While we wait for football, here are a few trivia bits, some of which are head scratchers.
1935: At the All Star break that season, Hank Greenburg was in the top 3 in the American League in batting and homeruns, and was leading in RBI's with over 100 (at the break) ... yet he was not selected to play in the All Star game ............ He did go on to win the AL MVP that year.
Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson have well over 100 career PGA victories, including 15 major's, yet neither one ever won the PGA Championship. John Daly, with a whopping 5 career wins, won 2 major's including the PGA.
The New York Yankees have 34 players in the Hall of Fame, yet not one of them (who played most of their career with the Yankees) ever got to 3000 career hits.
The Yankees have won more World Series Championships than any other team. Despite the long storied history of other great franchises, such as the Giants, Red Sox, Orioles, Dodgers, Tigers, etc. the team with the second most World Series Championships is ............. the St Louis Cardinals.
Pete Dawkins was the last player from ARMY to win the Heisman Trophy. For each of the next three years, while studying at Oxford under a Rhodes Scholarship, he won the
english Rugby Player of the Year award (their equivilant of the Heisman), yet he never played Rugby before he went to Oxford. Dawkins is credited with inventing the "torpedo throw" which is a common and essential skill in Rugby today.
Bill Carpenter, Dawkins teammate at ARMY, was known as the "Lonesome End" because he never returned to the huddle. His coach said he told him to stay out there because he was worried he would wear him out if he had to run in and out of the huddle all the time. Carpenter was and All American in both football and lacrosse, and later won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam (for calling in an airstrike on his own position).
Burt Reynolds was the number 1 recruit for the FSU Seminole football squad in 1954 and was considered one of their top RB's. Despite making a handful of great plays, two separate knee injuries forced him to give up football. The rest of the story is history.
Norm Cash played most of his career with the Detroit Tigers and banged out 377 career HR's. He has hit more HR's over the right field rood in old Tiger stadium than any other player in baseball history. 17 years after he retired he admitted in an interview that he was using a corked bat all that time.
there you go.
1935: At the All Star break that season, Hank Greenburg was in the top 3 in the American League in batting and homeruns, and was leading in RBI's with over 100 (at the break) ... yet he was not selected to play in the All Star game ............ He did go on to win the AL MVP that year.
Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson have well over 100 career PGA victories, including 15 major's, yet neither one ever won the PGA Championship. John Daly, with a whopping 5 career wins, won 2 major's including the PGA.
The New York Yankees have 34 players in the Hall of Fame, yet not one of them (who played most of their career with the Yankees) ever got to 3000 career hits.
The Yankees have won more World Series Championships than any other team. Despite the long storied history of other great franchises, such as the Giants, Red Sox, Orioles, Dodgers, Tigers, etc. the team with the second most World Series Championships is ............. the St Louis Cardinals.
Pete Dawkins was the last player from ARMY to win the Heisman Trophy. For each of the next three years, while studying at Oxford under a Rhodes Scholarship, he won the
english Rugby Player of the Year award (their equivilant of the Heisman), yet he never played Rugby before he went to Oxford. Dawkins is credited with inventing the "torpedo throw" which is a common and essential skill in Rugby today.
Bill Carpenter, Dawkins teammate at ARMY, was known as the "Lonesome End" because he never returned to the huddle. His coach said he told him to stay out there because he was worried he would wear him out if he had to run in and out of the huddle all the time. Carpenter was and All American in both football and lacrosse, and later won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam (for calling in an airstrike on his own position).
Burt Reynolds was the number 1 recruit for the FSU Seminole football squad in 1954 and was considered one of their top RB's. Despite making a handful of great plays, two separate knee injuries forced him to give up football. The rest of the story is history.
Norm Cash played most of his career with the Detroit Tigers and banged out 377 career HR's. He has hit more HR's over the right field rood in old Tiger stadium than any other player in baseball history. 17 years after he retired he admitted in an interview that he was using a corked bat all that time.
there you go.
