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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-18-2021

OK I have come up with The Ripkins and Milt and Frank Bolling. Have no clue on the third.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-18-2021

Granville “Granny” Hammer and LOL never heard of brother Garvin who played only in 1945

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-18-2021

Isn't Garvin a writer based in Miami?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-18-2021

No he moved back to his roots in Albuquerque.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - cardcrimson - 03-18-2021

What happened to the MLB / Giants thread?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 03-18-2021

(03-18-2021, 08:34 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  What happened to the MLB / Giants thread?

This is the thread formerly titled "MLB thread" that was about 90% a major league trivia thread and maybe 10% a Giants thread.  I got a request to split the two threads, leaving one thread (this one, subsequently renamed to "Sports Trivia thread") to be the trivia thread, and a separate thread (https://thecardboard.org/board/showthread.php?tid=21717) to be a Giants thread.

I didn't have it in me to manually curate all the posts and decide which one went to which thread, but since most of the Giants stuff was older, it was probably less relevant.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - cardcrimson - 03-18-2021

Damn, I forgot the sarcasm emoji again. . . .

I do appreciate the comprehensive reply though!

(03-18-2021, 08:40 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(03-18-2021, 08:34 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:  What happened to the MLB / Giants thread?

This is the thread formerly titled "MLB thread" that was about 90% a major league trivia thread and maybe 10% a Giants thread.  I got a request to split the two threads, leaving one thread (this one, subsequently renamed to "Sports Trivia thread") to be the trivia thread, and a separate thread (https://thecardboard.org/board/showthread.php?tid=21717) to be a Giants thread.

I didn't have it in me to manually curate all the posts and decide which one went to which thread, but since most of the Giants stuff was older, it was probably less relevant.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-20-2021

In what 50’s and 60’s American sport was smoking allowed in the infield?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-20-2021

Jim Ray Hart was only smoking in the dugout
So I’ll go Cricket

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And back at you Phogge

Name the three oldest California HS football rivals. All 1890’s

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-20-2021

Come oldest rivalry?? Oldest three?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-20-2021

ChRlie O’Connell coach and star of the Bay Area Bombers smoked in the infield when the women were out on the track in alternate periods.

Three old rivalries:

SI/SH
Commerce SF/Lowell
Palo Alto/Sequoia

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What is the oldest HS in California?
What is the oldest public HS west of the Mississippi?
What is the oldest high school in California operating on the same plot of land it occupied at its inception?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-20-2021

Oldest SI vs SH
Next Watsonville vs Santa Cruz
Also late 1890s Napa vs Vallejo

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RE: MLB thread - Mick - 03-21-2021

(03-18-2021, 07:16 AM)Phogge Wrote:  Lloyd had a much longer career than Dom. Hit .316 while Dom was just under .300. Still think the Waners were better. However some writers believe that Dom was the equal of Willie Mays in CF. Another two years hitting .300 probably would have gotten him in the Hall.

It's interesting, WWII shortened DiMaggio's career and lengthened Waner's career.  DiMaggio was a young man, 25 when WWII started and he lost three seasons to the war.  Lloyd Waner was old and in effective, but the war took so many players like DiMaggio, Waner actually played a few more years than his diminished skills would otherwise have warranted.  DiMaggio was an all-star in 1952, then only received a few ABs in 1953, retiring on 5/9 rather than be a part time player.  None of the three BoSox outfielders in 1953 were as good as DiMaggio had been the prior year.  DiMaggio's career average of 2.98 putouts a game remains the career standard for A.L. outfielders.  Writer David Halberstam referred to DiMaggio as "the most underrated player of his day."

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(03-20-2021, 04:22 PM)Phogge Wrote:  ChRlie O’Connell coach and star of the Bay Area Bombers smoked in the infield when the women were out on the track in alternate periods.

Three old rivalries:

SI/SH
Commerce SF/Lowell
Palo Alto/Sequoia

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What is the oldest HS in California?
What is the oldest public HS west of the Mississippi?
What is the oldest high school in California operating on the same plot of land it occupied at its inception?

I think Bellarmine is the oldest high school west of Missouri, at least that's how they bill themselves.  it used to be part of the Santa Clara College complex.

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(03-20-2021, 08:52 AM)BobK Wrote:  Jim Ray Hart was only smoking in the dugout
So I’ll go Cricket

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And back at you Phogge

Name the three oldest California HS football rivals.  All 1890’s

Sacred Heart, SI, Bellarmine

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-22-2021

Bobbbb answered the rivalry question.
Mick correct on Bellarmine.
Oldest HS on same ground... Redlands High in obviously, Redlands.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-23-2021

Getting closer to Opening Day so here's some nicknames. Guess the player. First five are easy, next five a little tougher.

Fordham Flash
Dominican Dandy
Big Train
Big Poison
Human Rain Delay
Reading Rifle
Centennial
Suitcase
Shotgun
Snuffy

No Peekee.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-23-2021

Snuffy Snodgrass
Suitcase Simpson
Cal Furillo The Reading Rifle
Hargrave, can't thbk of first name. Human Rain Delay

I'll stop but love this

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-23-2021

You got Mike Hardgrove, Simpson and Furillo but whiffed on Snuffy although it is somewhat close.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 03-23-2021

Frankie Frisch The Fordham Flash.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 03-23-2021

4 for 10 so far.

New question... Thirteen players have won consecutive MYP's. Bonds did it twice including four in a row from 2001-04. The others all won only two in a row but only one bookended his awards with second place finishes in the year before the first and the year after the second. Who?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 03-23-2021

Jimmie Fox?  He won it again several years after his two consecutive wins.

BC

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