I believe this was Casey Stengel, talking about the ballpark in St Louis in the mid-sixties, when they held its first all-star game there.
Definitely NOT Piniella–he was traded to the Royals at the start of the season. Maybe Mincher?
Correct on both. The 1966 All Star game was played in the newly opened Busch Stadium, the high temperature for the day was 105º.
Don Mincher was the Pilot’s representative in the 1969 midsummer classic.
Not Koufax either.
It was rescinded, and the game was continued on a later date starting from the home run he was awarded.
(question was highest career yards-per-carry)
I’m guessing Bo Jackson, based on the hint.
I’m guessing (as is everyone else) that it must be a pitcher. Was it the otherwise-forgettable Bob Buhl? I know he had some record for futility such as “most consecutive at-bats without a hit”, but it might have stretched over two seasons that each eventually featured him getting at least one hit.
Got it.
Of course you are right about the latter part, but nope, that is not it.
Yes, the Cubs’ Bob Buhl went something like 0 for 80 one season in the early 1960s.
RF1: Largest attendance at a World Cup football match ever?
RF2: Winning team in said match?
RF3: As a result, the match became popularly known as?
What was unusual about Brett’s ejection is that he wasn’t ejected by the umps. He couldn’t have been, because the game was over when he freaked out; you can’t be ejected from a game that is no longer taking place.
Brett was actually *ejected by the league president *- Lee McPhail I think, but maybe Bobby Brown, I can’t remember when Brown became AL president - once it was determined that the game would be resumed. McPhail or Brown also ejected Dick Howser. And so Brett and Howser were not allowed in the dugout when the game was continued.
Of course, lots of other things were unusual about the game - that Brett was technically ejected on a play on which he hit a home run, that he sat out on a different day, that the game involved umpires producing signed affadavits to uphold a call, it was the last game played in major league history with a lefthanded second baseman, so on and so forth. The question isn’t really fair.
That was my intended answer. You can’t deny that that is unusual.
AK1: How many players have scored a goal in two different Football World Cup Final?
AK2: Which luckless fellow was on the losing side in three Cricket World Cup Final?
AK3: This sqaush player was undefeated for 5 and a half years, a feat never seen in any other sport. Who is s/he?
AK4:Which player ended Pete Samparas’s reign as Wimbeldon Champion in 2001. (I mean who beat him).
AK1: Garrincha, and I think that’s it.
AK2: Ian Botham
AK3: Jahangir Khan?
AK4: Roger Federer, although it was Goran Ivanisevic who won the tournament.
England v. Argentina, 1986.
Argentina, 2-1.
The “Hand of God” game.
Turns out he went 0-for-70 in 1962, and also that he wasn’t as “forgettable” as I thought. Obviously a terrible pitcher wouldn’t have gotten that many opportunities to bat. Indeed, although Buhl had a 12-13 record that year, he had a career mark of 166-132, and had been an All-Star in 1960 after leading the National League in shutouts the year before.
and he was part of “Buhl and Sewell and pray for drool” too.
AK1: Zidane, Pele and Paul Bretiner have also done the same.
AK2: Beefy did not play in 1987, the person I refer to is Graham Gooch.
AK3: Yup.
AK4: Correct.
Some more;
AK5: Viv Richards only ever wore a helmet against one fast bowler; who is it? Hint; he is Usian Bolts favourite cricketer.
AK6: Which Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion was known as the “Texas Tornado?”
AK7: Which football (“soccer”) player has twice had the misfortune in playing in a Treble Horror team and being runner up in a major international competition in the same year.
AK8: In which team sport was there the longest domination by a single team at the summer olympics? And who broke it?
AK9: In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, two games had been previous finals. Which ones were they?
AK5: WAG: Wazim Akram
AK6: Kevin Schwantz? I know he’s from Texas but I don’t remember if he was called that or not.
AK8: India in (field) hockey from the 1920s to the 1950s… Pakistan or Australia, I’m guessing.
AK9: Holland/Argentina and Brazil/France?
O for 3 ain’t bad…
Hint: you need to think in black&white.
Was it the “they think it’s all over!” England v. Germany final in 1966?