Obscure sports trivia

All good.
Enjoy your dip into the Great Lake Of Fail.

 

Snuck in the 1979 game.

 

Dennis Leonard?

 

Yes...unless someone comes along with a guy four 20-win seasons.

 

I’ve always been intrigued by those royals teams. For all their winning, they only have one Hall of Famer in George Brett. Quisenberry was like top top five in Cy voting five times and probably would be in Cooperstown if he’d won once like Sutter.

 

Agree quisenberry. He was lights out from 1980 through 1985, but then completely fell apart. Funny as hell.

The 1976 to 85 royals always seemed to have a couple of guys who would have really fantastic years along with Brett, but it was never the same guys back to back. At any given time, Mayberry, Darrell Porter, Amos Otis, Hal McRae, Willie Wilson or Al Cowens would just light it up and then go back to being average to good.

 

Also Splitorff and Gura too

 

Drafting off the Matt Ryan thread, the record for Hall of Fame quarterbacks throwing a pass in one season is 11. What year and who were the quarterbacks?

 

It's so weird how the Royals and Phillies of that same era mirrored each other's arcs almost identically.
Each finished second in 1975, won the division but lost in the LCS in '76, '77 and '78, slipped back a bit in '79, then finally broke through to the World Series in 1980. Then they both lost in the division series in '81 and managed to wring out one last World Series appearance before the end of the era.
The Royals stayed closer to the top for a bit longer than the Phillies did, but by and large they were their respective league's version of each other. Really damn good for a long time, and probably should have won more than the one championship each that they did. It was kind of fitting that they did play each other in a World Series along the way.

 

And as someone who grew up in a Phillies fan family, it was damn lucky that Willie Wilson had the worst six games of his life in 1980 or the Royals likely would have won.

 

My dad, a diehard Phillies fan, always said Willie Wilson should have been the MVP of that series.

 

And speaking of Willie Wilson, looking up some of his stats led me to another trivia question.
Fifty players have finished their careers with as many as 150 triples, but only two on the list started their careers after 1940. Who are they?

Hint: One of them is NOT Willie Wilson, although he did come close with 147.