I'd guess Texas, USC and Florida.

Paraphrasing Meatloaf, two out of three...

Good guess, though. The third one is less obvious! And without giving away which of the three you got wrong, I'll tell you that my guess would have been the two you got right plus Arizona State (though to call them a football school at this point would be, uh, generous) ... so obviously it's not the Sun Devils.

Meat Loaf pun time: what do you wonder about a couple of gamblers shooting craps in the car?

Can they see pair a dice by the dashboard lights ...?

I will go along with Texas and USC, and while Miami has had a strong basbeall program, so strong that I just about picked them, I will quickly change that to LSU - after all, I think Ben McDonald went there, and he's gotta be responsible for about 50 wins all by hisself

As no one has ventured a guess in a long time, how about a clue?  The best pitcher out of the third college was probably a late 50s/early 60s guy who gained fame mostly as a reliever, and whose brother Von had a very short career.

I can't see many player-specific clues being helpful  to me (I couldn't name more than half a dozen players and the colleges they went to, let alone dating back 50 years), I'll take a flier on a big ten football school : Michigan? Although your initial clue seems to imply they haven't always been known as a football school, I just don't think of any universities as "baseball schools".

Stanford would be an example of a baseball school.

Okay, maybe that was too hard a question to start with -- the answer, in order, is USC (1290), Texas (1238) and Oklahoma (1028). Let's give the next question-asking rights to Mike Green, who got #s 1 and 2, both on the first try ... and who is probably much kinder than I am in creating a question!

As for the clue, Mike, good one -- the brother's name suggests the answer is Lindy McDaniel, but I don't know that for sure. Just looked it up -- yep, and though Bobby Witt has him as the top winner among Sooners (by just one, 142-141), I think you can make an argument that the "best" of the Okie lot was an in-his-prime Danny Jackson, who had a couple of Cy-worthy years, in '88 with CIN and '94 with PHI, though he didn't win either year. Can Russ Ortiz, who has 110 wins, catch McDaniel and Witt?

I agree, Mick. Danny Jackson was probably a better pitcher than McDaniel now that you mention it.

How about a simple one? Who holds the Blue Jay single season record for runs scored, and in which year?

Molitor in 1993?

I gotta go with vintage Carlos Delgado, 2000.

A guess: a slightly less aged Carlos Delgado vintage, 2003.

So I see that everyone has his own definition of  "simple."

Um ... Ron Fairly? Danny Ainge? Rico Carty?

Seriously, though, Mike shared the answer with the roster "backstage," and none of the current guesses on the board are correct -- player OR year. Keep the guesses coming!

I want to say Bob Bailor, as I want him to be the answer to a second trivia question; however, I will go with the man who put the 'W' in Wamco - Devon White, 1993

i'm pretty sure it's shawn green. with 130 or something. but i forget the year.
99?
i don't want question asking priviledges.. why do i always guess?

Lex, you not only got the right guy, you wild-guessed the right year! And you don't want to ask the question? Okay, try this one on for size, and Mike will be back with us in a half hour or so, so if it's another stupidly hard question, he can interject with a replacement, though I will object to his VORQ (Value Over Replacement Question) ...

The only Hall of Famer born today (May 28) wasn't even a player -- he was GM of the Cincinnati Reds from 1936-51 and National League president from 1951-69. Name him.

 

No guesses after almost half an hour, so it's time for a clue.  He shares a surname with playing brothers, and if he put on a uniform, you wouldn't need to check the initial to distinguish him from them! Leaving aside the fact that he's dead and they are not...

Okay, apparently I ask hard (or boring) questions.

Additional clues: the brothers he shares a name with (as Mike mentions) are currently active. And his first name is the same as that of the 29th president of the United States. Is this still too "hard"? (Yes, that was also a clue. A massive clue.)

I will add a second trivia question.  With Reed Johnson in mind, name two of the three active career leaders in HBP. 

I'll take a shot at the second question. Craig Biggio, obviously, is one. For my second guess, I'll take Barry Bonds.

That first question, incidentally, is a doozy. Even after looking it up I have no idea who the guy was, or why he's in the Hall of Fame.

Arrgh. Not only am I wrong, but the guys I considered putting in are also wrong. Less wrong, but still wrong.

King Rat, you got one out of two. You are entitled to a third guess.

Well, the NL president was possiby called Giles, as that matches one of clues. Can't name the guy beyond that, since I have no idea who he might be.

HBP active leaders. Biggio is #1(has he made it to #1 all-time yet?). Jason Kendall is coming up fast, and would have a shot at Biggio if for some reason teams kept letting him play at this point. And Delgado always got hit a lot, and I seem to recall Johnson having a ways to go to make #1 on the Jays list despite a real talent for it.

The only name I can think of that sounds right is Giles. If his name turns out to be Giles, is that a half-point or something?

This guess is going to be based solely on the clues.  29th President has to be sometime around early 20th century.  Since I doubt the guy's name was Woodrow, I'm going with Harding instead of Wilson.

And pick an active brother pair...

My guess will be Warren Giles.

Looking it up, Warren Giles is correct. It's odd, I've read some baseball books, but that name is a complete blank to me.   seeyou is up with a question

I also guessed the remaining HBP leaders, although I knew Kendall for sure (that skill has kept his production at acceptable levels until this year). So to keep with thread tradition of getting multiple question going, I'll throw out :

Only four players have appeared in more than 4 allstar games for each league. I don't think there are any shockers on the list, so I'll ask for all four.

Nice. Thanks for the clues Mick.

It's a common piece of Blue Jays lore that Dave Stieb pitched 5 one-hitters before finally getting that elusive no-hitter.  Name the seven other pitchers who have thrown a one-hit complete game in a Blue Jays uniform (two of these are very tricky).

For AWeb's question, I'm going to guess Nolan Ryan, Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson and Mark McGwire. 

The middle two are correct. Pedro and Johnson are 4-4 and 5-5 in allstar game appearances. McGwire (only 3 NL) and Ryan (2 NL) fall short. To keep with tradition, I'll give a slight hint: those were the two pitchers on the list.

As for Jays who had one-hitters: Hallday had one. I'll guess Jimmy Key had one. Juan Guzman might've if he made it 9IP. Stottlemyre did it once, if I recall. Clemens maybe?

Nice work, you got three out of the seven:  Halladay, Key and Stottlemyer.

I know Jim Clancy had a one-hitter, and I'll throw out Tom Underwood and Phil Huffman as guesses for two more.  Underwood always seemed to be a hard-luck loser with the Jays, losing games he didn't deserve to.  I don't know why, but it just stuck in my head that Huffman had a gem in an otherwise forgetful career.

kingguy got two more: Clancy and Huffman (one of his 6 career wins). 

Still two more out there.

For the All-Star question, I'll guess Dave Winfield and Frank Robinson.

Winfield and Robinson is correct. Winfield 8 Al, 4 NL, Robinson an even split at 6-6.

I'm mildly shocked to have gotten those two-I'm usually terrible at these things.

An All-Star themed question, then: What four players share the record for most teams represented in the All-Star Game?

To help move things along, I'll give a hint for the last two one-hit pitchers.

One was an original Blue Jay, selected in the expansion draft.

The other was drafted by the Jays, but only pitched one season here in the 1990s.

seeyou, I think this thread has passed its expiration date ... why don't you wrap it up by providing the answer to the question you just asked, and you can hang on to "reigning champ" status until we put a new thread up -- then you can ask a new question in that thread. But let's tie up the loose ends here!

Oops, my bad, I misread the board ... King Rat, you provide the answer to your own question, keep the title until we have a new trivia thread, etc. seeyou, good hints -- will you just give the answers?

Sure... the last two were Dave Lemanczyk and Paul Menhart.

Fine by me. The four co-holders of the record for most teams represented in the All-Star Game are Roger Clemens, Roberto Alomar, Gary Sheffield and Goose Gossage.