Obscure sports trivia

Seeing no more takers, Darrell Porter in 1979. Only time in his career he hit the century mark in any of those categories.

 

Six players have had more home runs than strikeouts in a 40-homer season. Only one person did it three times. Who is that player?

 

Lou Gehrig? If anything, I’m sure he has done it.

 

Gehrig did it twice, in 1934 and 1936.

 

Johnny Mize? I vaguely remember him having low strikeout totals.

 

Not Mize. He did it in 1947-48, but never again.

This player did it in the 1950s, 136 HRs, 109 Ks.

 

Crap, it’s Kluzewski. I should have known that.

 

Correctamundo. Hurt his back breaking up a clubhouse fight and never again had the power he exhibited through the 1955 season. Possible HOF career derailed.

 

Somehow, I inherited one of his cards from when he was with the Pirates. This was well before the internet or even the baseball encyclopedia. His stats were so fascinating, but i had no idea why his power numbers dropped so quickly or anything else about him.

 

Switching it up a bit with a boxing question:

Who is the only boxer to both win and lose the heavyweight title to a British fighter?

 

Oliver McCall?
Trying to think of who beat Lennox Lewis, and if Lewis was champ when he lost.

 

Damn, thought that was going to be harder.

It is McCall — he KO’d Lewis to win it, and then dropped it to Frank Bruno before the Lewis rematch.