Sports Trivia Thread!!

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Sports Geeks!! Test your knowledge of sports in the 1st ever TMF Sports Trivia Thread! Answer (or ask) questions regarding ANY sports. Or post an interesting "Did You Know?" sports tidbit. No prizes awarded, it's just for fun.

Since the Final 4 is this weekend, let's start with NCAA Hoops.

1) Which team LOST the most championship final games?

2) Which coach has the most career NCAA victories?

Answers later, unless the correct answer has already been given.

Good Luck!

Ray

 

[Tickle Fiend]

2) Bob Knight

 

[giantfan121262]

2) John Wooden

 

[Tickle Fiend]

Knight passed Wooden this season, remember?

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Great job, Fiend! Knight actually passed Dean Smith on the all time coaching wins list.

There is still another question to answer.

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

The answer to question #1 is Duke University. They lost 6 championship finals games.

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Which baseball team traditionally used to play the first game on Opening Day to start the baseball season?

 

[zepp3320]

Cincinnati Reds

 

[milagros317]

Who holds the record for the most pinch hit homeruns in a season, how many pinch hit home runs was that, and what team was he playing for?

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Dave Hansen, 7 pinch hit homers, Dodgers (2000)

Equaled by:

Craig Wilson, 7 pinch hit homers, Pirates (2001)

(I was in Chicago for a week and didn't have a chance to answer.)

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Which NHL team has won the most Stanley Cups?

 

[zepp3320]

montreal canadiens

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Good Job zepp!!

BASEBALL!

I'll give you the dates, you tell what happened on those dates in baseball.

a) April 15, 1947
b) July 6, 1933
c) October 1, 1903
d) October 8, 1956
e) August 9, 1988
f) April 8, 1974

Good Luck!

 

[Tickle Fiend]

Good Job zepp!!

BASEBALL!

I'll give you the dates, you tell what happened on those dates in baseball.

a) April 15, 1947
b) July 6, 1933
c) October 1, 1903
d) October 8, 1956
e) August 9, 1988
f) April 8, 1974

Good Luck!

a) Jackie Robinson's major league debut
b) First All-Star game held in Chicago
c) 1st World Series game
d) Only perfect game in a World Series
e) Cubs first night game
f) Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Tickle Fiend, that was outstanding!!!

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I have one...

Name the first and only season in which two different stadiums in two different cities in Major League Baseball had the same name...

And all the other pertinent information, too.

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

My guess (and it's only a guess) is County Stadium, one in Atlanta where the Braves played and one in Milwaukee where the Brewers played (and the Braves before they moved to Atlanta). The year, probably 1970, the first year the Brewers were in Mil. (They were the Seattle Pilots in 1969.)

 

[Knox The Hatter]

1961...

Wrigley Field, in Chicago...

and Wrigley Field, in Los Angeles.

The Wrigleys owned the old Los Angeles Angels of the fabled Pacific Coast League. In order to pave the way for the Dodgers' move west, O'Malley traded minor league franchises with Wrigley. However, O'Malley felt he needed a much larger venue than the old Wrigley Field bandbox in downtown LA...so he put the Dodgers up at the Colisseum. When the AL expanded in 1961, the new Angels played their first season at Wrigley Field, before moving their home games to Chavez for '62.

Wrigley Field in Los Angeles became well known as the field used for the television series "Home Run Derby" in 1959...

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Great question, Knox! Interesting bit of trivia. It's the reason I started this thread.

I always wondered where that Home Run Derby was played.

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

HOME RUNS!!

I'll give you the pitcher's name, you tell what famous home run he gave up.

a) Ralph Branca
b) Ralph Terry
c) Mike Torres
d) Doc Ellis
e) Denny McLain
f) Donnie Moore
g) Tom Niedenfuer
h) Jack Fisher
i) Goose Gossage
j) Al Downing
k) Atlee Hammaker

P.S. Sorry Milagros.

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

No guesses anyone?

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Don't know all, but I'll give you what I know:

1) Didn't Donnie Moore give up that game winner to Dave Henderson?
2) Branca? Bobby Thomson. Ha ha Milagros 😛
3) Ralph Terry? Mazeroski.
4) Mike Torrez? Bucky Dent.
5) Jack Fisher: Roger Maris...#60.
6) Gossage: I can think of two. George Brett, '80 LCS, and Kirk Gibson, '84 WS.
7) Downing...715.
8) Was it Tom Niedenfuer who threw that errant pitch to Jack Clark, '85 LCS?

Not bad, if I say so myself...

Now...what famous HRs did Tracy Stallard and Dennis Eckersley give up?

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Good job Knox. All correct except for one, and a half. The answer I was looking for regarding Jack Fisher was he gave up Ted Williams last homer in his last at bat of his career. Gossage gave up a homer to Brett but a different one in a different year. (A really famous homer.)

I'll give the answers to the others later. Way to go Knox!

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Gossage gave up Brett's "Pine Tar" homer.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Really! I'd have thought I'd remembered that!

That whole pine tar episode was pathetic, yet it was irresistable enertainment as well. I remember attending a game at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore the following year. The acoustics there, especially in the lower deck under the overhang, were marvelous. My friends and I got George's goat. I screamed, in the best baritone I could muster, "umpire! Check his bat!" He turned around to see who was doing it!

George Brett had a goat that was much fun to get. Barry Bonds wouldn't let you have the satisfaction.