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RE: Baseball Trivia - 7/28/2022 3:30:21 PM   
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Who is the only player in history to record 6 consecutive seasons of 70 or more stolen bases?


I was going to say Ricky, but that seems to obvious.

So I will try....Tim Raines

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 7/28/2022 4:51:43 PM   
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Who is the only player in history to record 6 consecutive seasons of 70 or more stolen bases?


I was going to say Ricky, but that seems to obvious.

So I will try....Tim Raines



I'll go with my favorite sports name


Dick Trickle

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 9/6/2022 10:12:11 AM   
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Who is the only player in history to record 6 consecutive seasons of 70 or more stolen bases?


I was going to say Ricky, but that seems to obvious.

So I will try....Tim Raines

Tim Raines is correct. Good job, Trekkie.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/8/2022 12:04:52 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/8/2022 1:18:34 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 10/10/2022 2:46:59 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/27/2022 3:07:31 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 7:02:12 AM   
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Sleeper pick, Jorge Polanco

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 8:13:55 AM   
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I'll give you the year. That should help.

1987

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 8:34:25 AM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 9:02:06 AM   
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Eddie Murray

That's right!

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 10:19:33 AM   
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Eddie Murray

That's right!

It's sad that I had completely forgotten about Murray until you mentioned 1987. One of the great underappreciated players of all time.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 10:36:31 AM   
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Eddie Murray

That's right!

It's sad that I had completely forgotten about Murray until you mentioned 1987. One of the great underappreciated players of all time.

If you were collecting baseball cards in 1988 like I was, you would have known the answer. It was a famous error card, most likely an intentional error by Topps.



The one with the black box is the error card, because none of the other Record Breakers cards in the set had the black box. The record is explained on the back of each card.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 11:00:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		On this date in 1981 Hoskin Powell was traded to the Blue Jays for what player?

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 11:30:29 AM   
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On this date in 1981 Hoskin Powell was traded to the Blue Jays for what player?

Oh come on, Hosken Powell? That doesn't rise to the level of trivia. I looked it up and he was moved for the most traded player in baseball history...Player to be named later. Turned out to be some other failure named Wells.

Fun fact: Hosken Powell was actually the 3rd overall pick in the 1975 draft. He would be a stud compared to what Falvine first rounds have produced.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 11:31:54 AM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 11:32:55 AM   
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On this date in 1981 Hoskin Powell was traded to the Blue Jays for what player?

Oh come on, Hosken Powell? That doesn't rise to the level of trivia. I looked it up and he was moved for the most traded player in baseball history...Player to be named later. Turned out to be some other failure named Wells.

Fun fact: Hosken Powell was actually the 3rd overall pick in the 1975 draft. He would be a stud compared to what Falvine first rounds have produced.

Greg Wells. He went on to be a star in Japan.

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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 11:38:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		In an era long before pro ballplayers ached to move to Japan to boost their careers back home, Greg "Boomer" Wells went from exile to icon, as the nation's baseball community adopted him and made him a member of its close-knit family.

Sold by the Minnesota Twins to the Hankyu Braves of Japan's Pacific League in 1983, Wells set out to prove himself. In 1984, he became the first imported player to win a batting triple crown in Japan, leading the Braves, the predecessors of today's Orix Buffaloes, to the Pacific League pennant.

In a recent online Kyodo News interview from his home in Georgia, Wells said that MVP season created a demand for his services. Japanese teams, he said, began asking him to advise new imports on how to adapt, while major league teams wanted to sign him.

However, Wells said the best offer he got that winter, from the Milwaukee Brewers, represented more of the same condescension he had faced as an undrafted player in the minors.

"They said they didn't want to get into a bidding war with the Japanese. If they wouldn't have said that, I might have gone back. But when they said that, it brought everything to the front," he said.

"I was like, 'Look. I would love to come back to the States and play in front of my family and friends, but you guys sent me over 3,000 miles away to play baseball against my will. I got over here and I succeeded. I enjoyed the game over here. I enjoyed the people. I enjoyed the country. If you want me to come back to the States, then you're not going to bring me back to the States and pay me like a rookie.'"

So Wells stayed with the Braves, playing at Hyogo Prefecture's Nishinomiya Stadium, and became one of the faces of Japan's game.

Wells finished his Japanese career in 1992 with the Daiei Hawks in Fukuoka. Over 10 seasons, Wells hit 277 home runs and drove in 901 runs, while walking more than he struck out with Nippon Professional Baseball's fifth-highest career batting average: .317.



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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 12:00:48 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 12:10:49 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 12:22:11 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 12:27:21 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 1:53:31 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 2:22:42 PM   
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RE: Baseball Trivia - 12/28/2022 2:40:25 PM   
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That's right!

He had 6 and only played OF in 51 games (sometimes for just an inning or two per game).

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