Basketball Trivia

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

OK - here's a weird one. What former NBA team owner went to the same HS as me?

If my memory serves me well, I think that you stated previously on this fourm that this person is Jerry Colangelo.

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

And what two MLB all-star pitchers also went to that same HS?

Working off the fact that Colangelo's bio states that he attended Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois (and I know that Padgett grew up in Chicago), I found one of the other alums to be "Jim Bouton is a former Major League Baseball pitcher (1962–70, 78), playing most of his career for the New York Yankees. He is also an author Ball Four."

I can't seem to find the other MLB all-star pitcher.

[KJUmp]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

If my memory serves me well, I think that you stated previously on this fourm that this person is Jerry Colangelo.



Working off the fact that Colangelo's bio states that he attended Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois (and I know that Padgett grew up in Chicago), I found one of the other alums to be "Jim Bouton is a former Major League Baseball pitcher (1962–70, 78), playing most of his career for the New York Yankees. He is also an author Ball Four."

I can't seem to find the other MLB all-star pitcher.

Bret Saberhagen 3x All Star pitcher ('82,'90,&'94)
Bio indicates that he was born in Chicago Hgts., IL, but graduated from Grover Cleveland HS, in Resedo, CA. Of course, he could have began his high school career at Bloom and then moved to CA from Chicago Hgts.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by KJUmp

Bret Saberhagen 3x All Star pitcher ('82,'90,&'94)
Bio indicates that he was born in Chicago Hgts., IL, but graduated from Grover Cleveland HS, in Resedo, CA. Of course, he could have began his high school career at Bloom and then moved to CA from Chicago Hgts.

Saw that, but didn't include him in my answer as I couldn't find any evidence that he attended HS in IL. Mark can tell us for sure or perhaps he had another player in mind.

[Mark Padgett]

Wasn't aware of Rolando, but Michael Harper is the guy. He's now an insurance agent here in Portland. BTW - Harper once donated an autographed game-worn jersey to a fundraising auction for a non-profit here and I bought it at the auction and gave it to my son. A few years later, he wore it to a Blazer Alumni Team game in which Harper was playing. Harper saw him with the jersey on and called him out to the floor to shoot two free throws for him during the game. My kid made both of them and the place went nuts. Harper and some of the other ex-Blazers high fived him. My son still talks about it every so often.

As to Bret Saberhagen, I was told he attended my school only for his freshman year, then moved. I don't know if that's accurate or not. Recently, I emailed Jim Bouton and he said the thing he liked most about our HS was the great sports programs and the think he liked least was the huge number of kids. In those days, we usually had about 4000 attending. My graduating class had 712 (I was the youngest). Here's a link to my class website, in case you're really bored and have nothing to do. It's developed and managed by one of my former classmates whose company makes computer simulated war games for the US military. Cool!

The website is full of stuff from the 60s. Also cool!

Index 2007-11-03

[Judtech]

Here are three rather regional ones:
1. Who were the first two big name recruits to be Prop 48 casualties? (They went to the same University)
2. Who was shooting the free throw when Coach Knight "loaned the old lady across the floor" his chair? (or threw the chair, depending on who tells the story!)
3. What school did Shawn Kemp originally sign with ?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Judtech

Here are three rather regional ones:
1. Who were the first two big name recruits to be Prop 48 casualties? (They went to the same University)
2. Who was shooting the free throw when Coach Knight "loaned the old lady across the floor" his chair? (or threw the chair, depending on who tells the story!)
3. What school did Shawn Kemp originally sign with ?

#1 I don't know.
#2 is Purdue's Steve Reid.
#3 Is Kentucky. He had that incident with the accusation of stealing gold chains from Coach Sutton's son.

For #1 do you want just basketball players? I recall that future Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware was ineligible due to Prop 48 in his first year at Houston.

[Judtech]

Prop 48 for Basketball. A pg and pf.
As for Kemp, can you name the type of car he was driving when he had his traffic difficulty? Now THAT is trivial!! HA