07-30-2023, 11:07 AM
I was going to guess Fidrych but I don't think that is right . . .
DIE LUFT DER FREIHEIT WEHT
Outside Topic Sports trivia thread 2023
DIE LUFT DER FREIHEIT WEHT
I was going to guess Fidrych but I don't think that is right . . .
DIE LUFT DER FREIHEIT WEHT
(07-30-2023, 08:35 PM)CompSci87 Wrote:(07-29-2023, 06:29 PM)BobK Wrote: Don’t you love trick trivia? Ricky Henderson hit 81 lead off HRs. Thus breaking up no hitters.
Well, even a leadoff single would break up a no-hitter...
True enough. I can't find the statistic (hits leading off a game), but my guess is that it would be Pete Rose, who started 3,435 games and has the most hits in history and played about 480 games more than Henderson. Ty Cobb, by comparison, has the second most hits, but only started 1,799 games.
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(07-30-2023, 08:35 PM)CompSci87 Wrote:(07-29-2023, 06:29 PM)BobK Wrote: Don’t you love trick trivia? Ricky Henderson hit 81 lead off HRs. Thus breaking up no hitters.
Well, even a leadoff single would break up a no-hitter...
True enough. I can't find the statistic (hits leading off a game), but my guess is that it would be Pete Rose, who started 3,435 games and has the most hits in history and played about 480 games more than Henderson. Ty Cobb, by comparison, has the second most hits, but only started 1,799 games.
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07-31-2023, 02:08 PM
Which quarterback has led the NFL in passer rating the most seasons?
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(07-31-2023, 02:48 PM)terry Wrote:(07-31-2023, 02:08 PM)Mick Wrote: Which quarterback has led the NFL in passer rating the most seasons?
Steve Young?
Nicely done, Terry. Steve Young led the NFL in passer rating in six separate seasons (Len Dawson did the same in the AFL).
Bart Starr did it five times. Sammy Baugh, Ken Anderson, Aaron Rodgers and Roger Staubach all did it four times each. Payton Manning did it three times. Brees, Brady, Ed Danowsky, Otto Graham, Montana, Luckman, Unitas and Kurt Warner did it twice each.
A bunch of big names did it once. Brodie. Tittle. Van Brocklin. Russell Wilson. Waterfield. Marino. Kelly. Stabler. Jurgensen. Harbaugh (I995), Griese (father) and Griese (son). Cunningham, Conerly, and Bartkowski.
And a number of big names who never led the NFL in passing. Namath. Bradshaw. Favre. Layne. Blanda. Fouts. Dawson. Aikman. Tarkenton. Plunkett. And Elway.
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(07-31-2023, 02:48 PM)terry Wrote:(07-31-2023, 02:08 PM)Mick Wrote: Which quarterback has led the NFL in passer rating the most seasons?
Steve Young?
Nicely done, Terry. Steve Young led the NFL in passer rating in six separate seasons (Len Dawson did the same in the AFL).
Bart Starr did it five times. Sammy Baugh, Ken Anderson, Aaron Rodgers and Roger Staubach all did it four times each. Payton Manning did it three times. Brees, Brady, Ed Danowsky, Otto Graham, Montana, Luckman, Unitas and Kurt Warner did it twice each.
A bunch of big names did it once. Brodie. Tittle. Van Brocklin. Russell Wilson. Waterfield. Marino. Kelly. Stabler. Jurgensen. Harbaugh (I995), Griese (father) and Griese (son). Cunningham, Conerly, and Bartkowski.
And a number of big names who never led the NFL in passing. Namath. Bradshaw. Favre. Layne. Blanda. Fouts. Dawson. Aikman. Tarkenton. Plunkett. And Elway.
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08-11-2023, 07:38 AM
This player hit his only grand slam and it was off Bob Gibson in Gibson’s last game. Who was the player and what haven’t 15 years later ?
08-11-2023, 09:18 PM
I had no idea, so I looked it up. Definitely a unique name. Also had a unique father and aunt, both in show business.
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(08-11-2023, 09:22 PM)Giants Wrote:(08-11-2023, 09:18 PM)Mick Wrote: I had no idea, so I looked it up. Definitely a unique name. Also had a unique father and aunt, both in show business.
In the lingo of the 60’s, he was a real square…
Yes, I peeked………..
Here's a hint...in this same hitter's only at bat against Dick Pole, he flew out to LF. Didn't even get to first base...
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(08-11-2023, 09:22 PM)Giants Wrote:(08-11-2023, 09:18 PM)Mick Wrote: I had no idea, so I looked it up. Definitely a unique name. Also had a unique father and aunt, both in show business.
In the lingo of the 60’s, he was a real square…
Yes, I peeked………..
Here's a hint...in this same hitter's only at bat against Dick Pole, he flew out to LF. Didn't even get to first base...
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08-12-2023, 07:03 AM
Dick Pole. Classic. Peter LaCock hit the HR off Gibson
15 years later in an Old timers game Gibson hit LaCock with a pitch. I presume a change up
15 years later in an Old timers game Gibson hit LaCock with a pitch. I presume a change up
08-12-2023, 08:32 AM
(08-12-2023, 07:03 AM)BobK Wrote: Dick Pole. Classic. Peter LaCock hit the HR off Gibson
15 years later in an Old timers game Gibson hit LaCock with a pitch. I presume a change up
His dad, Ralph Pierre LaCock, certainly wasn't a square. . . .
Free Phogge!!!! And no, crimson doesn't refer to the Tide.
(08-12-2023, 07:03 AM)BobK Wrote: Dick Pole. Classic. Peter LaCock hit the HR off Gibson
15 years later in an Old timers game Gibson hit LaCock with a pitch. I presume a change up
His dad, Ralph Pierre LaCock, certainly wasn't a square. . . .
Free Phogge!!!! And no, crimson doesn't refer to the Tide.
I am the greatest pitcher to ever come out of a California high school...a high school that produced some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Four separate pitchers from my high school have thrown MLB no-hitters, myself included.
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
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I am the greatest pitcher to ever come out of a California high school...a high school that produced some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Four separate pitchers from my high school have thrown MLB no-hitters, myself included.
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
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08-12-2023, 09:21 AM
(08-12-2023, 08:51 AM)Mick Wrote: I am the greatest pitcher to ever come out of a California high school...a high school that produced some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Four separate pitchers from my high school have thrown MLB no-hitters, myself included.
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
The Big Train - Walter Johnson.
(08-12-2023, 08:51 AM)Mick Wrote: I am the greatest pitcher to ever come out of a California high school...a high school that produced some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Four separate pitchers from my high school have thrown MLB no-hitters, myself included.
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
The Big Train - Walter Johnson.
08-12-2023, 09:22 AM
(08-12-2023, 08:32 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:(08-12-2023, 07:03 AM)BobK Wrote: Dick Pole. Classic. Peter LaCock hit the HR off Gibson
15 years later in an Old timers game Gibson hit LaCock with a pitch. I presume a change up
His dad, Ralph Pierre LaCock, certainly wasn't a square. . . .
Other that dad went by last name Marshall and named his son Peter
(08-12-2023, 08:32 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:(08-12-2023, 07:03 AM)BobK Wrote: Dick Pole. Classic. Peter LaCock hit the HR off Gibson
15 years later in an Old timers game Gibson hit LaCock with a pitch. I presume a change up
His dad, Ralph Pierre LaCock, certainly wasn't a square. . . .
Other that dad went by last name Marshall and named his son Peter
08-12-2023, 09:37 AM
(08-12-2023, 09:21 AM)Giants Wrote:(08-12-2023, 08:51 AM)Mick Wrote: I am the greatest pitcher to ever come out of a California high school...a high school that produced some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Four separate pitchers from my high school have thrown MLB no-hitters, myself included.
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
The Big Train - Walter Johnson.
That's the guy. Born in Kansas, went to Fullerton High School, along with other no-hitter pitchers including Mike Lorenzen (just pitched a no-hitter), Mike Warren (no-hitter for the A's), and Steve Busby (two no hitters for the Kansas City Royals).
And speaking of Californians, everyone knows that Joe DiMaggio owns the record with 56 consecutive games with a hit. Do you know who owns the record for most consecutive games on base? That's hits, walks and HBP. No errors, fielder's choice, swinging third strike, etc.
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(08-12-2023, 09:21 AM)Giants Wrote:(08-12-2023, 08:51 AM)Mick Wrote: I am the greatest pitcher to ever come out of a California high school...a high school that produced some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Four separate pitchers from my high school have thrown MLB no-hitters, myself included.
I was born in the Midwest and my dad moved to California to be an oil roustabout. I did the same job briefly and also learned to ride horses. I moved to Idaho, worked for the phone company, played on the phone company baseball team, where I was scouted and signed to a major league contract at age 19.
In spite of the fact that I threw sidearm, I was the premier power pitcher of my era. Shirley Povich said that I threw harder that Nolan Ryan and Robin Roberts. I still own a few MLB pitching records, and won the pitching Triple Crown three times (wins, strikeouts, and ERA). I hit .235 and have 547 career hits, most ever for a career pitcher, and I'm in the top 10 for career home runs by a pitcher. I hit 41 triples, 18 more than any pitcher. I held the record for most consecutive scoreless innings with 55 1/3rd, still the longest in the American League, and I have two streaks of 40+ consecutive scoreless innings, the only pitcher to do so. I won 38 games by a 1-0 score, which means I had more 1-0 shutout wins than Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling combined had shutouts by any score. My career WHIP was 1.06, career ERA was 2.17.
At a time when many ballplayers were ruffians and drunks, I was never in a brawl and didn't patronize saloons. I never argued with umpires.
My last year in the majors, I planned to buy a team in the Pacific Coast League. But we won our first American League pennant, and played the Giants in the World Series. Like Madison Bumgarner in an earlier age, I pitched the last four innings of game seven against a Giants team with seven Hall of Fame starters (Lindstrom, Frisch, Youngs, Kelly, Terry, Hack Wilson, Travis Jackson) and we won in 12 innings in the wildest finish of any World Series ever.
On George Washington's 204th birthday, I threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, as Washington had supposedly done, just to prove that it could actually be done. I was friendly with Presidents, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about me. Ring Lardner said "He's got a gun concealed on his person. They can't tell me he throws them baseballs with his arm."
I was the second oldest of six children and had five children myself. After baseball, I coached and was a radio announcer. My father in law was a member of Congress, and I ran for Congress, but I mixed up the speeches I was supposed to give...I gave the industrial speech to farmers and the farmers' speech to the businessmen. I lost that election.
Who am I?
The Big Train - Walter Johnson.
That's the guy. Born in Kansas, went to Fullerton High School, along with other no-hitter pitchers including Mike Lorenzen (just pitched a no-hitter), Mike Warren (no-hitter for the A's), and Steve Busby (two no hitters for the Kansas City Royals).
And speaking of Californians, everyone knows that Joe DiMaggio owns the record with 56 consecutive games with a hit. Do you know who owns the record for most consecutive games on base? That's hits, walks and HBP. No errors, fielder's choice, swinging third strike, etc.
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