Kiwanis Sports Trivia Championship: Wait till next year
Shawn and I took part in today’s C-U Kiwanis Sports Trivia Championship at the Hilton Garden Inn. There were a few words we could use to describe our performance today. Among the printable ones are “humiliating”, “pitiful”, and “put in our place”.
No, we didn’t do very well.
But we DID have fun and the Kiwanis event’s purpose was to raise money for a couple good causes, most notably the Don Moyer’s Boys and Girls Club.
“Captain”. I like the sound of that.
Here’s page 1 of the General Baseball round questions (click to enlarge).
Shawn and I did pretty well on the General Baseball round. I’m embarrassed to say we did better on the St Louis Cardinals round than the Chicago Cubs round (ouch). I was happy I got this one right: “What are the dimensions to centerfield in Wrigley Field?” 400 feet.
The judges tabulating the scores.
A representative from the “Dave’s Guys” team accepting the $1000 check prize.
Kudos to “Dave’s Guys” who won it all. It was a good fight. It came down to a two-way tie at the end and a tie-breaker was necessary. The tie-breaker was brutal, it seemed. Ten questions, no multiple choice. We knew that both teams had deserved to be there because the Championship came down to one question. “Dave’s Guys” had to answer EVERY question in order to win it all. Congratulations to them.
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Thanks to the Kiwanis for a great time. Jim Sheppard (former PA announcer of the Illini) did a great job organizing the event. Brian Barnhart (broadcaster for the Illini and former broadcaster for the Angels) used his awesome voice as the MC. Thanks also to my good friend and teammate Shawn, who at least made it fun and answered the questions I couldn’t.
The Kiwanis say they plan to do this again so we plan to avenge our mediocre performance.
Todd Zeile has homered for more clubs (11) than any other player in the history of baseball: St. Louis – 75, Cubs – 9, Baltimore 5, Philadelphia 20, Dodgers – 38, Texas – 30, Florida – 6, Mets – 41, Colorado – 18, Yankees – 6, and Montreal – 5. He hit a grand total of 253 long balls, his first as a member of the Redbirds in 1989 and his last in 2004 with the New York Mets.
When Nate Colbert was a boy growing up in St. Louis his father took him to a doubleheader in which Stan Musial hit five home runs in a doubleheader in 1954. Young Nate turned to his father and said, “Someday I’m going to do that”.
Wilver Stargell was a menacing figure when he stepped into the batter’s box in the 70s, windmilling his bat around, as he waited for the pitcher to summon up the courage to send the sphere plateward. Stargell played 21 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he hit 7 of the 16 balls hit completely out of Forbes Field and several into the upper tier at Three Rivers Stadium. Willie finished his career with 475 homers and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988.
One June 19, 1977 this White Sox firstbaseman sang the pre-game National Anthem then went out and went 4-7 with a pair of home runs, playing error-less ball in the field, in a doubleheader sweep versus Oakland. Who was this multi-talented Alabamian?
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