Obscure sports trivia

Fisk and Baines, who got in as a DH in 1989.

 

Brewers? I’m thinking Yount and Molitor weren’t garnering many votes in a small market.

 

Surprising number one brewers were voted in: those two along with Cecil Cooper, Ted Simmons and Ben Ogilvie.

 

Over 24 hours. Houston Astros. Had two pitchers (Richard and Scott), but no position players.

 

Three outfields in MLB history have had all three starters hit 100 RBIs in the same season. Name the teams and the players? To give a fighting chance, the years were 1929, 1984 and 2003.

 

Not one of the right answers, but the 1929 Phillies had four players with 115 or more RBIs and yet went 71-82. Doesn't help to have a 6.13 team ERA and give up nearly seven runs a game on average.

They scored 897 runs but allowed 1,036, so their pythag was actually 67-86. Yikes. And they were even worse in 1930, when they posted a 6.71 ERA in a 52-102 season.

That's 1996 Tigers level bad.

 

1984 is the Red Sox?

 

1984 is the Red Sox! Rice, Armas and Evans.

 

Wild guesses
1929: Yankees. Ruth, Combes, Meusel
2003: Yankees. ONeill, Bernie, and Sheffield

 

None of them. I was also surprised that the DiMaggio, Selkirk, Keller yankees didn’t do this.

Will give a hint or two . Sheffield was part of the 2003 OF, but not for the Yankees.

For the 1929 team, two of them are HOFers while the third shares his first name with the name of a band that had two songs on the original Heavy Metal soundtrack from the early 1980s.

 

Was Sheffield with the Marlins still in 2003?

I'll say the Cardinals for 1929. Klein, Medwick and somebody else.

 

I think Sheffield was in Atlanta. Was it him, Andruw and Chipper?