Who was the first female general manager in professional baseball?
Which four cities have hosted all of a single season’s World Series games?
Chicago - Cubs / White Sox 1906
New York - Various years, most recently Mets / Yankees 2000
St Louis - Cardinals / Browns 1944
Arlington - Dodgers / Tampa Bay 2020 (covid)
Go back even further and there were the Ottawa Senators (NHL) and the Washington Senators (MLB)
And Edmonton Oilers (NHL) and Houston Oilers (NFL). I’ve been asking this question for so long, that was a correct answer when I started.
Even further back, St. Louis Browns (MLB) and Cleveland Browns (NFL).
Who are on that list twice, since one of their incarnations became the Texas Rangers.
The Ottawa Senators are too–they were early members of the NHL until the thirties I think (overlapping with the original Washington Senators before they became extinct), as well as members of the NHL in their current iteration (during which they did not overlap with a Washington team).
And before that there was a [New York Yankees franchise in the NFL](New York Yankees (NFL) - Wikipedia from 1926-1929 and a New York Yanks franchise (which oddly enough started as the Boston Yanks) in 1950-1951.
There was also a Brooklyn Dodgers team in the NFL in the 1930s.
Last but not least, there was a New York Yankees team in the All-American Football Conference, but the team did not survive the AAFC/NFL merger. Their best players were divided between the New York Giants and the New York Bulldogs, who changed their name to the New York Yanks.
At one time or another, mostly in the 1930s, NFL teams included the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Washington Senators.
Didn’t the CFL have the Ottawa Rough Riders and Saskatchewan Roughriders at the same time?
For a long time, in fact.
But for a few years the Ottawa Rough Riders were called - the Ottawa Senators.
More fun with names: the Evansville Triplets were at one time the AAA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
Still more fun with team names:
The Memphis South Stars were once the minor league affiliate of the NHL’s Minnesota North Stars (before they moved to Dallas).
The Cincinnati Swords were once the minor league affiliate of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
With the recent passing of Brooks Robinson, I learned something interesting and that I didn’t know before: Brooks has hit into the most triple plays in history, four of them. Never would have guessed a hitter hitting in that many triple plays, much less it would be him.
It makes sense. He played for 23 years which is well above average. He was a line drive hitter. He was very slow. The Baltimore Sun obituary called him pigeon towed and slow of foot. The rest is bad luck.
There only 3 players who hit into three triple plays in their career: Deacon McGuire, George Sisler & Joe Start. And all 3 of those guys played in the 1800s and/or early 1900s.
Brooks was a complete anomaly in that department.
Apparently with Brooks, it was about half bad luck:
He lined into his first triple play, a fairly standard 6-6-3 in 1958.
He grounded into a 6-6-4-3-2 triple play in 1964, but the third out was Luis Aparicio trying to score from second.
He grounded into another one the next year that went 5-4-4-3-5, with Paul Blair slipping when trying to get back to third and getting tagged out for the triplet killing.
His also grounded into his last one in 1967, a fairly standard 5-4-3 that you could pretty much put on him.
Eliminate the four triple plays, and Robinson had 10 hits in 13 at-bats (.769), scored four times and drove in four runs. “I must have felt guilty,” he said.
Interestingly enough, he also started three 5-4-3 triple plays in his career, giving him a career triple-play differential (a statistic I just made up) of only -1.
6-6-4-3-2? So the shortstop threw it to himself?
Not really much of a trivia question, but more of a factoid:
Who has more career NFL rushing yards, Bo Jackson or Jim Harbaugh?
Harbaugh has 2,787 career rushing yards. Bo knows he had 2,782
The “6-6” part means the shortstop made a put out (caught a line drive) and then threw it to the second baseman for an assist.
I kinda wondered about the notation too.
That was true for Brooks’s 6-6-3 that started with a lineout, but the 6-6-4-3-2 started with a grounder, as did the 5-4-4-3-5.
So I’m very confused about the notation. It’s not about recording a putout-assist combination (else the 6-6-3 would be a 6-6-6-3, and 5-4-4-3-5 would go 5-4-4-3-3-5).
Can anyone with a better scoring background help?
Except the original quote was
(My bolding)
The linked article states:
Robinson batted with the bases loaded and hit a ground ball to shortstop in the fifth inning of what became a lopsided Orioles victory in Washington Sept. 10, 1964. (It was his MVP season, incidentally.) Shortstop John Kennedy to second baseman Don Blasingame to first baseman Joe Cunningham to catcher Mike Brumley. Your basic 6-6-4-3-2 triple play.
Why there is a ‘6-6’ baffles me. I think it should be 6-4-3-2.