Baseball Trivia Game

[Keppinger]

Since nobody else is playing, I'm gonna guess Christy Matthewson, possibly tied with someone else, but I can't remember who.

Just read a book about the NY Giants from the John McGraw era.

Currently reading COBB, and by the way, Ty Cobb was effing crazy.

[Jeffy25]

whoops....i meant in the last three years

[Jeffy25]

Currently reading COBB, and by the way, Ty Cobb was effing crazy.

ya, phsycho is more like it

[Jeffy25]

when was the star spangled banner first played in a game?

and

who was the last player to play in the big leagues that also played in the negro leagues?

[Keppinger]

Minnie Minoso

Had to look it up!

[Keppinger]

Which player hit a homerun off Nolan Ryan on his first major league swing?

[Jeffy25]

yup, and star spangled banner was orginally played in 1918 during the seventh game of the world series, it was more or less spontaneous by the band there.

[Jeffy25]

Which player hit a homerun of Nolan Ryan on his first major league swing?

Don Keppinger? haah i have no idea.

I would assume more than a few guys.

[Keppinger]

Only one guy that I know of.

[Swampdog]

Only one guy that I know of.

Was it in this game?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...98604080.shtml

[Keppinger]

Yep, and Will Clark was the man.

[Swampdog]

Who is the only person to win twenty games on a hundred-loss team?

I should have known this, and I admit I had to look it up.

Ned Garver went 20-12 for the last place St Louis Browns (52-102) in 1951. Of course, that was also the Year of The Midget in St Louis.

Carlton would have likely duplicated the feat in 1972, had it not been for the players strike. That probably cost the last place Phils a 100 loss season (59-97), to go with Carlton's 27-10 record.

[Jeffy25]

I should have known this, and I admit I had to look it up.

Ned Garver went 20-12 for the last place St Louis Browns (52-102) in 1951. Of course, that was also the Year of The Midget in St Louis.

Carlton would have likely duplicated the feat in 1972, had it not been for the players strike. That probably cost the last place Phils a 100 loss season (59-97), to go with Carlton's 27-10 record.

I would have guessed Carlton, but wouldn't have assumed i was right, but he had an incrible year, on a terrible team.

[Jeffy25]

what record did this team manage to get?

[Francoeurstein]

Was it the first team to use 3 different managers in the same season?