The Baseball Quiz

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

Unanimous Cy Young and unanimous MVP in the same season...only happened once!

Who was it?

difficulty rating 4.65 :modemman:

HinesWard86 · Jul 27, 2006

Bob Gibson?

WorldNumberOne · Jul 27, 2006

denny mcclain

HarryCaray · Jul 27, 2006

Mark Prior? LOL

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

and the answer is.

The embattled Denny McClain 1968 (31-6) 41 starts! McClain won 55 gms over two years....130 total!

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

McClain was washed up shortly after that....injuries ruined his career, he was 17-34 and out of baseball by age 28.

He had won 108 games in the five year period prior to the injury.

HinesWard86 · Jul 27, 2006

Who the hell did someone else vote for the NL MVP in 1968 besides Gibson?

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

HinesWard86 said:
Who the hell did someone else vote for the NL MVP in 1968 besides Gibson?

Peter Edward Rose garnered 6 1st place votes in 1968 :103631605

bhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1968.shtml#NLmvp

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1968.shtml#NLmvp

take a look at the AL MVP voting in 1968, that is not an impressive list of the games best! No wonder the National League was dominant!

4 Tigers in the top 7 and Dick Mcauliffe finished 7th with a .259 BA...

awol256 · Jul 27, 2006

trivia question i saw today...thought it was a good one:

Who was the switch hitter to lead the National League in Home Runs?

HinesWard86 · Jul 27, 2006

Journeyman said:
Peter Edward Rose garnered 6 1st place votes in 1968

bhttp://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1968.shtml#NLmvp

Thanks J-Man, Rose had a good season but only 49 RBI's!!!!! Whereas, 1.12 is in the pantheon of pitching stats like 511, 7, and 59

WorldNumberOne · Jul 27, 2006

awol256 said:
trivia question i saw today...thought it was a good one:

Who was the switch hitter to lead the National League in Home Runs?

howard johnson

awol256 · Jul 27, 2006

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

good question, you got me on it...

HinesWard86 · Jul 27, 2006

Journeyman said:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1968.shtml#NLmvp

take a look at the AL MVP voting in 1968, that is not an impressive list of the games best! No wonder the National League was dominant!

4 Tigers in the top 7 and Dick Mcauliffe finished 7th with a .259 BA...

Jesus, with that creampuff list how did Yaz finish 9th, he was the only guy to hit .300 that year in the AL it looks like. But now I can see why McLain was unanimous.

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

HinesWard86 said:
Thanks J-Man, Rose had a good season but only 49 RBI's!!!!! Whereas, 1.12 is in the pantheon of pitching stats like 511, 7, and 59

I like that word 'pantheon' :103631605

Ironically it was the same season McClain did his thing in the A.L. , also the year the mound was raised.

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

HinesWard86 said:
Jesus, with that creampuff list how did Yaz finish 9th, he was the only guy to hit .300 that year in the AL it looks like. But now I can see why McLain was unanimous.

very true and exactly what i was thinking...it wasn't a banner year for the batters.

WorldNumberOne · Jul 27, 2006

Journeyman said:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1968.shtml#NLmvp

take a look at the AL MVP voting in 1968, that is not an impressive list of the games best! No wonder the National League was dominant!

4 Tigers in the top 7 and Dick Mcauliffe finished 7th with a .259 BA...

wow ... baseball was awesome in the late 60's and 70's

some great names on those lists ..

Journeyman · Jul 27, 2006

World Number One said:
wow ... baseball was awesome in the late 60's and 70's

some great names on those lists ..

the thing about that time period, you could name all the players each team had...the starters were fixtures for years...I can still name entire infields from most of those teams....players just didn't move around....Tigers were a pesky team, not a grteat team but they had a lot of good hardnosed players....remember Aurelio Rodriguez who had a great arm at 3B....Mickey Stanley, Gates Brown, Horton, Kaline of course...Kaline who finished with 399 homers I believe, and he had a handful rained out.

WorldNumberOne · Jul 27, 2006

Journeyman said:
the thing about that time period, you could name all the players each team had...the starters were fixtures for years...I can still name entire infields from most of those teams....players just didn't move around.

that is so true..

we used to camp alot during the summers with several families when i was age 10 to 15 . me and another boy the same age could name every starting player and rotations for every team..

he and i would play catch for hours and hours on those trips...

aurelio was known for 2 things .. his black glove and the cannon strapped to his right shoulder.