# Opening Day Is Almost Here, It's Baseball Trivia Time **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 1, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567 "2009-04-01T12:43:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/21 "2009-04-06T02:30:43Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Braves Heck no. 1914 Miracle Braves. You got all the rest of them (good job on Don Newcombe) but you need two friends for Lonnie Smith. Here’s a big hint: One of them got there by being on two _different_ teams that prevented Lonnie Smith from being the only man to win the World Series with FOUR different teams. **R6.** As I mentioned, the Phillies were the last original-16 franchise to win the World Series for the first time. Of course, for 28 years they were the only original 16 franchise to have only won the World Series once. Now that they’ve won it twice, what are the only other two original franchises who have just two World Series wins? \*\*R7. \*\* What major league franchise has won the most games? Hint: It isn’t the Yankees. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/22 "2009-04-06T03:03:10Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Some of my own: > > R3. Name any three players who have won the World Series with three different franchises. (there are more than three.) Jack Morris was one, and presumably he’s the guy who were saying kept Lonnie Smith from winning more. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/23 "2009-04-06T03:08:23Z")
Oh, and Dave Stewart… who knew Toronto figured so heavily in this question. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/24 "2009-04-06T03:47:44Z")
You’re right, of course. For R4 I meant to write Browns/Orioles, but somehow “aves” ollowed naturally from the “Br.” R6. Cubs and Indians R7. Cubs? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/25 "2009-04-06T04:10:00Z")
R4. Dodgers. “Even more than I love the Yankees, I hate the Dodgers. I couldn’t stand to have them win a World Series. That team has \*never \*won a World Series”–Applegate, to Joe Boyd R7. The Reds have had the most time, so… Edit–Oh, I guess it is the Browns. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/26 "2009-04-06T21:04:53Z")
Nobody’s gotten R7 yet though you’re on the right track. R8. Of the 14 expansion teams, 13 have losing records for their history; only one of them has won more regular season games than it has lost. (No, it’s not the Blue Jays.) Which team is it? R9. Of whom did Lefty Gomez say, “He has muscles in his hair”? R10. Since we’re on expansion teams, who was the first player for an expansion team to win a major playing award (e.g. MVP, Cy Young, or Rookie of the Year)? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/27 "2009-04-06T23:43:41Z")
1. Rockies? 2. Charlie Keller? 3. Tom Seaver? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/28 "2009-04-07T03:00:46Z")
All good guesses, but no. [spoiler] R1 - Answered correctly, Mike Schmidt hit 548 home runs, all with Philadelphia. Every player with more homers than Schmidt played for more than one team. R2 - Answered correctly, Garry Maddox. I just like the nickname. R3 - Smith, Morris and Stewart are all correct, and there are others. R4 - The Browns/Orioles, correctly answered, in 1966. R5 - Answered correctly, Don Newcombe. R6 - Answered correctly, the Cubs (1907-1908) and Indians (1920, 1948) R7 - The Giants have won more games than any other franchise. R8 - Arizona has won more games than they’ve lost, the only expansion team that can say that. R9 - Jimmie Foxx, aka The Beast. R10 - Dean Chance, who won the 1964 Cy Young Award for the Angels.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/29 "2009-04-07T07:45:23Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Which pitcher has had 3 no-hitters broken up with 2 outs in the ninth innning? I know **Mike Mussina** had one broken up with 2 outs in the eighth, another with one out in the ninth and a perfect game broken up with 2 outs in the ninth. I used to think of him as “Mr. Almost” until he finally won 20 games/season on the very last day of last season. That was after reaching 19 wins twice, and 18 three times. For a guess, I’ll say **Nolan Ryan** since he had so many. It will suck if it’s someone who never got one. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/30 "2009-04-07T14:55:17Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Which pitcher has had 3 no-hitters broken up with 2 outs in the ninth innning? Gotta be Tom Seaver. Joe “Tarzan” Wallis broke up one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/31 "2009-04-07T15:32:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Who is the only major leaguer to win championships in two professional sports? Bo Jackson? > [@](#): > > Which pitcher has had 3 no-hitters broken up with 2 outs in the ninth innning? Curt Schilling. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/32 "2009-04-07T15:54:32Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You mean Gene Conley, who also pitched for the Braves and White Sox? I thought the answer was Deion Sanders. Gene Conley is correct–3 times with the Celtics, and was on the world champion 1957 Milwaukee Braves. [QUOTE=RickJay] R8. Of the 14 expansion teams, 13 have losing records for their history; only one of them has won more regular season games than it has lost. (No, it’s not the Blue Jays.) Which team is it? [/QUOTE] The Los Angeles/California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Re: the pitcher who has had 3 no-hitters broken up after 8 2/3 innings–the one I’m thinking of finally did get his no-no, and was the first to do it for his franchise. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/33 "2009-04-07T16:01:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Which pitcher has had 3 no-hitters broken up with 2 outs in the ninth innning? Dave Stieb, including two starts in a row in 1988, then the third in 1989, and then he finally no-hit the Indians in 1990. He had also had a no-hitter broken up in the ninth in 1985, though not with two out. He was the first and so far last Blue Jay to pitch a no-hitter. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/34 "2009-04-07T16:01:52Z")
I believe the answer to the no-hitter question is Dave Stieb, and two of them came in consecutive starts or close to it. (edited to add: well, fine, then). In the same vein, two pitchers have taken two perfect games into the 9th inning; one completed one and lost the other while the other lost both in the 9th. Who are they? The multiple sport question is a freaking doozy: Gene Conley, who I’ve only ever heard of as the answer to this question, and who I had to google to make sure I had the first name right. He was a pitcher and a reserve for the Celtics. What early baseball legend was supposedly renowned for his practice of sprinting directly across the diamond to take extra bases when the umpire was looking elsewhere? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/35 "2009-04-07T16:11:30Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > I believe the answer to the no-hitter question is Dave Stieb, and two of them came in consecutive starts or close to it. (edited to add: well, fine, then). > > In the same vein, two pitchers have taken two perfect games into the 9th inning; one completed one and lost the other while the other lost both in the 9th. Who are they? > > The multiple sport question is a freaking doozy: > > Gene Conley, who I’ve only ever heard of as the answer to this question, and who I had to google to make sure I had the first name right. He was a pitcher and a reserve for the Celtics. > > What early baseball legend was supposedly renowned for his practice of sprinting directly across the diamond to take extra bases when the umpire was looking elsewhere? The pitcher who lost both was Tom Seaver; the one who got one and lost one was Randy Johnson. (I think) The answer to the second question was, I believe, Rabbit Maranville. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/36 "2009-04-07T16:19:04Z")
Wow, I missed the answer to the Stieb one by a couple seconds but I REALLY missed the Conley thing. I was under the impression I had read the thread, too. I’ll never secretly call anyone else an asshole in my head for doing that again. **want2know** : no, no, and not the one I’m thinking of, believe it or not. Although I was going to ask a Rabbit Maranville question, oddly enough (which Hall of Famer was demoted to the minors for a full season in his 30s and returned to play 6 more full seasons in the majors). ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/37 "2009-04-07T16:47:58Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > What early baseball legend was supposedly renowned for his practice of sprinting directly across the diamond to take extra bases when the umpire was looking elsewhere? Mike “King” Kelly (I think) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/38 "2009-04-07T17:01:31Z")
Here’s one for trivia contests in future seasons: Who are the only two players to hit 2 home runs, one from each side of the plate, on Opening Day? Felipe Lopez and Tony Clark of the D-Backs yesterday! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/39 "2009-04-07T17:17:11Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Mike “King” Kelly (I think) Correct. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/40 "2009-04-07T18:40:03Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > The Los Angeles/California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Somewhat surprisingly, no, they have a losing record, and would take several years of top notch baseball to get them over .500. The answer’s in my post with the spoiler. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567.md?page=3)