Outside Topic Sports trivia thread 2023 - Printable Version

+- The CardBoard (https://thecardboard.org/board)
+-- Forum: C-House! (https://thecardboard.org/board/forum-4.html)
+--- Forum: The CardBoard (https://thecardboard.org/board/forum-5.html)
+--- Thread: Outside Topic Sports trivia thread 2023 (/thread-24358.html)

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 05-07-2023

I’ll start. Mantle
Eddie Murphy
Pete Rose
Maury Wills

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - lex24 - 05-07-2023

(05-07-2023, 07:48 PM)BobK Wrote:  I’ll start.  Mantle

Good start!  

Mantle won 3. ‘56, 57 and ‘62.. Wills won in ‘62. Which was a joke. Mays should have won. Rose in ‘73

Murphy no.

7 players left.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 05-07-2023

Eddie Murray.
Pete Rose
Maury Wills

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - skip75 - 05-07-2023

I'll go for the low-hanging fruit - Vida Blue.
Also Chipper Jones.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 05-07-2023

Reggie Smith

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 05-07-2023

Two former Giants: Frankie Frisch and Willie McGee.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 05-08-2023

Jimmy Rollins

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - lex24 - 05-08-2023

Frisch (31)
Vida (71)
McGee (85)
———-
———-
Chipper (99)
Rollins. (07)

Leaves 2 more. Hint- one is local, one stole it from a local icon.Both between 86 and 98.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - skip75 - 05-08-2023

The local - from Leigh HS, San Jose City College, & San Jose State U - Ken Caminiti.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - lex24 - 05-08-2023

(05-08-2023, 09:44 AM)skip75 Wrote:  The local - from Leigh HS, San Jose City College, & San Jose State U - Ken Caminiti.

Caminiti is correct.  Great player.  Tragic life. One left.  Hint:  He got it.  Bonds should have.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 05-08-2023

(05-08-2023, 11:35 PM)lex24 Wrote:  

(05-08-2023, 09:44 AM)skip75 Wrote:  The local - from Leigh HS, San Jose City College, & San Jose State U - Ken Caminiti.

Caminiti is correct.  Great player.  Tragic life. One left.  Hint:  He got it.  Bonds should have.

Didn’t know the answer.  Once I looked it up (along with the stats and relative finishes of the Pirates and the answer’s team), I have to agree Bonds was clearly a better choice.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - qwerty49 - 05-09-2023

Maybe either Ozzie Smith or Tommy Herr? I’ll guess Ozzie.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 05-09-2023

It's interesting to look at the effect of WAR on MVP balloting. The MVP is sometimes the WAR leader, unless the WAR leader is a pitcher...in 2021, former Giant Zach Wheeler led the league in WAR and finished 19th in the voting. But usually, the MVP's WAR is within shouting distance of the WAR leader that year.

Not so with Willie Stargell, co-MVP in 1979. The WAR leader that year was Dave Winfield with 8.3. Schmidt had a great year, it was the year that Kingman hit 48 HRs. Phil Niekro was third in WAR, though his record was 21-20 as he led the league in both wins and losses. Stargell finished 19th in WAR, with the lowest WAR recorded for an MVP, 2.5.

BTW, Bonds won seven MVPs, but led the league in WAR 11 times.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - lex24 - 05-09-2023

(05-09-2023, 01:11 AM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Maybe either Ozzie Smith or Tommy Herr? I’ll guess Ozzie.

Nope.  Hint - Third Baseman.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 05-09-2023

I don’t recall he was a switch hitter but Howard Johnson ?

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - lex24 - 05-09-2023

(05-09-2023, 08:02 AM)BobK Wrote:  I don’t recall he was a switch hitter but Howard Johnson ?

Not Hojo.

But he did play for a team that now is in the NL East.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - terry - 05-09-2023

Terry Pendleton?

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Leftcoast - 05-09-2023

I'm guessing Alomar but didn't he spend his entire career at 2nd?

He was certainly one of the all-time great switch-hitters and is a hall of fame 2nd baseman but I'm not sure he ever won the AL MVP. He must have been very close if he didn't.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Leftcoast - 05-09-2023

Looked it up so I'm now disqualified from guessing.  I will point out the "bay area icon" hadn't made it to his local team at the time!

I DID answer my own question - Alomar was close in MVP voting several times but never actually won. Despite being a great switch hitter it's not him.

---

RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - lex24 - 05-10-2023

(05-09-2023, 10:07 AM)terry Wrote:  Terry Pendleton?

Yes!  Terry nails it.

---