Thursday Trivia XIII

[micropolitan guy]

Play or don't. Google discouraged. Midling quality of questions today, I'm feeling very medoicre. Baseball-oriented today instead of the usual mix. Even Pittsburgh Pirates-oriented, for some strange reason.

1. What specific thing ties former major-league baseball players John Stephenson, Harvy Kuenn, Rico Petrocelli and Rich Reese together? (Other than they're all retired.)

2. Who was the final opponent of the Wichita State football team?
ANSWER: ASU is correct, the Shockers lost 52-6 at Tempe on Nov. 15, 1986.

3. The winning pitcher in game 7 of the 1960 World Series was ...
ANSWER: Harvey Haddix is correct, in relief of Bob Friend.

4. Who pitched the most recent 9-inning, complete-game no-hitter in Pirates' history?
ANSWER: John Candelaria, vs. the Dodgers on 8/9/76.

5. Who is the last player to leave the Pirates with a career .300 average?
ANSWER: Jason Kendall, .306 from 1996-2004.

BONUS (not sports-related): Who are Mike Smith, Denis Payton, Lenny Davidson and Rick Huxley?
ANSWER: Yes, they're the other members of the Dave Clark 5, one of my favorite all-time English Invasion groups, and a very underrated one at that.

 

[poindexter]

1. Lost no-hitters (just because the name Harvey Kuenn - what else could he be famous for?)

 

[Armchair_QB]

1. Lost no-hitters (just because the name Harvey Kuenn - what else could he be famous for?)

Harvey Kuenn wasn't a pitcher.

Is No. 4 John Candelaria?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The bonus answer is The Dave Clark Five minus Dave Clark.

 

[Webster]

You really are a *******, FB. Got me by a few seconds.

 

[93Devil]

Jim Bibby retired 27 in a row after allowing the first batter to reach base. Does that count?

Retire as a Pirate and not go to another team? Would that be Roberto? Al Oliver did not retire a Pirate.

 

[Moderator1]

The bonus answer is The Dave Clark Five minus Dave Clark.

I'm just Glad All Over you got that one.

 

[Armchair_QB]

The answer to No. 1 is that none of them have ever been in my kitchen.

 

[outofplace]

1. Lost no-hitters (just because the name Harvey Kuenn - what else could he be famous for?)

Harvey Kuenn wasn't a pitcher.

Is No. 4 John Candelaria?

I think it was Candelaria. The team had one in 1997, but that went into extra innings and it was a combined effort by Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Question 5, he did not necessarily retire, but had a career average of over .300 when he left the Pirates' organization.

 

[93Devil]

1. Lost no-hitters (just because the name Harvey Kuenn - what else could he be famous for?)

Harvey Kuenn wasn't a pitcher.

Is No. 4 John Candelaria?

I think it was Candelaria. The team had one in 1997, but that went into extra innings and it was a combined effort by Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon.

...and a third pitcher I think, but that is a question for another Thursday.

 

[93Devil]

Question 5, he did not necessarily retire, but had a career average of over .300 when he left the Pirates' organization.

Al Oliver

 

[zeke12]

Is #3 Harvey Haddix? I seem to remember reading that as a footnote in one of the stories about him.

 

[Huggy]

That Candelaria no-hitter was the first one I ever saw on TV. I'm pretty sure it was on Monday Night Baseball.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Bill Madlock for no. 5?

 

[93Devil]

I'm so tempted to look at Johnny Ray for #5.

I think Mad Dog is a better answer than Oliver.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

4. Who pitched the most recent 9-inning, complete-game no-hitter in Pirates' history?
ANSWER: John Candelaria, vs. the Dodgers on 8/9/76.

And you can find the original broadcast -- it was an ABC Monday Night Baseball tilt with Al Michaels, Bob Gibson and Norm Cash -- if you know where to look.

One of Wichita's last games was at Arizona State. Don't know if it was the last one. (ON EDIT: Consider that my guess, though.)

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

5. Roberto Clemente?

 

[mike311gd]

Question 5, he did not necessarily retire, but had a career average of over .300 when he left the Pirates' organization.

Barry Bonds.

 

[outofplace]

1. Lost no-hitters (just because the name Harvey Kuenn - what else could he be famous for?)

Harvey Kuenn wasn't a pitcher.

Is No. 4 John Candelaria?

I think it was Candelaria. The team had one in 1997, but that went into extra innings and it was a combined effort by Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon.

...and a third pitcher I think, but that is a question for another Thursday.

Nope. It was just Cordova and Rincon. Mark Smith won it with a pinch-hit, 3-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning off John Hudek. I was there that night. Rare big crowd at Three Rivers (fireworks night). Not many memorable nights for the Pirates since the early '90s, but that was one.