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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 09-25-2021

No idea on Yogi, but Dunn has the record for most strikeouts in a season, which he set 10 years ago.

BC

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Just looked up Yogi; I thought it might have something to do with his malapropisms, but nope.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 09-26-2021

Closing the loop…

Mike Krukow had 21 consecutive starts without a loss.  Webb is closing in on Kruk with 18 in a row and counting…..

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 09-26-2021

(09-25-2021, 10:44 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  No idea on Yogi, but Dunn has the record for most strikeouts in a season, which he set 10 years ago.

BC

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Just looked up Yogi; I thought it might have something to do with his malapropisms, but nope.

BC

Berra used to sit cross-legged in the on-deck circle, and one of his teammates thought he looked like a Yogi, hence the nickname.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 09-28-2021

In the movie The Babe Ruth Story who played SF native and Yankee SS Mark Koenig?
In The Lou Gehrig Story who played Babe Ruth?
In the movie The Winning Team who played Grover Cleveland Alexander?
In the movie Strategic Air Command the lead actor is pulled out of spring training and ordered back into service (as part of the Ready Reserve) to fly B52’s during the Cold War. What team had he been playing for and what was the actors real military rank after he retired from service?
What actor played pitcher Monte Stratton in the tear jerker movie The Stratton Story?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 09-28-2021

Jimmy Stewart the Stratton story
Maybe he’s also the actor pulled out of Spring training as Stewart was a general ? Or close in the Air Force and before Army air Corp

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 09-28-2021

Correct on Stewart for Stratton. Also correct for SAC. He served for years in the Air Force Reserve after service in the Army Air Corps in WW2 and retired with one star. So what MLB team is he depicted in uniform in the opening scene of the movie?

Now answer the others too.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Red80 - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 12:10 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Correct on Stewart for Stratton. Also correct for SAC. He served for years in the Air Force Reserve after service in the Army Air Corps in WW2 and retired with one star. So what MLB team is he depicted in uniform in the opening scene of the movie?

Now answer the others too.

Check your inbox, Phogge. 

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 08:11 AM)Phogge Wrote:  In the movie The Babe Ruth Story who played SF native and Yankee SS Mark Koenig?
In The Lou Gehrig Story who played Babe Ruth?
In the movie The Winning Team who played Grover Cleveland Alexander?
In the movie Strategic Air Command the lead actor is pulled out of spring training and ordered back into service (as part of the Ready Reserve) to fly B52’s during the Cold War. What team had he been playing for and what was the actors real military rank after he retired from service?
What actor played pitcher Monte Stratton in the tear jerker movie The Stratton Story?

Without looking, I think Koenig played himself and Babe Ruth played himself in the first two.  In fact, i think a lot of the ballplayers played themselves, including Meusel and Dugan.

Maybe...Ronald Reagan for Glover Cleveland Alexander?

Ted Williams, Lt. Commander.

No idea.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 09-28-2021

Bobbb got Stewart in SAC. Also in Stratton. Koenig and Ruth correct.

Mick got Reagan in The Winning Team.

All that is left is "Dutch's" MLB team in SAC.

Who played Alexander's wife in Winning Team?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 03:23 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Bobbb got Stewart in SAC. Also in Stratton. Koenig and Ruth correct.

Mick got Reagan in The Winning Team.

All that is left is "Dutch's" MLB team in SAC.

Who played Alexander's wife in Winning Team?

Either Jane Wyman or Nancy-who-would-one-day-be-Reagan.

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Two golf trivia questions:

1. Which PGA professional won the most PGA tournaments without winning a major?

2. Five women have participated in men's PGA tournaments.  Who were the five?  And which was the only one to make a cut?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 09-28-2021

Mrs. Alexander... Doris Day.

Dutch's team... St. Louis Cardinals.

In the film The Knute Rockne Story a panel of football coaches pleads its case in a Congressional hearing as voices in America seek to ban the game because of its violent nature. Name the coaches.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 05:13 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Mrs. Alexander... Doris Day.

Dutch's team... St. Louis Cardinals.

In the film The Knute Rockne Story a panel of football coaches pleads its case in a Congressional hearing as voices in America seek to ban the game because of its violent nature. Name the coaches.

Knute Rockne
Fielding Yost
Glenn "Pop" Warner
Clark Shaughnessey

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 09-28-2021

Golf... Doug Sanders?

Michelle Wie, Annika, Mickey Wright, Joanne Carner, Lucy Liu?

Warner, Alonzo Stagg. Howard Jones (SC), Bill Spaulding (UCLA), Rockne.

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Just looked at the Mick question that has stumped us. Sudden Sam McDowell.

Who is the only pitcher to win consecutive MVP awards?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - DC 86 - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 05:38 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Who is the only pitcher to win consecutive MVP awards?

Hal Newhauser.

He finished second in MVP voting the year after too.

A good trivia question is naming the back-to-back MVPs at every position.

Why did he quit his job as an Astros scout?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 09-28-2021

Probably wanted the Astros to pick a player and they picked another. Not the first scout to feel that way.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - DC 86 - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 07:52 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Probably wanted the Astros to pick a player and they picked another. Not the first scout to feel that way.

Derek Jeter (Astros picked Phil Nevin)

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 07:59 PM)DC 86 Wrote:  

(09-28-2021, 07:52 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Probably wanted the Astros to pick a player and they picked another. Not the first scout to feel that way.

Derek Jeter (Astros picked Phil Nevin)

Oops.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - DC 86 - 09-28-2021

(09-28-2021, 09:11 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(09-28-2021, 07:59 PM)DC 86 Wrote:  

(09-28-2021, 07:52 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Probably wanted the Astros to pick a player and they picked another. Not the first scout to feel that way.

Derek Jeter (Astros picked Phil Nevin)

Oops.

BC

As it turned out there were five players selected ahead of Jeter, including Stanford's Jeffrey Hammonds (who would have gone first overall if he would have compromised with Houston on his signing bonus).

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 09-29-2021

Two golf trivia questions:

1. Which PGA professional won the most PGA tournaments without winning a major?  Doug Sanders was a great guess, he won 20 PGA events and finished runner-up in four majors, missing a three foot putt to win the 1970 British Open.

Answer is Harry Cooper, 30 PGA wins, Like Sanders was runner up in four majors, two Masters and two U.S. Opens.  Cooper was born in England, father was a pro golfer (apprenticed under Old Tom Morris), they emigrated to USA when Cooper was very young.  Ironically, this prevented him from playing on the Ryder Cup and he never participated in the British Open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Cooper_(golfer)

2. Five Six women have participated in men's PGA tournaments.  Who were the five?  And which was the only one to make a cut?

Brittney Lincicome played in the 2018 Barbasol championship and shot 71-78.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias made three cuts in 1945 Los Angeles Open, Phoenix Open (33rd) and Tucson Open (42nd).

Shirley Spork, who helped found the LPGA tour, finished 105th in the 1952 NorCal/Reno Open (it didn't have a cut).

Annika Sorenstam played at the 2003 BofA Open, was +5.  She turned down future PGA invitations, didn't like the spectacle.

Michelle Wie shot a 68 at the 2004 Sony open as a 14 year old, best score for a woman in a men's PGA event and missing the cut by a stroke. She played in 8 men's PGA events overall.

Suzy Whaley was a club pro who won the 2002 Connecticut PGA open (which allowed her to play in the 2003 Greater Hartford Open), but played from the women's tees as the men played from the tips.  She played from the tips in the GHO, shooting 75-78.

https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.ATR861.html

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 09-29-2021

(09-29-2021, 05:30 AM)Mick Wrote:  Two golf trivia questions:

1. Which PGA professional won the most PGA tournaments without winning a major?  Doug Sanders was a great guess, he won 20 PGA events and finished runner-up in four majors, missing a three foot putt to win the 1970 British Open.

Answer is Harry Cooper, 30 PGA wins, Like Sanders was runner up in four majors, two Masters and two U.S. Opens.  Cooper was born in England, father was a pro golfer (apprenticed under Old Tom Morris), they emigrated to USA when Cooper was very young.  Ironically, this prevented him from playing on the Ryder Cup and he never participated in the British Open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Cooper_(golfer)

2. Five Six women have participated in men's PGA tournaments.  Who were the five?  And which was the only one to make a cut?

Brittney Lincicome played in the 2018 Barbasol championship and shot 71-78.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias made three cuts in 1945 Los Angeles Open, Phoenix Open (33rd) and Tucson Open (42nd).

Shirley Spork, who helped found the LPGA tour, finished 105th in the 1952 NorCal/Reno Open (it didn't have a cut).

Annika Sorenstam played at the 2003 BofA Open, was +5.  She turned down future PGA invitations, didn't like the spectacle.

Michelle Wie shot a 68 at the 2004 Sony open as a 14 year old, best score for a woman in a men's PGA event and missing the cut by a stroke. She played in 8 men's PGA events overall.

Suzy Whaley was a club pro who won the 2002 Connecticut PGA open (which allowed her to play in the 2003 Greater Hartford Open), but played from the women's tees as the men played from the tips.  She played from the tips in the GHO, shooting 75-78.

https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.ATR861.html

Which leads to these questions…

Who has participated in the most golf majors without a win?

Who are the two golfers to reach #1 in the Official World Golf Rankings without having won a major?

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