Baseball trivia

Baseball trivia When I was younger, baseball was my favorite sport. I collected baseball cards as kid and was a season ticket holder of the Milwaukee Brewers for about five years. In the early 80's, I won WISN radio's season-long trivia contest and my wife and I received a first class trip to New York to watch a weekend Brewers/Yankees series.However, after the strike/lockout of 1994, I lost all interest in the MLB and have never returned as a fan.It seemed as if there was a work stoppage every other year. I have never been any good at handicapping baseball and gave it up years ago. However, I still love sports trivia. I will share a few of my favorite baseball trivia questions. They are not that difficult but are entertaining. Here is a statistical oddity and amusing trivia question: This MLB hall-of-famer hit a home run in his very first time at bat in the majors.He played 20+ years and never hit another home run during the rest of his career. Who is he? charliej

No idea but great question.

I will give two obvious hints. He was a pitcher and a horrible hitter.

I'm bored.....Hoyt Wilhelm? You can PM me a college football total on any Tuesday of the season around 2pm central...Thanks Charlie... Preferably one that opens 46.5 and close 51....

1994 was also painful for mee too, i was at the baseball hall of fame when the strike hit, I have a picture of the sign in front of the enterance with the daily standings...White Sox 67-46, Big Frank hitting .353 with 38hr and 101 rbi, Julio Franco was also tearing it up at batting .319 with 20 hrs and 98 rbi's..... I also dropped my season tickets of 10+ years that winter....Sox also had 4 pitchers with 10+ wins and sub 4.00 era's How would you have liked to be a real Expos fan at that time.....

Give that man a cigar. Hoyt Wilhelm pitched for 21 years and was a horrendous hitter.In his first time at bat, he must have closed his eyes and swung hard. Bonus question: Who is the only guy inducted into both the MLB Hall 0f Fame and Pro Football Hall Of Fame?

I was a tremendous White Sox fan at the time. One Dog (Lance Johnson), The Big Hurt (Thomas), Spanky (LaValliere), The Deacon (Warren Newson), Ozzie Gullien, Ron Karkovice, Robin Ventura, The Rock (Tim Rains), Blackjack McDowell, Joey Cora, Fisk (pre-1994), Alvarez, Hernandez, Fernandez, Bere, Grebeck, Pasqua, and on, and on: [url]https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1994&t=CHA[/url] Even Kruk played for the Sox in the early '90s! And not to mention that I always thought (and still think) that Ken Harrelson and Tom Paciorek were/are one of the best commentator duos EVER ("Aaaaaaand you can put it on the booooooaaaaaaard.....YES!"). I watched every single game up to the strike. The year after the strike, I lost my black, Chicago White Sox baseball cap, and didn't even care.

Robert Hubbard.... [url]https://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=101[/url]

Jackie Peanuts is hot. Give him another cigar. Cal Hubbard played for Curly Lambeau of the Packers and later was an umpire in the majors.He was inducted in the MLB for his many years as an ump. Another bonus question: Who is the only player who appeared in the Rose Bowl, MLB All-Star game and MLB World Series?

That one was tough.. Jackie Jensen Jackie Jensen was a star football and baseball player in college, played for eleven years in the American League and won an MVP award, before retiring due to a fear of flying. After graduating from high school, Jensen went into the Navy in 1945. He was sent to radio school and then to the disciplinary barracks in Farragut, ID to teach swimming to prisoners. He went to the University of California in 1946 and though not recruited for football was an All-American halfback. He played in the Rose Bowl in 1949 on a California team which lost to Northwestern. Jensen also pitched for the 1947 Golden Bears baseball team which won the College World Series. He was ineligible to play baseball in 1948 because of academic difficulties and at the end of his junior year left school and signed to play baseball for the Oakland Oaks of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League in 1949. At the end of the season he was sold to the New York Yankees. Jensen played in 1438 major league games as an outfielder for the Yankees, Washington Senators and Boston Red Sox. He appeared as a pinch runner in Game 3 of the 1950 World Series, as well as in three All Star games. He was 1958 American League MVP. He established MLB records for times grounded into double play with 32 in 1954, sacrifice flies in a season with 12 in 1955. Both records have since been broken. Jensen retired in 1960 due to his fear of flying. He tried a comeback a year later but could not overcome his fear and hung up his spikes for good. In 1949 he married his high school girlfriend Zoe Ann Olsen, the silver medalist in diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics who had won 13 national diving titles and one other Olympic medal. Jensen and his wife divorced in 1968. Jackie and Zoe Ann had three children: sons Jon and Jay, and daughter Jan. Jay's son Tucker Jensen (19) is playing baseball for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL and hopes to continue the Red Sox tradition some day soon. During the summer of 2009 he played with the Watertown Wizards in the New York Collegiate Baseball League. He is a pitcher and right-fielder. Jensen coached baseball at the University of Nevada (1970-1971) and the University of California (1974-1977). He then moved to Virginia in 1977 to operate a Christmas tree farm and run a baseball camp. Jensen died at age 55 in 1982 from a heart attack and is buried at Amherst Cemetery in Amherst, VA. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984 posthumously. He remains the only man to play in the Rose Bowl, East-West Shrine Game, the World Series, and baseball's All-Star game.