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Quick Trivia Question

PostTue Oct 04, 2016 9:54 am

One player in major league history has hit a homer off a father and a son (obviously at the beginning and the end of the hitter's career). Name the hitter and the two pitchers.

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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostTue Oct 04, 2016 4:27 pm

The hitter is probably A-Rod. The pitchers may be one of the Bedrosians, Bannisters or Drabeks.
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 1:11 am

The hitter is a bit older than that. The hitter (left-handed) and the father pitcher (southpaw) are both in ATG. The son (righty) was a bit of a swingman/journeyman (played for 5 clubs in 9 years), but when looking at the stats actually wasn't that bad (3.61 ERA/105 era+).
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 11:10 am

Teddy homered off Don and Thorny Lee
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 1:40 pm

ScumbyJr wrote:Teddy homered off Don and Thorny Lee


Exactly! In his rookie season off Thornton Lee and in 1960 off son Don. Here's a writeup from the Nashua Telegraph:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19600903&id=GqwrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Rv0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6331,264166&hl=en
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 1:49 pm

This is pretty easy to look up. The first player born after Dec.31, 1989 to reach the majors had a record-setting debut. Who was he and what did he do?
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 4:01 pm

rburgh wrote:This is pretty easy to look up. The first player born after Dec.31, 1989 to reach the majors had a record-setting debut. Who was he and what did he do?


Is that the Starlin Castro one. Homerun on first pitch?
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 4:46 pm

That's most of it. He also had 6 RBI, a record for a player's first game.
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 6:32 pm

This one's harder.

The Twins hold the AL record for most HR in an inning (5). That's also the NL record, but four teams have done it there.

The first time, the homers were hit by JoJo Moore, Burgess Whitehead, Harry Danning, Frank Demaree, and Manny Salvo.
The second time, the hitters were Andy Seminick (twice), Del Ennis, Puddin Head Jones, and Schoolboy Rowe.
The third time, the hitters were Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Jim Davenport, John Orsino, and Felipe Alou.
The fourth time, the hitters were Billy Hall, Damian Miller, Brady Clark, J.J. Hardy, and Prince Fielder.

There are several oddities here - note that a catcher was one of the hitters in each case. But the biggest oddity of all was that the victimized team was the same in all four games.

Name the team.
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Re: Quick Trivia Question

PostWed Oct 05, 2016 9:48 pm

Process of elimination ... first off, it has to be one of the original 8 NL franchises. Second you can't homer off your own team, so that eliminates the Giants and Phillies. That leaves the Cardinals, Braves, Dodgers, Reds, Cubs and Pirates. Of those six, I'll guess Dodgers. Am I right?
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