TRIVIA

General Trivia Questions No. 2

ANSWERS

1. No, not Rickey Henderson. Harold Reynolds led the junior circuit with 60 stolen bases in 1987. Henderson swiped only 41 bases in 1987.

2. Gene Nelson won 20 for Ft. Lauderdale, the Yankees’ Florida State League affiliate, in 1980. He and Reggie were teammates with the 1981 Yankees and the 1987 A’s.

3. Bruce Kison. He married the former Annamaria Orlando on October 17, 1971, immediately following the Pirates won the World Championship. The Kisons celebrated their 30th anniversary last year.

4. Orestes Destrade wore number 23 in spring training 1984. Mattingly wore number 46, and switched to 23 at the beginning of the season.

5. George Bamberger pitched a no-hitter for the Ottawa Giants against Toronto in 1951. As the skipper of "Bambi’s Bombers," Bamberger was the Manager of the Year in 1978.

6. Walter Johnson. His 16 home runs through the 1919 season led all Washington Senators in the Deadball Era. Danny Moeller, a Senators outfielder from 1912 to 1916, was second with 15.

7. Steve Bedrosian, the Cy Young recipient in 1987.

8. Rico Carty was a Maple Leaf in 1963, and played for the Blue Jays in 1978 and 1979. After leading the National League with a .366 batting average in 1970, Carty sat out the entire 1971 season with a leg injury.

9. Bert Campaneris played in 11 no-hitters. Ordinarily a shortstop, he faced Cardenal on September 8, 1965, when he played all nine positions for the Kansas City A’s.

10. Joe Siddall studied history under Bertoia at Assumption High in Windsor, and caught Boucher in Montreal on September 6, 1993. The author of this trivia contest was there.

11. Hoyt Wilhelm. He no-hit the Yankees in his ninth start, September 20, 1958. Of his 1,070 pitching appearances, only 32 were starts. In a 1997 interview, he defined Westrum (Giants, 1952-1956), Martin (White Sox, 1963-1967), and Didier (Braves, 1969-1971) as his three catchers who could best handle the knuckleball.

12. Ichiro Suzuki.

13. Larry Raines. A veteran of the Hankyu Braves of the Japanese League from 1953 and 1954, Raines played for the Cleveland Indians in 1957 and 1958. He returned to Hankyu in 1962.

14. Loren Babe. A Mantle teammate in 1952 and 1953 with the Yankees, Babe then played for the Maple Leafs from 1954 to 1957. The bat in on display in Cooperstown.

15. Joe Pignatano.

16. Tito Francona, who hit .363 for the Tribe in 1959. His son, Terry, was an Indian in 1988. Tito’s 399 at-bats in 1959 did not qualify him for the batting title, which was won by future Indian Harvey Kuenn.

17. Mark Davis, who won the 1989 NL Cy Young Award. He retired from the Milwaukee Brewers in 1997 with a .378 winning percentage (51-84). He was a teammate of Sparky Lyle (1977 AL) with the Phillies (1980-1981), Vida Blue (1971 AL) with the Giants (1985-1986), Bret Saberhagen (1985 & 1989 AL) with the Royals (1990-1992), and Tom Glavine (1991 & 1998 NL) with the Braves (1992).

18. Mel Parnell, with 123 wins. Only Roger Clemens and Cy Young had more victories among Red Sox pitchers (192 each).

19. George Kell. His .343 in 1949 was one percentage point higher than Teddy Ballgame’s batting average.

20. Frank Crosetti. As a player and coach for the Yankees from 1932 to 1968, he earned a record 17 World Series rings. However, he reportedly accepted rifles instead of rings after winning his 10th World Series. Crosetti died on February 11, 2002, one day after Jim Spencer passed away.

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