Hall of Fame Kwiz

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Wasting questions, going for the big score:

Is he Mike Stanton?

[Guest Edgy DC]

5) No, it's not Mike Stanton. You don't have very high standards for what makes a quality Polish-American athlete, do you?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Did he make his Mets debut before the start of the 1995 season?

[Guest Edgy DC]

6) Yes, he debuted as a Met before the start of the 1995 stazione.

[HahnSolo]

Did he pitch somewhere before coming to the Mets?

[Guest Edgy DC]

7) Yes, he did pitch somewhere before coming to the Mets.

[Guest rpackrat]

Gene Walter?

[Guest Edgy DC]

8) No, not Gene Walter.

[Willets Point]

Does Armando Benitez have the same thing in common with anonymous Polish-American as Friend and Bragg?

[Guest Edgy DC]

9) Not quite but kind of.

[seawolf17]

Thanks to Valadius' hint, now let's get rid of the non-Yanks from Yancy's list:

Yancy Street Gang wrote: 126 possibilities (pitchers with losing or .500 records who debuted in 1986 or later) Jason Anderson Tim Burke Paul Gibson Lee Guetterman Felix Heredia Graeme Lloyd Mike Stanton Frank Tanana Allen Watson Dave Weathers

Lloyd's Australian, Heredia's Latin, so they're out. Stanton's out because he was guessed. Guetterman, Anderson, Burke, Watson, and Weathers haven't really been around long enough to be in any kind of HoF, which leaves Tanana and Gibson. Gibson's done a lot of coaching around LI, but I guess my guess is going to be Frank Tanana.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Frank Tanana http://www.polishsportshof.com/images/inductees/tanana.jpgInducted June 13, 1996 The California Angels' No. 1 pick in the 1971 baseball free agent draft out of Detroit Catholic Central High School, Tanana also had to decide from among more than 100 college basketball scholarships. He chose baseball, and the lefthander with a sizzling fastball hurled 21 years in the major leagues and finished with a 240-236 won-lost record and a 3.66 ERA. He notched 2,773 strikeouts to rank among the all-time leaders for left-handers. Tanana pitched for the Angels, Boston, Texas, Detroit, New York Mets and New York Yankees. In 1979, he fired a complete game 4-1 victory over Kansas City in the American League playoffs to give the Angels their first-ever post-season victory. Tanana pitched Detroit to a 1-0 win over Toronto on the last day of the 1987 season to clinch the AL East Division crown and complete an unbelievable seven-game year-end Tigers' sweep of the Blue Jays, each game decided by one run. View complete bio. Click on memorabilia for larger view.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Congratulations on all you fans of the Slavs.

Now, we move on the the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, which seems to include sporstmen and women who hailed from Missouri, as well as those who performed there.

Without peeking, please name the six enshrined Mets. (Hint: Only one of these six actually played for the team, while the others have been employed with the team otherwise.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Bob Gibson has to be one of them.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And how about Yogi Berra as the Mets player?

[Valadius]

Joe Torre.

[HahnSolo]

Tim McCarver and Whitey Herzog

[Guest Edgy DC]

Four for five, so far.

Gibson.

Berra.

McCarver.

Herzog.

Torre wrong. I also found another Met player in there, so there's three more.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Casey Stengel!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Casey Stengel.

Not exactly a solid entry in the Spelling Hall of Fame, however.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Bing Devine.

Was the other player Amos Otis?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Two good guesses.

Two incorrect guesses.

[Benjamin Grimm]

David Cone will probably join the group at some point.

[Guest Edgy DC]

A point that hasn't yet come to pass.

[Valadius]

OOH!

Should have thought of this earlier, seeing as I mentioned him in my Charley Smith song.

Ken Boyer.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ken Boyer is correct. He's in, but Clete and Cloyd have to pay to get in.

ONe more feller.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ok, sure, twenty questoins then.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Was he born in Missouri?

[Guest Edgy DC]

1) No, he was not born in the Show-Me State.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

2. Was he a Met and a Cardinal?