Kleebs silly and useless baseball trivia

[JohnKleeb]

Name 2 and it may be three baseball players who were in the KKK.
Useless eh?

[Fight_n_back]

1. A shot

Dixie Walker
Tris Speaker
Ty Cobb
Enos Slaughter


and of course, Kennesaw Mountian Landis.

[JohnKleeb]

3. Dixie Walker aint a hall of famer

Right about Speaker and no about Cobb suprisingly there is no evidence he was. Slaughter? really :shrug: thats kinda sad because he was one of my grandfather's faves and my grandfather encountered them as a boy, and he definely hates them and they hate people like him. Landis on his feelings on Jackie Robinson there in lies a possiblity. So good job you got one of the three.

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5. Cobb is known as a hardcore racist

Why?

Note: I am not a baseball fan.

[JohnKleeb]

8. Yes I know but theres no evidence he was KKK

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10. I know

I am just curious as to what he did to acquire such a reputation. Did he lynch a black person?

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2. John Rocker, Jim Bunning(former GOP congressman)

Seriously, though, I've heard Ty Cobb was pathologically racist. Maybe he was one.

[JohnKleeb]

4. I mean literal KKK members

Cobb though nope theres no proof or evidence but he was known for it. Bunning hes a senator now :(. Rocker is just insane and wont be elected to the hall of fame.

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6. Wasn't Bunning retiring???

:(

[JohnKleeb]

9. I heard so I think

Hes a senator not a congressman.

[TSIAS]

13. No

He was elected in '98, and running for re-election in '04.

[MrBenchley]

7. Amusingly

Cobb was pathologically racist...but he also was such a malignant person that he didn't join much of anything except the Tigers.

By the way has anybody ever heard any USEFUL baseball trivia?

[rasputin1952]

19. LOL....'usefull BB trivia'...

No such thing. This stuff is all ego tripping stuff, but interesting none the less.

I had afriend, who could quote almost any damn stat ever written. In fact, he was one of the first I ever heard say that Doubleday was not responsible for BB. he was an incdible walking BB encyclopedia. I love the game, but his love far surpassed mine, in lightyears.

Unfortunately, he has gone to The Big Ballpark in the Sky. Killed in a freak accident witha drunk. Sometimes I wonder if he's just sitting in the dugout with some of the oldtime greats, just cheweing and talkin' BB.

[MrBenchley]

11. Here's another one

Here are five great five baseball nicknames; can you give the players' real names?

1) Ducky
2) Death to Flying Things
3) The Hoosier Cannonball (no that isn't Dan Quayle)
4) No-Neck
5) Poosh-em-up

[MaineDem]

12. Ducky Bent?

:evilgrin:

Ewwwww...even typing THAT I got goose bumps. :D

[MrBenchley]

20. Gammons reported

in 1986 that a bartender in Boston said of the Red Sox after Buckner: "The sonsabitches killed our fathers and nonw they're coming after us."

[Cadfael]

15. ducky medwick?

[JohnKleeb]

16. thats what I was thinking

[MrBenchley]

22. Yup...

GREAT hitter....

[MrBenchley]

21. Yup!!

Medwick was a perpetually angry fellow who HATED being called Ducky...so his fellow Cardinals called him "Ducky Wucky."

[JohnKleeb]

14. Ok y'all give up

The other was umm Tris Speaker.

[maveric]

17. Enos Slaughter, Ty Cobb and...

Dixie Walker.

[JohnKleeb]

18. Again Dixie Walker is not in the hall of fame

and Slaughter you sure? and Cobb he was racist but theres no proof he was a member or evidence.