Excruciating Baseball Lists
Baseball questions that will make your head hurt, with painless answers
Contents
- Anagrams
- Rearrange the letters in the name of a big league ballplayer, and what do you get? The name of another big league ballplayer. (1871‑2010)
- Batter vs Pitcher
- What batters and pitchers dominated each other in their head-to-head matchups? (1950‑2010)
- Beanball Wars
- When was your favorite team involved in a game with 4 or more hit batsmen? You can’t beat fun at the old ball park. (1919‑2010)
- Extra Inning Games
- What were the longest games played by your favorite team? (1919‑2010)
- Gems and Stinkers
- What were the best and worst Bill James Game Scores for starting pitchers on your favorite team? (1919‑2010)
- Hey! Ho! Let’s Go Home!
- Who had the most game-ending RBI for your favorite team? How many times did your favorite team score a game-ending run without an RBI? (1950‑2010)
- Letters in the Lineup
- When did your favorite team start a game with the most players in the lineup whose names start with, contain, or end with each letter of the alphabet? A whole soup bowl full of fun. (1919‑2010)
- Personal Catchers
- Which catchers and pitchers tended to start together? (1919‑2010)
- Playing With Fathers and Sons
- How many big league ballplayers were teammates with each half of a father/son pair? (1871‑2010)
- Run Streaks
- When did your favorite team score, or allow, a certain number of runs in the most consecutive games? (1876‑2010)
- Skipper vs Skipper
- How did long-time big league skippers fare in their head-to-head matchups? (1871‑2010)
- Symbiotic Savers
- What pairs of pitchers each saved games started and won by the other? (1919‑2010)
- Townmates on the Mound
- How many times have pitchers born in the same town squared off as starters? (1871‑2010)
- Triple Plays
- Links to Retrosheet box scores of all games with a triple play. (1919‑2010)
- Two Park Chuckers
- Only a handful of big league pitchers managed to win a game at each park in these pairs. (1919‑2010)
- Ushering Catchers
- Which catchers were behind the plate for the most starting pitchers making their big league debut? (1919‑2010)
- Viva Los Vanquished
- What pitchers defeated the most different franchises? What pitchers defeated your favorite team the most times in a career, decade, fortnight, etc.? (1919‑2010)
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Excruciating Baseball Links
Ballgames
- Recondite Baseball
- An open collection of baseball’s little-known records and curiosities.
- Faith and Fear in Flushing
- Contemplations, complaints, and compliments for fans who like to read.
- 5 Tool Blogger
- Completely and utterly unqualified incisiveness.
- Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
- Dave learns ten new things every week, and shares them.
- Mets Walkoffs and Other Minutiae
- Baseball essay questions, with gramatically correct painless answers.
- Baseball Esoterica
- Here’s where you’ll find baseball’s oddities and exceptionally good and bad achievements you’ve never heard of.
- www.bleedcubbieblue.com
- Ninety percent scar tissue, and proud of it
- Charlie’s Big Baseball Parks Page
- The rest of us live in Charlie’s rearview mirror
- Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers
- In Honor of those Masked Men who’ve worn the Tools of Ignorance
- baseball-links.com
- The Web’s Most Comprehensive Collection of Links to Baseball Resources
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