Lefty O'Doul TRIVIA quiz

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

What one particular fact do Lefty O'Doul and Joe DiMaggio have in common ?

Well, we know they were both born in San Francisco and Joe DiMaggio had some great years with the
SF Seals when Lefty O'Doul was his Manager. Indeed, Joe credits O'Doul for teaching him how to be a
better hitter.
So, what is it that they have in common ? ?






TED Z

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Great restaurants???

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

They were such great friends that DiMaggio invited Lefty along on his honeymoon with Marilyn Monroe.

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Posted By: Chris Counts

They were golfing buddies. There's even a story about Mickey Mantle nearly getting whacked by a drive and blaming it on the duo of Dimaggio and O'Doul, who alledgedly were seen chuckling over the incident ... They also both played for the Seals, and were later signed by the Yankees ...

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Posted By: boxingcardman

--Having restaurants in SF
--Playing for the Seals and Yankees
--BA over .300 lifetime
--Liked to golf
--Both are dead
--Both are in the Pebble Beach Clothiers set
--Both have Zeenuts cards
--Both toured Japan

You're gonna have to be more specific.

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc

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Posted By: howard

Joe D was not born in SF. He was born in Martinez just before his family moved to SF.

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

Both have two capital letters in their last names?

O'Doul
DiMaggio


Steve

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I forgot to post a card of each... figured that might be the cost of entering...

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Posted By: barrysloate

DiMaggio had an "O" to the right of his name and batted righthanded.

O'Doul had an "O" to the left of his name and batted lefthanded.

That's got to be the answer.

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Posted By: DMcD

They're both in the Hall of Fame except for O'Doul.

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

They both played baseball pinball in Ted's basement.

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Posted By: Cat (ret.)

They both hit from the opposite side of the plate from each other!

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Posted By: Al Simeone

They both used quotation marks " " on there first name.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Joe played for Lefty in San Francisco, with the Seals.

They both played in New York City.


Are we close yet??

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

Both played their last major league games on September 30th

Both had "Joseph" in their names (Lefty's middle name was Joseph)


Steve

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

Stupid double post


Steve

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

So far....not even close to the answer I am looking for.

But, very interesting responses, nevertheless.

HOWARD.....you are right, DiMag was born in Martinez.....just testing on that one and you caught it.

Considering some of the recent inductees, I say O'Doul should be in the HOF. He was the quintessential
"all-field" hitter.

A great interview of his can be found in the THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES.

Carry on........

TED Z

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Either:

1. They both had bridges named after them; aor

2. They both had playgrounds named after them.

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

They were both primarily outfielders, who also did some pitching.

O'Doul: A baseball

DiMaggio: Mr. Coffee

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Posted By: Paul

As I understand it, the question here isn't what do O'Doul and DiMaggio have in common. The question is: among the many things they have in common, which one is Ted thinking of?

It's a fun game, but we need a little truth in advertising here. It's really more of a mindreading contest than a trivia contest.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

No mind reading necessary......

HINT....it involves a constant source of discourse that is not really found in any other American sport
to the degree that it is with Base Ball.

TED Z

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Posted By: barrysloate

Did O'Doul have some kind of long hitting streak in the minor leagues? Joe hit in 61 straight before he joined the Yankees.

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Posted By: John Kalafarski

I have seen this story in different versions, one with Lefty being Joe's confidant. As the story goes, Joe was recounting his (first?) sexual encounter with MM and said to O'Doul, "It was incredible, Lefty, you should'a been there."

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Not that I know of......although, the kind of hitter O'Doul was, I wouldn't be surprised. And, he struck-out
very few times. I think one of his best years at bat he only K'd a mere 16 times.

Incidently, DiMag had a 66-game hitting streak in the PCL. I think this Minor League streak enabled him to
accomplish his 56-game streak in the Majors.

TED Z

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Posted By: leon

They both tilted the pinball machine at Teds.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

The first thing I did when I got that machine operational (back in '87) was disable the TILT mechanism.

And, the last time I saw Joe DiMag was 1986......so, you have to come up with a better one.

TED Z

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Posted By: barrysloate

Ted- the difficulty here is we have to try to guess what you are thinking, and that is nearly impossible. It would take dumb luck for someone to come up with the right answer.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

There are a lot of very smart and well read guys responding here. It is not going to take "dumb luck" to
answer this trivia. It's not that complicated. I am quite surprised that no one has gotten it yet. I have
provided two hints. One subtle one and one designed to steer your thinking in the right direction.

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Posted By: Al Simeone

Problem here Ted is you are trying to steer us into YOUR way of thinking which as we know can be very strange!!

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Posted By: J Levine

O'Doul's lifetime batting average was higher than Joe D.'s.

Joshua

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

JOSHUA

Your on the right track

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Posted By: Dan Carson

Both held the league batting average title twice

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

You are getting warmer.....but, not specific enough.

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Posted By: Al Simeone

delete

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Posted By: Frank B

Both led a league in batting at .398

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Posted By: Al Simeone

How about Both led the league in Batting but both didnt win the MVP for that particular year.
Frank B.
Joe D never batted 398 most was 381

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

FRANK B......you are the TRIVIA King for the day.......you will be rewarded with a T206 card.

Lefty O'Doul batted .398 for the Phillies in 1929....he hit a record high 254 hits.

Joe DiMaggio playing for O'Doul's SF Seals batted .398 in 1935.

If you do the math on both of these player's numbers those years, all it took was one more
lousy Hit (or one Walk) and they both would have hit for .400

Every hit counts.

FRANK....email me and we'll figure out what T206 I will send you.....tedzan11@comcast.net

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Posted By: Dan Carson

Both had batting titles in different decades

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Posted By: Frank B

Thanks Ted. I will e-mail you.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Frank B, ask good ol' Ted for that 1941 T206 of DiMaggio.... that looks like a T206 to me, it has that nice white border, looks like it might have been pulled from a cigarette pack...

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Posted By: Matt

Ted - I thoroughly enjoyed the prize you sent me for winning the last T-Rex Trivia Contest.
congrats Frank!

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Posted By: DD

There is no way O'Doul is a HOF'er. Why follow up a bunch of mistake HOF'ers with another? Yes, he hit .349 for his career, but he really only had 3 productive years. For such a great hitter, he only had 540+ RBI's in 11 seasons. Although a few of those was spent as a pitcher, and not a very good one at that, you have to factor them in if you use them as part of his 10 year minimum requirement.