Leon and I thought we'd provide an additional contest for the month of April. Below you'll see a set of 30 questions which will comprise a trivia "quiz" of sorts for you all. What we're going to do is give everyone until the end of the month (midnight, May 1st) to answer as many of these questions as possible. These questions all involve HOFers and other noteworthy individuals from the Pre-war era. There is a good mix of questions concerning 19th century players, all the way up through the 1930s. Please note that I intended for these questions to be difficult so I'm hoping the winner will have to spend some time figuring out the answers to these. However I'm also hoping that this will be fun for you all and that maybe you'll all learn a thing or two about some of our favorite players.
The winner of this content will receive the nice t210 Mayberry shown in the scan below (thanks to Leon for providing).
While completing this quiz, please keeping the following rules in mind --
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Please do not post any answers or hints within this thread or anywhere on the board. When you're finished, send your answers on to my email account at redmaccie@hotmail.com
2. First person to answer all 30 questions correctly is the winner
3. If no one is able to answer all 30 correctly, the person who is able to answer the most questions by month's end will be declared the winner. Ties in this case will be broken by the first to submit their answers according to the date stamp on the email.
4. Please send your answers in all at the same time. Edits may be made if you'd like to do research at a later date, however I will use the date stamp of the most recent email that you send me when figuring out who the winner is.
Good luck guys!
-Brian
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1. The player who was the instigator behind the 1919 World Series Scandal
2. HOFer who's career came to a sudden end from a beaning
3. Most prominant sibling in the largest group of brothers to ever play the game
4. HOFer who yelled back at fans heckling him on the field because of his ethnicity - referring to them as "foreigners"
5. HOFer who took time off during baseball games to go fishing, play marbles or drive fire trucks
6. The first HOFer to make his debut with a "major league" Kansas City based team
7. Credited with the innovation of the box score and the keeping of team and player statistics
8. Fireballer who won 28 games and hit more homers than Lajoie, Cobb and Wagner (individually) in the span of one season
9. Holds the distinction as the individual traded for Christy Mathewson
10. HOFer who weighed less than 100 pounds when he first broke into the majors
11. 37 pitchers have thrown a nine-pitch, three-strikeout half inning. This individual was the first.
12. HOFer who's career was cut short when he was in his prime due to tubercular meningitis. He had a career ERA of 1.89 at the time.
13. Holds the major league career records for tripes as well as inside the park home runs.
14. Controversy aside, this was the first player to reach 3,000 hits
15. Only starter on the 1919 White Sox team who was not either banned or elected to the HOF
16. The pitcher that Walter Johnson and Satchel Paige claimed could throw harder than anyone
17. Finished his career as a pitcher yet had over 500 home runs, over 1900 runs batted in and a .325 batting average
18. Gritty player who would sharpen his spikes before heading up to bat.
19. Held the major league record for the most career homeruns until 1921
20. This popular player died after a fall off of the International Bridge
21. Well-liked trickster known for stealing first base
22. Was said to have been guilty of gambling on baseball and "throwing" games for an entire decade before being banned in 1921.
23. HOFer known for being overly hateful and confessed to being a member of the Ku Klux Klan
24. First catcher elected to the HOF
25. Popular pitcher who's career was ruined by a line drive which broke his right big toe.
26. For 95 years, this player held the major league record for most hits in a season until it was broken in 2004.
27. The only non-member of the White Sox banned as a result of the Black Sox Scandal
28. Executive given credit for the innovation of Spring Training
29. These two brothers hold the major league record for combined wins between two brothers playing for the same team.
30. Minor-league pitcher who developed tuberculosis after working in icy river water to help save a Kentucky town during a flood.
to you Matt.