Not So Trivial Trivia Quiz

[Hanjag]

Ichiro was ROY and MVP the same year

True.

[Moe Gibbs]

Ichiro was ROY and MVP the same year

Nice catch...!

[rockycola]

Ichiro was ROY and MVP the same year

Nice catch...!

Many, many years ago I made a nice catch!

Had a friendly softball game at a party at a friends house. No idea how drunk I was but it didn't matter......everyone was drunk.
Nobody had gloves or equipment because it was an impromptu, friendly, low key softball game at an outdoor party.
I was playing first base, somebody hit a medium line drive foul ball. I took 3 or 4 steps and dove for it.

I caught it.......right in the middle of the beautiful rose bushes of our hostess. It was an ESPN play of the day catch. I came out all bloody from the rose thorns.
Face, hands, arms, torso (yeah, it was a friendly SHIRTLESS, drunken softball game), legs (wearing shorts). Bloody, but a great catch!

All cheered wildly!!! We toasted my great catch. We got drunker. My friend, the hostess (can't even remember her name) was pissed .
I trampled, crushed, broke and destroyed her rose bushes

I bought some new ones, took them over a week or so later and planted them.

It was a great catch!. That's what the legend in my own mind keeps telling me.

[:::]

This one's fairly easy - one MLB American League MVP and one NFL Superbowl MVP were roommates in college and share the same name. They are...?

Not easy for me.....
I cheated and looked at the list of Super Bowl MVPs and AL MVPs.
Jim Rice and Jerry Rice...?

That's a great guess Moe but not correct. The answer is Fred Lynn and Lynn Swan. They were roommates at USC. Your quiz reminded of the question.

The answer to my other trivia question is:

Adrian Dantley NBA Hall Of Fame, 1976/1977 NBA Rookie of the Year
Anthony (Tony) Dorsett - Heisman Trophy winner, NFL Hall of Fame, 1977 Rookie Of The Year
Andre Dawson - MLB Hall of Fame, MVP, 1977 Rookie of The Year