data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.105096 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Tom Talavage)
Subject: Re: Some baseball trivia
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (David Plurad) writes:
>In article [email protected] (Philip Allen) writes:
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>>Who holds the record for most career strikeouts while playing for one team?
>>Who holds the record for most career strikeouts for the Rangers?
>>(Hint: Nolan Ryan isn't either)
>>What two pitchers have over 100 career saves for two different teams?
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>>Who is the only player to hit 300 or more career home runs and steal 300 or
>>more career bases for the same team?
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>>No fair peeking at your baseball stats....
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>>Phil Allen
>>[email protected]
>
>I'll post my guesses to some of these and other trivia questions posted.
>
>For most career K's with one team, if it's not Ryan, perhaps Steve Carlton.
No way -- gotta be Walter Johnson. All were with Washington.
Carlton spent too long in St. Louis to collect less than 700 there.
>With the Rangers, Hough was there for a long time.
I'd also guess Hough due to his length of tenure though I suspect
Bobby Witt wasn't far behind. Maybe even Jenkins snuck in close....
>In the 100 saves department...Maybe Lee Smith(he should have at least
>a hundred with the Cubbies, maybe enough with either the RSox or Cards.)
>Then maybe, Gossage?(NYY and SD), Fingers (MIL, OAK)
Fingers had to have achieved 100 with either MIL or with SD so, yes,
I'd go with that guess. Otherwise I was thinking that Reardon has a better
chance of having 100 with MIN along with (I would think) easily reaching 100
with MON.
>Don't know about the homers/steals dept.
Gotta be Willie Mays...I am fairly sure he had over 300 steals in his
career.
>In some other article,(Mets trivia), it could be Tim Leary in at least
>the losing to all teams, maybe beating all of 'em too. Probably Seaver
>and Koosman fit too.
Hmmm...Leary is a really good point. I'd forgotten about him. Well,
if nothing else, there are plenty of ex-Met pitchers in the category of
"could have lost to all teams" -- Koosman, Leary, Torrez, Ryan, Seaver....
I guess the best three guesses would be Leary, Ryan, and either Seaver or
Koosman.
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