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micropolitan guy

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Yes, we are back. Nothing as difficult as last week's college football question about the only team to play in five different major-league stadiums in the same season. That's a keeper.
Play or don't.

1. According to my NCAA record book, this man is the only consensus All-American, in a year his team made the Final Four, who did not play in the Final Four that year. Who was that player?
ANSWER: Bob Lanier, St. Bonaventure, 1970. Chris Ford takes him out while trailing by 20 points in the 1970 regional final vs. Villanova, torn ACL, cost St. Bona's a national title shot. **** Chris Ford.

2. Who hit the first inside-the-park home run in the history of Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minn.?
ANSWER: Harmon Killebrew, 7/4/61.

3. Who holds the major-league record for most career victories without a shutout?
ANSWER: Goose Gossage, 124 career wins.

4. Who is the only native of Mississippi in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
ANSWER: Cool Papa Bell is correct.

5. Two players have scored 80 or more points in a single Final Four (remember, there used to be a third-place game). They are?
ANSWER: Bill Bradley of Princeton is one of the two players, the all-time leader with 87 points, and Hal Greer of Temple, 80 points.
 
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spnited said:
outofplace said:
Is No. 3 Don Sutton?


You missed that one by 58 shutouts!

haha...hey, at least it's proof I don't research before I take my stabs in the dark here. I'll go slink back to my comic book threads now.
 
BYH said:
Holy crap, that's ****ing funny. :)

Yup. Stop the presses. I was wrong about something (paraphrasing BYH from the last time I made fun of him for being wrong).

Though to be honest, that was epic enough of a fail, it deserves a laugh.
 
micropolitan guy said:
IU didn't make the Final Four in 1975, the year May was injured. Kentucky defeated them in the regional finals.

CRAP! I thought I had that one.
 
OK a completely random guess at no. 3: Jesse Orosco. I'll admit I found him while surfing baseball-reference because I thought Teddy Higuera might be a decent guess.
 

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