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Humbugardy: 6th Degree Quotes for 400
2005-10-25 10:07
by Score Bard

This is round 2 of Humbugardy. I'm your host, Alex Scorebard.

 

He was the first umpire to ever call out on strikes
the father of
the only player to steal a base off of
the catcher who was born in the same town as
the poet who wrote,
"What a filthy Presidentiad!"

 

Note: In this round, searching the web is allowed.

 

Numb3r5 Sudoku 6th Degree Quotes What and Where Anagram Lines Subjective
200 200 Bob Timmerman 200 For The Turnstiles deadteddy8
400 For The Turnstiles For The Turnstiles 400 Joe 400
600 600 600 600 ... 600
T J 800 800 Murray argosy 800
1000 1000 1000 Bob Timmerman For The Turnstiles 1000
Comments
2005-10-25 10:43:31
1.   For The Turnstiles
Who is Ed Vargo?
2005-10-25 11:12:31
2.   Cliff Corcoran
Just in case . . . Who was Ken Burkhart?
2005-10-25 11:33:17
3.   Cliff Corcoran
More resulting trivia: though Retrosheet doesn't account for the St. Louis pitcher in the top of the sixth, the game in question appears to be a 5 1/2-inning rain shortened game that Sam Jones started and lost for the Giants in St. Louis. That's fun because the previous year, on 9/26, Jones threw seven no-hit innings for the Giants against the Cards in another rain-shortened game (Retrosheet does not have a box score for that one). The rain thus robbing Jones of what would have been his second major league no-no.

Speaking of which 2005 was the first season since 2000 and just the second since 1989 that did not include a single no-hitter.

2005-10-25 11:37:26
4.   Rorschach
Hell, since I do not know how Retrosheet allocates umps, may go for the gusto just in case.

Who is Augie Donatelli?

2005-10-25 11:56:02
5.   Shaun P
Who is Jocko Conlan?

Worth a shot . . .

2005-10-25 12:01:01
6.   Shaun P
What was it, 1990 when there were all those no-hitters thrown? Maybe it was time to pay up this year - or maybe we'll see a huge number in '06. Nice trivia, Cliff.

Not baseball trivia exactly, but its amazing how many different results you get by googling the name of the player (in quotes) + each of these umpire's names (in quotes) + 1960 - I don't think any give the question, but there were some interesting non-related tidbits in the results.

2005-10-25 12:34:53
7.   Score Bard
Turnstiles got it, again.
2005-10-25 12:36:30
8.   Rorschach
Turnstiles is too fast, he must just sit here and refresh this page every 10 minutes :)
2005-10-25 12:43:38
9.   misterjohnny
Can someone explain? I got lost when I used "Gus Sandberg" as the catcher.
2005-10-25 13:08:30
10.   For The Turnstiles
Score Bard: Let's finish Anagram Lines.

Rorschach: I do check this site pretty frequently, but I think this is the first time that I've been the first one submit an answer.

misterjohnny: The catcher is Mark Strittmatter (Huntington, NY) not Sandberg (Long Island City). The only stolen base off him was Stan Javier (9/25/98), son of Julian, who struck out in his second game (5/29/60).

2005-10-25 13:11:36
11.   Joe
Let's just take this opportunity to imagine trying to complete this task without the Internet! If this doesn't show how great Google, Retrosheet and the internet (as a whole) is, I don't know what does!!
2005-10-25 14:50:01
12.   Cliff Corcoran
Amen, Joe. But don't forget Baseball-Reference in that list.

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