Preseason Baseball Trivia. I KNOW IF YOUR CHEATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

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Noahw

New member
1. How many times has the baseball season entered November?
2. Who did Babe Ruth hit his "called shot" off of?
3. What year introduced the DS and CS series'?
4. What does H.H.H. stand for? (Where the Twins played before moving to Target Field)
5. What states in the don't have a baseball team? (I like torturing you)
 
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Chipmaker

Member
1. The MLB season proper has not. The postseason, specifically the World Series, has played into November twice, and could have a third time had it gone to Game 7 (which that year it did not).

2. Charlie Root, as legend has it. 1932 WS, think it was Game 4.

3. LCS began 1969, Division Series began 1995 (would have begun 1994 but that season ended in August, and there was the one-time Division Series in 1981).

4. Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice-President and Senator from Minnesota. (I think the middle H was for Horatio, but I'm not looking it up.)

5. Majors? Most of them. Minors? I think there's some pro baseball in every one except Hawaii. Collegiate? High school? The nation is carpeted with these.

OK, majors -- 33 have no MLB team: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, matrimony, and intoxication.

The other 17 states have at least one MLB team, plus there's one in Washington, DC, and another in Ontario, Canada.


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Edit: there have been THREE other times the WS could have (but did not) stretched into November, but two of those were due to delays and not on the original game date schedule. Those were 1989 (earthquake) and 2008 (torrential rain). The 2007 original schedule had Game 7 on 01-November. The Series actually has reached November in 2001 and 2009, and probably will again.

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Ed2: Ha! His middle name IS "Horatio".
 
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Will1

Member
1. My guess is four
2. There actually was no such incident per se. The Cubs were riding Ruth, and he gestured at them *after* hitting the home run. I do not know the pitcher, though.
3. The LCS started in 1969, after the expansion and creation of divisions. The divisional series was triggered by the Giants winning 103 games in 1993 and missing the postseason, but it was not played until 1995.
4. Hubert Horatio Humphrey, former Vice President and Senator from Minnesota.
5. Assuming that you are referring to the majors (it's not specified) the list is Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
 
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masternachos

Member
1. Never. The World Series went into November once, though, in 2001.
2. Some Cubs pitcher.
3. DS-1994, though it wasn't played? CS- 1963?
4. Hubert H... Humphrey, governor (?) of Minnesota who was vice-president for Lyndon Johnson.
5. In the what? What kind of baseball team? If major league, than:
Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas (Kansas City Roylas play in Missouri!), Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Alaska and Hawaii.
 
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UtterChaos

Member
1. twice
2. Charlie Root
3. CS-1969, DS-1995
4. Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome (don't know what the middle H stand for)
5. Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia (unless you count the Nationals), West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

edit: Shoot, scratch Wisconsin. Forgot about Milwaukee.
 
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