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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-29-2022

Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray at Locke HS Los Angeles

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 01-29-2022

(01-29-2022, 11:15 AM)BobK Wrote:  Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray at Locke HS Los Angeles

Wow.  That was quick…..

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-29-2022

I know Ozzie Well younger than me but cal poly connection

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 01-29-2022

Watching Lydia Ko this morning.

Who was the last amateur to win an LPGA major?

Who was the last amateur to win a PGA major?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 01-29-2022

(01-29-2022, 10:55 AM)Giants Wrote:  Two Baseball Hall of Famers were also high school teammates. 

Who are they?

Frank Robinson / Curt Flood / Vada Pinson

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-29-2022

Only Robinson in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 01-29-2022

(01-29-2022, 05:25 PM)Mick Wrote:  

(01-29-2022, 10:55 AM)Giants Wrote:  Two Baseball Hall of Famers were also high school teammates. 

Who are they?

Frank Robinson / Curt Flood / Vada Pinson

They only HS teammates in the Baseball HOF are two guys Bob mentioned.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-29-2022

This question came up elsewhere awhile back and I remembered

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 01-30-2022

Who scored the first basket at USF Gym and who was the Don’s radio announcer?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-30-2022

Fred LaCour Was Charlie Range playing then? One or the other. Late 50s War Memorial opened late 50s or 1960

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 01-30-2022

(01-29-2022, 08:43 PM)Giants Wrote:  

(01-29-2022, 05:25 PM)Mick Wrote:  

(01-29-2022, 10:55 AM)Giants Wrote:  Two Baseball Hall of Famers were also high school teammates. 

Who are they?

Frank Robinson / Curt Flood / Vada Pinson

They only HS teammates in the Baseball HOF are two guys Bob mentioned.

I don't read this board enough to read all replies real-time, so I answered the question as I read it.

Frank Robinson and Ernie Lombardi both went to McClymonds, both in HoF, but obviously not on the same HS team.

Always thought Pinson had an outside shot at the HoF.  4x 200+ hit seasons, led league in doubles and triples multiple times, 250+ HRs, 300+ SBs, 4 100+ Run seasons, 2 100+RBI seasons, nearly 500 doubles, 125+ triples, almost 3,000 hits. 54.2 WAR, below 69.9 HoF average. He also answers the trivia question: Who has the most hits that is not in the Hall of Fame and no longer eligible/not yet eligible? Mr. Pinson. Just not enough. Just like Jeff Kent, most HRs by a second baseman (by a long way), not enough. Bill Freehan, 11 all star games...not enough.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-30-2022

It gets confusing when the question and maybe answer not on the most recent page
Agree on Pinson

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 01-30-2022

(01-30-2022, 10:03 AM)BobK Wrote:  Fred LaCour    Was Charlie Range playing then?  One or the other.  Late 50s War Memorial opened late 50s or 1960

Nope Bobbbbbbb. The answer is located in the Sunday Chronicle obits. You should know the announcer answer too.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 01-30-2022

The first announcer to call an MLB game on the radio was Howard Arlin, staff announcer at KDKA (the  nation's first commercial licensed radio station) on August 5, 1921 in a game featuring the hometown Pirates and the visiting Phillies.  The prior year, Arlin became the first to read the Presidential race results when Senator Harding defeated Governor Cox. KDKA could be heard in Europe and Arlin became the best-known American voice in Europe.

Arlin was also the first to announce a professional boxing match, tennis match and football game. But Arlin didn't announce the 1921 World Series, featuring the New York Giants and the New York Yankees on KDKA.  Can you guess that announcer?

Bonus trivia: Four Giants announcers have won the Ford C. Frick award. Who are they?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-30-2022

Bob Norton I had to read them all of the right age.
Announcer Bob Fouts or Don Klein or Lon Simmons

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 01-30-2022

(01-30-2022, 11:05 AM)Mick Wrote:  The first announcer to call an MLB game on the radio was Howard Arlin, staff announcer at KDKA (the  nation's first commercial licensed radio station) on August 5, 1921 in a game featuring the hometown Pirates and the visiting Phillies.  The prior year, Arlin became the first to read the Presidential race results when Senator Harding defeated Governor Cox. KDKA could be heard in Europe and Arlin became the best-known American voice in Europe.

Arlin was also the first to announce a professional boxing match, tennis match and football game. But Arlin didn't announce the 1921 World Series, featuring the New York Giants and the New York Yankees on KDKA.  Can you guess that announcer?

Bonus trivia: Four Giants announcers have won the Ford C. Frick award.  Who are they?

Hodges
Simmons
Miller
King

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(01-30-2022, 11:05 AM)BobK Wrote:  Bob Norton I had to read them all of the right age. 
Announcer Bob Fouts or Don Klein or Lon Simmons

I was thinking Bud Foster or Don Klein but they were working with Cal and Stanford at the time.  Perhaps, they moonlighted one night?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 01-30-2022

(01-30-2022, 11:40 AM)Giants Wrote:  

(01-30-2022, 11:05 AM)Mick Wrote:  The first announcer to call an MLB game on the radio was Howard Arlin, staff announcer at KDKA (the  nation's first commercial licensed radio station) on August 5, 1921 in a game featuring the hometown Pirates and the visiting Phillies.  The prior year, Arlin became the first to read the Presidential race results when Senator Harding defeated Governor Cox. KDKA could be heard in Europe and Arlin became the best-known American voice in Europe.

Arlin was also the first to announce a professional boxing match, tennis match and football game. But Arlin didn't announce the 1921 World Series, featuring the New York Giants and the New York Yankees on KDKA.  Can you guess that announcer?

Bonus trivia: Four Giants announcers have won the Ford C. Frick award.  Who are they?

Hodges
Simmons
Miller
King

Interestingly, even though King did some announcing for the Giants in 1958 - 1962, his official Ford C. Frick entry only mentions the A's, Warriors, and Raiders.  Technically, King filled in for the Giants when Lon Simmons was doing 49ers games:
https://baseballhall.org/discover/former-colleagues-remember-bill-king

He also did the Seals, and Cal football and basketball, according to his Chronicle obit article:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BILL-KING-1927-2005-Erudite-voice-of-Bay-Area-2601265.php

Actually, the last of the four credited with full time announcing of the Giants is Al Michaels, who announced for them in 1974-1976:
https://baseballhall.org/discover/awards/ford-c-frick/al-michaels

And the announcer for the 1921 New York Giants vs. New York Yankees World Series was none other than the erudite Grantland Rice.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 01-30-2022

Lon Simmons was the announcer for the first game at Memorial Gym. Where did the Dons practice before they had their own facility?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 01-30-2022

I know but I’ll defer

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 01-30-2022

St. Ignatius Gym.

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