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#26 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:17 pm

It was indeed to avoid a paternity suit, and this just got a few lines in the agate type of The Sporting News, at that time.

Of course, the team moved to Oakland in the off-season, and the suit had to be settled, for Campy to play and live in the Golden State.

14-12 for B, I think.
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#27 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:18 pm

Hurray for Bob####s. His arrival was like the appearance over a hillside of the U.S. Cavalry.
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Q4 MORE 1967.

#28 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:19 pm

B - Walt Bond, a power-hitting reserve outfielder, won the first game of the season for one of the better teams in the American League, with a pinch-hit home run.

This team was at that time the northernmost major league team.

Which team?

G - Bond was unavailable down the amazing stretch drive of that team, having

1 - died of leukemia
2 - signed up as a Marine
3 - joined a Cistercian monastery
4 - had a sex-change operation.
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Re: Q4 MORE 1967.

#29 Post by Bob78164 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:20 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - Walt Bond, a power-hitting reserve outfielder, won the first game of the season for one of the better teams in the American League, with a pinch-hit home run.

This team was at that time the northernmost major league team.

Which team?

G - Bond was unavailable down the amazing stretch drive of that team, having

1 - died of leukemia
2 - signed up as a Marine
3 - joined a Cistercian monastery
4 - had a sex-change operation.
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#30 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:21 pm

What season?
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#31 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:22 pm

Toronto Blue Jays

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#32 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:23 pm

Minnesota twins

Died of leukemia
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#33 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:23 pm

Sorry - doh. 1967.

I would guess Milwaukee Braves.

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#34 Post by kayrharris » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:23 pm

I'm guessing this would be a team in the northeast...I don't think there were many northern teams on the left side early on...but who knows? Maybe Detroit?

Wild guess on leukemia. That would be sad.
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#35 Post by Bob78164 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:24 pm

silvercamaro wrote:Hurray for Bob####s. His arrival was like the appearance over a hillside of the U.S. Cavalry.
Because I'm loud and messy and leave a trail of shit wherever I go? :roll: --Bob
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#36 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:24 pm

Seattle?

The monastery thing. Too wild but fun option.
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#37 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:25 pm

LOL!
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#38 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:25 pm

As I like to kid AD - Minnesota and Wisconsin are way north of Southern Ontario.
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#39 Post by kayrharris » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:28 pm

I kinda liked the sex change operation choice thrown in there as well.

Great job, doctor!
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#40 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:28 pm

ontellen wrote:As I like to kid AD - Minnesota and Wisconsin are way north of Southern Ontario.
So, do Canadians think that folks from Kitchener have southern accents?
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#41 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:29 pm

NOW, everyone is showing up, and IVE been trying to keep score in my head.

I shoulda had one of those stubby pencils that used to come when you buy a a scorecard.
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#42 Post by kayrharris » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm

Sorry. I came in late, so just count me in for fun. It's fine.
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#43 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm

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#44 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:31 pm

etaoin22 wrote:NOW, everyone is showing up, and IVE been trying to keep score in my head.

I shoulda had one of those stubby pencils that used to come when you buy a a scorecard.
They're free at the golf course. Not that getting a free stubby pencil is worth playing golf for.
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#45 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:31 pm

At any rate, Walt Bond of the Minnesota Twins died of leukemia during the 1967 season. Again, never really got much of a play in the media, so I don't know the story in any detail. The Twins could have used his bat, losing the pennant to Boston in the final weekend.

I am calling scores even for Q5.

Another 1967 story.
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#46 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:32 pm

We don't have accents in Ontario. It's all the others that do.

When we were in Newfoundland in 1984, I talked to some people there and you can't understand a word they're saying and they're speaking English.
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#47 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:32 pm

It's all for fun tonight Kay.

Oh, wait, it is always for fun!

Yay!!!!!!!!!!
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#48 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:33 pm

So poor Walt went on to his reward without a "Brian's Song" movie.
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#49 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:33 pm

Q5 - More 1967

B Dennis Dale "Denny" McLain was one of the better pitching talents in the American League that year, combining with Lolich, Wilson and Sparma to form the four-man starting rotation of another very good team. That team and Minnesota just were edged out by Boston at the end of the season.

Which team?

G - However, McLain was unavailable for two weeks in September with a bad foot injury of uncertain cause. The best public guess by now of what happened, is

1 - Bad LSD trip
2 - Dropped 3 cases of Pepsi-Cola on it (his favorite beverage)
3 - Woke up with a kink in his leg (the story at the time)
4 - Stomped on by the boss of the local Mafia.
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#50 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:34 pm

ontellen wrote:We don't have accents in Ontario. It's all the others that do.

When we were in Newfoundland in 1984, I talked to some people there and you can't understand a word they're saying and they're speaking English.
I haven't been to Newfoundland, so I can't compare, but the only time I've been completely stumped by English was when I tried to talk with Cockney guards in the Tower of London. (I'm presuming they were Cockneys. It's not like it would have done me any good to ask them.)
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