Baseball Question on Jeopardy tonight???

[ndevlin]

Yeah, and I can almost bet he wouldve played for another 5 yrs. Not to mention his HR total of 500+. Heck, probably 600+

[xpress34]

Yeah, and I can almost bet he wouldve played for another 5 yrs. Not to mention his HR total of 500+. Heck, probably 600+

Without a doubt...

Any guesses on my 300w/300s question yet?

[ndevlin]

Umm, my first guess would be Clemens and Wagner. But I dont think they were teammates at that time.

Clemens and Franco? They were teammates, but I dunno if they played in the same game

[ndevlin]

No wait, Clemens played with the Yankees, Franco with the Mets.

Ahh, I dunno. Im guessing it might have something to do with Nolan Ryan

[ndevlin]

Or I guess Clemens and Rivera too....

[Vintagedeputy]

The 300 saves guy was Gossage, right?

[Vintagedeputy]

Here's a good one:

Name the 2 sets of brothers to have hit over 500 home runs combined.

[xpress34]

The 300 saves guy was Gossage, right?

You're on track Deputy... we might have to make you Sheriff!!!

[xpress34]

You were close with Clemens and Franco - they were the 2nd pairing during Franco's brief stint with the Astros in April 2005 - 14 years later!

And YES, it does involve Nolan.

In June 1991 Nolan started and WON his 308th Career Victory. In that game, Goose Gossage (who had not saved a game in over 2 years at that point) came in and got the SAVE - his 308th Career Save. #308 and #308 in the same game!!!

There is actually a card commemorating the event in the 1992 Donruss set.

In fact, it inspired me to do this (as far as I know) ONE OF A KIND Ball:



And for the record I believe the other tandems to do 300w/300s would be:

Clemens/Rivera (after Clemens went back to NYY) making Clemens the only one to do it twice with two different teams (Both Leagues as a matter of fact!) and with two different relievers.

The other would be Greg Maddux w/ Trevor Hoffman during Maddux's SD tenure...

- Chris