Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
I've gotten a bit addicted to Sporcle since someone posted that quiz of Cubs Opening Day Lineups in the comments. Since not a damn thing is happening, I created one on all the players to grace Cubbie uniforms or been associated with the team that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Good luck.
The silly website won't let me add a note to the quiz or I just can't figure it out, but the asterisks next to their position indicate that the player, manager or executive played or managed less than two seasons with the Cubs(roughly). The year is the year the player was inducted. And although I did my best to put alternative spellings in there, since I don't think it should be a spelling contest, I think it's perfectly acceptable to look up the spelling of the name if you think you know an answer and it's not accepting it.
-edit- speaking of, I apparently have a typo on Joe Tinker, I put in Tinkers and it won't let me edit it, so there's one.
-edit #2- finally figured it out, the Tinkers/Tinker typo has been fixed.
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#1 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Tinkers-drove me crazy
Got 26
#2 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
22. Bleh.
#3 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
it's a brutal quiz to try and get the cup of coffee guys like Foxx, Kiner, etc...
#4 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
I actually got Foxx (not Kiner, though). Missed ones like Ashburn, Klein, Roberts, et al.
#5 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
18. Weak. Should have gotten Duroscher or Eck at least. Fun quiz, though.
#6 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Another fun quick one: all of Kenny Lofton's team in a short time frame:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/DaCollins33/team_lofton
Got 8 of 11.
#69 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
6/11. I love these things.
#7 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Slight problem. It's Joe Tinker, not Tinkers. I wasted a ton of time trying to figure out what was wrong with the name each time I typed it in. I was over 30 but Tinker screwed me up.
#8 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
yeah my bad, I had mentioned it in the post though.
#9 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
And that's my bad. Didn't read the funny squiggly type at the bottom of the post.
#10 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
http://wiklifield.thecubreporter.com/Cubs_Hall_of_...
put together a list as well at wiklifield with their years as Cubs...
#11 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Damn! Why did I think Al Spalding's name was spelled Spaulding? Effin' 23 of 45.
I couldn't get Richie Ashburn's name to pop up in my head. I'm thinking "1950 Phillies centerfielder... Whiz Kids guy..." etc.
I refused to remember Lou Brock. Too damn painful.
#12 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
I got 28, feel pretty good about my Cubs HOF knowledge, heh. The only two I'm embarrassed about missing were Brock and Lou Boudreau. How could I forget Lou from all those years on the radio?!
#13 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Nice one Rob!
Here's another one I just made, to test your short term memory:
All Cubs Starting Pitchers 2005-2009
http://www.sporcle.com/games/htimsetan/Cubs_Starti...
Anyone who got a start in the last 5 years
#14 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
A paltry 13. I'm ashamed at so many I missed.
#15 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
17,
Couldn't spell Smardijzigdja or Gorzellannnyy. So it should have been 19
#17 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
You could have followed Rob's spelling rules!
Even I can't get them all and I made the quiz. I can never remember John Koronka no matter how hard I try.
#19 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
20.
I forgot Marquis? Really? That soon? I sat and stared at that slot for a full minute.
Also, Jerome Williams got 19 starts? Wow.
#16 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
i fair much much better on the recent ones, I only got 1 pre 1950 on the HOF
#23 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Apparently my company has classified this link as "games". No can do.
#71 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
14. "Kinda fat, lefty, swingman, Marshall before Marshall...."
Glendon Rusch.
Wasted a lot of time not getting that one.
#18 heads up
Databases for sabermetricians, Part One by Colin Wyers is up.
You too can be a sabermetrician...
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/database...
#21 Re: heads up
neat stuff. he's got a nice handle of DB instruction and interfacing for a guy who's not a pro.
#20 Re: Cubs Pitcher Quiz
19 for me...
#22 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
these are the saddest of possible words...tinkers to ever to chances
#72 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Ugh. Not funny, yet.... funny. Mostly because I had to read it three times to get the joke. "waitaminnite, that's not right, we were just talking...."
#24 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Al Yellon thinks this quiz is a bore. He got all 45 in 10 seconds.
#30 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
that's really weird considering he probably spent 3-5 seconds typing in his own name before he realized he's not part of it.
#25 Re: Cubs Hall of Fame Players Quiz
Off topic,
Miggy Cabrera is apparently available from Detroit. Only 26 and 5 years at big money left on his deal. Do Ricketts and Hendry have the capacity to pull that kind of deal off? Would something like
DLee
Milton
Colvin
Hak Lee
Cashner
Vitters
Jay Jackson
Be enough to get Miggy and Granderson from Detroit?
#28 Re: enough to get Miggy and Granderson from Detroit?
I think if we agree to pay the salary of everyone on both sides of this deal they just might go for it.
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