Monday (12/19) Triva Question(s)

by **KnoxVegas** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:55 am

His voice is intoxicating and he works so well with the less fortunate, so this morning's question(s) are on the voice of the NFL on CBS (America's #1 Network), Jim Nance.

What is Jim Nance's alma mater? Who was his college roommate? What varsity sport did they both play?

Hint: The roommate ften works for him as a runner at the Final Four.

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by **Sonny** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:01 am

I know this one... but share the wealth and let someone else take a stab.

by **Waldo** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:16 am

University of Houston

Fred Couples

Both Played Golf

Next Question:
The worst broadcaster in the history of sports Tim McCarver ended his major league career with what team?

by **KnoxVegas** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:30 am

Waldo wrote:University of Houston

Fred Couples

Both Played Golf

Next Question:
The worst broadcaster in the history of sports Tim McCarver ended his major league career with what team?

It figures someone who works around turf would get this. Allow me to quote Nance upon the moment Couples won the Masters, "You'lll have to pardon me but we used to practice this very same moment back in college..."

McCarver retired as a Philadelphia Phillies player. Shortly afterward, he found a microphone and began to dictate how he, not Abner Doubleday, invented baseball and was the best to ever play it.

Next Question:
Who threw the final out for the Phillies to win the 1980 World Series and who did the Phillies defeat?

by **byualum** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:03 pm

Waldo wrote:University of Houston

Fred Couples

Both Played Golf

Next Question:
The worst broadcaster in the history of sports Tim McCarver ended his major league career with what team?

Didn't Nantz and Freddie own (or at least have a major interest) in Lynx golf clubs?

by **CATLAX MAN** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:07 pm

KnoxVegas wrote:Next Question:
Who threw the final out for the Phillies to win the 1980 World Series and who did the Phillies defeat?

Pretty sure it was Tug McGraw over the Kansas City Royals.

by **Brent Burns** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:17 pm

CATLAX MAN wrote:
KnoxVegas wrote:Next Question:
Who threw the final out for the Phillies to win the 1980 World Series and who did the Phillies defeat?

Pretty sure it was Tug McGraw over the Kansas City Royals.

If that is the final answer, I recalled Tug explaining that he had purposefully turned around to face the photographer because he figured he would be put on the front cover of Sports Illustrated.

by **KnoxVegas** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:34 pm

Yep, Tug McGraw. McGraw also won World Series with the 1969 Amazin' Mets.

Next question:
Who was the first DH in MLB history? What team did he play for and in what year did the DH debut?

by **Sonny** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:59 pm

Ron Bloomburg?
73 or 76?
Orioles?

by **KnoxVegas** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:25 pm

Ron Blomberg is the correct spelling.

1973 (Way to hedge the bet)

Still need the team he played for.

by **Sonny** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:34 pm

KnoxVegas wrote:Ron Blomberg is the correct spelling.

1973 (Way to hedge the bet)

Still need the team he played for.

'76 relates to another question... Who was MLB's first free agent (name & team)? 1976 was the year, if I recall correctly.

by **KnoxVegas** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:43 pm

byualum wrote:I don't know...but like the rest of baseball history, I'd guess he played for the Yankees.

CORRECT. The team that once lauded a 12 year-old kid for reaching into the field of play and dashing the dreams of all Oriole fans every where (Some of us remember you Jeffery Mayer! Like Canadians buring the White House, never forget! Never, forget!).

The Yankees featured the first DH in MLB history for in 1973. For more on the scurge that is the DH, check out:
http://abolishthedh.stonegauge.com/history.htm

Still looking for the answers to these questions:

Well, it was none other than "Channel 17" himself and a former Oriole 20-game winner who challenged the MLB reserve clause in 1975 season.

So who was "Channel 17" and why is he known to history as such and who was the Oriole?

by **byualum** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:52 pm

KnoxVegas wrote:Ron Blomberg is the correct spelling.

1973 (Way to hedge the bet)

Still need the team he played for.

I don't know...but like the rest of baseball history, I'd guess he played for the Yankees.

by **CATLAX MAN** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:25 pm

Sonny wrote:'76 relates to another question... Who was MLB's first free agent (name & team)? 1976 was the year, if I recall correctly.

Wasn't that Curt Flood of the Cardinals, the person who the abolishment of the reserve clause is attributed to?

If not, I seem to remember the name Andy Messersmith of the Dodgers being associated with the beginnings of free agency.

by **byualum** on Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:37 pm

KnoxVegas wrote:

Still looking for the answers to these questions:

Well, it was none other than "Channel 17" himself and a former Oriole 20-game winner who challenged the MLB reserve clause in 1975 season.

So who was "Channel 17" and why is he known to history as such and who was the Oriole?

A 20-game winner for the O's in the 1970's either had to be Jim Palmer or Mike Flanagan...