Reds trivia thread

[JohnU]

Their terrible teams of the recent decades didn't finish last because the Pirates had a long-term lease on the basement floor.

 

[JohnU]

Crosley mural going on display

STORY HERE

 

[Hit-n-Run]

On this date in Reds history HOF Ed Rousch was ejected from the game for sleeping.

During a long argument between Reds' skipper Pat Moran and the umpire.... Rousch decided to lay down and subsequently fell asleep. When the arguement ended there lay Rousch fast asleep. The already aggravated umpire ejected Rousch for delaying the game when team mates were unable to quickly wake him up.

I know how Ed Rousch must have felt. Every time they go to the umpire review I also feel like taking a nap.

 

[JohnU]

Reds dugout staff fully compliant

 

[Hit-n-Run]

If anybody is wondering the year..... 1920

 

[JohnU]

Chico might be. I will be dead. I

 

[JohnU]

HUGE day in Reds history. Note score of game that answers another trivia question.

June 10, 1944

 

[Indrid Cold]

Johnny Bench was the answer to a question during the Reds radio broadcast yesterday. It asked who had 12 career home runs versus Steve Carlton. Carlton would be the Hall of Famer that Johnny had the most success against.

JB had more than 100+ career PA's against seven different pitchers. Four HOF...... Phil Niekro, Steve Carlton, Gaylord Perry, Don Sutton, and non- HOF Jerry Reuss and Joe Niekro are six of them.

The seventh pitcher is the one JB struggled the most against with a career .178 BA.

Who was this LaPorte, Ind native and 1968 All Star pitcher for the Atlanta Braves?

Carlton was a weird one.
He was out bird hunting with a friend and missed his shot...apropos of nothing, he fired off his other barrel into the air and yelled, "That one's for Bench!"

 

[Indrid Cold]

On this date in Reds history HOF Ed Rousch was ejected from the game for sleeping.

During a long argument between Reds' skipper Pat Moran and the umpire.... Rousch decided to lay down and subsequently fell asleep. When the arguement ended there lay Rousch fast asleep. The already aggravated umpire ejected Rousch for delaying the game when team mates were unable to quickly wake him up.

I know how Ed Rousch must have felt. Every time they go to the umpire review I also feel like taking a nap.

Edd Roush used a bat that one commentator describes as a crudely lathed log. Dude must have had huge hands.

 

[Hit-n-Run]

Stopped by Dalton & Findley to check out the mural. It's painted on the backside of one of the buildings in what used to be the LF corner, can't see it from the street view. It's a huge mural, just guessing, it must be 15 ft × 60 ft. There's a self guided tour and brochure if you step inside the building

There's really nothing left at the site of significance. The blue building with chimney on neighboring property used to be connected to the LF stands and a few other buildings across the highway remain from the days of Crosley, but nothing original remains on site. Until the recent construction of the City Gospel the slope of the terrace had remained, but now it's gone as well.

If in the area it's worth stopping by if to no more than to stir up some great old memories and tell a few stories.

 

[JohnU]

It's sad we can't conjure up the smells and sounds of that place. To some degree you can still get that emotion outside Wrigley on game-day but the neighborhood isn't the same obviously. Diesel fumes and cigar smoke are forever gone. The peanut guy ... history. So many years, I can't remember what the place was like other than ... it was cramped.

 

[JohnU]

You think you know your baseball greats? Yeah, so did I. Then I went brain-dead.

TRY THIS QUIZ

 

[Redsfan1507]

15/21

couldn't spell Yaz's name or would have been 16, Got Winfield but forgot Musial. Seaver but forgot Clemens. Alzheimer's setting in maybe.

5 mins isn't enough time.