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07-02-2006, 07:47 PM
As we all know, trivia isn't about just asking and aswering questions from memory. Trivia is about research and challenge. Trivia is stumbling across something unusual, witnessing something strange, or just thinking about an oddity. Trivia is the conversation between a couple of dichotomous souls who recognize the profundity in both Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Shulz, the beauty of age and the intelligence of youth, the, uh, er, I seem to have drifted here a bit...
Ah yes, trivia, in this case, reverse trivia. Two players missed cycles yesterday, Chicago's A-Ram and Houston's M-Lamb, both missing it by the single. Lamb really got robbed in his effort on Mathews' catch, but that's a different matter.
What I want to research is how many players have missed the cycle by a single?????
EDIT: One memory driving me on this is I've only been in the park for one MLB cycle, that by Jeff Bagwell. But I was convinced before then that Ellis Burks in July 1988 would be the closest I would get to seeing it, and he missed it by a single. He had the double-triple-homer in his first three at bats that day at Fenway, then fell short. So anyone who knows of a player who has missed it by a single, post it here.
Ah yes, trivia, in this case, reverse trivia. Two players missed cycles yesterday, Chicago's A-Ram and Houston's M-Lamb, both missing it by the single. Lamb really got robbed in his effort on Mathews' catch, but that's a different matter.
What I want to research is how many players have missed the cycle by a single?????
EDIT: One memory driving me on this is I've only been in the park for one MLB cycle, that by Jeff Bagwell. But I was convinced before then that Ellis Burks in July 1988 would be the closest I would get to seeing it, and he missed it by a single. He had the double-triple-homer in his first three at bats that day at Fenway, then fell short. So anyone who knows of a player who has missed it by a single, post it here.