Yeah no kidding. Remarkable.
Ok here's a pretty obscure one (I think?)
What Houston Astro was both Nolan Ryan and Bob Gibson's 3000th strikeout victim?
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Yeah no kidding. Remarkable.
Ok here's a pretty obscure one (I think?)
What Houston Astro was both Nolan Ryan and Bob Gibson's 3000th strikeout victim?
John_8581
FreeOnes Lifetime Member
Hey, you getting these off the back of those Topps baseball cards? :rofl2:
Remember them?
:jk:
I'd say Bob Watson.
Hey, you getting these off the back of those Topps baseball cards? :rofl2:
Remember them?
Yep
At one time I had tons of great old baseball cards...which, in an attempt to tidy up my room for guests and such, my parents idiotically threw away (without asking my permission) after I went off to college 
I shudder to think what some of them might be worth now.
You are on quite a roll, senor Jagger. Cesar Cedeno is correctamundo!
John_8581
FreeOnes Lifetime Member
Hmmmmmmm??? My sources tell me it's a Cesar. Cesar GERONIMO while he was with the Reds.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/pitching/pi3000c.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/geronce01.shtml
:rofl2:
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
OK....so it was Geronimo and not Cedeno? And a Red and not an Astro? I didn't think my guessing skills were quite that good! :1orglaugh
All right. Only 3 players in MLB history have spanked 600 HRs and collected 3,000 hits. Name them.
BTW, I have several shoeboxes full of Topps cards from the 1980s. I'll dig them out when I retire and see what they are worth. I had a bunch from the 1960s as well but my Mom likewise pitched them when I refused to clean up my room as a kid. Ahhhh....love her always anyway even though she's long passed away. I forgive you, Mom!!
All right. Only 3 players in MLB history have spanked 600 HRs and collected 3,000 hits. Name them.
BTW, I have several shoeboxes full of Topps cards from the 1980s. I'll dig them out when I retire and see what they are worth. I had a bunch from the 1960s as well but my Mom likewise pitched them when I refused to clean up my room as a kid. Ahhhh....love her always anyway even though she's long passed away. I forgive you, Mom!!
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Yep! A-Roid with an asterisk perhaps? I never saw less ballyhoo about someone getting their 3,000th hit than him.
What pitcher had 22 consecutive complete games in the 1980 season?
My sources tell me it's a Cesar. Cesar GERONIMO while he was with the Reds.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/pitching/pi3000c.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/geronce01.shtml
:rofl2:
Well, it seems I blew that one :1orglaugh My excuse is I was distracted while fuming over my thrown away baseball cards
Yikes.
I'll take a stab on Catfish Hunter, even though I think he might have been retired by then?
With the staff that they had I would think someone from the O's. I'll guess Mike Flanagan.
My guess as well.
All great guesses-not correct though. He was in the AL.
The answer is Rick Langford of the Oakland A's. Billy Martin wore that staff out. A great example of what NOT to do to a pitching staff. The only reason I knew about this streak is that 1 of our local sports stations did a special on him. Langford is a roving pitching instructor for the Jays.
John_8581
FreeOnes Lifetime Member
Yes Billy Martin did wear the staff out. As examples,
1. on the good side, Mike Norris ... was 22-9 and threw 284 1/3 innings with 33 GS and 24 CG. He came in second in the 1980 AL Cy Young Award voting.
2. on the bad side, Brian Kingman ... Was 8-20 and threw 211 1/3 innings with 30 GS and 10 CG. He retired after the 1983 season, with a 23-45 career W-L record.
