One Vote Ain't Bad by AllenJ

Champion(s):

CastagnaP


Runner(s)-Up:

Consigliari
If you can't pick out the sucker at the table in the first 20 minutes...you are the sucker.


Quiz Description

It's a sign that you had a pretty darn good career to get nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Identify these players who managed only one actual vote on their Hall of Fame ballot.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 58 69 89 78 89 09 63 40 06 09 46 35
1 CastagnaP 441 98 15
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2 Consigliari 431 95 15
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89
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3 BurgerM 430 92 00
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35
4 BoyerA 408 90 00
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5 Okrent 400 87 00
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6 gregariouschinchilla 395 84 15
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35
7 GoodmanDL 377 81 15
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8 QuintongJ 363 78 15
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9 HightB 351 75 15
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10 randalleng 322 72 15
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11 ChrisRosenberg 310 70 00
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12 SochackiA 308 67 15
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13 HulkaE 295 64 00
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14 chc 282 61 15
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15 SpoeriJ 258 58 00
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16 Pelc 247 55 15
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17 Adam 240 52 15
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18 TsujiG 237 50 00
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19 ConnorA 235 47 15
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20 Matto 234 44 15
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21 BruceM 199 41 00
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22 twarner50 197 38 00
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23 GrahamJ 194 35 15
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24 WendellA 185 32 00
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25 WeikleB 180 30 00
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26 JonesRW 159 27 00
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27 CarterBurke 138 24 00
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28 MudrakJ 134 21 00
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29 DuffyM 124 18 00
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30 FarleyS 119 15 00
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31 MStarr 118 12 15
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32 BeningoS 108 10 00
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33 PolinskyL 100 7 00
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34 GorowaraR 95 4 00
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35 GoldsteinB 69 1 00
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Questions:

He appeared with Buck Showalter on the Seinfeld episode "The Chaperone," but gets more screen time in "The Pledge Drive." With this outfielder in the passenger seat, George Costanza chases down a driver who gave him the finger.

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Danny TARTABULL

The brother and uncle of NBA champion point guards, he threw the first no-hitter in Texas Ranger franchise history.

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Jim BIBBY

The 1000th player to appear in a Yankee uniform, he set a major league record in 1986 by striking out the first 8 batters of a game.

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Jim DESHAIES

This outfielder was perhaps best known as Gary Roenicke's platoon partner.

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John LOWENSTEIN

This career Tiger was once asked to pinch-hit in the middle of a snack. He hid his two hot dogs from his manager by stuffing them down his jersey before heading to the plate. When he slid into second base, the mustard, ketchup, and smashed hot dogs gave him away. He was fined $100.

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Gates BROWN

Even though he won 138 games, he's best remembered for one that involved lysergic acid diethylamide (he claimed).

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Dock ELLIS

"He had 30 home runs, over 100 RBI's last year, he's got a rocket for an arm. You don't know what the hell you're doin'!"

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Jay BUHNER

When Tom Hanks' fiancé from "Bachelor Party" accused her ex-husband of steroid use, alcohol abuse, and heavy marijuana use, he quipped, "I can't believe she left out the cross-dressing." You might also remember that the same co-host of "America's Funniest People" once assaulted him with a stiletto heel.

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Chuck FINLEY

He may have hit 305 homers and played in 6 World Series, but you probably remember him better as the husband of Halle Berry from 1992-1996.

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David JUSTICE

He and Wally Backman were the 1986 Mets' "Wild Boys." In an October 2015 interview with Colin Cowherd, he admitted to blackmailing umpires into favorable strike zones (he paid private investigators $500,000 to dig up dirt on the umpires). Classy.

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Lenny DYKSTRA

This reliever signed a huge $10,000,000 deal with the Royals before the 1990 season, but lost his closer role to Jeff Montgomery and never again matched his 1989 Cy Young Award season.

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Mark DAVIS

In crunch time, this fu-manchu-ed pitcher would walk towards second base, put his head down and meditate for a few seconds. After taking a big breath, he would pound the ball in his glove, spin around, and storm back to the rubber. When Vern Rapp became the Cardinals' manager in 1977 and made him shave, he complained, "How can I intimidate batters if I look like a goddamn golf pro?"

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Al HRABOSKY