Obscure sports trivia

Omar Moreno?

 

That's one of them. LeFlore led the American League in 1978, with 68 steals with the Tigers, and then led the NL in 1980 with 97 steals for the Expos. That was also the only season he played in the National League in a nine-year career.

Omar Moreno is not correct.

 

Tim Raines?

 

Read this in today's Los Angeles Times.

Who was the last NFL player to score a one-point conversion without kicking the ball?

 

Not him, either. He led the NL four times, but never led the American League.
I'll go ahead and pay it off ... It was Juan Pierre, who led the National League twice (with the Rockies in 2001 and Marlins in 2003), and the American League in 2010 with the White Sox.
Pierre was never an elite talent, but he was surprisingly productive. He finished with 2,217 hits, 94 triples and 614 stolen bases. He's in the top 20 all-time for stolen bases and in the top 10 among post-WWII players, led the NL in hits twice, and had five straight seasons of playing all 162 games. He always seemed like a role player, yet he was in a lineup almost every day for most of the 14 years he was in the majors.

 

Is it Nolan Cromwell? He was the holder for placekicks during his time in the '80s, and I remember he once couldn't get the snap down on the PAT and instead just got up and ran it into the end zone.

 

I remember him doing that. But this guy is later.

IIRC, it was in overtime to win the game for the Rams

 

Jay Novacek? Like Cromwell, he was a regular player who was the holder.

 

Not him

 

Testaverde?

 

Another good guess, but no.

HINT: The player has ties to Los Angeles.

 

That was actually on a designed fake-field goal against the Vikings at the Coliseum. 11-year-old me was at that game. The PAT came at another time.