Ultimate Baseball Trivia

[fan_since79]

Very good!

 

I was at that Game 4 in 1986, along with about 63,000 other people. Unbelievable. We were down to Clemens 3-0 in the 9th inning and managed to send the game to extras.

Bobby Grich took care of it in the 11th with a single, off Calvin Schiraldi.

[fan_since79]

What catcher caught the most doubleheaders in baseball history?

[Angel Oracle]

I have to guess Bill Dickey.

[fan_since79]

No, but he was also a Yankee.

[Angel Oracle]

Then the next guess is too easy, and thus instead I guess Elston Howard.

[fan_since79]

Then the next guess is too easy, and thus instead I guess Elston Howard.

Try again.

[Angel Oracle]

I still am tempted to avoid the most obvious.

So, even though he passed away at just 31, I'll guess Thurman Munson.

[fan_since79]

Okay, AO, just spit it out.

[fan_since79]

Never mind. It's Yogi.

 

117 doubleheaders. 

 

Was it that obvious? I'll post a harder question next.

[Angel Oracle]

I knew that the 1950s featured a lot of DHs, but it just seemed to be too obvious of an answer.

I knew it couldn't be Pudge, who spent a season in NY. He never saw many DHs in his time.

[Angel Oracle]

Speaking of which, I miss DHs. The one in Oakland two years ago was a blast although they lost the 2nd game.

The 1978 seat cushion night DH with the Twins was almost the best time I ever had at the stadium. Yep, banging seat cushions together does generate a lot of noise. It didn't hurt either that it was the first contending season since 1970.

[fan_since79]

Yogi just celebrated his 88th birthday. He and his wife have been married 64 years.

 

A recent photo of Mr. and Mrs. Berra:

 

 

 

When Casey Stengel was managing the Yankees, he said about Berra, "I never play a game without my man."

[Angel Oracle]

That is an awesome story about Yogi and his wife. That is true love through the years.

[Angel Oracle]

Here's the next question:

Name the Halos pitcher who hit a HR during his MLB debut on the mound.

[fan_since79]

Bo Belinsky.

[Angel Oracle]

Wrong decade, but not by much

He was acquired as part of a famous trade in Halos lore.

[fan_since79]

I have no idea.

[Angel Oracle]

Nolan Ryan trade, he was included in the players who came here for Fregosi. He was a relief pitcher that day.

[fan_since79]

Still drawing a blank.

[Redondo]

Don Rose?

[Angel Oracle]

Don Rose it is.

I remember watching on KTLA that day as he hit that HR in Milwaukee (iirc).

[fan_since79]

One more thing about Berra:

 

 

June 24, 1962-  A marathon game between the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees ends in the 22nd inning at Tiger Stadium, when Jack Reed's HR (his only MLB career home run) gives Yankees  rookie reliever Jim Bouton, a 9-7 victory. Reserve OF Jack Reed had replaced Joe Pepitone in the 13th  inning. For the Tigers, Phil Regan takes the loss, while Tigers OF  Rocky Colavito has 7 hits. Yankees 2B  Bobby Richardson ties a mark by  going to the plate 11 times. At an even 7 hours, the game is the slowest extra-inning contest in American League history and it is the  longest game in innings in New York Yankees history. Veteran Yankees Catcher Yogi Berra caught the whole game for the New York Yankees.

 

 

http://www.myyesnetwork.com/go/thread/view/82290/27918897/1962_Yankees_and_Tigers_22_inning_Game

 

 

[fan_since79]

On this date (June 3) in 1932, what two impressive feats were accomplished in the same game by the players pictured here?

 

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[Angel Oracle]

Four HRs for Lou Gehrig and two grand slams for Tony Lazzeri?

[fan_since79]

Correct on the Gehrig home runs. First player in the 20th century to do that.

 

Partially right on Lazzeri. He hit one grand slam in that game, but that's not the specific feat in question.

 

Later in his career he hit two grand slams in a game. He was the first player to do that, but not the last.