http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/quiz?event_id=2191
Hey, Steve Phillips got 31, imagine...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)
24 out of 50. ouch.
― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)
― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)
The Vin Scully question is dumb and I missed a couple of the 'how many championships have the Yankees won' questions. Also 3000 hits, because I didn't think the racist played quite long enough to hit that many.
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)
and I got the Scully one right.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)
also, i had no idea that baseball has such a lush and resplendent history of HILARIOUS NAMES. that was my primary voting method.
― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)
― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)
and I got the Scully one wrong.
# of which my correct answer also equaled the highest percentage choice among all respondants: 20/22
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)
― boldbury (boldbury), Thursday, 13 July 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)
It's too bad Gammons is laid up. He'd have gotten a perfect 50.
― boldbury (boldbury), Thursday, 13 July 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)
― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 13 July 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)
Mine was lower. :(
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 July 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)
― maura (maura), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)
I originally had Foxx for the youngest-at-500 HR question, but erroneously switched to Ott cuz he came up at age 17.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)
*Bash Bro arm bump*
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)
― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)
― BUTT LIKE A HOLE, BLACK AS UR SOUL (Adrian Langston), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)
didja know the BBWAA usta vote a SOPHOMORE of the Year?
http://www.baseballchronology.com/Baseball/Awards/SOY.asp
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:46 (seventeen years ago)
18 on that quiz :9
― mullah mangenius (brownie), Friday, 27 February 2009 16:02 (seventeen years ago)
i got 25 :(
― k3vin k., Friday, 27 February 2009 16:15 (seventeen years ago)
i swear though five years ago i would have gotten about ten more. i used to be so into baseball trivia
Fun quiz on sporcle: all-time home run leaders for all 30 teams. You get six minutes to name them.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/teamhrleaders.php
(I got 25)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 13 April 2009 12:41 (seventeen years ago)
17 :( (i'm including my misspelling of Killebrew)
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 13 April 2009 14:00 (seventeen years ago)
13 -- should've known at least a few more, but I blanked.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:31 (seventeen years ago)
i think i could have gotten a few more had i done it in the afternoon and not been a little slow under the 6 minute gun.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:39 (seventeen years ago)
a pathetic 64 on the HoF test and the gold glove one i did even worse!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:57 (seventeen years ago)
17. Got Duke Snider but wtf missed the A's. Kept thinking I had Reggie Jackson's name misspelled for the yanks. Finally came to my senses.
― bela fregosi (brownie), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:11 (seventeen years ago)
Oh man, I'd never seen Sporcle before but I'm afraid I'm addicted now.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 23:00 (seventeen years ago)
27, missed on the padres, marlins, and rays
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:08 (seventeen years ago)
24
any non-Pad fan who got that is good (and I saw him play)
Nobody should know the Gold Gloves.where's HOF link?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)
23
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:54 (seventeen years ago)
18 on the HOF one. Couldn't even remember Boggs. Jeez.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:01 (seventeen years ago)
SABR con-based:
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/trivia-quiz-for-fans-really-in-the-know/
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)
Very hard.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)
I have 2 of the 3 congressmen...
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)
(I think you can see why I usually skip the convention trivia contest, unless I just want to be astonished by the winners.)
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)
Got #9, and #2 before I changed the pitcher! And 4 of Rickey's 5 postseason teams.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)
#1 - Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:11 (sixteen years ago)
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, April 13, 2009 6:00 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yep, pretty much.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)
Morbius's quiz: Johnny Damon? Problem is, I'm missing a team--Royals, Red Sox, Yankees, Tigers...there must have been another one in there.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 October 2010 13:48 (fifteen years ago)
he's not the answer. Played for the A's too, but only had 175+ for Boston and KC.
BB, to check your guesses did you just look at this year's hit leaders and start eliminating them?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 October 2010 13:52 (fifteen years ago)
jmc, I think so.
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No, I actually tried to think of players who get a lot of hits but aren't very good :)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 8 October 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)
Which meant it was someone who hits for a decent average but with a low OBP (i.e. gets enough AB to pile up the hits), and the first two names I thought of were Anderson and the other guy.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 8 October 2010 14:20 (fifteen years ago)
There were also 2 guys this year who had historic HR/RBI numbers with a sub-.200 BA, but I don't have a specific question for em.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 October 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)
surely Kurkijan had a column on this kinda stuff.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 October 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)
I'm trying to do this without checking...Juan Pierre?
― clemenza, Friday, 8 October 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)
Woo-hoo.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 October 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)
"Lucky" Pierre
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 October 2010 18:34 (fifteen years ago)
that was a good Q, though. took me a while to get
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 October 2010 18:39 (fifteen years ago)
It was a good question. I tried to approach it from a "who bounces around" a lot angle, rather than who usually gets a lot of hits. So I, uh, mentally eliminated Ichiro right away.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 October 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)
This year, a player tied a Hall of Famer for most consecutive seasons playing 150 or more games: 13. Name the pair.
(The HOFer is neither Ripken nor Gehrig.)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)
I'll guess Billy Williams for the old guy--I think he held, or approached, the NL record, and he dodged strikes, except the short one in '72. Currently, I'm drawing a blank. I thought of Vizquel, but that must be way wrong.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:15 (fifteen years ago)
Got it, but I had to look it up.
― In "Bob" There Is No East or West (WmC), Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)
Te salute...I was close on Williams: 146 games in '61, then 12 straight. Vizquel, not so close.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:29 (fifteen years ago)
jjjjjjvyyvrrrrrrrr zzzzzzznlffffffff oooooooboollllllll nnnnnnnnoerhhhhhhhh
rot13'ed, wanted to get my answers in on the record but don't want to just post them since I "cheated."
― In "Bob" There Is No East or West (WmC), Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)
took a handful of guesses, but 4br3u ? no idea on the older one
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 October 2010 03:01 (fifteen years ago)
I couldn't get this -- had to look up the answers. I never would have guessed the new guy. I was surprised that Pete Rose didn't hold this record (although he does hold the record for the most seasons with 150+ games played).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 10 October 2010 03:15 (fifteen years ago)
yep, Abreu & Willie Mays.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)
My first thought: "If Mays, why not Aaron?" So I checked, and he almost had 16 straight seasons ('55-'70) but came up a little short in '64 (145 games) and '69 (147 games). I don't think I ever would have guessed Abreu, as such as streak would seem to imply stability.
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
I haven't even had time to try these:
http://convention.sabr.org/archive/sabr40/meetings/288-trivia-questions-and-answers-from-sabr-40
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 October 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)
I took a look at the individual prelim questions ... managed to get all of #5, 4/8 of #3, 5/8 of #7 (I'm surprised that Clemens wasn't one of them), 6/8 of #9. I didn't really try on the others, I knew I had no shot (probably should have known #10 though, and #4 and #8 are those kinds of questions with some really obvious answers and some that are completely impossible ... so frustrating).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 23 October 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)
I tried #2 (6/8--just the names, though, not the years), #5 (4/6--embarrassed by the two errors), and #9 (7/8--the one I missed is the one that I bet most people would miss, for an obvious reason). I didn't even try the money question--past A-Rod, I just don't pay that much attention to contracts.
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 October 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)
sort of easy? bur see if you can beat my time of 1:11 elapsed.
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/5732702/most-recent-world-series-shutouts
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)
:28
I thought it would be much harder, but the clues are dead giveaways. It also helped that all of them were superstar pitchers -- no obscure names.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 28 October 2010 00:30 (fifteen years ago)
Can you name the MLB Hall of Famers who played their entire careers with one team?
http://www.sporcle.com/games/puckett86/one_team_mlb_hof
I got 34/46. I completely blanked on a couple of teams.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 26 August 2011 09:39 (fourteen years ago)
35 for me! I'm proudest of getting Ted Lyons. I couldn't remember Amos Rusie's name.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 11:10 (fourteen years ago)
30/46. Got everybody after 1950 or so very quickly, but did terrible on the older guys.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 August 2011 12:44 (fourteen years ago)
I typed Amos Rusie when I meant Addie Joss.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 13:40 (fourteen years ago)
I didn't pay close enough attention to the freebie you'd posted, so I'm bumping my score to 31/46.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:47 (fourteen years ago)
sometime this weekend I'm sure I'll take the all-encompassing HOF Sporcle quiz, if the power stays on.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)
Jeter, Rivera, and presumably Biggio will add to the list--anybody else in waiting?
― clemenza, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:56 (fourteen years ago)
Helton's a possibility too. The guy who plays his whole career with one team is a little like the 300 game winner: you always hear that such-and-such will be the last one ever, and he never is.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:22 (fourteen years ago)
Bagwell, assuming the entirely speculative 'cloud' lifts eventually.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)
Barry Larkin too.
I somehow remembered Addie Joss, but couldn't remember any of the Giants and White Sox old timers.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)
I did this quiz the other day. I think I had 34. Rizzuto was the most-guessed player that I missed (d'oh), and Appling was the least-guessed player that I got.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 August 2011 18:06 (fourteen years ago)
cool site
http://www.richburk.com/index/baseballtrivia
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:45 (fourteen years ago)
Who was the last pitcher to have 300 IP in a season (incl. playoffs)? I'm not sure of the answer, but I *think* it was Curt Schilling in 2001 (256.2 + 48.1).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:00 (fourteen years ago)
R Johnson?
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 5 May 2012 23:58 (fourteen years ago)
Johnson came close the same year (290 or so), but scanning the yearly IP leaders, Schilling does seem to be the right answer. Either Verlander last year, or Halladay in 2010, might have done it if their teams had gone to the Series.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/IP_leagues.shtml
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:01 (fourteen years ago)
What active player is about to join this group, and why?
Barry and Bobby Bonds, Andre Dawson, Steve Finley, Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, Reggie Sanders
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:33 (fourteen years ago)
http://baseballhell.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/carlos-beltran_5.jpg
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:24 (fourteen years ago)
I'll go for the "why?"--300/300?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:33 (fourteen years ago)
Rickey missed by three home runs. (Had a few extra SB.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:40 (fourteen years ago)
i feel bad for carlos beltran -- a tremendous ballplayer with a fucking insane postseason in 2005 who got saddled with the mets' failures
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:11 (fourteen years ago)
and one memorable postseason Mets failure moment of his own
(I know it was a tough pitch)
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)
gotta swing the bat tho
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:26 (fourteen years ago)
not trivia, but a rules quiz
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/quiz/_/id/4979/do-know-mlb-rules
― look at my watch/I'm in the club and everyone's looking at me/fuck th (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 16:38 (twelve years ago)
Not entirely a fit, but Tom Ruane burrowed into the oldest and youngest MLB lineups ever:
http://www.retrosheet.org/Research/RuaneT/retro_fun4.htm#A140505
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 17:23 (eleven years ago)