Not So Trivial Trivia Quiz
Not So Trivial Trivia Quiz
1. Last pitcher to throw 300 innings
2. Franchise with most Rookies Of The Year
3. Franchise most Cy Young Winners
4. Franchise most MVPs
5. Pitcher with most Cy Young Awards
6. ROY & Cy Young same year...who did it..?
7. MVP & Cy Young same year...who did it..?
8. ROY & MVP same year...who did it..?
Obscure fact..only 16 Hall Of Famers were ROY..seems like it should be more.
Answers
1. Steve Carlton...way back in 1980
2. Dodgers have produced 18 ROYs
3. Dodgers have produced 12 Cy Young Winners..next closest franchises have 7 each. Yanks only have 5..!
4. Yanks have produced 22 MVPs.... STL has 20 MVP winners
5. Roger Clemons has 7 Cy Youngs
6. Fernando Valenzuela
7. Vida Blue just 22 years old
8. Fred Lynn..wonder what his salary was..?
2. Franchise with most Rookies Of The Year
3. Franchise most Cy Young Winners
4. Franchise most MVPs
5. Pitcher with most Cy Young Awards
6. ROY & Cy Young same year...who did it..?
7. MVP & Cy Young same year...who did it..?
8. ROY & MVP same year...who did it..?
Obscure fact..only 16 Hall Of Famers were ROY..seems like it should be more.
Answers
1. Steve Carlton...way back in 1980
2. Dodgers have produced 18 ROYs
3. Dodgers have produced 12 Cy Young Winners..next closest franchises have 7 each. Yanks only have 5..!
4. Yanks have produced 22 MVPs.... STL has 20 MVP winners
5. Roger Clemons has 7 Cy Youngs
6. Fernando Valenzuela
7. Vida Blue just 22 years old
8. Fred Lynn..wonder what his salary was..?
Re: Not So Trivial Trivia Quiz
You didn't want anybody to play your trivial trivia quiz with you? How trite, Moe.
Nobody ever got in your sandbox either, I bet.
Nobody ever got in your sandbox either, I bet.
Rocky Colavito is a Hall of Famer in my book!
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Fred Lynn rookie year 1975 - $18,000 plus $20,000 signing bonus.
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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...?
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How "underpaid" is that..? Maybe the most underpaidScratchiro wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:30 pmFred Lynn rookie year 1975 - $18,000 plus $20,000 signing bonus.
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ever..?
How many did you know before you you scrolled down to the answers..?
I knew the Dodgers have dominated ROY and Cy Young..the Yanks MVP
I was surprised Carlton was the last 300 Inning Man in 1980 no less. I would have guessed Jack Morris, or Clemons did it more recently.
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Thankfully it spared a lot of people the time it would have taken to look up the answers then post them here as if they knew them all along.
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One more obscure name related sports trivia question: One year players with the same initials won the Rookie of the Year awards in baseball, football and basketball. All were elected to the Hall Of Fame in their respectivve sports. They were...?
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Probably 2 or 3. The ones I would have scored on for were Carlton and ClemEns. I think I would have guessed Fernando "El Toro" right.Moe Gibbs wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:52 pmHow "underpaid" is that..? Maybe the most underpaidScratchiro wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:30 pmFred Lynn rookie year 1975 - $18,000 plus $20,000 signing bonus.
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ever..?
How many did you know before you you scrolled down to the answers..?
I knew the Dodgers have dominated ROY and Cy Young..the Yanks MVP
I was surprised Carlton was the last 300 Inning Man in 1980 no less. I would have guessed Jack Morris, or Clemons did it more recently.
Rocky Colavito is a Hall of Famer in my book!
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Not easy for me.....Scratchiro wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:45 pmThis 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...?
I cheated and looked at the list of Super Bowl MVPs and AL MVPs.
Jim Rice and Jerry Rice...?
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Ichiro was ROY and MVP the same year