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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-07-2021

Ichiro or Jimmy Rollins.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 10-07-2021

I seem to remember that one of the Alomars had a lot of at bats one year.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 10-07-2021

(10-07-2021, 03:29 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Ichiro or Jimmy Rollins.

Good call.  They are #3 (704 AB in 2004) and #1 (716 in 2007) respectively.  Willie Wilson's 705 AB in 1980 is between them.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 10-07-2021

(10-07-2021, 04:09 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(10-07-2021, 03:29 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Ichiro or Jimmy Rollins.

Good call.  They are #3 (704 AB in 2004) and #1 (716 in 2007) respectively.  Willie Wilson's 705 AB in 1980 is between them.

BC

Wow.  I checked Rollins’ PA (778* in 162 games).  4.8 PA/game with no missed games - truly amazing….

*also a big league record.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-08-2021

Only one active major league hitter is in the top forty in OPS+ adjusted. Who?

Ruth leads and is 15 points higher than the next hitter. Who is that hitter?

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BTW the first six hitters are lefties.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 10-08-2021

The record for home runs in most different ballparks is 45. Who holds it?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-08-2021

Rickey Henderson.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 10-08-2021

(10-08-2021, 08:21 AM)Phogge Wrote:  Only one active major league hitter is in the top forty in OPS+ adjusted. Who?

Trout would be my guess.

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(10-08-2021, 08:47 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  The record for home runs in most different ballparks is 45. Who holds it?

BC

I would guess a slugger who split his career evenly between American and National leagues.  Ken Griffey Jr. is my WAG.

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(10-08-2021, 08:21 AM)Phogge Wrote:  Ruth leads and is 15 points higher than the next hitter. Who is that hitter?

I would guess Williams or Gehrig.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 10-08-2021

HRs in most parks?
Bonds
McGuire
Sosa
Griffey jr

One of 4 ain’t bad

Bonds ops

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 10-08-2021

Yeah, it was slammin' Sammy.

Here are the numbers:
Sammy Sosa (45)
Ken Griffey Jr. (44)
Fred McGriff (43)
Ellis Burks (41)
Mike Piazza (40)
Gary Sheffield (40)


It's easier to do in modern times with inter-league games, expansion to 30 teams, and the spate of new ballparks.  Sosa split his career between the NL (Chicago) and the AL (Texas, Chicago, and Baltimore) so he played in (and hit home runs in) lots of different ballparks.

Interesting stat about Sosa.  He hit 60 PED-aided home runs three different times (1998, 1999, and 2001), the most career 60+ home run seasons.  But, although Sosa won the homerun crown twice (2000 and 2002), neither were in a year he hit 60+ home runs.  In 1998 and 1999 he was behind McGuire, and in 2001 he was behind Bonds.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-08-2021

Trout is correct. Williams is second. Mick wins!

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 10-08-2021

(10-08-2021, 10:27 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  Interesting stat about Sosa.  He hit 60 PED-aided home runs three different times (1998, 1999, and 2001), the most career 60+ home run seasons.  But, although Sosa won the homerun crown twice (2000 and 2002), neither were in a year he hit 60+ home runs.  In 1998 and 1999 he was behind McGuire, and in 2001 he was behind Bonds.

'Roids gave rise to some interesting single-season HR statistics, like Sosa's as you pointed out.  Everyone knows Barry Bonds hit 73 in 2001.  Less known is that Barry never had another season in which hit sixty home runs.  Or even fifty.  His next most was 49, the season prior in 2000.  And next most was 46. In fact, if you take away his 73 HR season, Bonds' numbers look a lot like Aaron's.

And speaking of Aaron, the 1973 Braves hit 206 HRs.  Must have been something in the water.  NL teams that year averaged 0.80 HRs per game, about average for the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

The 39 year old Aaron hit 40 HRs.  Davey Johnson hit 43 and didn't hit more than 20 HRs in any other season.  Soon-to-be-Giant Darrell Evans hit 41. Evans hit 40 as a 38 year old, then 29 and 34 as a 39 and 40 year hold.  He hit 30 his last year with the GIants, otherwise, his HR totals were between 10 and 25 per season over a 21 year career.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 10-08-2021

Missed this, but a couple weeks ago, but Nelson Cruz became the oldest player, at age 41, to hit 30 home runs in a season.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-11-2021

More baseball nicknames. Who was/is?

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"Ding-A-Ling"
"Vincent Van Go"
"Ugly"
"Biscuit Pants"
"Ol Stubblebeard"
"Old Tomato Face"
"Wagon Tongue"
"Spanky"

"Donora Greyhound"

Some HOFers, some obscure

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 10-11-2021

Schooz. Ernie Lombardi

Old Aches and Pains. Like Appling

Puddinhead by Fave Willie Jones

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-11-2021

Bobbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb got two.

And Bobbb, name the rest of the Phillie infield in the pennant winning 1950 season.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 10-11-2021

The etymology of the word "soccer" is actually British in origin.  It was the term that upper-class Brits gave to association football. In fact, "Soccer" predates the term "football" in terms of publicized usage by 18 years:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/

In 1863 or so, there was "rugby football" and "association football" with the latter referring to soccer.  Rugby was often nicknamed "Ruggers" and "Soccer" was nicknamed "Asoccer" then "Soccer" then "Soccer football."  The English didn't start using the term "Football" until 1881 and America already had "football" so they adopted "soccer" as the term, as did Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/

Other fun facts:

1) The first US Soccer group was called "United States Soccer Football Association."  So we incorporated the term from the beginning.
2) Early American football was played more with feet, there was a lot more kicking going on, dropkicks, placekicks and so forth.  Also, "football" was a generic term for any sport played while running in the mid-19th century.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 10-11-2021

Willie Jones
Granny Hammer
Hmm
OF Del Ennis
Richie Ashburn

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 10-11-2021

Mike Goliat at second, Eddie Waitkus at first. Hamner you got, SS.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 10-11-2021

I was coming back for Waitkus. Dick Sisler Of.

I have never heard of Goliat

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