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Speaking of history and trivia.  It was very early spring 1984 or 1985 when I was listening to KLBJ 590 AM sports talk one evening. I was a student at Southwest Texas State University, and the trivia question came over the air.  I immediately knew the answer.  The question:  Who held the longhorn baseball record for RBI in one season.  The answer, of course, was Jamie Doughty.  I got lucky and was the first person to call in with the correct answer.  The prize?  Free roundtrip taxicab from wherever you were to Disch-Falk field and two tickets.  My roommate and I went.  The cabbie acted like it was no big deal to drive from San Marcos to Austin and back. 

Btw, the most interesting part of the trivia was that Jamie did not bat third, fourth, or fifth.  My memory is that he batted ninth! Amazing, yes!

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On 5/2/2025 at 12:51 PM, Beau Vine said:

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Not sure what’s more impressive 

Marlins not hitting one in 6.5 years, or Yankees, A’s, Twins never hitting one in 24 years of interleague play. 

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My first thought is Freeman, but it is probably not that easy 

 

edit....yep looked it up and this is incorrect.  

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18 minutes ago, Leanderman said:

Who is the only man to play in multiple world series and stole home in every series he played in?

Cobb?

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OK, this one is pretty amazing...

Definition first: "Career Triple Crown" = won batting title, HR title, and RBI title sometime in their career (but not in the same year, so we're not talking about Yaz, Miggy, Williams, etc.).  

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There are only ten players in MLB history who have won a Career Triple Crown without winning a season Triple Crown.  Who are they?

Here's the list of season Triple Crown winners so that you can know who's eliminated: https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/triple_crowns.shtml

Hint:

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Five are in the HoF, five are not (yet?)

Example: Here's Babe Ruth (probably the easiest of the ten):

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That's a HR title in 1918, an RBI title in 1919, and a batting title in 1924 for his Career Triple Crown, and he never led in all three in the same season.

 

(This does leave out Negro Leagues, so do not count Turkey Stearns.)

 

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Whoops, there's another that forgot to count because I think of him as a HoFamer even though he's not in yet.

The three guesses so far are correct...

Bonds:

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Pujols:

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Arod:

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8 minutes ago, strangulation! said:

dimaggio

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Dimaggio and Ruth from the HOF list.  3 more?

Pujols, AROD, and Bonds from the not (yet?) HOF list.  2 more?

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Speaker with 10 HRs

Thought of peak Colorado guys but Helton and Walker were both 2 of 3

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Just now, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Ol' boy Dante went .340/40/128 in '95, that Tony guy hit .368 to prevent the TC. 

yeah the 70's, 80's, early 90's are tough when you have Gwynn, Carew, Boggs, Madlock, Rose, 

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33 minutes ago, WBT said:

Speaker with 10 HRs

I knew one of the Immaculate Grid guys would get this one:

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26 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

This is the hardest one, IMO:

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For the 2nd-hardest one, the big hint is that he had the same nickname as AG.

 

9 minutes ago, strangulation! said:

manram

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Hall of Famers:  Ruth, Speaker, Dimaggio, 2 more?

non-HOF: Bonds, ARod, Pujols, Manny, Andres fucking Galarraga

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3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I knew one of the Immaculate Grid guys would get this one:

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This is the hardest one, IMO:

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For the 2nd-hardest one, the big hint is that he had the same nickname as AG.

 

Hall of Famers:  Ruth, Dimaggio, 3 more

non-HOF: Bonds, ARod, Pujols, Manny, Andres fucking Galarraga

 

Galarraga qualified by 4 PA's.  Which might be a good trivia question.  largest increase in batting average in consecutive years where player qualified by PA's.

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there is a quirky one that involves a HOF that would be related to this question.

so we have one HOF left?

Hall of Famers:  Ruth, Speaker, Dimaggio, Mize, 1 more?

non-HOF: Bonds, ARod, Pujols, Manny, Andres fucking Galarraga

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10 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

Mize, then.

Boom!  The other "Big Cat."

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Hall of Famers:  Ruth, Speaker, Dimaggio, Mize, 1 more and it's easy.

non-HOF: Bonds, ARod, Pujols, Manny, Andres fucking Galarraga

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3 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

That Hammerin' Hank cat. 

 

Willie never led in RBI, surprising. 

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Willie never led the league in RBI and Musial never led the league in HR.

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So Eddie Murrray led the league in 1981 in HR and RBI.  In 1990, Murray, playing for Dodgers, hit .330 which was the highest avg for MLB for the season.

Willie McGee hit .335 for the Cardinals but was traded to AL after he had enough PA's to qualify for the batting title.  McGee ended up hitting .324 for the entire season but won the NL batting title.

 

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2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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Willie never led the league in RBI and Musial never led the league in HR.

yep I assumed Aaron didn't win BA but he did twice.  Musial would have lead in HR but be played in st louis, so he got to lead the league in doubles and triples all the time.

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10 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

So Eddie Murrray led the league in 1981 in HR and RBI.  In 1990, Murray, playing for Dodgers, hit .330 which was the highest avg for MLB for the season.

Willie McGee hit .335 for the Cardinals but was traded to AL after he had enough PA's to qualify for the batting title.  McGee ended up hitting .324 for the entire season but won the NL batting title.

 

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Another great asterisk would be Monte Irvin, who won 3 batting titles and a HR title in the Negro Leagues and an RBI title with the NY Giants:

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14 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

That 1B was a first-round pick.  He got cut in July of that year, and finished the year in Korea, then never played again after 2021, ending his career with -0.7 bWAR.  He's now an assistant at Belmont University: https://belmontbruins.com/staff-directory/will-craig/385

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31 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

So...

Aaron, Ruth, Dimaggio, Mize, and Speaker

Pujols, Manny, Bonds, Arod, and Galarraga

Just figuring out that there are several more unless you toss out the 19th century guys, including Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty:

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And if you've never heard of Ed Delahanty...

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in looking at these stats I wondered if any one of them plus the triple crown guys have done this...

led league 1 season in all the traditional "offensive" categories(took out SB because it leaves no one) R, H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, Avg,OBP,Slug

2 players in the history of baseball - Gehrig and Hornsby.  Cobb didn't have walks(he had the SB's though and had one year of 118 BB where Eddie Collins had 119).  everyone else had at least 2 categories missed that I could tell. 

check the 1920-1925 run for Hornsby.  there are 2 seasons later where he leads in BB.  so he led the league twice in each of these categories during his career. fucking mind bottling.  

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53 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Just figuring out that there are several more unless you toss out the 19th century guys, including Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty:

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And if you've never heard of Ed Delahanty...

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cautionary tale for those wanting to visit their "girlfriend" in Niagra Falls.

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6 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

in looking at these stats I wondered if any one of them plus the triple crown guys have done this...

led league 1 season in all the traditional "offensive" categories(took out SB because it leaves no one) R, H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, Avg,OBP,Slug

2 players in the history of baseball - Gehrig and Hornsby.  Cobb didn't have walks(he had the SB's though and had one year of 118 BB where Eddie Collins had 119).  everyone else had at least 2 categories missed that I could tell. 

check the 1920-1925 run for Hornsby.  there are 2 seasons later where he leads in BB.  so he led the league twice in each of these categories during his career. fucking mind bottling.  

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But don't forget that Kaeden Kent's dad is the greatest second baseman to ever play...

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

But don't forget that Kaeden Kent's dad is the greatest second baseman to ever play...

right, the list is Kent, Hornsby, Grich and maybe Joe Morgan makes the top 5.

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Speaking of Tris Speaker and death by maritime misadventure.

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Speaker died of a heart attack on December 8, 1958, at the age of 70, at Lake Whitney, Texas. He collapsed as he and a friend were pulling their boat into the dock after a fishing trip. It was his second heart attack in four years.[68] Speaker was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Hubbard, Texas.[69]

After Speaker's death, Cobb said, "Terribly depressed. I never let him know how much I admired him when we were playing against each other... It was only after we finally became teammates and then retired that I could tell Tris Speaker of the underlying respect I had for him." Lajoie said, "He was one of the greatest fellows I ever knew, both as a baseball player and as a gentleman."[70] Former Boston teammate Duffy Lewis said, "He was a team player. As great a hitter as he was, he wasn't looking out for his own average ... Speaker was the bell cow of our outfield. Harry Hooper and I would watch him and know how to play the hitters."[71]

Hits close to home, my grandparents had a place on Lake Whitney we used to go to as a kid.

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