On every weeknight throughout the year, one of the TYA writers will post a trivia question as the nightly open thread. The blog administrators will keep track of the winners, and the commenter with the most correct answers will win a prize that has yet to be decided upon. The answers will be posted in the following evening’s open thread.
Tonight’s question comes from William J., and is in keeping with the theme of the holiday. It is also a fairly difficult one, so good luck to you all:
44 Yankees have shared a surname with a former U.S. President. How many can you name?
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Since Wells is in camp as a special instructor, here’s a fun fact about David.
You know how David was always referred to as a ‘rubber armed’ pitcher? A guy with a bad body who pitched until his mid 40s because of that magic left arm of his?
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/profile.asp?P=David-Wells
He threw 157 innings as a 20 year old and pretty much couldn’t stay healthy for the next 3 years. They even converted him to a reliever by the time he was 24, and didn’t go back to starting full time until he was 30.
Good point. On that note, CC really is one of a kind. I know people like to assume his size will eventually lead to injury, but I dont think we have a parallel to make here. An exceptionally large man with fantastic mechanics. Hard to figure where he goes from here.
My 7 am post is on how both Betances and Banuelos credit surgery with providing a turning point in their development, which is so utterly counter intuitive. We as fans would all think a pitcher getting hurt is bad (and it is) yet both of them said it gave them a chance to take a step back and fix something in their game. This is also one reason why prospects are so hard to draft and develop. There’s no one way to do it. If there was, the process would be much more certain.
Claudell Washington
David Adams (if he counts)
Austin and Reggie Jackson
Brien Taylor (if he counts)
Randy Johnson, Nick Johnson, Jason Johnson, Russ Johnson
Ian Patrick Kennedy
Whitey Ford
That’s all I’ve got
Minor leaguers dont count. Still, that’s 8, a nice start.
Reggie Jackson, Whitey Ford, Randy Johnson, Ian Kennedy, Claudell Washington, Homer Bush…
Another fun fact. Do you know how Nolan Ryan thinks all these spoiled brat pitching prospects nowadays need to stop being babied, and throw more while they’re young to build up their arms?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ryanno01.shtml
Actually, Nolan’s career path is almost a perfect facsimile to what proponents of innings limits recommend today. Nolan didn’t really have the harness taken off innings-wise until he was 25 years old. In his case, it was unintentional. He missed time because he was serving in the national guard, and was so wild in his early 20s the Mets made him work out of the bullpen to try to get on track. But it sounds a lot like ‘do as I say, not as I did’ to me.
Cliff Johnson, Charlie Hayes, Enrique Wilson, Otis Nixon…
1 spencer adams
2 joe bush
3 homer bush
4 russ ford
5 whitey ford
6 ben ford
7 charlie hayes
8 grant jackson
9 steven jackson
10 reggie jackson
11 stan jefferson
12 Hank Johnson
13 Johnny Johnson
14 Don Johnson
15 Ken Johnson
16 Jeff Johnson
17 Randy Johnson
18 Jason Johnson
19 Darrell Johnson
20 Deron Johnson
21 Nick Johnson
22 Billy Johnson
23 Russ Johnson
24 Otis Johnson
25 Ernie Johnson
26 Cliff Johnson
27 Roy Johnson
28 Alex Johnson
29 Lance Johnson
30 Ian Kennedy
31 John Kennedy
32 Dave Madison
33 ed monroe
34 zach monroe
35 otis nixon
36 wade taylor
37 zack taylor
38 claudell washington
39 pete wilson
40 kris wilson
41 enrique wilson
42 archie wilson
43 craig wilson
44 george wilson
There they are.