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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 06-02-2026

(06-01-2026, 10:14 PM)skip75 Wrote:  Jack Nicklaus 
Tom Watson 
Tiger Woods 
???????

All three are correct!

Fourth one is Tom Kite, who had the greatest "spread" between his U. S. Open win at Pebble (1992) and his AT&T win (1983). Holds the unique record of being the only player to make the cut at all four of the first four U. S. Opens played at Pebble Beach (1972, 1982, 1992, and 2000). He's also the pro who holds the record of having played in the most Masters without a win (tied with Gene Littler). He finished 2nd three times.

Kite was an unusual player. Short (5'9") with vision issues, Ben Crenshaw's teammate at Texas, he was the first pro to have a third wedge in his bag, first to use a sports psychologist, first to emphasize physical fitness to improve his game. Johnny Miller called him the greatest short-iron player the game had ever seen. Kite was the first pro to reach career earnings of $$6 mms., $7 mms., $8 mms., and $9 mms.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Leftcoast - 06-03-2026

My first thought was “What about Arnie” before I remembered how legendarily snakebit his run-ins with Pebble Beach often played out.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 06-03-2026

The Phillies Christopher Sanchez gave up his first run in 50 2/3 innings.  Everyone knows that Oral Hershiser has the scoreless innings record with 59, and now Sanchez has the third longest scoreless uninhabitable streak.  But who has the second longest streak?  what team broke Hershiser’s streak? Who scored and who drove him in?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 06-04-2026

#2 Don Drysdale (thanks again, Harry Wendelstedt)...

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 06-04-2026

Dick Dietz was hit legally Harry

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 06-04-2026

(06-04-2026, 01:40 AM)Giants Wrote:  #2 Don Drysdale (thanks again, Harry Wendelstedt)...

Yeah. Probably too easy a question; nice job.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Papa John - 06-04-2026

(06-03-2026, 11:57 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  <snip>
what team broke Hershiser’s streak? Who scored and who drove him in?

I think Hershiser's streak was broken in the first game of the next season? And for some reason I think it was in the first inning against the Reds, although I have no idea who scored or who drove him in. Was Barry Larkin playing for the Reds back then?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 06-04-2026

(06-04-2026, 09:49 AM)Papa John Wrote:  

(06-03-2026, 11:57 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  <snip>
what team broke Hershiser’s streak? Who scored and who drove him in?

I think Hershiser's streak was broken in the first game of the next season? And for some reason I think it was in the first inning against the Reds, although I have no idea who scored or who drove him in. Was Barry Larkin playing for the Reds back then?

Wow, great memory.  Yes, Hershiser’s streak was broken in the first inning of his first game in the following year.  And yes, it was against the Reds, and yes, Barry Larkin scored the streak-ending run with two outs in the first.  Who batted him in?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Papa John - 06-04-2026

(06-04-2026, 10:19 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(06-04-2026, 09:49 AM)Papa John Wrote:  

(06-03-2026, 11:57 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  <snip>
what team broke Hershiser’s streak? Who scored and who drove him in?

I think Hershiser's streak was broken in the first game of the next season? And for some reason I think it was in the first inning against the Reds, although I have no idea who scored or who drove him in. Was Barry Larkin playing for the Reds back then?

Wow, great memory.  Yes, Hershiser’s streak was broken in the first inning of his first game in the following year.  And yes, it was against the Reds, and yes, Barry Larkin scored the streak-ending run with two outs in the first.  Who batted him in?

BC

I was living in LA at the time and used to buy $6 top-deck-behind-home-plate seats at Dodgers Stadium so that I could cheer for the visiting team. The only thing I liked about the Dodgers was their announcers: Vin Scully, Ross Porter, etc. The Hershiser streak that ended the previous regular season was a big deal, and I remember listening to the radio broadcast when the streak was broken. But other than Barry Larkin, who was a wild-a$$-guess because he had such a long career, I don't remember who was playing for the Reds at that time (late 1980s?).

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 06-04-2026

Who is the all time baseball leader in on base %? No not the Babe
Single season record holder ?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PAsportsfan - 06-04-2026

Single season—bonds

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 06-04-2026

(06-04-2026, 11:37 AM)BobK Wrote:  Who is the all time baseball leader in on base %?  No not the Babe
Single season record holder ?

The greatest hitter of all time - Ted Williams.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 06-04-2026

Baseball Teddy is correct. Single season ??

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BostonCard - 06-04-2026

(06-04-2026, 01:02 PM)BobK Wrote:  Baseball Teddy is correct.  Single season ??

PA Sports Fan got it above.  Bonds has the top two highest single season on base percentages.  At one point I think he was above .600.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 06-05-2026

Chapman, Schmitt and Adames hit multiple HRs in the Giants’ win over the Cubs.  When was the last time three Giants hit multiple HRs in a game? 

It has happened only once before since the franchise moved west in 1958.

An additional trivia item: The thirty runs scored by SF cumulatively in the last two games is the most by a Giants team (over a two game span) since 1944.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 06-06-2026

No clue so

Mays
McCovey
Jim Ray Hart

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 06-06-2026

(06-06-2026, 07:37 AM)BobK Wrote:  No clue so

Mays
McCovey
Jim Ray Hart

Nope.  I was surprised to see that it never happened during the Mays era in SF or that Barry Bonds was not part of a group that accomplished the feat.  In fact, the threesome that did hit multiple HRs in one game combined to hit a total of 45 HRs during their tenure as SF Giants.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - qwerty49 - 06-06-2026

Wow, great question. My totally WAG:

It was early on and they were infielders?

Jim Davenport
Andre Rodgers
Joey Amalfitano

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 06-06-2026

(06-06-2026, 11:53 AM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Wow, great question. My totally WAG:

It was early on and they were infielders?

Jim Davenport
Andre Rodgers
Joey Amalfitano

None of them.

One was a 1B and the other two were OF’s.  It happened in the 21st C.

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Answer: Reggie Sanders, Damon Minor and Tsuyoshi Shinjo on July 2, 2002.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 06-07-2026

(06-04-2026, 08:00 AM)BobK Wrote:  Dick Dietz was hit legally Harry

https://youtu.be/VrDyD0dzScY?si=Rm3GU_tP9PxW8OdZ

DD wasn't too happy about it either...

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