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Post by dumdave on Apr 14, 2017 13:57:23 GMT -6
The White Sox will start an all Garcia outfield tonight. Yup. Three outfielders named Garcia. I wonder if this has happened before?
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Post by cmon on Apr 14, 2017 16:02:10 GMT -6
No it hasn't according to an article I read. The Alou brothers played together a handful of times but they never started a game together.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 15, 2017 11:30:44 GMT -6
My first guess would have been the Alou brothers too. The Molina brothers were all catchers and the DiMaggio brothers didn't all on the same team.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 15, 2017 11:38:21 GMT -6
Three Cubs HOF players from the 50's and 60's got WS rings. Who?
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Post by willy on Apr 15, 2017 14:19:21 GMT -6
I would guess Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins and/or families of Ron Santo and Ernie Banks.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 15, 2017 15:18:36 GMT -6
A highlight video kicked off the festivities Wednesday. Commissioner Rob Manfred then presented rings to members of the Ricketts family that owns the team, starting with chairman Tom Ricketts and his wife.
Team executives came next, with fans chanting President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein's name as he accepted his ring from Ricketts. Cubs Hall of Famers Fergie Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg and Billy Williams got theirs. So did manager Joe Maddon and his coaches.
For the players, the Cubs added a different twist. In a nod to the support they received through more than a century of heartbreak and frustration, the team had 20 contest-winning fans serve as ring bearers for the guys in gloves and cleats.
"Based on 108 years of difficulties, I think it's the perfect method to do this," Maddon said.
Ranging from 13 to 90 years old, the fans were selected from a pool of more than 1,500 video submissions on Twitter. They were nominated by friends, family and co-workers. They also gave WS rings to Ernie Banks and Ron Santo. Billy Williams still works for the Cubs. They included Jimmy Thurman, a 90-year-old World War II veteran from Kewanee, Illinois. In his submission, a mock "Tonight Show" video, he recalled becoming a Cubs fan in the late 1930s because his mom was. He passed that love down through his family, and he got to hand 2015 NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta his ring.
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Post by willy on Apr 15, 2017 17:46:28 GMT -6
Once again you tricked us Dave by asking for the 50-60's. Ryno wasn't in the 60's. His inclusion would have probably answered the question cause they are probably the only three alive that are in the Hall of Fame that played for the Cubs.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 16, 2017 14:07:45 GMT -6
Once again you tricked us Dave by asking for the 50-60's. Ryno wasn't in the 60's. His inclusion would have probably answered the question cause they are probably the only three alive that are in the Hall of Fame that played for the Cubs. Sorry Willy. I was thinking of Banks, Williams and Santo. Thanks to YMCA,I was able to see them play at Wrigley Field. I wasn't sure about Billy Williams, so that's how I found the cut and paste paragraph I used.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 21, 2017 17:40:47 GMT -6
MLB requires all venues to have this distance from home to center field.
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Post by cmon on Apr 22, 2017 9:10:17 GMT -6
Just a guess. 400'
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Post by dumdave on Apr 22, 2017 11:51:55 GMT -6
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Post by dumdave on Apr 22, 2017 13:59:46 GMT -6
Which baseball cities have a baseball stadium right next to a body of water?
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Post by cmon on Apr 22, 2017 15:19:15 GMT -6
Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Washington are the only ones I can think of.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 24, 2017 13:27:23 GMT -6
Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Washington are the only ones I can think of. I was thinking the same thing, except I forgot about Washington.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 28, 2017 18:24:10 GMT -6
This ballpark opened just a few days after the Titanic sank.
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