# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/41 "2009-04-07T19:01:42Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 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. I find the won-loss records by franchise on [this page](http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/) fascinating, for some reason. A number of teams are inching up to join the Giants and Cubs with 10,000 wins. The Braves look like the next team behind the Phillies to get 10,000 losses. Here’s mine: which two of these franchises have .500 records for their entire history: A’s, Blue Jays, Mets, Pirates, Royals, Tigers, or Twins? ---
**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, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/42 "2009-04-07T22:58:38Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > 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? Mike Mussina lost both in the 9th. Was the other one Randy Johnson? Q: At age 38, he was the oldest player to have a 20 homerun/20 steals season. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/43 "2009-04-08T15:01:08Z")
Wow, I would have thought the Mets had crossed over into an all-time winning record by now. But then, I guess it takes four 90-70 seasons to make up for 1962 all by itself. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/44 "2009-04-08T15:49:36Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Q: At age 38, he was the oldest player to have a 20 homerun/20 steals season. WAG: Davey Lopes ---
**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 8, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/45 "2009-04-08T17:22:23Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Mike Mussina lost both in the 9th. Was the other one Randy Johnson? > Q: At age 38, he was the oldest player to have a 20 homerun/20 steals season. Mussina is correct, Randy Johnson isn’t. The other is Tom Browning, who threw a perfect game and then lost one in the 9th to Dickie Thon at Veteran’s Stadium, with a young Jimmy Chitwood in attendance As to the 20/20 guy, is it Sheffield? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/46 "2009-04-09T17:38:38Z")
I guess Ricky Henderson,Paul Molitor and Bonds. I will narrow it later as I try to remember that kind of September. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/47 "2009-04-09T19:29:01Z")
What player had base hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day? (I was at the second one, not that that helps you). Joel Youngblood. August 4, 1982, for the Mets at Wrigley, then for the Expos at the Vet that night. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/48 "2009-04-09T19:49:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > What player had base hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day? (I was at the second one, not that that helps you). > > Joel Youngblood. August 4, 1982, for the Mets at Wrigley, then for the Expos at the Vet that night. Even more amazing about that feat: both hits were off future Hall of Famers. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/49 "2009-04-09T19:52:37Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I guess Ricky Henderson,Paul Molitor and Bonds. I will narrow it later as I try to remember that kind of September. All good guesses and all wrong. The answer is very surprising - I had to give up and Google this one and never would have guessed it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/50 "2009-04-09T21:14:05Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Q: At age 38, he was the oldest player to have a 20 homerun/20 steals season. THIS one I finally know. It wasn’t long ago, it was on a VERY prominent team, and it was the player’s last season. (Think pinstripes.) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/51 "2009-04-09T21:18:19Z")
I first heard this question back in the late Eigties; I wasn’t sure if the answer was true then, and if it was, I’m not sure it REMAINS true today. “Of all pitchers with 20 or more decisions against the New York Yankees, who has the best winning percentage?” The SUPPOSED answer was Babe Ruth (who had a 17-5 record against the Yankees when he pitched for the Red Sox). That question gained popularity at the time because screwballer Teddy Higuera (who used to KILL the Yankees back in the Eighties) was supposedly on the verge of eclipsing that mark. So, does anybody know whether Babe Ruth WAS the right answer at the time? Or whether he’s STILL the right answer now? ---
**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 10, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/52 "2009-04-10T05:58:02Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Q: At age 38, he was the oldest player to have a 20 homerun/20 steals season. Paul O’neill, in 2001, his final season. I watched a lot of his games that season and remember thinking how odd it was that he kept stealing second successfully. His 22 steals was a career high and he was only caught 3 times. \*I just discovered that Gary Sheffield became the oldest 20/20 player in 2007, with 25 homers and 22 steals. He was also 38. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567/53 "2009-04-10T13:53:45Z")
I watched Sheff in Detroit the last few years and he still steals so easily. If an old guy like him can, whats wrong with the younger faster platers ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-is-almost-here-its-baseball-trivia-time/491567.md?page=2)