Posted by DoctorKz on 3/19/2016 12:31:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 3/19/2016 11:37:00 AM (view original):

Posted by DoctorKz on 3/19/2016 10:17:00 AM (view original):
Name the player with the most postseason games played that was not a Yankee...and he was born in The Bronx.

Hmm...if you mean "most postseason games played by a guy who never played for NYY" then the answer (according to baseball-reference.com) is definitely Manny Ramirez. Who was not born in the Bronx.

If you mean "most postseason gamed played by a guy who was born in the Bronx AND never played for NYY" then I have no idea...but frankly that seems a lot less interesting.

Oops, is most WS games played by other than a Yankee...

WS games only??....not a Yankee....born in the Bronx

The Fordham Flash

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/23/2016 11:32:00 AM (view original):

Posted by italyprof on 3/23/2016 10:27:00 AM (view original):

First, two good quotes:

"There is no sporting event like Opening Day, with its sense of beating back the Forces of Darkness and the National Football League." - George Vecsey (writer, author "Coal Miner's Daughter" and baseball columnist for the NY Times).

"I believe that if Shoeless Joe Jackson were playing today he would have a shoe contract." - Don Mattingly


Now, three trivia questions:

Who was the last pitcher to pitch 30 complete games in a season?

Who batter holds the record for most unintentional walks?

Who stole five bases in a game without scoring a run?

For the 2nd one I'm going with Rickey Henderson. He knew when not to swing

The last pitcher to complete 30 games is Catfish Hunter in 1975 for the Yankees.

The player with the career record of non-intentional walks is Rickey Henderson.

In 1979 the Pittsburgh Pirates fell behind 3 games to 1 against the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Announcer Howard Cosell noted that up to that the Pirates had hit well over .300 going into game 5, despite being down 3-1. He pointed out that only two teams in history up to that point had batted .300 as a team in the World Series and still lost.

Who were those two teams?

One of them absolutely must be the 1960 Yankees. Not sure on the other.

Posted by italyprof on 3/24/2016 11:38:00 AM (view original):
In 1979 the Pittsburgh Pirates fell behind 3 games to 1 against the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Announcer Howard Cosell noted that up to that the Pirates had hit well over .300 going into game 5, despite being down 3-1. He pointed out that only two teams in history up to that point had batted .300 as a team in the World Series and still lost.

Who were those two teams?

I'm going with 1926 Yankees and 1931 Philadelphia Athletics

Posted by contrarian23 on 3/24/2016 12:40:00 PM (view original):
One of them absolutely must be the 1960 Yankees. Not sure on the other.

I had to look these guys up...yup, they hit .338 for the series, scored 55 runs, outscored Pittsburgh by better than 2-1, and somehow lost. Has to rank up there with 2004 as one of the great choke jobs in Yankee history.

Posted by contrarian23 on 3/24/2016 12:40:00 PM (view original):
One of them absolutely must be the 1960 Yankees. Not sure on the other.

Yes. The 1960 Yankees (who won 3 blowouts but lost the series in 7) are one.

Of the other contrarian23, I will only say that you should know it.

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/24/2016 1:06:00 PM (view original):

Posted by italyprof on 3/24/2016 11:38:00 AM (view original):
In 1979 the Pittsburgh Pirates fell behind 3 games to 1 against the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Announcer Howard Cosell noted that up to that the Pirates had hit well over .300 going into game 5, despite being down 3-1. He pointed out that only two teams in history up to that point had batted .300 as a team in the World Series and still lost.

Who were those two teams?

I'm going with 1926 Yankees and 1931 Philadelphia Athletics

No, but excellent guesses.

Posted by contrarian23 on 3/24/2016 1:37:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 3/24/2016 12:40:00 PM (view original):
One of them absolutely must be the 1960 Yankees. Not sure on the other.

I had to look these guys up...yup, they hit .338 for the series, scored 55 runs, outscored Pittsburgh by better than 2-1, and somehow lost. Has to rank up there with 2004 as one of the great choke jobs in Yankee history.

Now you are just being mean.

Posted by italyprof on 3/24/2016 3:26:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 3/24/2016 12:40:00 PM (view original):
One of them absolutely must be the 1960 Yankees. Not sure on the other.

Yes. The 1960 Yankees (who won 3 blowouts but lost the series in 7) are one.

Of the other contrarian23, I will only say that you should know it.

You are correct, I should have, for reasons I know you appreciate.

Would not have guessed it though because (a) it was a surprisingly low scoring series and (b) it didn't go 7 games. I would have figured it would have had to be another team that won a couple of high-scoring affairs but lost in 7.

One of the greatest teams of all time. Wrong ending to their season.

Everyone give up? It is the 1953 Dodgers.

Billy Martin was convinced that small Ron Guidry could never consistently win in the majors. He convinced the Yankees to shop Guidry around for all of 1977, and in SPRING OF 1978 offer him to St. Louis for Pete Vukovich, and to Toronto for Bill Singer. They both turned down the deals (!).

That year Guidry went 25-3, with a 1.74 ERA,. On June 17, Guidry struck out 18 Angels batters and the custom of the crowd standing when a home team pitcher has two strikes on a batter was born.

The Yankees, 14 1/2 games behind Boston in July went on to catch the Red Sox and beat them in a one-game playoff at Fenway Park. The biggest of many chokes by the Red Sox that have so warmed NY winters over the years.

But it all might have gone differently...

What do 1921, 1922, and 1944 have in common?

The St. Louis Browns had a winning record?