Most recent player to hit home runs in his first TWO major league at-bats?
(I sure hope I’ve got the right info on this one…)
1892 line: 1 GS, 1 CG, 9 IP, 0 H, 4 BB, 3 K, 0.00 ERA.
Career line: 7 GS, 3 CG, 41.7 IP, 42 H, 37 BB, 10 K, 7.99 ERA.
Who scored baseball’s millionth run?
OK, to clean things up…
The actual first home run in the Astrodome was hit by Richie Allen. If you count Mantle’s exhibition homer, you have to count Dick’s batting practice homer as well.
The guy Lou Gehrig really replaced was Pee Wee Wanninger, whom he pinch-hit for the day before he took over for Wally Pipp. Tricky, yes?
The guy who scored the millionth run in MLB history is Bob Watson, in 1975.
That should take care of the unanswered questions.
Easy one to get us started again: Who was the only man to die in a Major League Baseball game?
Oh, you can still get fool even major trivia buffs with the name.
Who was the only player present the day Gehrig started his streak and the day he ended it?
Pipp, who was in the stands when Gehrig took himself out of the lineup
As to the answer: Ray Chapman
And I’ll ask a new one, too: What hall of famer did Babe Ruth replace in right field when he was traded to the Yankees?
Semi-major nitpick. Chapman wasn’t declared dead on the field, in fact he died the following day at the hospital.
However, a few years ago an umpire suffered a fatal heart attack during a game in Cinncinatti.