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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-14-2025

Name the SF Giants starting line up for the very first game 1958

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 01-14-2025

(01-14-2025, 02:02 PM)BobK Wrote:  Name the SF Giants starting line up for the very first game 1958

C Thomas
1B 
2B O’Connell
SS Bressoud
3B Lockman
LF Wagner
CF Mays
RF Alou
P Gomez 

A couple guesses and a blank on the 1B (and a correction on the auto spelling)  I’m curious re: how many I got….

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 01-14-2025

(01-14-2025, 02:02 PM)BobK Wrote:  Name the SF Giants starting lineup for the very first game 1958.

Just a WAG, I'm not really up on the 1958 Giants, but here's my try:

Irvin, Thompson, Mays, Westrum, Antonelli, Stanky, Dark, Davenport,

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-14-2025

Mays in CF
Davenport at 3B
Thomas at C
Gomez st P
O’Connell at 2B

4 to go. LF, RF, SS the easy one 1B

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 01-14-2025

(01-14-2025, 05:55 PM)BobK Wrote:  Mays in CF
Davenport at 3B
Thomas at C
Gomez st P
O’Connell at 2B

4 to go. LF, RF, SS the easy one 1B

I looked it up so I can’t guess any more.  Yikes, how did I miss the 1B?

Daddy Wags, Lockman, Bressoud and Alou were on the club but didn’t start.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-14-2025

Hall of Famer at 1B.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - cardcrimson - 01-14-2025

(01-14-2025, 08:42 PM)BobK Wrote:  Hall of Famer at 1B.

As I'm headed to Florida in a month for a conference, Orlando?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-14-2025

Cepeda at 1B. His first MLB game.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-15-2025

Daryl Spencer SS
Jim King LF
Willie Kirkland RF

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 01-15-2025

Davenport 3B
King LF
Mays CF
Kirkland RF
Cepeda 1B
Spencer SS
O’Connell 2B
Thomas C
Gomez P

Somehow I listened on the radio. Must have been Easter Break or some non-school day.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - cardcrimson - 01-15-2025

(01-15-2025, 02:59 PM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Davenport 3B
King LF
Mays CF
Kirkland RF
Cepeda 1B
Spencer SS
O’Connell 2B
Thomas C
Gomez P

Somehow I listened on the radio. Must have been Easter Break or some non-school day.

Or had the transistor radio in your pocket with an earpiece wired up through the shirt. Remember those days with the A's in the playoffs and series. . . .

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 01-15-2025

(01-15-2025, 04:29 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  

(01-15-2025, 02:59 PM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Davenport 3B
King LF
Mays CF
Kirkland RF
Cepeda 1B
Spencer SS
O’Connell 2B
Thomas C
Gomez P

Somehow I listened on the radio. Must have been Easter Break or some non-school day.

Or had the transistor radio in your pocket with an earpiece wired up through the shirt. Remember those days with the A's in the playoffs and series. . . .

LOL I do remember I was home that day in '58.  Heaven only knows why. I'm pretty sure I had all the baseball cards for the opening lineup.

Transistor radio didn't play a role for me until the '62 Series.  Everyone was tuned in except for the class nerd who was listening to Wally Schirra's orbital mission.  Our HS PE coaches let us watch on an old B&W TV in the gym instead of doing jumping jacks and running laps.

By the time the A's got good I had already graduated from LSJU.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 01-15-2025

Not a question. Just some interesting trivia. Here's the list of teams who have participated in the Rose Bowl, sorted by most frequent visits:

Southern California 34
Michigan 21
Ohio State 17
Stanford 15
Washington 15
UCLA 12
Wisconsin 10
Oregon 9
Alabama 8
California 8
Iowa 6
Illinois 5
Michigan State 5
Penn State 5
Pittsburgh 4
Washington State 4
Oregon State 3
Arizona State 2
Duke 2
Georgia 2
Mare Island 2
Minnesota 2
Nebraska 2
Northwestern 2
Notre Dame 2
Oklahoma 2
Purdue 2
Tennessee 2
Texas 2
Utah 2
Brown 1
Camp Lewis 1
Columbia 1
Florida State 1
Georgia Tech 1
Great Lakes 1
Harvard 1
Indiana 1
Miami (Fla.) 1
Navy 1
Pennsylvania 1
Southern Methodist 1
Texas Christian 1
Tulane 1
Washington & Jefferson 1

Some points of interest:

1) Stanford is still #4 all-time in # of Rose Bowl appearances. I would have thought less.
2) U$C has the most appearances, by far, of any professional football team loosely affiliated with a university ;)
3) Michigan has the most RB appearances of the original Big 10.
4) Alabama has the most appearances of any school (8) not in the Big 10 or Pac 8/10/12.
5) Iowa has the second most, with six.
6) Non NCAA participants include Mare Island Marines (1918 and 1919 WWI), Great Lakes (1919) and Camp Lewis (1918)
7) Indiana had the fewest RB appearances of the original Big 10/Pac teams, with just one. Even Cal had 8. Minnesota, Purdue and Northwestern have had only two. Oregon State has the fewest of the original Pac-8/10/12 teams with three.
8) Four Ivies have played in it, including Harvard (1920), Brown (1916), Columbia (1934) and Penn (1917).
9) Navy played in it in 1924.
10) Fewest points scored in a win, both Harvard (1920, 7-6 win over Oregon) and Columbia (1934, 7-0 over Stanford) scored seven points.
11) Most points scored in a loss, Penn State scored 49 losing to USC 52-49.
12) Fewest points scored in the only tie: California tied Washington & Jefferson, 0-0.
13) Three Rose Bowls have ended in a tie, all in the 1920s. The aforementioned Cal vs. W&J, Washington tied Navy 14-14 in 1924, Stanford tied Alabama 7-7 in 1927.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 01-15-2025

(01-15-2025, 02:59 PM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Davenport 3B
King LF
Mays CF
Kirkland RF
Cepeda 1B
Spencer SS
O’Connell 2B
Thomas C
Gomez P

Somehow I listened on the radio. Must have been Easter Break or some non-school day.

My parents let me stay home from school so I could listen to the game.  I can’t remember another occasion when I was permitted to skip school while healthy.  It was a very big day!

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 01-16-2025

(01-15-2025, 09:14 PM)Mick Wrote:  4) Alabama has the most appearances of any school (8) not in the Big 10 or Pac 8/10/12.
5) Iowa has the second most, with six.

Isn't Iowa in the Big10?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 01-16-2025

(01-16-2025, 09:20 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(01-15-2025, 09:14 PM)Mick Wrote:  4) Alabama has the most appearances of any school (8) not in the Big 10 or Pac 8/10/12.
5) Iowa has the second most, with six.

Isn't Iowa in the Big10?

BC

Yep. My misteak, the most forgettable Big 10 college.

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lex24 - lex24 - 01-16-2025

Mick dateline='[url=tel:1737045190' Wrote:  1737045190[/url]']

BostonCard dateline='[url=tel:1737044449' Wrote:  1737044449[/url]']

Mick dateline='[url=tel:1737000849' Wrote:  1737000849[/url]']
4) Alabama has the most appearances of any school (8) not in the Big 10 or Pac 8/10/12.
5) Iowa has the second most, with six.

Isn't Iowa in the Big10?

BC

Yep. My misteak, the most forgettable Big 10 college.

Really? Name me another Big 10 University (or ANY other University) that is one of UNESCO’s Cities of Literature?  It has a world class writers workshop.  A great campus. A renowned Children’s Hospital. And one of footballs coolest traditions. From an always sold out and hopping Nile Kinnick Stadium.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - terry - 01-16-2025

Interesting info. It's nice to see Stanford near the top of the list. I like seeing Stanford ahead of UCLA, Cal, and Oregon.

It looks like the only former Pac 12 schools that have never appeared in the Rose Bowl are Arizona and Colorado.

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RE: lex24 - Mick - 01-16-2025

(01-16-2025, 09:44 AM)lex24 Wrote:  

Mick dateline='[url=tel:1737045190' Wrote:  1737045190[/url]']

BostonCard dateline='[url=tel:1737044449' Wrote:  1737044449[/url]']

Mick dateline='[url=tel:1737000849' Wrote:  1737000849[/url]']
4) Alabama has the most appearances of any school (8) not in the Big 10 or Pac 8/10/12.
5) Iowa has the second most, with six.

Isn't Iowa in the Big10?

BC

Yep. My misteak, the most forgettable Big 10 college.

Really?  Name me another Big 10 University (or ANY other University) that is one of UNESCO’s Cities of Literature?  It has a world class writers workshop.  A great campus.  A renowned Children’s Hospital.  And one of footballs coolest traditions. From an always sold out and hopping Nile Kinnick Stadium.

All news to me. I know more and am more familiar with the other nine original Big 10 universities.

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RE: lex24 - Giants - 01-16-2025

lex24 dateline='[url=tel:1737045894' Wrote:  1737045894[/url]']

Mick dateline='[url=tel:1737045190' Wrote:  1737045190[/url]']

BostonCard dateline='[url=tel:1737044449' Wrote:  1737044449[/url]']

Mick dateline='[url=tel:1737000849' Wrote:  1737000849[/url]']
4) Alabama has the most appearances of any school (8) not in the Big 10 or Pac 8/10/12.
5) Iowa has the second most, with six.

Isn't Iowa in the Big10?

BC

Yep. My misteak, the most forgettable Big 10 college.

Really?  Name me another Big 10 University (or ANY other University) that is one of UNESCO’s Cities of Literature?  It has a world class writers workshop.  A great campus.  A renowned Children’s Hospital.  And one of footballs coolest traditions. From an always sold out and hopping Nile Kinnick Stadium.

I know the Iowa tradition of waving towards the Children’s Hospital (overlooking the stadium) at the end of the First Quarter is only at home games.  However, at the Music City Bowl in Nashville their fans, players and coaches all turned around to wave at the end of 1Q. As you said, one of the best traditions in the college football.

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