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MEPH, hurry the F up. I'm avoiding BR like the plague right now because I want to see if I can get this one right.

 

I won't guarantee this, but it appears one of yours is right. His career ave is higher than one of the correct guesses and I can't find where he might have lead the league. One of your guesses lead 3 times and one lead once. I'm not going to give away names for those still playing, though, just in case.

OleMissCub Cooperstown

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MEPH, hurry the F up. I'm avoiding BR like the plague right now because I want to see if I can get this one right.

 

I won't guarantee this, but it appears one of yours is right. His career ave is higher than one of the correct guesses and I can't find where he might have lead the league. One of your guesses lead 3 times and one lead once. I'm not going to give away names for those still playing, though, just in case.

 

Hmmm, my guess for the guy who led three times is Klein, because he was a monster for several years. I know that Medwick won an MVP, so maybe the guy that led once was Ducky during his MVP season. So it must be Averill or Goslin.

 

While we wait for Sir Meph, check out this video I made a while back of Ducky Medwick. At about :20 you can see Medwick spike the Tigers third baseman in the 1934 World Series. The Detroit fans (as usual) pelted Medwick with stuff at his position in left field. It got so bad that the commissioner of baseball threw him out of the game "for his own good". Needless to say Medwick was pissed because IIRC he was just a single away from the cycle in that game.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKgSSVpjMus

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MEPH, hurry the F up. I'm avoiding BR like the plague right now because I want to see if I can get this one right.

 

One of the guys is right.

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OleMissCub

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MEPH, hurry the F up. I'm avoiding BR like the plague right now because I want to see if I can get this one right.

 

One of the guys is right.

 

IT'S KILLING ME!

bhogg South Bend Cubs

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I'll throw a a serious one out there.

 

 

Name the only player in MLB history to win an MVP award, but never make an all-star team during his career.

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I'll throw a a serious one out there.

 

 

Name the only player in MLB history to win an MVP award, but never make an all-star team during his career.

 

It should be noted for the participants that the first all-star game wasn't until 1933, so I assume it only pertains to those people who won MVP's after its existence.

 

It's a good question though, but a tough one. I'm going to throw out the three "one hit wonder" MVP winners that pop into my head, and hopefully you can tell me if it is one of them:

 

 

Zoilo Versailles(sp?), Jackie Jensen, or Jim Konstance (think that is his name, he won it in the late 40's I think).

 

bhogg South Bend Cubs

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2 all star games for the Z man, including his MVP season (how the hell did he win it that year? He wasn't even the MVP of his own team.)

 

 

And yes, we're talking MVP's 'after '33.

 

This guy played long after 1933.

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I'll throw a a serious one out there.

 

 

Name the only player in MLB history to win an MVP award, but never make an all-star team during his career.

 

It should be noted for the participants that the first all-star game wasn't until 1933, so I assume it only pertains to those people who won MVP's after its existence.

 

It's a good question though, but a tough one. I'm going to throw out the three "one hit wonder" MVP winners that pop into my head, and hopefully you can tell me if it is one of them:

 

 

Zoilo Versailles(sp?), Jackie Jensen, or Jim Konstance (think that is his name, he won it in the late 40's I think).

 

I think you're 3rd choice is Jim Konstanty who pitched for the Phillies in the late 40s / early 50s. He won the 1950 MVP, but also played in the 1950 All star game.

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I think you're 3rd choice is Jim Konstanty who pitched for the Phillies in the late 40s / early 50s. He won the 1950 MVP, but also played in the 1950 All star game.

 

That's correct.

 

OK, here's one. Who is the all time leader of double plays from the outfield i.e. outfield putout + assist.

bhogg South Bend Cubs

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Sorry, OMC. . . . .not him either.

 

I've never seen this question on TV or seen it verified on the web. I noticed it during one of my many journeys through baseball-reference.

 

 

I'll give a hint ---- he's one of the best players in RBI Baseball (the '88 original).

bhogg South Bend Cubs

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Mitchell and Bell -- both All Stars.

 

This guy was a pretty darn good football player, too.

 

 

 

As for my boy -- thanks for the reference. I stopped reading that Roberts thread 40 or 50 pages earlier :)

Mephistopheles Knoxville Smokies

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No, not Piazza.

 

One more. Who is the active leader in bb/9, meaning who has the fewest? I wouldn't have guessed this.

 

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Ex-cub

 

I know this one only because it essentially mirrors a trivia question asked earlier in this thread. Your spoiler is incorrect.

 

 

Current cub, Jon Lieber

 

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