From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 5/3/2025 3:50 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > ** Game 4, Round 9 - Sports - Baseball Worsts   
   >   
   > With the Chicago White Sox hitting a new low in baseball futility   
   > this week, it seemed like an ideal time to celebrate boneheaded   
   > plays, mistakes, goofs, and scandals in America's pastime.   
   >   
   > 1. Considered by many fans to be the "original" baseball blunder,   
   >     in 1908 Al Bridwell hit an RBI single to right field in the   
   >     bottom of the 9th in a season-clinching game for the New York   
   >     Giants with Fred Merkle on first and Moose McCormick on third.   
   >     However, the RBI was disallowed.  Why?   
      
   Merkle failed to touch second base   
      
   > 3. Game 7 of the 1926 World Series was ended when a player was   
   >     caught stealing -- the only time in history a failed steal   
   >     has led to a World Series victory.  What legendary player got   
   >     picked off?   
      
   Babe Ruth   
      
   > 4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have   
   >     finished with the previous one.  Fcrnxvat bs Onor Ehgu, va   
   >     1919 gur Obfgba Erq Fbk fbyq uvf pbagenpg gb gur Arj Lbex   
   >     Lnaxrrf sbe $100,000, naq Obfgba gura haqrejrag n yrtraqnel   
   >     Jbeyq Frevrf qebhtug bsgra pnyyrq "gur Phefr bs gur Onzovab".   
   >     Jvguva 1, ubj znal lrnef qvq gur Phefr bs gur Onzovab ynfg?   
      
   85; 88   
      
   > 6. The Chicago White Sox now have the record for the worst season   
   >     in the modern baseball era (i.e. from 1901 onward).  However,   
   >     another team has the record for worst season of all time,   
   >     with a record of 20 wins and 134 losses.  Which team is it?   
   >     City and team name required.   
      
   Cleveland Spiders   
      
   > 7. The worst ERA of any pitcher to still have pitched enough innings   
   >     (at least 162 over a season) to qualify for the ERA title   
   >     belongs to Les Sweetland of the 1930 Philadelphia Phillies.   
   >     Within 0.3, what was his season ERA?   
      
   7.20; 7.81   
      
   > 8. In August of 1920, Carl Mays of the New York Yankees hit   
   >     Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians in the head with a pitch.   
   >     Why was this noteworthy?   
      
   Chapman died from the injury   
      
   > 10. In 2003, during the National League Championship Series,   
   >     the Chicago Cubs were on the brink of defeating the Florida   
   >     Marlins and advancing to the World Series when a fan attempted to   
   >     catch a fly ball that was above outfielder Moises Alou's head.   
   >     The fan's attempt was ruled to not be fan interference, turning   
   >     what might otherwise have been an out into a safe ball, and the   
   >     Cubs eventually lost the game.  What was the name of that fan,   
   >     who was subsequently harassed for years by angry Cubs fans?   
      
   Bartman   
      
   > ** Game 4, Round 10 - Challenge - Bears   
   >   
   > * A. Arty Bears   
   >   
   >     A1. Which Austrian composer's 82nd Symphony -- one of his six   
   >         Paris Symphonies -- is nicknamed the "Bear Symphony"?   
      
   Haydn   
      
   > * B. Hollywood Bears   
   >   
   >     B1. Walter Matthau played alcoholic coach Morris Buttermaker   
   >         in the original movie "The Bad News Bears".  Who played   
   >         Buttermaker in the 2005 remake?   
      
   Thornton   
      
   > * C. Da Bears (and Da Other Bears)   
   >   
   >     C1. In what stadium do the NFL's Chicago Bears play?   
      
   Soldier Field   
      
   >     C2. In what year did the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies move to   
   >         Memphis?   
      
   2002; 2003   
      
   > * D. Actual Bear Bears   
   >   
   >     D1. Variously cited as either the largest type of bear in the   
   >         world, or second-largest after the polar bear, is a certain   
   >         *subspecies* of brown bear.  What is it called?   
      
   Kodiak bear   
      
   > * E. Bear Markets   
   >   
   >     E1. The Panic of 1901 was a stock market crash, and a response   
   >         to what tragic event that happened that year?   
      
   assassination of William McKinley   
      
   >     E2. Two major American investment banks went bankrupt during   
   >         the 2008 financial crisis.  One of them was Bear Sterns.   
   >         Name the *other* one.   
      
   Lehman Bros. (??)   
      
   > * F. Canadian Bears   
   >   
   >     F1. What bear is the official animal of British Columbia?   
      
   grizzly bear   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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