Conference school::sports_memorabilia

    
    Here's a few off the top of my head ... 
    
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    Yaz
    Rico Petrocelli
    Tony C. (?) -- a wag
    George Scott
    Ted Williams
    Dwight Evans

	greenwell
	fisk
	foy
	tony amos
	cy young

    Don't forget Mgr Hobson.  What about Malzone?

            
    also:
    
    Dick Stuart
    Felix Mantilla
    Jimmie Foxx
    
    - Jim

    Don't forget the golddust twins:
    
    	Rice and Lynn

    Add this one to the others.
    
    The Hawk
    

    don't forget the #8
    One more to go.  He lives locally. Still living, he pinch hit for
    Teddy Ballgame (once) and was the ROY traded to the Tigers ( I think )
    
    And his name is......

    
    
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    Walt Dropo
    
    Had the AL rookie HR record until McGwire broke it in '87*
    
    -rjk

    I think that the list reads like this ( now is the time for all of
    you sharpshooters to get out your books and check ).
                                             
    Foxx       Double X
    Yaz        The Cap
    Hobsen     Best catch ever at Fenway in the Yanks dugout
               Proved along with Greenwell that linebackers can
               play the real game.
    Dropo      ROY ( not rjk - the real ROY )
    Ted        2nd best hitter of all time (behind Jose)
    Mantilla   Along with Pafko was first to use a glove that wasn't brown
    Stuart     66 HR's in the minors-Put a star over the i in Dick
               Dr Strangeglove-Made Buckner look like Brooksie
               God I hate Buckner.
    Scott      Never shoulda traded him-He could hit his weight
    Lynn       I can't play I have a hangnail
    Rice       I can't play I have an attitude
    Rico       Flat swing.................NOT
    Evans      Goin to the Hall-Never shoulda traded him
    Armas      Four body parts in his name Toe Nee Arm ....
    
    

    
    One small nit Mike.  The Sox didn't trade Evans.  They released
    him, and he signed with Baltimore.
    
    They then proceeded to sign Jack Clark whose Dwight Evans with a
    lot lower batting average, and a terrible attitude ...
    
    -rjk

    A tip of the cap to our mod.   It's unbelievable to me that guys like 
    Foxx Ruth Fisk will not (do Not) have Red Sox uniforms in their 
    lockers at Cooperstown.  I know Evans will because he played most of
    his games at Fenway.  Trading Fisk is like thinking about trading
    Larry or Ray Bourque or Kevin.  Simply put I get p____d off.
    
    Is it OK if I ask another Question like the base note?
    
    Something like.....Name the three maor league managers that 
              1 hit 40 HR's in one season and
              2 managed a team that won a world championship.
    
    Mike
      

    
    I'm going to change this note to "Trivia".  Please keep it all in
    this note, and I won't have a problem with it.
    
    One of the three (answers to .13) ...
    
    
    
    1) Davey Johnson -- 44 HR's with the Braves I blv, and managed the
       '86 Champion Mets (*sob*)
    
    I'll take a wild-stab and guess that another one was Yogi Berra.
    It seems likely that at some point he hit 40+ and managed a world
    champion.
    
    -rjk

    And Fisk wasn't traded, was he?  Someone either messed up in the front
    office or they thought he was washed up.  In either case, he has now
    played more games with the White Sox than the Red Sox.  You also can't
    blame this one on Trader Lou...

    
    Fisk was not traded. The front office did not present him with a
    contract offer by midnight on the day before he was eligible to become
    a free agent therefore he was able to sign with the highest bidder. One
    of many Red Sox brass mistakes in the handling of players. No wonder we
    are cursed fans of the Sox!!

    INSIDE INFO:
    The reason they didn't sigh Fisk was he and a ballplayer
    didn't get along.
    The player I think was Lynn but not sure.

    This isn't about baseball but it does pertain to sports memoribilia and
    since the header said trivia I thought I'd ask this here:
    
    Holograms have only been around a few years, anybody know what the
    first one was? Is it regarded as the rookie card of holograms?
    
    
    (I'm not sure of the answer [I'm thinking Marvel cards series I had the
     first holos but I'm not sure what UD's 1st baseball set had] but I was
     putting a few in plastic sheets last night and this question hit me)
    
    bill                                

    
    	Also, quite a few years ago, the National Geographic magazine
    	had Holos on the cover of a couple of their issues, 
    	I remember one of them was an eagle, and the other was
    	a human skull.  I have the one with the human skull on
    	the cover.  The magazine with the eagle on the cover,
    	also had an article where the whole Holographic process
    	was explained in details.
    

	What man in Major League Baseball has his name on his
	baseball cap?

    re -1 An umpire in the American League who's first name is AL :^)
    
    John

	John, I see you read USA's Baseball Weekly too......8^))


	Another... (Easy one)

	Who was the player who hit the ground ball through
	Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 Worlds Series...?

    re -1 this really isn't a hard question is it? :^)
    
    Actually I didn't read USA/Today baseball weekly to get the answer. A
    friend of mine was telling me a story of he and his friend at the
    ballpark. The first base umpire was Derwood Merril but they didn't know
    his first name. So my friend turned to his friend and asked him what
    the first base umps first name was. His friend answered , "Al". My
    friend asks him, how do you know his name is Al. Where his friend
    replied, "Because that's whats written on his cap." I cracked up, 
    I never forgot that story and figure thats what teh answer must be.
    
    John

    
    answer to 387.24 is Mookie Wilson.

    Mookie didn't hit the ball through his legs !!!
    Mookie hit a routine ground ball that Ray Charles would
    have fielded cleanly and Buckner ( I hate him) let it go 
    between his legs.   
    Buckner couldn't even take his own life!!
    After the game he jumped in front of a bus
    Know what happened?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    It went between his legs !!!!!!
    I hate him.   Can you imagine what will happen if Hobsen gets sick or
    dies or quits or gets promoted or fired????
    The effen gerbel is going to be the manager!!!
    AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    Where is that bus???
    

    I'm no fan of Gedmans but I blame the wildball pastpitch on the
    manager.  Gedman hadn't had a day off in months.  He should have
    been rested or benched.

    Without looking at other replies:
    
    
    
    Williams, Foxx, Yaz, Petrocelli, Scott,
    
    Hobson, Evans, Lynn, Rice, Esasky,
    
    Mantilla, Conigliaro, Jensen

    After reading the replies, I missed Armas, Stuart, and Dropo, but...
    
    Conigliaro, Jensen, and Esasky had 30 also.  So the list has at least
    16......
    
    -- dg

    And Johnson had 43 HRs, Roy..  :-)
    
    

    Make it 19 BoSox with 30 or more HRs.  Someone else already mentioned
    Harrelson.  Reggie Smith and Vern Stephens also did it.
    
    -- dg

    Try this one- Name five olympic sports where the athelete moves
    backward throughout the entire event.  No Roy the tripple 
    backflip from the pike position with a tuck and a supersplash
    isn't one of them ( Saint told me it was an 11 on the Richter ).
    
    MM
    KK
    

    How 'bout the shot put??
    
    Dan

    Swimming and rowing are correct.  The athelete must go backward
    throughout the entire event.
    MM
    KK

    How about 100 and 500 meter backstroke and 1, 2 and 4 man rowing?
    In reading the question, I know it says "5 differert SPORTS",
    but I'll go woth these 5 different EVENTS.
    
    PM

    I'm looking for sports not events.  
    So far we have Rowing
                   Swimming
    Mike

    
    The hammer throw?
    
    -rjk

If feet first counts...

Luge

    Hammer and Luge dont get it.  Do you guys give up!!!
    MM
    KK
    

    Answer three is ......Archery...The last two are???

    Crew

    Rowing and crew are the same to me because I didn't go to an
    Ivy League school or a prep school.  
    The last two are
    Pistol Shooting
    Rifle Shooting

    I have a football card that had Duane Thomas, running back
    extraordinaire, as a San Diego Charger.  It's the only card that I'm
    aware of that shows Thomas as a Charger.
    
    Any guesses as to year and make of the card?
    
    Live from Charger Central.......Glenn

    Boy are you a pain.  It was only a "trick" because you didn't know the
    answer!!! In all three sports you start closest to the target and move
    further away during the competition.
    New rules - If "the saint" gets it right it's trivia- If he "just
    doesn't get it" it's not a good question.
    
    Try this John Boy
    
    What Football Hall of Famer gave up two Home runs to Babe Ruth
    in a major league baseball game 

    
    My first response on the FB HOF question was Cal (not Carl) Hubbell,
    who, if I'm not mistaken is the only member of both hall-of-fames
    (football and baseball).
    
    But, I'm also pretty sure he went into the baseball HOF as an umpire,
    and not a player, but that might not disclude him from having played
    at some point.
    
    Right/Wrong Mike?

    the baseball hall of fame has nothing to do with this

    
    Yes Mike.  I realize that.  But I was trying to make a link between
    the "football HOF" portion of the question, and the fact this person
    also played in a "major league game".
    
    Someone in both HOF's is a very likely candidate, so I started from
    there.
    
    Let me ask you to clarify the question a little bit.
    
    By a "major league game", do you mean REGULAR SEASON GAME, or do
    oddball things like spring-training, exhibition, etc., type games
    count also?
    
    -rjk

    Jim Thorpe?
    

    re .53
    A genuine real major league baseball game.
    
    Mike
    

    
    	Wel... (as Mr. Reagan would say), I'm surprised that none
    	of you have been able to answer Mike's trivia question,
    	I thought that some of you baseball "gurus" would have
    	come out with the answer.  Here is what little me has
    	been able to find out...
    
    	ERNIE NEVERS'(1903-1976) only association with the baseball record
    	book came when he offered 2 gopher balls to Babe Ruth in
    	the Babe's 60 home run 1927 season.  As a young pitcher
    	with the Browns, he compiled a 6-12 record with a 4.64 ERA
    	in 3 yrs.  But when Nevers turned to football, he was one
    	of the greatest in history. He rose to stardom in the 1925
    	Rose Bowl when he led underdog Stanford against powerful
    	Notre Dame.  He rushed for 114 yds. in the Bowl game, even
    	though he had been sidelined for most of the season with two
    	broken ankles. His most outstanding feat came in 1929, when
    	playing for the Chicago Cardinals against their cross-town
    	rival, the Bears, Nevers scored 40 points -a single game NFL
    	scoring record that has never been surpassed. Nevers was elected 
    	to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
    
	Actually, guys, don't feel bad about what I said earlier, 
    	because I can't claim complete credit for findind the information,
    	you see, yesterday, I ran into Mike Kelly, and he gave me a
    	tip in which direction to look for the answer.
                     

    
    "Nevers scored 40 points - an NFL record which has never been
    broken ..."
    
    Uh, I thought Gale Sayers once scored 7 TD's in a game.  In fact,
    I'm almost positive.  That would be 42 points ...
    
    -rjk

    
    	You could be right about that, Roy, I was just quoting from
    	the source where I found the answer.

    Good job Juan !!
    
    Does anyone know who the top five home run hitters in the minor leagues
    are?  More Specifics-The most home runs over a minor league career.
    
    Mike

    Didn't Rick have 329 or something lik that?
    mike

    Steve Balboni??

    
    Sayers scored 6 TDs against 49ers not 7 in '65 or '66.
    
    Greg_says_confidently_without_looking_it_up