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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 09-29-2024

(09-29-2024, 11:21 AM)BobK Wrote:  At least two championships
SF
NY
LA
Philly
Chicago

Not SF, Oakland. 

Not Philly. Others are correct.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - skip75 - 09-29-2024

Boston

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 09-29-2024

Given Oakland has no major league teams I couldn’t bring myself to say them

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 09-29-2024

(09-29-2024, 01:38 PM)Mick Wrote:  

(09-29-2024, 11:21 AM)BobK Wrote:  At least two championships
SF
NY
LA
Philly
Chicago

Not SF, Oakland. 

Not Philly. Others are correct.

Philadelphia is correct.

A’s 5 while in Philly
Phillies 2
7 baseball

Eagles 4
4 football

Warriors 1 while in Philly
76ers 3 
4 NBA

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 09-29-2024

Thanks Giants

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 09-29-2024

(09-29-2024, 02:39 PM)Giants Wrote:  

(09-29-2024, 01:38 PM)Mick Wrote:  

(09-29-2024, 11:21 AM)BobK Wrote:  At least two championships
SF
NY
LA
Philly
Chicago

Not SF, Oakland. 

Not Philly. Others are correct.

Philadelphia is correct.

A’s 5 while in Philly
Phillies 2
7 baseball

Eagles 4
4 football

Warriors 1 while in Philly
76ers 3 
4 NBA

I have since discarded the article from which I took my original five (it's on the Athletic).

It's actually eight, per Encyclopedia Brittanica:

New York (35 MLB, 9 NFL, 2 NBA)
Boston (18 NBA, 10 MLB, 6 NFL)
Chicago (11 NFL, 6 MLB, 6 NBA)
Los Angeles (12 NBA, 7 MLB, 3 NFL)
Philadelphia (7 MLB, 7 NFL, 5 NBA)
Detroit (4 MLB, 4 NFL, 3 NBA)
Oakland (4 MLB, 4 NBA, 2 NFL)
Miami (3 NBA, 2 MLB, 2 NFL)
If you included the Stanley Cup, you could add Pittsburgh

Professional Sports Championships by City | Winners, Locations, Titles, & Facts | Britannica

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 09-29-2024

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At least two championships
SF
NY
LA
Philly
Chicago

Not SF, Oakland. 

Not Philly. Others are correct.

Philadelphia is correct.

A’s 5 while in Philly
Phillies 2
7 baseball

Eagles 4
4 football

Warriors 1 while in Philly
76ers 3 
4 NBA

I have since discarded the article from which I took my original five (it's on the Athletic).

It's actually eight, per Encyclopedia Brittanica:

New York (35 MLB, 9 NFL, 2 NBA)
Boston (18 NBA, 10 MLB, 6 NFL)
Chicago (11 NFL, 6 MLB, 6 NBA)
Los Angeles (12 NBA, 7 MLB, 3 NFL)
Philadelphia (7 MLB, 7 NFL, 5 NBA)
Detroit (4 MLB, 4 NFL, 3 NBA)
Oakland (4 MLB, 4 NBA, 2 NFL)
Miami (3 NBA, 2 MLB, 2 NFL)
If you included the Stanley Cup, you could add Pittsburgh

Professional Sports Championships by City | Winners, Locations, Titles, & Facts | Britannica

If we list the Bay Area as one entity, like metro Detroit, metro LA, metro Dallas, and metro NY on the list noted above (all of those cities have won at least one title while based in a suburb of the identified city), suddenly our Bay Area jumps to 19, not bad considering the first Bay Area pro franchise was established in 1946.  

Baseball 7
Football 7
Basketball 5 

Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

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Pasportsfan - PAsportsfan - 09-29-2024

(09-27-2024, 09:56 AM)skip75 Wrote:  I just learned this morning that Stanford will be only the 2nd team from California to play at Clemson - not all that surprising.  Who was the first?  And for bonus points, who was their coach?

When was the last time Clemson played in California?

(BC is not allowed to answer)

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 09-30-2024

(09-29-2024, 08:41 PM)Giants Wrote:  If we list the Bay Area as one entity, like metro Detroit, metro LA, metro Dallas, and metro NY on the list noted above (all of those cities have won at least one title while based in a suburb of the identified city), suddenly our Bay Area jumps to 19, not bad considering the first Bay Area pro franchise was established in 1946.  

Baseball 7
Football 7
Basketball 5 

Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

If you reordered the list dating from 1946 and combine the entire SFBA, then the Bay Area compares really well to other metropolitan regions. The SFBA currently ranks #6 all-time with 19 as you cite. SFBA leapfrogs:

- Detroit (which loses three Stanley Cups, two world series championships, and one NFL championship resulting in 16)
- Chicago (total 29, loses five NFL titles, two stanley cups, and four world series dropping their total to 18, one behind SFBA)

That places the SFBA fourth since WWII.

(per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_by_number_of_professional_sports_championships

(09-29-2024, 08:41 PM)Giants Wrote:  
Note: One of the Raiders Super Bowl championships was won while they were based in LA.

Right, that was accounted for accurately. The Raiders had two Super Bowl wins in Oakland, one in Los Angeles.

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(09-29-2024, 09:24 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote:  

(09-27-2024, 09:56 AM)skip75 Wrote:  I just learned this morning that Stanford will be only the 2nd team from California to play at Clemson - not all that surprising.  Who was the first?  And for bonus points, who was their coach?

When was the last time Clemson played in California?

(BC is not allowed to answer)

Wild guess...pre-integration, and the allusion to BC...I'm guessing 1951.

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RE: Pasportsfan - skip75 - 09-30-2024

(09-29-2024, 09:24 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote:  

(09-27-2024, 09:56 AM)skip75 Wrote:  I just learned this morning that Stanford will be only the 2nd team from California to play at Clemson - not all that surprising.  Who was the first?  And for bonus points, who was their coach?

When was the last time Clemson played in California?

(BC is not allowed to answer)

My first thought was - never.  But Levi's stadium hosted the national championship game a few years ago in the midst of Clemson's glory days, so I'm thinking that's the answer.

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Pasportsfan - PAsportsfan - 09-30-2024

(09-30-2024, 08:53 AM)skip75 Wrote:  

(09-29-2024, 09:24 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote:  

(09-27-2024, 09:56 AM)skip75 Wrote:  I just learned this morning that Stanford will be only the 2nd team from California to play at Clemson - not all that surprising.  Who was the first?  And for bonus points, who was their coach?

When was the last time Clemson played in California?

(BC is not allowed to answer)

My first thought was - never.  But Levi's stadium hosted the national championship game a few years ago in the midst of Clemson's glory days, so I'm thinking that's the answer.

Correct!

BC and I attended (not together)

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RE: Pasportsfan - BostonCard - 09-30-2024

(09-30-2024, 08:58 AM)PAsportsfan Wrote:  Correct!

BC and I attended (not together)

Ha, when I saw the question, my first thought was "why wouldn't PAsportsfan want me not to answer the question", and my second thought was "I can't believe PAsportsfan remembers that I went to the national title game better than I do".  I'm getting old.

Fun game, which Clemson won (against Alabama) in a bit of a blowout.  The game was pre-pandemic (I believe 2018 or 2019).  I was there with my son, and we wound up sitting in the Clemson section, and they were wonderful and very gracious to be around.  Although we had no official rooting interests, it was hard not to root for the Tigers.  Little did I know that we would be conference rivals 5 years later...

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 09-30-2024

Who was the last player to pitch a complete game in the World Series?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 09-30-2024

Don Larsen

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-01-2024

Bumgarner

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 10-01-2024

No and no.

And not Ralph Terry in 1962.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - terry - 10-01-2024

Strasburg in 2019?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Giants - 10-01-2024

(10-01-2024, 12:03 PM)terry Wrote:  Strasburg in 2019?

No.  It was before 2019.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 10-01-2024

Tom Seaver.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-01-2024

Jack Morris in 91?  I think it was a 1-0 Twins win in 10 innings that I think Morris pitched the CG.

BC

Damn, looked it up.  Morris was the second most recent WS CG.

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