giants - 08-29-2023

(08-29-2023, 01:29 PM)Mick Wrote:  

(08-29-2023, 11:47 AM)Giants Wrote:  Walker, Beck, Harrison - three rookie pitchers who started consecutively for SF.  The last time this happened was 2003.  Who were the pitchers?

I'm guessing Heston was one.

Nope.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Leftcoast - 08-29-2023

Do you count Matt Cain as a 2006 Rookie?

He debuted in 2005 and appeared in multiple 2005 games but somehow still qualified for the 2006 ROY vote and finished 5th.  So not sure if he appears in your list but he was from around that time.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - cardcrimson - 08-29-2023

(08-29-2023, 04:50 PM)Leftcoast Wrote:  Do you count Matt Cain as a 2006 Rookie?

He debuted in 2005 and appeared in multiple 2005 games but somehow still qualified for the 2006 ROY vote and finished 5th.  So not sure if he appears in your list but he was from around that time.

Probably, but the year in question was 2003.

Great question though. Looked it up, not household names, but over 25 years of major league experience among them. . . .

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Red80 - 08-29-2023

(08-29-2023, 12:15 PM)Red80 Wrote:  Which former NBA player was the last to wear Jordan's #23 before MJ was given those digits by the Chicago Bulls?

Hint: Just missed the cut with those 10 year guys.

Mike Bratz. Stanford Guard from '74-'77

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 09-03-2023

In the entire history of Sports Illustrated magazine, there has been only one cover with no caption or any text. What event does that cover celebrate?

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pasportsfan - PAsportsfan - 09-03-2023

1980 US hockey 

Pete Rozelle

Nelson Mandela

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - lex24 - 09-03-2023

(09-03-2023, 06:29 AM)Mick Wrote:  In the entire history of Sports Illustrated magazine, there has been only one cover with no caption or any text. What event does that cover celebrate?

1972. Munich.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Giants - 09-03-2023

(08-29-2023, 05:02 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(08-29-2023, 04:50 PM)Leftcoast Wrote:  Do you count Matt Cain as a 2006 Rookie?

He debuted in 2005 and appeared in multiple 2005 games but somehow still qualified for the 2006 ROY vote and finished 5th.  So not sure if he appears in your list but he was from around that time.

Probably, but the year in question was 2003.

Great question though. Looked it up, not household names, but over 25 years of major league experience among them. . . .

A belated follow-up….

Kurt Ainsworth, Jerome Williams, Jesse Foppert.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - cardcrimson - 09-03-2023

(09-03-2023, 06:29 AM)Mick Wrote:  In the entire history of Sports Illustrated magazine, there has been only one cover with no caption or any text. What event does that cover celebrate?

According to Google searches there have been three. . . .

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 09-03-2023

Miracle on Ice, USA 4, USSR 3

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Tiger Woods wins the Masters

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The death of Mickey Mantle...

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - cardcrimson - 09-03-2023

Here's another one for you, Mick. You might like this one. . . .

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 09-03-2023

Right, that's Kenny Sears, the first college basketball player on the cover of Sports Illustrated. That was (I think) two years after he and SCU went to their only Final Four trip. He was the fifth overall pick in the NBA draft, played for the Knicks and finished up his career with the San Francisco Warriors.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Giants - 09-04-2023

Only three players who were on the Giants’ 2014 World Series roster are still on a major league roster today.  Two are The Brandon’s.  Who is the third player?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Leftcoast - 09-04-2023

(09-04-2023, 12:34 PM)Giants Wrote:  Only three players who were on the Giants’ 2014 World Series roster are still on a major league roster today.  Two are The Brandon’s.  Who is the third player?

Madison Bumgarner is on Arizona's roster.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - BobK - 09-06-2023

Bum released in April

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Leftcoast - 09-06-2023

Went through the 2014?roster until I got the answer.  I’m not sure if I would have guessed this one even with 10 tries

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - BobK - 09-07-2023

Ok who is it? I sure couldn’t get it even after looking at the 2014 roster

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - Mick - 09-07-2023

Gotta be Matt Duffy. IIRC, he was a free agent who signed somewhere this year.

Also noted that Hunter Strickland's last year in the bigs was last year. He played for Cincinnati's AAA team, had an 11.45 ERA.

Also one more bit of trivia from the 2014 SFG team...former first round pick Gary Brown led the team in batting average at .429. That was three hits in seven major league at bats, the only MLB ABs he would ever have. He did well in high A, but was stymied by AA and AAA pitching. Stole a bunch of bases. Played in 2014, retired at age 26.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2023 - CowboyIndian - 09-07-2023

(09-07-2023, 08:41 AM)Mick Wrote:  Gotta be Matt Duffy.

Which, of course, brings to mind Stanford star of the 60s, 10-year major leaguer and nemesis to our own Phogge....Frank Duffy, who is now a barefoot gardener in Tucson.

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