OT: Ten Trivial Pursuit Sports Questions from the 1980's
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Was looking through some 1980's Trivial Pursuit cards, and some of them were hilarious, and/or baseball card related. Here's ten of them (I deleted parts of the question since it would be too easy):
1) What aging baseball player received $25,000 for turning up at a card collector's show in 1987?
2) What [Team Deleted] pitcher saw his rookie-year baseball card drop $50 in value from 1986-1987?
3) What [Team Deleted] slugger was late to 1988 spring training due to attending bubble gum card shows?
4) Whose rare 1900 baseball card was worth $_____ in 1988? [Honus is the answer, what was the dollar figure?]
5) What Boston Red Sox pitcher declined to do relief work saying "If I don't toe the rubber in the first inning, I don't toe the rubber?"
6) What [Team Deleted] baseballer avoided autograph seekers before the 1988 All-Star game by donning a Rod Stewart wig?
7) Who contended: "After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson. I really mean that"?
8) Who did Toronto Blue Jays manager Jimmy Williams mean in noting: "For $2 million a year, you'd think he could hit a cutoff man"?
9) What Cincinnati street was Pete Rose on when he failed to talk his way out of a 1988 traffic ticket?
10) Who stuck pins in an Eric Dickerson doll after Dickerson ran a seasonal record of 2007 yards?
1) What aging baseball player received $25,000 for turning up at a card collector's show in 1987?
2) What [Team Deleted] pitcher saw his rookie-year baseball card drop $50 in value from 1986-1987?
3) What [Team Deleted] slugger was late to 1988 spring training due to attending bubble gum card shows?
4) Whose rare 1900 baseball card was worth $_____ in 1988? [Honus is the answer, what was the dollar figure?]
5) What Boston Red Sox pitcher declined to do relief work saying "If I don't toe the rubber in the first inning, I don't toe the rubber?"
6) What [Team Deleted] baseballer avoided autograph seekers before the 1988 All-Star game by donning a Rod Stewart wig?
7) Who contended: "After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson. I really mean that"?
8) Who did Toronto Blue Jays manager Jimmy Williams mean in noting: "For $2 million a year, you'd think he could hit a cutoff man"?
9) What Cincinnati street was Pete Rose on when he failed to talk his way out of a 1988 traffic ticket?
10) Who stuck pins in an Eric Dickerson doll after Dickerson ran a seasonal record of 2007 yards?
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2) Dwight Gooden
3) Jose canseco
4) 100,000
5)Bruce hurst
6) Orel hershiser or Kirk Gibson
7) Reggie Jackson
8) George bell maybe Jesse Barfield
9) Pete rose blvd
10) OJ
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#9 Pete Rose Way ?
What current St. Louis Cardinal outfielder closely resembles E.T.?
About what Boston Red Sox pitcher did (some other manager or announcer I can't recall) quip, "He comes at you from every direction except between his legs"?
<< <i>Two questions from the original genus edition that I recall specifically:
What current St. Louis Cardinal outfielder closely resembles E.T.?
About what Boston Red Sox pitcher did (some other manager or announcer I can't recall) quip, "He comes at you from every direction except between his legs"? >>
1. McGee?
2. ?
<< <i>Two questions from the original genus edition that I recall specifically:
What current St. Louis Cardinal outfielder closely resembles E.T.?
About what Boston Red Sox pitcher did (some other manager or announcer I can't recall) quip, "He comes at you from every direction except between his legs"? >>
#1 is Willie McGee. There was a joke going around at the time of the 1982 World Series. McGee made a hit that he probably could have stretched to an inside-the-park HR, but it ended up as a triple. The joke went like this:
Q: What's the difference between E.T. and Willie McGee?
A: E.T. went home, but Willie stayed on third.
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<< <i>Two questions from the original genus edition that I recall specifically:
What current St. Louis Cardinal outfielder closely resembles E.T.?
About what Boston Red Sox pitcher did (some other manager or announcer I can't recall) quip, "He comes at you from every direction except between his legs"? >>
1. McGee?
2. ? >>
Luis Tiant on #2
<< <i>Was looking through some 1980's Trivial Pursuit cards, and some of them were hilarious, and/or baseball card related. Here's ten of them (I deleted parts of the question since it would be too easy):
1) What aging baseball player received $25,000 for turning up at a card collector's show in 1987? Reggie Jackson
2) What [Team Deleted] pitcher saw his rookie-year baseball card drop $50 in value from 1986-1987? Dwight Gooden
3) What [Team Deleted] slugger was late to 1988 spring training due to attending bubble gum card shows? Jose Canseco
4) Whose rare 1900 baseball card was worth $_____ in 1988? [Honus is the answer, what was the dollar figure?] $32,000
5) What Boston Red Sox pitcher declined to do relief work saying "If I don't toe the rubber in the first inning, I don't toe the rubber?" Dennis Boyd
6) What [Team Deleted] baseballer avoided autograph seekers before the 1988 All-Star game by donning a Rod Stewart wig? George Brett
7) Who contended: "After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson. I really mean that"? Reggie Jackson
8) Who did Toronto Blue Jays manager Jimmy Williams mean in noting: "For $2 million a year, you'd think he could hit a cutoff man"? George Bell
9) What Cincinnati street was Pete Rose on when he failed to talk his way out of a 1988 traffic ticket? Pete Rose Way
10) Who stuck pins in an Eric Dickerson doll after Dickerson ran a seasonal record of 2007 yards? OJ
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Great guessing. Most of them were answered correctly. See answers above