Ultimate Baseball Trivia

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Jim Bunning?

[Angel Oracle]

Yep, Bunning was the easy one (no-hitter in each league giving it away). 

The second one is tough.   Can't remember any 25 year MLB pitchers from 1929-1953.

[fan_since79]

Jim Bunning?

Yes!

 

May 16, 1957. He struck Williams out his first three times up. Williams doubled in his fourth at-bat, in the 9th inning, and scored on a walk-off single by Jackie Jensen. Bunning pitched a complete game but lost, 2-1.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS195705160.shtml

 

Even though the Red Sox won, Williams was so mad that he angrily vowed to get even with Bunning. The next time he faced him, he hit two home runs off him.

[fan_since79]

Yep, Bunning was the easy one (no-hitter in each league giving it away). 

The second one is tough.   Can't remember any 25 year MLB pitchers from 1929-1953.

He didn't play in some of those years. He actually played in 20 seasons, for nine different teams. He is one of only two pitchers who won 200 games in his career and lost even more.

 

In one of those seasons, he won 13 straight games, pitched three scoreless innings in the All-Star game, and had three complete games in the World Series. 

[fan_since79]

Another clue: He played for the same team (Washington Senators) five different times during his career.

[nate]

Bobo Newsom

[fan_since79]

Bobo Newsom it is!

 

https://www.facebook.com/FacingTedWilliams/posts/411029895661905

 

[fan_since79]

Bobo Newsom's father died suddenly before Game 1 of the 1940 World Series. Newsom went out and won the game for the Tigers, pitching a complete game. He dedicated his Game 5 start to his dad and pitched a 3-hit shutout, the hits all singles. He lost a heartbreaker in Game 7, but pitched his third complete game of the Series. Cincinnati won 2-1, and beat the Tigers for the title.

 

Newsom won 21 games that year for the Tigers, his best season.

 

 

 

 

 

[nate]

I cheated on that one.  Went through the almanac looking for 200 game winners during that era that lost more games than they won, he was the only one I found.

[m0nkey]

Not sure if it's ultimate trivia, but Joe DiMaggio has the record at 56 games. Who's record did he break and how many games did he hit in? And who's had the longest hitting streak since DiMaggio?

[nate]

I wanna say Ty Cobb and Craig Biggio

[fan_since79]

I don't know whose record DiMaggio broke, but I think Pete Rose has the longest streak since then, 44 games in 1978.

 

[fan_since79]

I wanna say Ty Cobb and Craig Biggio

I'm also guessing Cobb for the first part of the question.

 

Hope m0nkey will be along soon to give us the answers.

[m0nkey]

Pete Rose's 44 game hitting streak is correct for part 2. 

The record holder before dimaggio started his career in the 1890's, and is a hall of famer who played for four different teams

[fan_since79]

Ed Delahanty?

[m0nkey]

Nope. He once hit .424 in a season and finished with over 2900 hits, just shy of 3000

[fan_since79]

Rogers Hornsby.

 

He didn't start his career until later, though.

[m0nkey]

He has been credited with the quote "hit 'em where they ain't"

[fan_since79]

I used to know that one. Darn it, I'm going to have to look it up.

 

.....

 

Yes, of course!

[fan_since79]

m0nkey, post the answer, so I can ask another question!

[m0nkey]

Ha, sorry.  Willie Keeler had a 45 hitting streak from 1896-1897, which is still an NL record

[fan_since79]

Coincidentally, Hornsby also hit .424 one time and finished with over 2,900 hits.

 

I think it was 44 games, right? Rose tied Keeler's record in '78.

 

edit: Okay, I see baseball has changed the record to 45 games, the last game of Keeler's 1896 season and the first 44 games of 1897.

 

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070701104042AATC4hC

[fan_since79]

Next question:

 

Three Angels hitters have had walk-off hits in the postseason. Who are they?

 

Hint: 1979, 1986, and 2009.

[m0nkey]

Well who could forget Mathis' walk off double to left against the Yanks in 09.

Melky Cabrera showed off his cannon that play

[LAA Road Tripper]

I think I have this.

1) Larry Harlow in Game 3 of the '79 ALCS. A little blooper into left field.

2) Bobby Grich, Game 4 of the '86 ALCS in extra innings. Feeling good that Saturday night unaware of the fate ahead of all of us for the next day.

3) Mathis.