Obscure sports trivia

Yes, it is Camden Yards.

 

Since 1940, only three MLB pitchers have won 20 games and pitched 300 innings in four consecutive seasons. Who are they?

 

One has to be Wilbur Wood. Will guess Robin Roberts for another. I have no more alliterative guesses.

 

Yes sir

 

Fergie Jenkins?

 

Wow, I didn't think they would go that fast. Yes, Roberts (1951-55), Jenkins (1968-71) and Wood (1971-74) are the three.

Wood threw 376.2 innings in 1972. That's the most of any pitcher in the live-ball era.

 

I was thinking Seattle or San Diego. I couldn't remember which park was older so I looked it up and saw Camden. For those of us of a certain age, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati seem like World Series perennials, but none have hosted games in their current ballpark.

If I counted right, there are nine current ballparks that haven't hosted their home team in a World Series game. Five are listed above, which are the other four?

 

I have long found Wood’s career fascinating. Debuted in 1961. Didn’t get a win until 1965. Spent all of 1966 in the minors. Then suddenly becomes one of the better relievers in the Al from 1967 to 1970, and then becomes the rubber band ace of the Sox from 1971 to 1975.

 

I was looking at that, too, thinking there were only a couple. There were a lot more than I thought.
AL: Baltimore, Minnesota, Seattle
NL: Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Miami

And I think there are eight. The ninth is a technicality. The Rangers haven't played in the World Series in their current ballpark, but it was the site of the 2020 COVID World Series.

 

You got them. It was because of Texas I worded it “hosted their home team.”

 

What MLB pitcher from Norway won 134 games?

 

Back to the World Series question, it got me wondering how many MLB parks never hosted a World Series game. I'm not asking a question because I don't know, but off the top of my head there are the Kingdome, Arlington Stadium, RFK and KC Municipal, and short term stadiums Mile High, Seals Stadium, Colt Stadium and LA Wrigley Field. Any more?

EDIT: KC Municipal moved from short-tern list because I forgot about the KC Athletics playing there.