Obscure sports trivia

That is correct. Gonna have to toughen these up considerably.

 

I’ve had that one in the chamber for decades. Finally got to use it.

If you had asked last three, I was stumped.

 

The combined ages of the starting pitchers for this MLB game on 9/29/63 was only 37 years old. Who were the starting pitchers?

 

Great question. No idea on who it might be.

 

Both were established MLBers, not some September cup of coffee callups. Both won World Series games.

 

Was Wally Bunker one of the pitchers?

 

Yes, it was Wally Bunker (18) vs. Denny McClain (19). Bunker won Game 3 of the 1966 Series, McClain won Game 6 of the 1968 series. Both had arm trouble and were ineffective by age 30.

Bunker won 19 games as a 19-year-old in 1964. It's the most wins by a teenager since Amos Rusie won 29 at 19 in 1890.

 

Since it’s Super Bowl time and this is a journalism site, which football writer did Hunter S. Thompson give kudos to in his story “Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl” for running an excellent betting pool. This was not faint praise since he collectively called the rest of the Super Bowl press corps, “Rozelle’s Handmaidens.”

 

Forgot I asked this one. Answer is Paul Zimmerman then of the NY Post.

 

Who was the first player to touch the ball in Super Bowl history?

 

I’m guessing either Mike Mercer or Don Chandler to kick off the first Super Bowl.

 

No.