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Ope3 said:
Does this cat look like he was ever capable of a 56 SB season? (1987)

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I had forgotten how much of a threat he was until seeing a re-air of a Costas interview he did with Gwynn & Carew together in Cooperstown. Great show.

15 Batting Crowns combined. Wow.
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A great point guard for SDSU back in the day too, earning All-WAC honors in both sports. Found this snippet on his Wikipedia page:

By the following season in 1979, Gwynn still had not heard from Aztecs baseballcoach Jim Dietz about joining the team after the basketball season.[39] However, an opportunity arose after two outfielders riding bicycles were struck by an automobile and injured, leaving Dietz in need of replacements
 

coolhandgopher said:
A great point guard for SDSU back in the day too, earning All-WAC honors in both sports. Found this snippet on his Wikipedia page:

By the following season in 1979, Gwynn still had not heard from Aztecs baseballcoach Jim Dietz about joining the team after the basketball season.[39] However, an opportunity arose after two outfielders riding bicycles were struck by an automobile and injured, leaving Dietz in need of replacements
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The Costas show touched his time as an Aztec hoopster with some quick highlights (baller) as well as that story about getting more time on the diamond.

Because of his limited time playing baseball before joining the Padres system, he really had to work hard in the minors, instructional leagues etc to catch-up. Gwynn made Carew's acquaintance during that time as the Padres & Angels shared facilities, with Tony soaking as much knowledge as possible from Rodney.

Eventually they became friends too, especially with the Cooperstown connection. Really good show. They had some pretty good Teddy Ballgame stories.
 

Ope3 said:
Does this cat look like he was ever capable of a 56 SB season? (1987)

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I had forgotten how much of a threat he was until seeing a re-air of a Costas interview he did with Gwynn & Carew together in Cooperstown. Great show.

15 Batting Crowns combined. Wow.
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On YouTube?
 



Strange grid today, with the only criteria for all nine squares being “played in MLB”. I went obscurity hunting from the Twins archives and ended up with a score of 0%.

Twins used: Vic Albert, Mark Funderburk,
Craig Kusick, Terry Bulling, Pete Redfern, Andre David, Rick Sofield, Hosken Powell, and Roger Erickson.
 

coolhandgopher said:
Strange grid today, with the only criteria for all nine squares being “played in MLB”. I went obscurity hunting from the Twins archives and ended up with a score of 0%.

Twins used: Vic Albert, Mark Funderburk,
Craig Kusick, Terry Bulling, Pete Redfern, Andre David, Rick Sofield, Hosken Powell, and Roger Erickson.
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Just came here to post about this. Gridmaker must have the day off.
 

coolhandgopher said:
Strange grid today, with the only criteria for all nine squares being “played in MLB”. I went obscurity hunting from the Twins archives and ended up with a score of 0%.

Twins used: Vic Albert, Mark Funderburk,
Craig Kusick, Terry Bulling, Pete Redfern, Andre David, Rick Sofield, Hosken Powell, and Roger Erickson.
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It is bizarre. Doesn't look any of the other sports followed suit.

I went:

Randy Johnson
Randy Johnson
Randy Johnson (the one that was a Twin)
Gary Serum
Darrell Brown
Pete Filson
Paul Giel
Glenn Borgman
Frank Quilici

Even with the HoF Randy Johnson (0.2%), still a total Rarity Score rounded down to 0.
 







Gophers1992 said:
The WNBA one is. Probably my only chance ever to fill out that whole grid.
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Looking closer each board has a little something wonky. It would have been a good chance to mix up sports, like having a "Played in NFL" on the Baseball Grid. Could use Bo Jackson, Jim Thorpe, George Halas....

Hockey Grid has Utah and Arizona in different columns. That's a fail for me because I can't name a current player on the Utah roster, much less 3. I did not realize for Grid purposes they are considered separate.
 



Ope3 said:
Looking closer each board has a little something wonky. It would have been a good chance to mix up sports, like having a "Played in NFL" on the Baseball Grid. Could use Bo Jackson, Jim Thorpe, George Halas....

Hockey Grid has Utah and Arizona in different columns. That's a fail for me because I can't name a current player on the Utah roster, much less 3. I did not realize for Grid purposes they are considered separate.
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Yep, luckily for me former gophers Logan Cooley and Nick Bjugstad are on their current roster, but I don't know of any non-Americans on that team.
 

Gophers1992 said:
Yep, luckily for me former gophers Logan Cooley and Nick Bjugstad are on their current roster, but I don't know of any non-Americans on that team.
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I forgot about Cooley, should have remembered that one. Bjugstad that is new information to me.
 

Ope3 said:
I forgot about Cooley, should have remembered that one. Bjugstad that is new information to me.
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He's turned into a bit of a journeyman ever since he left Florida. I had forgotten and just checked and realized that this is actually his second stint with Arizona/Utah, with 19 games in Edmonton between the two.
 

Twins on the Grid today, I went with:
Portugal, the Man (.7%)
"El Tiante" (1%)
Eric Soderholm (.6%)
 

coolhandgopher said:
Twins on the Grid today, I went with:
Portugal, the Man (.7%)
"El Tiante" (1%)
Eric Soderholm (.6%)
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I used Portugal for Giants/Astros (0.4%).

Twins:

Astros - Marwin Gonzalez (3%)
2000 Ks - Early Wynn (0.5%) / actually only a Senator Version 1.0
3B - Graig Nettles (0.9%)
 
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