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Author: | wordygurdy [ Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:59 pm ] |
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Candy Cummings? Isn't she appearing with Mystique and Aura at the Boom-Boom Room? How many of you were as surprised as I was that Ty Cobb didn't hold the triples record? Turns out he had 295, second on the career list. Was anyone else as surprised as I was about Rogers Hornsby's not being the .426 hitter? He had declined by the time he got to the AL. Interesting that Foxx was the first to 500 homers. I guessed Ott. I knew the answer to the first to hit 50 homers and strike out fewer than 50 times because I just last night read a quote from Johnny Mize about his doing that very thing in teammate Phil Rizzuto's "The October Twelve," which I'm reading. I had thought Don Newcombe's career had started before the Rookie of the Year award was given. My guess was Drysdale. And I thought it was the 2001 Mariners who had hit 264 homers, given that they won 116 games. But they weren't among the choices, and I knew Buhner and Griffey were on the '97 team, so I chose them. |
Author: | jjmoney62 [ Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:04 pm ] |
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I got Nap Lajoie correct. My knowledge of baseball history is very scattered ... and slipping. |
Author: | wordygurdy [ Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:28 pm ] |
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jjmoney62 wrote: I got Nap Lajoie correct.
My knowledge of baseball history is very scattered ... and slipping. Look at it this way, JJ: Your knowledge just improved with your having taken the quiz. |
Author: | Biggdbo [ Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:16 am ] |
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You know, some of my historical knowledge, including Nap Lajoie's .426, comes from playing Earl Weaver Baseball on my PC when I was a kid. That game was loaded with all-time greats, and their stats from the "best" year of their careers. Also when I was a kid, man, I soaked baseball up. Read everything I could get my hands on. Even though I was born a few years after Roberto Clemente died, he was one of my all-time favorites, just from what I read about him. Same with Hank Aaron. And, as with many baseball fans, I absolutely loved the stats - digging into the numbers, comparing this and that. So even though I haven't read much baseball lately, some of that stuck with me and helped me out a bit. |
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