Evening Sporcle Quiz: Name The Players In The Baseball Hall Of Fame

by James Kannengieser on Jan 6, 2011 7:17 PM EST

This one is for the Hall of Fame junkies out there. It's updated through 2010, so Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven are not included. There are 232 total players -- good luck with some of the Veterans Committee selections.

Sporcle -- Can You Name The Players In The National Baseball Hall Of Fame?

Share your results in the comments and list your most disappointing omissions. I missed an easy one from the last five years and am still kicking myself.

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i lobby that for the second mets player ever elected to the hall be

KEITH HERNANDEZ!!!!!!!!!

I hate Philadelphia so much.

by the caveman on Jan 6, 2011 7:25 PM EST reply actions

What about Warren Spahn,Duke Snider,Yogi,Willie Mays,Roberto Alomar,Nolan Ryan

G.ary Carter and soon to be Pedro Martinez and Jeff Kent

by Putnan Prince on Jan 6, 2011 9:43 PM EST up reply actions

Forgot Eddie Murry and Ricky

by Putnan Prince on Jan 6, 2011 10:30 PM EST up reply actions

and ashburn

by ZZPops on Jan 7, 2011 5:27 PM EST up reply actions

Piazza is going to beat him there

Mets 2010 slogan; "a whole new level of stupid you were unprepared for."

by scott from peekskill on Jan 8, 2011 7:38 PM EST up reply actions

I got 69 and quit with about 4 minutes left.

That’s a doozy of a quiz, I reckon!

Chamption of the R.A. Dickey Face contest and "Cromulent Photoshopper Extraordinaire" of Amazin' Avenue!

by Steve Schreiber on Jan 6, 2011 7:37 PM EST reply actions

I got 13 and then realized

I don’t want to sit here for another 19 minutes and 17 seconds

by Evan_S on Jan 6, 2011 7:40 PM EST reply actions

this

I decided I couldn’t get near half, and quit.

Kicking knowledge in the face.

by BlackOps on Jan 7, 2011 12:58 AM EST up reply actions

Same here

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

AA Gamethread Embiggening Record Holder- 453 posts (10/03/10)

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 7, 2011 1:52 AM EST up reply actions

I read the above comments

and didn’t even start.

"..."

by Thaddeus Ballpheasant on Jan 6, 2011 7:42 PM EST reply actions

168

and missed a few i should have gotten. of course i got a few freebies with the common names so i guess it balances out

by ZZPops on Jan 6, 2011 7:45 PM EST reply actions

I'm taking myself out of the running for this one

After staring at HoF lists for the past two days for the FanPost I just threw up, I’m done.

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Jan 6, 2011 8:15 PM EST reply actions

I'm ashamed of myself.

44.
And thats after cheating a bit and randomly typing in common last names in the last minute of desperation.

I also got George Kell by forgetting to add the ‘y’ on George Kelly.

John Franco HOF 2011

by JoeBighead on Jan 6, 2011 8:58 PM EST reply actions

88/232

I can live with it.

by Five-Tool Tool on Jan 6, 2011 9:10 PM EST reply actions

85

I really got mad when I forgot Hank Aaron lol.

by Michael Green on Jan 6, 2011 9:32 PM EST reply actions

Well he isn't the homerun champ or anything.

John Franco HOF 2011

by JoeBighead on Jan 6, 2011 9:37 PM EST up reply actions

61

im not great at baseball history so i’ll take it, but man there are a lot of names there I barely even recognize. As a knuckleball afficianado i’m ashamed to say i missed Niekro, and missed a fair number of others i probably should have gotten.

Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?

by KeithsMoustache on Jan 6, 2011 9:46 PM EST reply actions

I got home from a wine tasting, and decided to wait until morning

by Stephen Schmidt on Jan 6, 2011 10:27 PM EST reply actions

a met fan...wine tasting?

sense you make none

John Franco (shoulda been) HOF 2011

by JoeBighead on Jan 7, 2011 8:58 AM EST up reply actions

Tom Seaver wine.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

AA Gamethread Embiggening Record Holder- 453 posts (10/03/10)

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 7, 2011 11:51 AM EST up reply actions

"Wine tasting"

Might be a figure of speech for “pouring bottles of Bully Hill down my throat”

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Jan 7, 2011 3:24 PM EST up reply actions

116

Ozzie, Doby, Clemente, and Gibson were my most notable misses.

Proud supporter of a New York baseball team and a Boston football team. Yeah, deal with it!

"We don’t listen to the hype. I don’t think we ever have. We really take after our coach and he says ‘When you win, say little. When you lose, say less.'"--Tom Brady

The 2011 New York Mets: At least we don't have Omar and Jerry anymore

by R_Adragna on Jan 6, 2011 11:11 PM EST reply actions

62, I dropped the ball bigtime. I think it's funner to list the top 3 most embarrassing misses

1)Ted Williams, seriously my wife would’ve gotten him, Babe Ruth, Mantle, Jackie Robinson and Cobb.
2) Bob Feller (he just died! how did i forget)
3) Yogi Berra, just.. I don’t know.

I should’ve gotten about 10 more, but i didn’t cheat for spelling. Eddie Mathews (1 T) Yastrezemski, etc.

by FrancoTAU on Jan 6, 2011 11:12 PM EST reply actions

Conservatives always miss Ted Williams

Because it’s too factually intuitive.

Sorry, had to. For what it’s worth I missed Bert Blyleven. Seriously.

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Jan 6, 2011 11:18 PM EST up reply actions

Good joke, but I'm actually libertarian to set the record straight ;)

And not the “too embarrassed to call myself conservative in NY so I say I’m libertarian” type. I’m the legalize heroine and get rid of whole departments type.

by FrancoTAU on Jan 6, 2011 11:31 PM EST up reply actions

LOL...One of my favorite jokes of all time.

You know that a libertarian is? A Republican who smokes pot.

In any event I’m sorry to criticize you on political points. I just had to there, and in certain ways I agree with you (I consider myself a socialist libertarian, if you can figure that one out).

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Jan 7, 2011 12:37 AM EST up reply actions

Mine

1) Joe Morgan
2) Stan Musial
3) Jim Rice

I stared at the Jim Rice one for a few minutes and even the Boston hint did nothing.

by James Kannengieser on Jan 6, 2011 11:20 PM EST up reply actions

I guess you don't fear Jim Rice?

Chamption of the R.A. Dickey Face contest and "Cromulent Photoshopper Extraordinaire" of Amazin' Avenue!

by Steve Schreiber on Jan 6, 2011 11:56 PM EST up reply actions

my 3 most egregious misses were

Musial, Kiner, and I guess Killebrew

Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?

by KeithsMoustache on Jan 6, 2011 11:27 PM EST up reply actions

You missed Kiner?

Damn man. That stings. You know he had one of the lowest BBWAA votes to get in ever? He barely squeaked by. It was below 76%.

It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.

by MookieTheCat on Jan 6, 2011 11:30 PM EST up reply actions

And in his last year of eligibility

What's the score, boys?
What did Bugs Bunny do?
What's with the Carrot League baseball today?

by StorkFan on Jan 9, 2011 5:59 PM EST up reply actions

Missing Kiner might be worse than Ted Williams for me.

I’m waiting for the guy who forgot Seaver. We can all laugh at him.

by FrancoTAU on Jan 6, 2011 11:31 PM EST up reply actions

no, mercifully he was one of the first names i threw in there

but yeah forgetting Kiner was a criminal oversight on my part.

Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?

by KeithsMoustache on Jan 7, 2011 10:04 AM EST up reply actions

153

My high score is 169, so I must be slipping.

I am willing to wait to build a world class franchise (h/t to millsy)

by BobbyV_Incognito on Jan 7, 2011 12:14 AM EST reply actions

74, in like 12 minutes.

Spelling was annoying, lemme tell you.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

AA Gamethread Embiggening Record Holder- 453 posts (10/03/10)

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 7, 2011 2:00 AM EST reply actions

151

Campanella I should’ve had, and Mazeroski always eludes me. Beyond that, I’m pretty happy.

by yellomellojello on Jan 7, 2011 2:07 AM EST reply actions

191

Campy and Marichal were my worst misses. I missed lots of the Negro League guys, especially the ones who got in in that large group a few years ago.

by mookstra2 on Jan 7, 2011 12:24 PM EST reply actions

83

with plenty of dumb ones left on the table.

by Kepler on Jan 7, 2011 1:04 PM EST reply actions

Closers were and still are overrated and I think are thus held to a higher standard

I think a lot of the hype either way with Franco (whether you love him or hate him) has to do with how overrated closers were as role then and even now. From my father and from announcers, journalists, other fans etc. I was conditioned to believe from a pretty young age (I also starting following the mets and baseball in around ‘91) that closers were one of the most important players on the roster and key to a teams success. I think that we are learning that you don’t need an ace to be an effective late inning reliever. I love how in ‘Moneyball’ it describes Beane’s strategy of taking decent pitchers (ie; Isringhauses) turning them into closers, letting them rack up a bunch of saves and then selling them off for much more than there true value. I definitely bought into the whole closer hype in the 90’s and even into the 2000’s. My favorite player was Gagne (who I still think had the two best consecutive t years of any modern closer) and I held Franco and other met closers to a higher standard because I believed that the role was so important. Since I’ve come across AA which exposed me to Sabermetrics and the Bill James philosophy I’ve been able to more objectively evaluate players. Looking back I think that Franco did a good job but there were probably cheaper options who could have delivered the same result.

by MatthewM11 on Jan 7, 2011 1:26 PM EST reply actions

Ooops, I posted on the wrong Fanshot

If the above post makes no sense its because I thought I was responding to a post about John Franco. Sorry for the confusion.

by MatthewM11 on Jan 7, 2011 1:34 PM EST up reply actions

i was ready for a (well deserved) shot at sutter being in and read the whole thing before i realized it wasnt coming

by ZZPops on Jan 7, 2011 5:32 PM EST up reply actions

91

embarrassing misses: Nap Lajoie, Grover Alexander, Willie Keeler, Old Hoss Radburn, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Jimmie Foxx, Sandy Koufax, Ernie Banks, Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Johnny Mize, Lou Brock, Catfish Hunter, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, Dennis Eckersley, Wade Boggs, Ryne Sandberg, Rickey Henderson

by El Duq of Hurl on Jan 8, 2011 10:07 AM EST reply actions