trivia Stories - Let's Go Tribe
More Than You Ever Want To Know About Walk-Off Victories
It is interesting that the now very common term "walk-off" first appeared in print just 23 years ago on Apr. 21, 1988 in the San Francisco Chronicle. According to Wikipedia, it was in an article about the unique terms that A's closer Dennis Eckersley had coined. Eck called game-winning home runs in...
Trivia: That was spectacularly, historically ugly
In 'honor' of the dubious accomplishment of the home nine in today's game, I pose the following trivia question: Before this year there were three(*) games since 1919 in which a team managed to get zero hits while striking out 10 or more times and committing three or more errors. Name the teams...
Friday trivia
Two baseball trivia questions for Friday afternoon... 1. Three players have hit a home run in the Major Leagues before their 20th birthday and after their 40th birthday - who are they? 2. Two player have won a game in the Major Leagues before their 20th birthday and after their 40th birthday - who...
Rando-Poll: Best Pop-Tarts Flavor
For one brief semester in college, the S'Mores flavor became my favorite flavor of Pop-Tarts. At the time, I was taking 23 credit hours and dating the spawn of two UK superfans, for the record. Before and after the aforementioned semester of S'Mores, Brown Sugar Cinnamon was and has remained my...
Lincecum, T. - 52 (2)
Yep, it's shocking, astounding, even scandalizing, to learn that Timmeh is second best at anything, but in this case he is. Ubaldo Jimenez is first with 61. Phrasing the response in the form of a question... What is active streaks of consecutive games started without allowing multiple home runs,...
Getting To Know: Samuelsson
Canucks.com runs a great feature called King of the Rink occasionally, where teammates are asked questioned about a certain player and we find out if they know the answer. Today's KOTR features an all-Swedish panel being asked about Mikael Samuelsson. Funny stuff. Here's an excerpt: What is...
First Half Fun Facts
Giants starters lead the NL with 495 strikeouts.The Big 3 of Timmeh, Matteh and Durteh tallied 367 Ks as starters, more than in all starts by pitchers for Florida, Washington, Colorado, St. Louis or Pittsburgh.Giants starters also lead the league with 249 walks, but had a league-low 13 HBP....
Coming Up Empty (Nowhere to go but up?)
So I was checking out the Individual stats page today on ESPN.com... and have some very depressing facts for everyone. Indians in the top 40 (ML) in Runs Scored: None Indians in the top 40 in Hits: None Indians in the top 40 in Doubles: None Indians in the top 40 in Homers: None Indians in...
NBA Trivia Thread
OK, I was thinking about this one, and Citizen Mikey's Clippers thread got me to post it. David West averaged 3.8 points as a rookie, and made the All Star team in this his fifth season. How many players can you name who have averaged fewer than 5 points per game as a rookie and eventually been...
Indians Trivia, May 16 2008
Can you name the two Indians managers with over 700 wins with the franchise? (I have the 2008 Cleveland Indians desktop calendar, and thought I would post the trivia and/or fact of the day each weekday here on Let's Go Tribe. Ultimately, these would qualify more as FanShots than as FanPosts,...
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