Obscure sports trivia

[Mr._Graybeard]

A hockey trivia follow-up:

No and no. This player went on to have a solid MLB career and hit 15 or more homers eight times in his career.

Gorman Thomas hit 51 for Sacramento in 1974. Obviously someone else topped 50 after that.

Would it be Ron Kittle?

 

[I Should Coco]

Who was the last minor-league player to hit 50 home runs in a season?

How about Prince Fielder?

 

[micropolitan guy]

A hockey trivia follow-up:


Would it be Ron Kittle?

Yes, Ron Kittle. He hit 50 homers at Edmonton in 1982 after hitting 40 at Glens Falls in 1981. He then hit 35 with the ChiSox in 1983 and was the AL Rookie of the Year.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

OK, NOW the hockey trivia follow-up.

Who were the first NHL players to be criminally charged over a brawl on the ice?

 

[ChrisLong]

OK, NOW the hockey trivia follow-up.

Who were the first NHL players to be criminally charged over a brawl on the ice?

Do Bertuzzi and Roenick ring a bell??

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Nope, not the two I'm thinking of.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

OK, NOW the hockey trivia follow-up.

Who were the first NHL players to be criminally charged over a brawl on the ice?

damn it, I know this. My mind keeps going to Dino Ciccarelli after he hit Luke Richardson, but it sounds like you are looking for guys from a fight.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

On Sept. 2, 1969, the St. Louis Blues were playing the Boston Bruins in an exhibition game when bruins defenseman "Terrible" Ted Green got into a stick-swinging melee with Blues winger Wayne Maki. Green took a stick to his head, fracturing his skull and injuring his brain. Both men were charged with assault but later acquitted.
Maki died of a brain tumor five years later at the age of 29. Green played until 1979, when he went on coach with the Oilers and Rangers.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Only once in NBA history has a team played just five players in a game. Name that team.

 

[Webster]

Figuring that Wilt never came out, I'll say the Philadelphia Warriors.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Only once in NBA history has a team played just five players in a game. Name that team.

Rochester Royals?

Syracuse Nationals?

Fort Wayne Pistons?

Providence Steam Rollers?

St. Louis Hawks?

Just throwing shirt at the wall, and it's fun to type in those old franchise names that illustrate how minor-league the original NBA was.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Figuring that Wilt never came out, I'll say the Philadelphia Warriors.

Nope.