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June trivia questions
1. Only two Twins pitchers have struck out 4 batters in one inning, name the pitchers and for extra credit tell us the teams that they were pitching against that day.
2. Who is the first Twins switch-hitter to hit a home run?
3. What former Twins catcher is the AL record holder for most consecutive errorless games with 232?
4. Baltimore Orioles 1B Jim Gentile hit two grand slam home runs against the 1961 Twins in one game, in consecutive innings as a matter of fact. What Twins pitchers gave up those grand salami’s?
5. I was a freshman basketball teammate of Bill Walton at UCLA before I went on to pro baseball with the Twins, who am I?
We already have our June winner, congratulations to Father Stan Mader from Vermillion, Minnesota.
Previous months questions and answers
1. This former Twins player scored 114 points in a Pennsylvania high school basketball game that his team won by a score of 134-86. This included scoring all 69 second half points his team scored. Pete Cimino
2. Talk about a day to forget, this Twins hitter once struck out 5 times and hit into double play in the same extra-inning game at the Met. Bobby Darwin
3. What one time Twins pitching coach spent his off seasons scouting football talent for his high school buddy Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders? Don McMahon
4. I was born on June 9, 1961 in Ontario, Oregon making me the first future Minnesota Twins player to be born after the Twins started play in Minnesota. Who am I? Tom Edens
5. What former Twins closer could often be caught singing “Jimmy Crack Corn” to himself after a loss. He also once dumped a cooler of bass in the Metrodome training room sink and proceeded to clean the fish there as players were getting ready for a game. Ron Davis
We had no winners in May!
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Since you didn’t have winners, I’ll take a stab, but I had to look a couple up:
1. True
2. Jack Morris
3. Cal Ermer
4. Howard Fox
5. Johnny Sain
Can someone find out the last no-hitter that Joe ever caught? It doesn’t have to be major league. (i.e. Cretin, Air Frieght, A, AA, AAA) I am curious. Liriano pitched a no no, but Mauer was out that day.
Please reply.
I have a two good trivia questions. You probably have already used them: ‘Who hit the most home runs in the ’60′s? Who was the first black man to win 20 games in the AL?
Here is another trivia question- Who has the highest lifetime batting average, with more than 25 at- bats?
Brian, thank you for your note. The most home runs hit in the 60′s was Harmon Killebrew. Mudcat Grant was the first black 20 game winner in the AL. As far as higest batting average is concerned, it would be Glenn Williams I believe if you are talking strictly with the Twins.
I’m a NY Mets fan (I feel your pain!), but love baseball in general & trivia…now that Ron Santo is in the hall of fame, isn’t it about time Tony Oliva gets in?
Mark, Thank you for stopping by and your comment about Tony O, I could not agree more. I just completed an interview with Eddie Bane (former Twins pitcher and now an assistant GM with the Red Sox) that I will be posting soon and here is what he had to say about Tony O.
“By the way one additional thought on some of the old time baseball guys from the 60′s and 70′s. I have asked a lot of former Major League pitchers who the best hitter they ever faced was. Of the more then 20 pitchers I asked at least half of them said Tony Oliva. Tony never gets his due as far as the Hall of Fame goes, but those pitchers all remember that swing that I can still picture in my mind. Without those lousy knees that he had Tony O would certainly be a Hall of Fame player”.
Stop by again. jjswol
we were looking at pictures of the 1987 victory parafe thru Minneaplis & St. Paul. Can any one tell me who was the person riding in the car with Tony Olica?
I’m almost sure that is his family. The woman looks like his wife, and his children would have been about that age.