qotca, to detroit
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Raised in a car town, you'd better know. 🏎️🚗

ADignorantium, to Trivia
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I have the honor of guest-hosting tomorrow, which also happens to be 🫠

~ I started building this playlist in December. At one point, a month ago, it comprised over 100 videos. Since then, it's been whittled down to 18 and I'm still tweaking it. 😅

We depart at 10pm (EDT)
All are welcome. Bring your own munchies 😎

ADignorantium, to Trivia
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I have the privilege of guest-hosting this week. Since Saturday is also , expect an hour of aural delights. 🫠
We depart at 10pm (EDT)

It would have been easy, but boring, to fill the hour with songs about weed. Instead, I opted for music and video appropriate for the gummy experience.

All are welcome. Bring your own munchies 😎

WISTquote, to Quotes
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A quotation from Lebowitz, Fran:

«
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lebowitz-fran/33019/

kyonshi, to Trivia
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Useless fact of the day: Marshmallow is actually a plant (Althaea officinalis or in English also Marsh Mallow). Modern marshmallows do not actually contain any marshmallow root at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althaea_officinalis

blaue_Fledermaus, to history
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The first emperor of Brazil was offered the crown of Greece.

amarchivepub, (edited ) to Trivia
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Happy Tuesday, ! We hope you survived April Fools' Day relatively unscathed!

Do you know the first sitcom filmed in front of a live studio audience? 📺 🍿

paulshipper, (edited ) to StarTrek
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More Recent Work: Another Pinned Toot! Here’s the 2 pieces of Key Art I illustrated for Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.
@risa @startrek

penalbatoday,
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@paulshipper @risa @startrek i know of an actor (not main character) who has been in Star Wars, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Mad Max, and Pirates of the Caribbean https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817748/?ref_=nmls_hd

amarchivepub, (edited ) to Trivia
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Happy Tuesday from breezy Boston!

In honor of , can you guess who the first U.S. female co-anchor of a network evening news program was? 📺

GustavinoBevilacqua, to random
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#FediRadio #FediMusic #EarWorm #Swing

It's a while I've this in my mind: "Chattanooga Choo Choo", by Glenn Miller.

https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=V2aj0zhXlLA

It's from the film "Sun Valley Serenade", released in August 1941 (~ 4 months before Pearl Harbor, to frame it into a timeline) but, since I've never seen it, for me it would be a new film 😄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Valley_Serenade

GustavinoBevilacqua,
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Oh, I forgot a about the film "Sun Valley Serenade".

In Italy it was released as "Serenata a Vallechiara", and the white sweaters with a color band around the neck, present in the video of the previous toot, became known as "Vallechiara sweaters".

I still have some…

YusufToropov, to baseball
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@YakyuNightOwl has the answer I was looking for. Barney "Big Ad" Morris was a knuckleballer.

What would you like to hear, sir?

YusufToropov,
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question for all reading this, not just the people tagged here.

One guess only.

Make it count!

Complete the sentence: "Larry Doby, Jackie Robinson, and Roberto Clemente are the only baseball players to ..."

YusufToropov,
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question:

In 1949, Bob Romby's Baltimore Elite Giants took up residence in the NAL -- the NNL having folded. What team did they defeat in the playoffs for the league championship that year?

YusufToropov,
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@tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @RuthODay @ted_duffield @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

(Honor system, no looking stuff up!)

P Joe Black won Rookie of the Year honors in 1952. This was long before WAR, of course.

We could come close, though.

Add his '52 Ws to his SVs.

What's the total?

1 guess. 1st answer within 5 wins.

YusufToropov,
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@RuthODay @ted_duffield @tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

for the :

Did Luis Tiant ever win a ?

Of course he did.

Your job: Tell me which one.

One guess only, please.

YusufToropov,
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@tabletopmania @RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Today's hero, Johnny "Needlenose" Wright, had a historic connection with the real-life Brooklyn

What was it?

YusufToropov,
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@RuthODay @tabletopmania @YakyuNightOwl @ted_duffield @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

The Senators, last seen lugging a 20-62 record into a game against Detroit, appear to have claimed their destiny as 's most consistently awful team.

Name the NNL's equivalent--the team cofounded by Bill "Bojangles" Robinson that finished dead last for six straight seasons.

YusufToropov,
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@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

There were two East-West games (NAL/NNL All-Star Games) in 1946.

Can you name the NNL starters?

YusufToropov,
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@tabletopmania @RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

There is a baseball-related overlap between the careers of today's hero, Willard Brown (HOF) and MC Hammer. What is it? One guess.

MC Hammer

YusufToropov,
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@YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

In the late '30s, Buck Leonard saw today's hero, Dave Barnhill, play -- and urged the Homestead Grays to sign him. What reason did the Grays' brass give for choosing not to?

YusufToropov,
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@YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @RuthODay @stlcolorbaseball @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices

Quick. Before I have to ask Cliff!

Name the major rock bassist who was also a huge fan of Black baseball ... and who donated over 200 autographed NAL/NNL baseballs to the .

amarchivepub, (edited ) to Trivia
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Happy Trivia Tuesday from snowy Boston! ❄️

In honor of , today's celebrates a groundbreaking moment in American history.

Can you guess which state was home to the first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans?

YusufToropov, to random
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@caseyjonesed @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @sendtherunners @RuthODay @cbtryon @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @stlcolorbaseball @cardboardkarl @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @WebScorpion

You recall correctly, @YakyuNightOwl . It was the Pirates. What would you like to hear tomorrow?

YusufToropov,
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@ted_duffield @RuthODay @tabletopmania @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @rawchili @blackvoices @YakyuNightOwl

Name the future Hall of Famer who, while in Cuba, played against today's hero, Silvio Garcia--and in later years called him "one of the best pure hitters who never played in (the AL or NL)."

Make it count. One guess only.

YusufToropov,
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@RuthODay @tabletopmania @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @YakyuNightOwl @ted_duffield

:

Of what two Kansas City Monarch Hall of Fame starters was Roy Campanella (himself a Hall of Famer) speaking when he said:

“My God. You couldn’t tell the difference.”

YusufToropov,
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@tabletopmania @RuthODay @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @YakyuNightOwl @ted_duffield

Here's today's question:

Name the team that offered Max Manning a contract sight unseen based on the righthander's stellar reputation ... then rescinded the offer instantly when their scout met him and saw he was Black.

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