Humbugardy: 6th Degree Quotes for 400
2005-10-25 10:07
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!”
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 |
1. Who is Ed Vargo?
2. Just in case . . . Who was Ken Burkhart?
3. 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.
4. Hell, since I do not know how Retrosheet allocates umps, may go for the gusto just in case.
Who is Augie Donatelli?
5. Who is Jocko Conlan?
Worth a shot . . .
6. 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.
7. Turnstiles got it, again.
8. Turnstiles is too fast, he must just sit here and refresh this page every 10 minutes :)
9. Can someone explain? I got lost when I used "Gus Sandberg" as the catcher.
10. 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).
11. 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!!
12. Amen, Joe. But don't forget Baseball-Reference in that list.