Obscure sports trivia

If we are talking about the original Comiskey Park, it wouldn’t be him.

I will guess Harold Baines.

 

Original Comiskey, the one and only.

Not Harold Baines or Frank Thomas.

 

Doubt he was in Chicago long enough but ... Dick Allen?

 

I’ll guess Ron Kittle.

 

No, and no. I too was surprised at the answer. I'll post it later tonight.

 

As a lifelong White Sox fan, it's hard to think of a player who was there long enough AND hit a lot of home runs. They were usually more of a small-ball team, at least before the new ballpark was built.

Final guess: Minnie Minoso?

 

No. Lots of guesses, so I'll end it.

Carleton Fisk, with 94. My source is the book "Chili Dog MVP," by John Owens and David J. Fletcher, a great (so far) book about Dick Allen and the 1972 ChiSox, with a lot of backstory on the franchise, owners and South Chicago. I'm about 1/4 of the way in and it's a great read.

Fisk, FYI, would be a great trivia question in Boston or Chicago. "Who played 24 seasons for the Sox?" Of course, you'd also get your ass kicked.

 

It's easy to forget how many years Fisk played in Chicago (and even easier to forget that for part of that run, he ended up in the outfield).

This answer also illustrates my point about the lack of power hitters the White Sox had in the Comiskey Park era.

Thanks for mentioning the book -- I'll have to track it down.

 

Yeah, Fisk is always associated with Boston, even though he played half his career in Chicago.

 

What city was the site of the first college football game played by two American universities but outside the United States?

 

I feel like I want to say something outrageous like Juneau but thinking Harvard or Yale wouldn’t go that far, Montreal?

 

This 16-year MLB pitcher hit .397 for his career and holds the MLB record for the highest batting average of any player with either 50 at-bats or 15 years experience. He had five seasons with an OPS of 1.000 or higher.

This same player was the last AL pitcher to steal a base before the DH went into effect in 1973, a distinction that lasted until interleague play was introduced in 1997.

The first two batters he faced in his MLB debut are Hall of Famers.

He once held the MLB live-ball era record of pitching 137.2 innings between home-runs allowed (since broken).