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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:17 pm
by etaoin22
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:18 pm
by silvercamaro
Hurray for Bob####s. His arrival was like the appearance over a hillside of the U.S. Cavalry.
Q4 MORE 1967.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:19 pm
by etaoin22
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.
Re: Q4 MORE 1967.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:20 pm
by Bob78164
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.
Boston Red Sux. 1
--Bob
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:21 pm
by ontellen
What season?
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:22 pm
by silvercamaro
Toronto Blue Jays
Joined a monastery, selected because of its specificity.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:23 pm
by mellytu74
Minnesota twins
Died of leukemia
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:23 pm
by ontellen
Sorry - doh. 1967.
I would guess Milwaukee Braves.
Joined a monastery.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:23 pm
by kayrharris
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:24 pm
by Bob78164
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?
--Bob
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:24 pm
by christie1111
Seattle?
The monastery thing. Too wild but fun option.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:25 pm
by silvercamaro
LOL!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:25 pm
by ontellen
As I like to kid AD - Minnesota and Wisconsin are way north of Southern Ontario.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:28 pm
by kayrharris
I kinda liked the sex change operation choice thrown in there as well.
Great job, doctor!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:28 pm
by silvercamaro
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?
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:29 pm
by etaoin22
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm
by kayrharris
Sorry. I came in late, so just count me in for fun. It's fine.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm
by mellytu74
ditto
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:31 pm
by silvercamaro
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:31 pm
by etaoin22
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:32 pm
by ontellen
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:32 pm
by christie1111
It's all for fun tonight Kay.
Oh, wait, it is always for fun!
Yay!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:33 pm
by ontellen
So poor Walt went on to his reward without a "Brian's Song" movie.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:33 pm
by etaoin22
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:34 pm
by silvercamaro
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.)