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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 9:44:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		On Sept. 20, 1965, the paid attendance at the Met was 547 for a makeup game between the Athletics and Twins. The weather conditions weren’t exactly ideal: 52 degrees and drizzle, but the pitching matchup featured two of the American League’s best: Minnesota’s Jim “Mudcat” Grant versus K.C.’s Jim “Catfish” Hunter. The Twins, a team headed for its first World Series in Minnesota, lost the game, 8-2.

A couple surprising things about that answer. One, it was late in the 1965 season, as the team was on its way to its first World Series. You'd think interest would have been higher, meaningless game or not. Two, Mudcat Grant vs. Catfish Hunter. That would be a cool pitching matchup.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 9:45:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		How could paid attendance be that low? Did season ticket holders not get counted in totals back then?

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 11:44:09 AM   
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Headed to the WS
Two very good pitchers
Strange indeed

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 11:46:16 AM   
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Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 12:20:00 PM   
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Tells you what a different time it was ....
Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
They didn't let me drive until I was eight, or Ida been there.


Who the hell is Ida?
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 12:21:23 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 12:23:22 PM   
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Tells you what a different time it was ....
Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
They didn't let me drive until I was eight, or Ida been there.


Who the hell is Ida?

My nanny who drove me around until I was eight
She was awesome, if you know what I mean.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 2:22:51 PM   
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Tells you what a different time it was ....
Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
They didn't let me drive until I was eight, or Ida been there.


My mother was pregnant at the time...with my oldest sister.  I came along after my second sister about 5 years or so later.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/20/2012 6:52:02 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 12:38:53 PM   
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How could paid attendance be that low? Did season ticket holders not get counted in totals back then?


I think it has been in the past 20 years, MLB went from actual attendance to paid attendance so the 65 game was not paid attendance but actual gate numbers

Wonder if Calvin ask that day, "Why did I move this team to Minnesota again?"

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 12:39:27 PM   
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Tells you what a different time it was ....
Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
They didn't let me drive until I was eight, or Ida been there.


Who the hell is Ida?


Twin sister of Ada.

SMF knew Ada, as well.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 1:32:36 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 2:17:01 PM   
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My guess is really lousy weather that day.


Maybe they thought that Sept callups Florimon and Escobar would be the MI's fielding behind Mudcat that day.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 2:41:32 PM   
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My guess is really lousy weather that day.


Maybe they thought that Sept callups Florimon and Escobar would be the MI's fielding behind Mudcat that day.




That would do it

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 2:51:50 PM   
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Tells you what a different time it was ....
Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
They didn't let me drive until I was eight, or Ida been there.


Who the hell is Ida?


Twin sister of Ada.

SMF knew Ada, as well.


Twins, impressive . . . I want to hear that story.
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/21/2012 4:36:04 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Todd G

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ORIGINAL: SoMnFan

Tells you what a different time it was ....
Ppl were farming, school was in, life was simpler. I was four. SO don't blame me.
They didn't let me drive until I was eight, or Ida been there.


Who the hell is Ida?


Twin sister of Ada.

SMF knew Ada, as well.


Twins, impressive . . . I want to hear that story.


As soon as SMF gets that damn scanner to work, he will provide pictures and the details.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/5/2012 8:25:07 PM   
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OK, my girlfriend bought me a baseball trivia book and the questions are not brutally hard, so lets see who can get the answers right.

We'll try Jeapordy style.  The first answer is NO, what's the question?

. . . OK, that's not going to work.


SHARING AN AT BAT
Casey Stengel is playing with his batting order and alternating Phil Rizzuto and Billy Martin in the number one and number eight sopots.  On Friday, he had Martin batting first and Rizzuto eighth.  On Saturday, Martin steps into the batter's box to begin the game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit.  Tiger pitcher Hal Newhouser runs a count of no balls and two strikes on Martin before Rizzuto realizes he is the named lead off batter for the Yankees for this game.  The "Scooter" rushes up and takes Martin's place in the batter's box.  On Newhouser's next pitch Rizzuto swings and misses.

Is anyone called out for batting out of order here?

Who is charged with the strikeout?


You have a girlfriend?

Please bring these trivia questions back. They were a lot of fun.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/5/2012 8:29:12 PM   
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On Sept. 20, 1965, the paid attendance at the Met was 547 for a makeup game between the Athletics and Twins. The weather conditions weren’t exactly ideal: 52 degrees and drizzle, but the pitching matchup featured two of the American League’s best: Minnesota’s Jim “Mudcat” Grant versus K.C.’s Jim “Catfish” Hunter. The Twins, a team headed for its first World Series in Minnesota, lost the game, 8-2.

A couple surprising things about that answer. One, it was late in the 1965 season, as the team was on its way to its first World Series. You'd think interest would have been higher, meaningless game or not. Two, Mudcat Grant vs. Catfish Hunter. That would be a cool pitching matchup.


And you could have purchased a ticket for $2 or $3.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/5/2012 9:00:33 PM   
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It's gotta be some bitterly cold game.  I'll bet it was in the 3,000's.  3,286.

Now I'm goting to look it up.


YOu might go under that. I was at a game at Shea Stadium that had less. I also remember a game in Oakland years ago where they had under 1,000. I will guess sometime in the early 80's probably around 2,200 in attendance. Maybe against Seattle?
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/5/2012 9:01:41 PM   
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I didn't know the answer was given

That would be lower than what I thought was the lowest for a ML game in the modern era
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 11/14/2012 1:46:27 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 5/24/2013 12:45:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Minnesota Twins have had 5 players on their roster who's name started with a "Q".  How many can you name?

1)  Frank Quilici - Stacy
2)  Tom Quinlan - Stacy
3) 
4) 
5) 

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 5/24/2013 12:56:40 PM   
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Quinlen
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 5/24/2013 1:35:38 PM   
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Joe Quinn
Luis Quinones

This answer brought to you by Rosie Perez and Wikipedia. 
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 6/5/2013 10:53:11 AM   
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