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Humbugardy: Ballpark Franks for 200
2005-08-17 10:31
by Score Bard

This is Humbugardy. I'm your host, Alex Scorebard.

 

Frank Viola once led
St. John's to prevail
Over Ron Darling
From here...

 

Bravery Haiku Trades Same School "Tools" of Ignorance Literary Baseball Ballpark Franks
100 Derek Smart Jen Baby Maddux Humma Kavula metfaninalaska
Baby Maddux 200 200 Cliff Corcoran 200 MattPat11
Next... 300 300 For The Turnstiles Ryan Wilkins 300
400 Jacob L 400 Bob Timmerman Bob Timmerman 400
500 500 500 Shaun P 500 500

Note: Using the web to search is cheating...you gotta know (or guess) off the top of your head.

Comments
2005-08-17 10:55:24
1.   Mattpat11
What is Yale?

I know that's probably wrong, but I seem to remember one of my Mets fans friends bragging about that

2005-08-17 11:19:23
2.   Jacob L
Extremely tempting to cheat here (because it'd be so easy). This, however, is a flat-out guess -

What is Syracuse?

2005-08-17 11:53:10
3.   Shaun P
I think Mattpat11 has it right - I seem to recall hearing that Darling was an Eli.

Shoot, missed this one by a good hour.

2005-08-17 15:59:03
4.   xdog
Yale it is. Roger Angell wrote a great essay on the time he and Smokey Joe Wood watched Darling pitch for the Elis.
2005-08-17 16:35:57
5.   Score Bard
Mattpat11, good guess. You may choose the next category...
2005-08-17 16:37:02
6.   Mattpat11
I'll take Bravery 300, Alex
2005-08-17 20:37:31
7.   Jason Wojciechowski
That essay is one of my favorite Angell pieces of all time. He's at the top of his game, and he really gets lucky with Viola upstaging Darling in the game. Of course, it holds up well in part because of the success each of them went on to have. Just fantastic all around.
2005-08-18 05:16:01
8.   xdog
Jason, I had forgotten completely about Viola until I found this link:

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/sm/smokey_joe_wood.htm

Years later, in 1981, Wood was present at an historic pitcher's duel between Yale and Saint John's University, featuring future major leaguers Ron Darling and Frank Viola. Darling threw 11 no-hit innings for Yale, matched by Viola's 11 shutout innings for St. John's. ... Darling lost the no-hitter and the game in the 12th, and Wood called it the best baseball game he had ever seen. The account was recorded in Roger Angell's 1982 book The Web of the Game, and, later, in the anthology Game Time: A Baseball Companion.

Can you imagine watching the best game Joe Wood ever saw, with Joe Wood?

2005-08-18 08:08:26
9.   Bob Timmermann
Just checking, are there Daily Doubles?

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