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RE: Sports trivia thread - 82lsju - 06-29-2021

(06-29-2021, 01:03 PM)BobK Wrote:  The deceased MLB pitcher murdered someone for or at the direction of Mickey Cohen the mobster.  But I don’t know the name

Ralph Schwamb

Quote:After the 1948 season, Schwamb killed a doctor in Long Beach, California, named Donald Buge.[7] Schwamb did it to pay off a debt to a Los Angeles mobster, Mickey Cohen.[8] Schwamb was sentenced to life in prison in 1949,[9] but was granted parole in 1960.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Schwamb

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BostonCard - 06-29-2021

This took a dark turn…

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 06-29-2021

Bobbbb, read the question again. What Seals pitcher was BORN in San Quentin. Played a few years in the Bigs.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 06-29-2021

I have no clue who was born in San Quentin. I do recall a Seal was born there but sure don’t recall who. So I didn’t respond

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Phogge - 06-29-2021

Walter Mails.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Mick - 06-29-2021

Blackie Schwamb.  Killed a doctor who owed money to Mickey Cohen.  More gangster than pitcher.

http://www.nashentertainment.com/television/amazingsports/103.html

A few other former felons turned ballplayers:

https://baseballhall.org/discover/short-stops/players-after-prison

I took a criminal justice class in 1982 in which I toured San Quentin. Not a pleasant experience. 21 years before that, my dad's softball team played a game against the Soledad state prison team. Before the game, Dad and his teammates toured the prison, and Dad locked eyes with one of the inmates -- they had been former high school classmates in the late 1950s, and as a teenager, the inmate regularly burgled homes and predictably wound up in prison. During the game, Dad hit a ball to the fence, and as he was rounding first, the Soledad first baseman growled some unprintable threats at him. Dad said it was the longest single he'd ever hit in his life. Separately, in the late innings, the Soledad centerfielder made a break for it and started to scale the fence. One of the prison guards shot him, and left him hanging on the fence for the rest of the game. Crazy.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 06-30-2021

Born in San Quetion. Darn Phogge did tell me this once.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 06-30-2021

A couple ballpark trivia questions…

Albert Pujols has homered in 39 different MLB stadiums.  Which current park has he never homered in?

Name the four current MLB ballparks that have not featured a no-hitter.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Papa John - 06-30-2021

For the Pujols question I'm guessing Atlanta, because that's the newest NL park.

For the parks with no no-hitters, I'm guessing Texas and Atlanta, again because the stadiums are new. After that I have no idea.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 06-30-2021

(06-30-2021, 11:10 AM)Papa John Wrote:  For the Pujols question I'm guessing Atlanta, because that's the newest NL park.

For the parks with no no-hitters, I'm guessing Texas and Atlanta, again because the stadiums are new. After that I have no idea.

Pujols - Atlanta, nope.
No-hitters - Atlanta - yep.  Texas - no.

The no-hitter question is a bit tricky.  The only park that opened within the last ten years that has not seen a no-hitter was Atlanta.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Papa John - 06-30-2021

Hmm, then I'll guess Washington Nationals for no no-hitter. That's new-ish but I don't think last ten years.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 06-30-2021

(06-30-2021, 11:39 AM)Papa John Wrote:  Hmm, then I'll guess Washington Nationals for no no-hitter. That's new-ish but I don't think last ten years.

Scherzer pitched one at Nats Park in 2015.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 06-30-2021

Pujols no hR Seattle plus no no hitter in Seattle

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Papa John - 06-30-2021

Randy Johnson never threw a no-hitter in Seattle, BobK?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 06-30-2021

Randy though no hitters but on Seattle.

Ok. No Pujlos HR in petco San Diego

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 06-30-2021

(06-30-2021, 03:12 PM)BobK Wrote:  Pujols no hR Seattle plus no no hitter in Seattle

Nope.  Next Pujols clue:   NL Park….

No-hitter: 1 NL Park (other than Atlanta) and two AL parks.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - DC 86 - 06-30-2021

(06-30-2021, 06:24 PM)Giants Wrote:  Nope.  Next Pujols clue:   NL Park….

Busch?

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 06-30-2021

(06-30-2021, 09:31 PM)DC 86 Wrote:  

(06-30-2021, 06:24 PM)Giants Wrote:  Nope.  Next Pujols clue:   NL Park….

Busch?

Busch (opened in ‘06) is one of the four without a no-hitter.  The remaining two are AL parks.  

Pujols has hit an HR there.

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RE: Sports trivia thread - Giants - 07-01-2021

Pujols - no HRs in Miami’s current stadium
AL stadiums without a no-hitter - “new” Yankee Stadium (opened 2009) and Target Field in Minneapolis (opened 2010).

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RE: Sports trivia thread - BobK - 07-06-2021

What NBA player was
Player of the year
Coach of the year
Executive of year
?

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