Sports Quiz: Baseball's Sad Lexicon

By Ryan A. Berenz

1. Pat Pitney (nee Spurgin), who became president of the University of Alaska System in 2020, won a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics competing in what sport?

2. What Pro Football Hall of Famer served as an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1993-2015 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018?

3. What NBA player, nicknamed "Chocolate Thunder" for his powerful dunks, shattered two glass backboards in 1979 and led the league to adopt breakaway rims?

4. American Dick Beardsley and Norwegian Inge Simonsen intentionally crossed the finish line together and shared first place in what 1981 long-distance running race?

5. Running back Pinball Clemons amassed a Canadian Football League record 25,438 combined regular-season yards playing for what team from 1989-2000?

6. What three Chicago Cubs players were immortalized in the refrain of the 1910 poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by Franklin Pierce Adams?

7. What trophy is awarded to the winner of the traditional college football rivalry game between the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Louisville Cardinals?

Answers

1. Air rifle shooting.

2. Alan Page.

3. Darryl Dawkins.

4. The London Marathon.

5. The Toronto Argonauts.

6. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance.

7. The Keg of Nails.

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