Baseball Old Time Trivia Contest

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Just to make it interesting, I will add a prize of your next years membership to whoever gets all the answers correct. Bonus questions are just for fun and in Green.

  1. Give two World Series years where every game was played in the same stadium.
  2. Who was the first black player in the American League?
    indent a. Which Team?
    indent b. What Year was it?
  3. Which team was the last to integrate?
    indent a. Who was the player?
    indent b. What Year was it?
  4. Now name the first black player in Major league Baseball history (actually openly known to be black and not passing)
    indent a. Bonus points for the year & team.
  5. Who holds the record for most home runs hit at Yankee Stadium by an opposing player?
  6. What was Joseph Michael Medwick nickname?
  7. Who was called the “The Human Vacuum Cleaner”?
  8. Name the initial class of the Hall of Fame.
  9. As of 2007, who has the second most Gold Gloves as a pitcher?
  10. Who was the only announcer in baseball history traded for a player?
    indent a. What was his most famous call?
  11. There is a major but now obscure baseball controversy surrounding the inventor of the curveball. Please name the two men that are the leading candidates for this honor?
  12. Who was the last player to play a game of major league baseball that played a game in the 1800s?
  13. Who surrendered the most Homers to “The Babe”?
    indent a. What was his nickname?
  14. Who was the A’s leadoff hitter for the last 3 times that Connie Mack won?
    indent a. What was his nickname?
  15. What Major League team still in existence was called the Bridegrooms?
  16. What two players won the 3rd Chalmers Award?
  17. Under the Win Shares system, who was the best second baseman of all-time?
  18. How did Joseph Jerome McGinnity earn his famous nickname?
  19. What person has received the most World Series Shares in baseball history?
    indent a. What was his nickname?
  20. When going to a Dopefest which Baseball Hall of Famer would be most appropriate to bring?

Good Luck and have fun,
Jim

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If 30 of us get em correct are ya gonna pay for all of us?

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Damn, the first poster to get the answers correct.

Thanks for catching that.

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:smack:

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:smack: shoulda kept my mouth shut.

FREE DOPE FER A YEAR FOR EVERYONE!!!

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Off the top of my head (no googling)

  1. Larry Doby - Cleveland
    1947 (?)
  2. Pumpsie Green
    Boston Red Sox - 1959 (?)
  3. Brooks Robinson
  4. Ruth, Gherig, Matthewson, Cobb, Walter Johnson
  5. Greg Maddux
  6. (guess) Rogers Hornsby
  7. Harold Traynor
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  1. How about three?

1921-22 Polo Grounds, 1944 Sportsman’s Park

  1. Larry Doby, Indians, 1947 or 48. If I had to guess, I’d say 1948.
  2. Red Sox, 1959, Pumpsie Green
  3. One of the Walker Brothers, 1884ish, no idea what team
  4. Don’t know
  5. Ducky
  6. AARGH!! I used to know that./
  7. 1936 – Young, Cobb, Ruth, Johnson, Mathewson
  8. Jim Kaat
  9. Don’t know – but I know that the Astros traded an announcer for a manager once.
  10. One is Candy Cummings. Don’t know the other
  11. Cy Young?
    13-14. Don’t know
  12. The Dodgers were the Brooklyn Bridegrooms
    16-17. Don’t know
  13. Presumably by playing a streak of games
  14. Peter Lawrence (Yogi) Berra
  15. Don’t know.

Zev Steinhardt

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  1. 1921 and 1922, both the Yankees and the Giants used the Polo Grounds
  2. Larry Doby, Cleveland Indians, 1947
  3. Pumpsie Green, Boston, 1959
  6. Ducky
  7. Brooks Robinson
  8. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson
  9. Mike Mussina? (I think Greg Maddux is #1 for GG, Lamar)
  15. Dodgers
  17. Joe Morgan
  19. I’m thinking Yogi Berra…
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  1. Give two World Series years where every game was played in the same stadium.

1921 - NY, 1944 - St. Louis

  1. Who was the first black player in the American League?

Larry Doby

2a. Which Team?

Cleveland

2b. What Year was it?

1947

  1. Which team was the last to integrate?

Red Sox

3a. Who was the player?

Pumpsie Green

3b. What Year was it?

1959

  1. Now name the first black player in Major league Baseball history (actually openly known to be black and not passing)

Fleet Walker

a. Bonus points for the year & team.

Toledo, 1884

  1. Who holds the record for most home runs hit at Yankee Stadium by an opposing player?

Goose Goslin

  1. What was Joseph Michael Medwick nickname?

Ducky

  1. Who was called the “The Human Vacuum Cleaner”?

Brooks Robinson

  1. Name the initial class of the Hall of Fame.

Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner

  1. As of 2007, who has the second most Gold Gloves as a pitcher?

Jim Kaat

  1. Who was the only announcer in baseball history traded for a player?

Ernie Harwell

a. What was his most famous call?

“It’s gone!”

  1. There is a major but now obscure baseball controversy surrounding the inventor of the curveball. Please name the two men that are the leading candidates for this honor?

Candy Cummings, Fred Goldsmith

  1. Who was the last player to play a game of major league baseball that played a game in the 1800s?

Nick Altrock

  1. Who surrendered the most Homers to “The Babe”?

George Walberg

13a. What was his nickname?

Rube

  1. Who was the A’s leadoff hitter for the last 3 times that Connie Mack won?

Bob Dillinger

a. What was his nickname?

Duke

  1. What Major League team still in existence was called the Bridegrooms?

Dodgers

  1. What two players won the 3rd Chalmers Award?

Jake Daubert, Walter Johnson

  1. Under the Win Shares system, who was the best second baseman of all-time?

Rogers Hornsby

  1. How did Joseph Jerome McGinnity earn his famous nickname?

Starting both games of a doubleheader

  1. What person has received the most World Series Shares in baseball history?

Lawrence Berra

19a. What was his nickname?

Yogi

  1. When going to a Dopefest which Baseball Hall of Famer would be most appropriate to bring?

Uhm…Harmon Killabrew?

That was really hard - I’ll be interested to see how many I got right. Thanks, What Exit?!

ETA: Gah - sorry for spoiling my answers everyone. But, I looked most of them up…so I don’t think I should “win” I just wanted to play!

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So I don’t give too much away, I will just put the number correct next to the posters name.

Lamar Mundane: 5
zev_steinhardt: 5½ +2/3
Diomedes: 6
ZipperJJ: 14½ correct but one wrong one was an optional, but a great alternative.
indent You did great, even using a lookup. In fact, I designed this quiz, knowing people would use whatever tools were available. There are 5 questions I did not know until I wrote this up today.

Great start guys.

Jim

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For saving me from having to weasel out of a typo…

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You are paid up for an extra year.

Thank you,
Jim

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I recently re-watched (for the 4th time!) *Ken Burns’ Baseball *and was thinking about doing something like this with trivia from the series. Except I didn’t think of it until halfway through the series and all the fun “old timey” trivia had passed. A handful of your questions, though, I remember from that show. What an awesome documentary :slight_smile:

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I loved that series, it got me through that horrible strike year. I need to throw that on my Netflix Queue too.

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I have not read any other post in this thread.

  1. Give two World Series years where every game was played in the same stadium.

I’d guess 1906 and 1921.

  1. Who was the first black player in the American League?
    indent a. Which Team?
    indent b. What Year was it?

Larry Doby, Cleveland, 1947.

  1. Which team was the last to integrate?
    indent a. Who was the player?
    indent b. What Year was it?

Boston REd Sox; Pumpsie Green, in 1959.

  1. Now name the first black player in Major league Baseball history

This depends on what you define as being “Major League Baseball.” The first player is sometimes cited as being Moses Fleetwood Walker; he played for Toledo, but in the old American Association, which doesn’t exist anymore. I guess it was sort of a major league. The first to play in the major leagues as we now define them - the National or American Leagues - was Jackie Robinson, with Brooklyn in 1947.

  1. Who holds the record for most home runs hit at Yankee Stadium by an opposing player?

I’d guess Ted Williams.

  1. What was Joseph Michael Medwick nickname?

“Ducky,” which he absolutely hated.

  1. Who was called the “The Human Vacuum Cleaner”?

Brooks Robinson.

  1. Name the initial class of the Hall of Fame.

Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Mathewson and Johnson.

  1. As of 2007, who has the second most Gold Gloves as a pitcher?

Jim Kaat, since Greg Maddux just won #17.

  1. Who was the only announcer in baseball history traded for a player?

To be honest I thought this happened more than once. I know Ernie Harwell was.

  1. There is a major but now obscure baseball controversy surrounding the inventor of the curveball. Please name the two men that are the leading candidates for this honor?

Candy Cummings and, uh…

  1. Who was the last player to play a game of major league baseball that played a game in the 1800s?

Hmm.

  1. Who surrendered the most Homers to “The Babe”?

Huh.

  1. Who was the A’s leadoff hitter for the last 3 times that Connie Mack won?
    indent a. What was his nickname?

Max Bishop, aka Camera Ete.

  1. What Major League team still in existence was called the Bridegrooms?

The Dodgers.

  1. What two players won the 3rd Chalmers Award?

I know Ty Cobb was not one of them.

  1. Under the Win Shares system, who was the best second baseman of all-time?

If I’m not mistaken it’s Eddie Collins.

  1. How did Joseph Jerome McGinnity earn his famous nickname?

He was called “Iron Man” for pitching an astonishing number of innings.

  1. What person has received the most World Series Shares in baseball history?

I don’t even understand the question, really, but I’ll say Casey Stengel, and his nickname was The Ol’ Perfessor.

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BTW, I didn’t look anything up. I assumed that was against the rules.

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RickJay: 12.5

#19 means who has got the most World Series Rings, but I was afraid that would be taken too literally and went with shares instead.

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Neither was Floyd “Sugarbear” Rayford, the answer to another baseball trivia question.

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Wow! Thanks :slight_smile:
I just had my subscription renewed a few days ago,this means I got 2 years coming?

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You can check by going to User CP - Paid Subscriptions and scroll down to Expiry Date

It should hopefully show a 2009 date.

Should I post the answers that have been correct or leave people guessing for a while longer? I am leaning towards at least waiting until tomorrow for posting the answers.

Jim

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I say post the answers now - please!