# Fun Baseball Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023 "2007-08-09T15:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/21 "2007-08-10T03:10:59Z")
What former manager of the New York Yankees recorded five career putouts using the schoolyard favorite, the Hidden Ball Trick. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/22 "2007-08-10T07:15:09Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] Rusty Torres didn’t accomplish all that much in his 9 year major league baseball career, but something happened to him THREE times that never happens to most major leaguers at all. What was it? Hint: It had absolutely nothing to do with him personally- he just happened to be playing each time it happened! [/QUOTE] I don’t know how to do the spoiler box, so… SPOILERS!!! He was present during 3 declared forfeits. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/23 "2007-08-10T08:08:54Z")
Who was the winner of the longest game in professional baseball history? ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/24 "2007-08-10T13:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] Who was the winner of the longest game in professional baseball history? [/QUOTE] Bobby Ojeda Who was in the on-deck circle when the winning run was scored in the longest game in professional baseball history? Hint - he’s in the Hall of Fame. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/25 "2007-08-10T13:41:55Z")
Who was the winner in the longest game in professional history? Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2, 33 innings, June 23, 1981 Who was in the on-deck circle when the winning run was scored in the longest game in professional baseball history? Hint - he’s in the Hall of Fame. Wade Boggs (just a guess) ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/26 "2007-08-10T13:49:05Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Who was the winner in the longest game in professional history? Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2, 33 innings, June 23, 1981 Who was in the on-deck circle when the winning run was scored in the longest game in professional baseball history? Hint - he’s in the Hall of Fame. Wade Boggs (just a guess) [/QUOTE] This is why I love this place - you went with the winning team, I went with the winning pitcher and we are both right. And you are also correct with the on-deck hitter. And of course, the game actually started in April, and wrapped up in 1 inning in June. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/27 "2007-08-10T13:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Actually, there are five. **John C. Reilly** (nom for **Chicago** , played a catcher in **For Love of the Game** ) [/QUOTE] Actually there are six… **Tom Berenger** was nominated for **Platoon** and played a catcher in **Major League**. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/28 "2007-08-10T21:19:38Z")
Who was in the on-deck circle when Bobby Thompson hit his famous “Shot Heard Round The World” to help the Giants win the pennant over the Dodgers in 1951? Hint: He was a rookie at the time. Willie Mays ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/29 "2007-08-11T01:54:30Z")
[QUOTE=Moonchild] 5 Cy Young Award winners are also convicted felons: Denny McClain, Vida Blue, Lamarr Hoyt, Ferguson Jenkins & Dwight Gooden [/QUOTE] And I went to the same high school as one of them. Hoyt ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/30 "2007-08-11T18:48:28Z")
Three trivia questions it should not take long to answer: 1. The only baseball player in major league history to catch his own home run (I forget his name but I know one of you won’t.) 2. The only professional pitcher ever known to have struck out 27 in a 9 inning game (he needed a dropped third strike in the 9th to do it.) 3. The only two pitchers in major league history to strike out their age or better in a 9 inning game. (E.g. a 22 year old pitcher striking out 22 or more batters.) ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/31 "2007-08-11T18:59:06Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 1. The only two pitchers in major league history to strike out their age or better in a 9 inning game. (E.g. a 22 year old pitcher striking out 22 or more batters.) [/QUOTE] One is Kerry Wood, who struck out 20 when he was twenty. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/32 "2007-08-11T21:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] One is Kerry Wood, who struck out 20 when he was twenty. [/QUOTE] correct if someone tells me how to do the spoiler thing i will post the answers errr, except number 1 ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/33 "2007-08-11T21:24:08Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 2. The only professional pitcher ever known to have struck out 27 in a 9 inning game (he needed a dropped third strike in the 9th to do it.) [/QUOTE] Without looking: Ron Necciai, or something like that, in a lower-minor league game somewhere in NC or Virginia (Appy League, maybe), in the 1950s or 1960s, I think. Was a Pirates farmhand at the time, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/34 "2007-08-11T21:29:25Z")
[QUOTE=rackensack] Without looking: Ron Necciai, or something like that, in a lower-minor league game somewhere in NC or Virginia (Appy League, maybe), in the 1950s or 1960s, I think. Was a Pirates farmhand at the time, IIRC. [/QUOTE] So I got the name, league, state, ML affiliation, and basic timeframe right. Was a little earlier than I thought. [Details here](http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ron_Necciai). ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/35 "2007-08-12T01:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] Three trivia questions it should not take long to answer: 1. The only baseball player in major league history to catch his own home run (I forget his name but I know one of you won’t.) 2. The only professional pitcher ever known to have struck out 27 in a 9 inning game (he needed a dropped third strike in the 9th to do it.) 3. The only two pitchers in major league history to strike out their age or better in a 9 inning game. (E.g. a 22 year old pitcher striking out 22 or more batters.) [/QUOTE] 4. The answer is Dixie Walker in 1949 at Ebbets Field. It is/was referenced on wikipedia on the “Pittsburgh Pirates” page but has since been removed as there was no citation provided. Does anyone know if this happened? Walker’s home run supposedly got stuck in the screen and when he took his postion in the outfield he shook the screen until the ball came down and he caught it. 5. Ron Necciai is, of course, correct 6. Kerry Wood is correct, the other answer is Bob Feller who struck out 17 at the age of 17. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/36 "2007-08-12T02:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] I don’t know how to do the spoiler box, so… SPOILERS!!! Rusty Torres was present during 3 declared forfeits. [/QUOTE] Exactly right. As far as I know, there have been only 4 games forfeited in my lifetime, and Rusty Torres was in the lineup for three of them. In 1971, Torres was a rookie with the Yankees. He was playing in the last game of the season at RFK Stadium against the Senators. The fans were in a foul mood both because the Senators were finishing up another awful season AND because they just learned the Senators were moving to Texas. Between angry fans and people tearing up the field to get souvenirs, the game became unplayable, and it was forfeited. A few years later, Torres was traded to the Indians along with Johnny Ellis, Jerry Kenney and Charlie Spikes (the Yankees got Chris Chambliss and Dick Tidrow- Gabe Paul was a feaking genius, what can I say?). Torres was playing for the Indians on 10 Cent Beer Night in 1974, when drunk fans attacked Rangers right fielder Jeff Burroughs. Billy Martin and the Rangers charged the field with bats to beat off the fans. The game was forfeited. A few years later, Torres was traded to the White Sox. He was pencilled in to play the outfield in the second game of a twilight doubleheader against the Tigers, but between games, a local radio station was holding an anti-disco rally. That rally turned ugly, and the game was forfeited. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/37 "2007-08-12T04:09:56Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] Gabe Paul was a feaking genius, what can I say? [/QUOTE] // Bitter Cleveland fan hat on. Gabe Paul was a frickin’ fraud. He was GM in Cleveland, moved to NY and took what little talent Cleveland had with him. (Tidrow, Chambliss and Graig Nettles, who the Indians traded for { expletive deleted } Charlie Spikes. // Bitter Cleveland fan hat off. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/38 "2007-08-12T06:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] 1. Ron Necciai is, of course, correct [/QUOTE] Didn’t [Sidd Finch](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/24/finch_flash/) do this (strike out 27 in a 9 inning game). Also, didn’t he do it in 81 pitches, without even a foul ball. I may be mistaken but I also think he’s also the only pitcher to top 160 mph on a radar gun. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/39 "2007-08-12T16:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] // Bitter Cleveland fan hat on. Gabe Paul was a frickin’ fraud. He was GM in Cleveland, moved to NY and took what little talent Cleveland had with him. (Tidrow, Chambliss and Graig Nettles, who the Indians traded for { expletive deleted } Charlie Spikes. // Bitter Cleveland fan hat off. [/QUOTE] He also traded Lindy McDaniel for Lou Piniella and Danny Cater for Sparky Lyle. He may have screwed the Indians, but don’t deny the man was smart. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023/40 "2007-08-12T16:50:39Z")
One of my favorite questions: Besides being among the greatest home run hitters of all time, what do Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays have in common? (Hint: it has nothing to do with their home run numbers) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-baseball-trivia/415023.md?page=3)