Subject: Baseball
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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they could beat the dodgers in the series
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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'No excuses': Pratt pulled for not hustling before Brewers lose on throwing error...still learning to always live in the now onfield.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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"...How much has baseball changed in the last 20 years? Roger Clemens won a Cy Young at 41. Now there are only two 39-year-olds on MLB rosters at all, and they’re both middle relievers. And there are only two guys older than those two..." - mlb.com
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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"Put another way:
- 49% of Milwaukee’s homers are of the solo variety, which is one of the 10 lowest full-season marks of the last 20 seasons.
- But 33% of their homers come with runners in scoring position, which is one of the five highest full-season marks of the last 20 seasons." - mlb.com
It's called discipline.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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The Mets used to have AAA-Norfolk (Tidewater); I saw Doc Gooden rehab there when enlisted.
User: TNmountainman
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I saw him throw in rookie league. He had plenty of 'pop', but he impressed me more with just his overall workmanlike demeanor. One of those "a man just doing his job" vibes. Could not have predicted his future, but also not the least bit surprised.
After he 'retired', he moved back to his old stomping grounds in Tampa. A former roommate of mine owned and ran a beer/liquor store there, just a very few blocks from where he lived, and would tell me they would chat a little bit each time he came in. Said he just seemed a nice, friendly regular guy.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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St Louis CARDINALS at Los Angeles DODGERS 7/25/59 Original NBC partial Broadcast
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Alex Grammas was in that game...I recall him as Brewers skipper for my first times following MLB...I still have a lineup card from '77...I'll put a picture of it someday...Yount, Money, Scott...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Great job CHC, with loss again versus ARI!
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Roger Craig plays, and he managed in Houston, I think.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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They tore up turf for Trojans home games...
User: TNmountainman
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"Robin Yount" is the answer to at least two MLB trivia questions. Jeopardy-style here ............what would be those 2 questions? (And yeah, there's probably more......but try to read my mind....😆).
User: TNmountainman
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Yeah - I give the answer and the contestant gives the question.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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1975 MLB All Star Game MILWAUKEE Original NBC Broadcast (County Stadium).
User: TNmountainman
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As to the above trivia...........one question would be a semi(?)-well-known thing, but the other way less so. However........that involves the name of another player that you have put forth to (finally, after several guesses) answer an earlier trivia.
User: TNmountainman
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And just to be very, very clear.........this is *not* the Yount we're referencing. This is his brother.
User: firenze
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Went to AZ/CHC game today. Sat behind Cubbie dugout. Fans sure are sore/poor losers.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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His brother had right around the least statistical MLB career imaginable...as I see the data: I think he faced one batter, but was relieved before anything besides 2 or fewer strikes, and three or fewer balls built into a count...
User: TNmountainman
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Correct. Amazing he got on a card. "The records" are littered with quite a few similar stories, but his is indeed extreme.
[Addendum: The story on Larry Yount's pitching 'career' is that he felt elbow soreness as he was warming up, so didn't actually pitch(?). But because he was announced, it counts as a game appearance. (I had known that at one time years ago but had forgotten it.)]
User: TNmountainman
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Ok, here's the questions to the "Robin Yount" answer:
1. Who was the last major leaguer to hit a HR in a major league game at only age 18?
2. Who broke the record previously set my Mel Ott of most major league games played as a teenager?
[I guess could have added in 3. and 4. What player was the youngest to reach 100 HRs? What player had the most hits in MLB in the 1980s?]
User: TNmountainman
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So we've done a lot of pitching trivia. Let's try some with hitters. There are quite a few hitters these days who have achieved 3000+ hits. Of those............what 'classification' do Craig Biggio, Rickey, and Ripken share?
And just because...............one more (for now): What famous MLBer (not a pitcher) was pretty good with a banjo, and has one of his banjos in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashvegas?
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Stan Musial could play the French harp and the jew's harp.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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I thought that question about Robin Yount could have something to with MVP at multiple positions, but even that becomes too easy for your tough drills.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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I've looked at Robin's old stats, he had a lot of errors early on...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Are those the only three to homer for their 3000th?
User: TNmountainman
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No, but a reasonable guess. Which brings up another question I could ask next, but will hold off.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Show me a picture of Jim Brown dunking a basketball.
User: TNmountainman
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Why would you think I have one? Have no idea if one exists.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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I was under the impression he kicked ass at basketball as a kid...as your question implied, as I suspected...I guess erroneously...
User: TNmountainman
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Well, yes, he did, in h.s. His 38.1 ppg is *still* the record at his h.s. - and I *think* for all of Long Island, altho his career scoring record was eclipsed by Yaz. And he *may* have been playing under the stricture of "no dunking allowed"; don't know about that. I don't think my question in any way implied I had some sort of picture. Nor have I looked. Might be an interesting quest?
User: TNmountainman
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Just fyi.................
Jim Boeheim remembers Jim Brown: ‘A legend. Always will be’ - syracuse.com
Doesn't mention dunking..........but clearly he could hoop:
"Boeheim, a native of Lyons, New York, watched Brown star while at Syracuse. As a senior, Brown rushed for 982 yards in just eight games. He scored 43 points in a single-game against Colgate.
“I remember watching him play here,’’ Boeheim said. “I remember him scoring three touchdowns and kicking all the extra points in the Cotton Bowl (against TCU).’’
Brown’s No. 44 is synonymous with Syracuse football. The number was later worn by Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, but it started with Brown.
In addition to football, Brown also played basketball, lacrosse and even track and field while at Syracuse.
“He won a track meet all by himself,’’ Boeheim said. “He won five or six events.’’
As a pro, Brown led the NFL in rushing in eight of his nine years in the league. He was a three-time Most Valuable Player. He lifted the Browns to the NFL title in 1964.
And he *averaged* over 15 yds/carry in h.s. - and *averaged* over 40 ppg one of his h.s. years.
Played for the Orange hoops team 2 years, averaging 2nd-highest one year (soph) and 4th-highest the other (junior). And of course then he was an All-American in lacrosse when he played that his senior year, being second nationally in scoring (and sparking the rule change). Was inducted into the college lacrosse HOF 12 years *before* the college football HOF.
I did a *cursory* search for him dunking, but found nothing.
User: TNmountainman
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"A victim of racial attitudes of the times, Brown came to Syracuse in the fall of 1953 without a scholarship in hand and was the only black player on the freshman football team. In high school, Brown earned 13 letters including football (averaging 14.9 yards per carry), basketball (averaging 38+ points per game), baseball, and lacrosse.
He played basketball his sophomore and junior years at Syracuse, averaging 13.1 points per game. He was a ferocious rebounder, and the best athlete on the floor. He would score 33 points against Sampson Air Force Base his sophomore season, in a game he did not even start. Brown would not return for his senior season however, because he was not permitted to be a starter. An unwritten rule at Syracuse prohibited the team starting three black athletes in basketball, and Syracuse had Vinnie Cohen and Manny Breland also on the team. Cohen believed Syracuse would have won the national title in basketball in 1957 if Brown had played with them; as it was, they lost in the Elite Eight."
So.................don't (easily) find any evidence he could dunk, but reason dictates he most certainly could. I don't think this would have been possible without that capability: "On occasion, he participated with the track team. In 1954 he finished fifth in the decathlon at the National AAU meet."
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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He dunked Raquel, good enough all would say.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Starting Monday, the Brewers face the Cubs seven times in ten days...but now that I think about it, the rotation might be off for superior outcome therein...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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May's availability?
Not too early to look for Game 4 starter of best of seven.
User: TNmountainman
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Biggio, Ripken, and Rickey share this anomaly(?): Lowest career BAs among those in the 3,000-hit club:
From lowest:
Ripken: .276
Rickey: .279
Biggio: .281
Others in that range:
Winfield: .283
Yount and Yaz: .285
Beltre: .286
Murray: .287
Palmeiro: .288
I *BELIEVE* this list is accurate, or at least was as of about 20 months ago when I compiled it; and includes all under .290. (Next lowest is Lou Brock at .293.) It's possible things have changed, but they couldn't have very much.
Addendum: Biggio and Jeter share the fairly amazing distinction of having 5(!) hits each on the days they reached that milestone, with Biggio being thrown out at second trying to stretch a hit into a double (not sure if that was hit #3000).
User: TNmountainman
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And the banjo dude was Maury Wills:
The Ballad of Maury Wills - YouTube
Maury Wills' banjo is now on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Rick Wise' achievements talked about all over the place by Pat Hughes baseball broadcaster today 670AM (CIN at Wrigley...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Maybe the Veterens put Wise in HOF; as I've said: Kenny Lofton deserves serious consideration (today's WAR dictates...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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CIN C Tyler Stephenson with three run shot at Wrigley?
Dude deserves his walk-up music...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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They should give it to him in Milwaukee next week (when Brewer victory already assured...
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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I sort of wish I were at that game with an a-hole Reds fan who's giving it to cub fans' chubby faces.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Sal Stewat beats Jim Greengrass' rookie Reds record for RBI!