Posted by d_rock97 on 1/29/2016 5:32:00 PM (view original):
took me forever to find out who it was. I searched "most consecutive 200 hit plus seasons" and it would go to 200 hit seasons. had to go through every player to find out who it was

It's this guy....and no one ever gets it right....

You can win a lot of bar bets on it as people will guess Cobb, Rose, Carew and many many others before they get to him.  Heck, the casual baseball fan probably never heard of him.

I won a few bets with friends asking them how many seasons did Ted Williams have 200 or more hits? It blows people away when you tell them that he never did it - because he walked too much.

Posted by contrarian23 on 1/29/2016 5:32:00 PM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 1/29/2016 5:32:00 PM (view original):
took me forever to find out who it was. I searched "most consecutive 200 hit plus seasons" and it would go to 200 hit seasons. had to go through every player to find out who it was

It's this guy....and no one ever gets it right....

You can win a lot of bar bets on it as people will guess Cobb, Rose, Carew and many many others before they get to him.  Heck, the casual baseball fan probably never heard of him.

Actually I should have gotten that. But I did not.  

So Ichiro broke a record set exactly 100 years before his MLB rookie season. Wow.

Now, without looking it up...


Who played the role of Jackie Robinson in the movie "The Jackie Robinson Story?"

Answer: Jackie Robinson

i just watched that movie on TCM about 2 weeks ago jackie could do alot of things but acting was'nt one of them :)

Another place you can win a lot of bar bets....

When I was a teenager in the 80s, a trivia question that frequently made the rounds went something like this....in the history of the MVP award, 9 players have won the award in consecutive seasons, and interestingly there is one at every position, including 3 outfielders. Who were they?

Well it's no longer true...it's been done a lot more often since then...but I bet most of you can name 8 of the 9 pretty quickly:

C: Berra
1B: Foxx
2B: Morgan
3B: Schmidt
SS: Banks
OF: Mantle, Maris, Murphy

But how many of you, even today, can name the only pitcher (and he remains so to this day) who won consecutive MVP awards?

As with the 200-hit guy above, unless you know this one right off the bat, I expect you will exhaust a lot of guesses before you get the right guy.

 

Honestly, Maris is the hardest one for me.  I had no idea he was that good in 1960.

Hmm...interesting...that may be true today...it was not generally true in the mid-80s.  First, his HR record was still a big deal...and so Maris was talked about a lot.  And he died young, in 1985, and at that time there was somewhat of a sentimental push to put him in the HOF, so the fact that he won 2 MVPs was pretty well known.

I knew the pitcher, but I'm a lifetime fan of the team.

Interesting fact: Hoyt Wilhelm hit a home run in his first major league at bat, then never hit another one.

Here's a pretty cool game from baseball history:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1920/B10100CLE1920.htm

It's well known for being the game in which Cleveland 2B Bill Wambsganss turned the first, and to date only, unassisted triple play in a World Series.  But there are at least 3 other noteworthy feats from the game:
1.) Cleveland's Elmer Smith hit the first grand slam in WS history
2.) Cleveland's Jim Bagby hit the first HR by a pitcher in WS history
3.) Brooklyn pitcher Clarence Mitchell was the batter who hit into the Wambsganss triple play...in his very next at bat, Mitchell grounded into a double play.  Two at bats...accounting for five outs.

If that were WIS, crazystengel would certainly have a "Believe it or don't" entry.

Who said, "One night in Pittsburgh, 30,000 fans gave me a standing ovation for catching a hotdog wrapper on the fly."?

Posted by italyprof on 1/30/2016 4:52:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 1/29/2016 5:32:00 PM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 1/29/2016 5:32:00 PM (view original):
took me forever to find out who it was. I searched "most consecutive 200 hit plus seasons" and it would go to 200 hit seasons. had to go through every player to find out who it was

It's this guy....and no one ever gets it right....

You can win a lot of bar bets on it as people will guess Cobb, Rose, Carew and many many others before they get to him.  Heck, the casual baseball fan probably never heard of him.

Actually I should have gotten that. But I did not.  

So Ichiro broke a record set exactly 100 years before his MLB rookie season. Wow.

To me the answer was not too hard... It has to be a singles hitter that played in a high offense era. Maybe someone in the 1920s-1930s or the 1890s. I can't think of a good candidate in the former time frame anyway.

Posted by rob_frazer on 2/1/2016 10:00:00 PM (view original):
Who said, "One night in Pittsburgh, 30,000 fans gave me a standing ovation for catching a hotdog wrapper on the fly."?

Dr. Strangeglove!