Stiles' Nearly Impossible Baseball Trivia (Sept 1, 2007)
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by Manny Stiles
"Trivia" means you wont find the answers on a sortable stats webpage.
Ten not-so-easy questions that will rack your brain until you beg me to give you the answers... which I will give you by sometime Monday night.
Manny Stiles' Nearly Impossible Baseball Trivia!
Question #1- Above .500
We'll start off with an easy one - Everyone knows that the Yankees have the longest current streak of winning seasons (above .500) with 14 consecutive seasons. Which franchise is second?
- Hint - it's not the Braves.
Answer: Boston Red Sox
(Answered by: Romiezzo)
Question #2 - Winning Early and Often
What MLB team has the best record during the first game of a series this season?
- Hint - This team has spent time in first place of their division in each of the last two seasons.
Answer: Florida Marlins
(Answered By: Manny Stiles)
Question #3 - In a Pinch
What team leads the Majors in pinch hits (by a sizable margin)?
- Hint - I'm not giving you a hint. That's a hint enough.
Answer: St. Louis Cardinals
(Answered By: False Prophet
Question #4 - Coming from Behind
Entering September, which three MLB teams have the highest percentage of their victories as come-from-behind victories? Hell, get ANY of them for partial credit.
- Hint - none of them are currently above .500
Answer: Rangers, Marlins, Devil Rays (respectively)
(Answered by:Kelsdad, False Prophet, and User:Manny Stiles)
Question #5 - Decisions, Decisions
Friday night Tim Wakefield, for the first time all season did not get a decision in a game he started ending his streak at 26 consecutive starts with a decision from the begining of the season (the 6th longest such streak since 1957)
Who has the longest streak of decisions to start a season (since 1957) with 40!??!
- Hint - He's in the Hall of Fame.
Answer: Gaylord Perry
(Answered by: Silencer76)
Question #6 - Hits!!!
Carl Crawford had two hits against the Yankees in the Tampa Bay Rays ass-whoopin' of the Yankees Friday night. That gave him 50 hits during the month of August; which made him only the 27th player in Major League history to perform the feat of 50 hits in a calendar month.
But another player had 53 hits in a month this season. Who is he?
- Hint- He is NOT in MLB's top 53 in hits this season.
Answer: Chone Figgins
(Answered by: Silencer76)
Question #7 - Loyalty Makes for Great Trivia
Two active players have accumulated 2000 hits, 450 doubles, 250 HR and 1,000 RBI, all for the same franchise. Who are they?
- Hint - The easy answer is Craig Biggio. Now get the other.
Answer: Garret Anderson
(Answered by: Romiezzo)
Question #8 - High Five
What player is often credited with the invention of (or at least the innovation and naming) the "high-five"?
- Hint- He played in the 1977 World Series and was also the first MLB player to publically announce his homosexuality.
Answer: Glenn Burke
(Answered by: Silencer76)
Question #9 - Mashing Middle Infielders
Dan Uggla has hit at least 25 HR in each of his first two seasons while playing at least 100 gmes at Second Base.
Who did it first? (and actually did it for his first three seasons)
- Hint - He isn't in the Hall of Fame
Answer: Joe Gordon
(Answered by: Romiezzo)
Question #10 - Start Looking It Up, Because You Don't Know The Answer
Who was the Russian born pitcher that was the first 300 game winner in Japanese Professional Baseball history? He had 251 more complete game starts than non-complete game starts - He died at age 40 while driving drunk into a train with 303 wins.
- Hint - It's not Wally Yonamine (first American born player integrated in the Japan League in 1951, as well as first American in Japan Baseball Hall of Fame) because he was not Russian and NOT a pitcher!
Answer: Victor Starffin
(Answered by: Silencer76)
Extra Credit
It's an easy one - There's only ONE current manager in MLB that never played Minor League baseball. Who is he?
- Hint - There are no hints on extra credit.
Answer: Dave Trembley
(Answered by: Silencer76)
Don't worry if you didn't get them all, you shouldn't
Sorry, if you heard some of these, I doubt you've heard them all.
If you did get them all, you need to go outside more...
- Thanks for playing!
