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KCGHOST
09-27-2006, 02:04 PM
Mass Planets.

Only Moose Stubing can make this claim.
Mikie
09-27-2006, 02:44 PM
Gotta be the only player with zero hits who later managed and had zero wins, but I haven't wrestled that out of the anagram yet....
Utter Chaos
09-27-2006, 03:06 PM
Lets see....

I Now Shoot This Downy Sling in Mass Planets.

- no hits, no wins =

oo Th Dowy Sling in Mass Planets.
KCGHOST
09-27-2006, 03:45 PM
Gotta be the only player with zero hits who later managed and had zero wins....


You are on the right track here, but not quite there. Bill Boyd played and got no hits and managed and got no wins.
bluezebra
09-28-2006, 12:34 PM
You are on the right track here, but not quite there. Bill Boyd played and got no hits and managed and got no wins.

I thought that Bill Boyd played 'Hopalong Cassidy' on TV and in the movies.

Bob
KCGHOST
09-28-2006, 01:32 PM
I thought that Bill Boyd played 'Hopalong Cassidy' on TV and in the movies.

Bob


Close. Hoppy was played by William Boyd. I didn't know him well enough to call him Bill. :)
mordeci
09-28-2006, 07:50 PM
Only Moose Stubing can make this claim.
No hits, no wins . . . and later was captain of the Pacific Princess.

Love, exciting and new
Gee Walker
09-28-2006, 08:52 PM
No hits, no wins as a manager, and never played a position in the field...

Now I'll try to solve the anagram.
KCGHOST
09-28-2006, 09:46 PM
No hits, no wins as a manager, and never played a position in the field...


That still isn't quite right and the position thing is unnecessary.
Utter Chaos
09-29-2006, 07:36 AM
You are on the right track here, but not quite there. Bill Boyd played and got no hits and managed and got no wins.Baseball reference.Com has Bill Boyd with 192 hits. :confused:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boydbi01.shtml
KCGHOST
09-29-2006, 07:57 AM
Baseball reference.Com has Bill Boyd with 192 hits. :confused:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boydbi01.shtml


Bill Boyds hits were all in the NA which many people, including myself, do not count as a major league. Sorry if that caused confusion, but I have been consistent through out all my trivia questions in ignoring the NA.
KCGHOST
09-29-2006, 08:04 AM
As you can tell this is very hard. The phrases "No wins" and "No hits" do appear in the anagram and in that order, but are not directly adjacent to each other.

There is another piece to the solution to this other than wins and hits. It is what makes Stubing unique.
Utter Chaos
09-29-2006, 08:08 AM
Bill Boyds hits were all in the NA which many people, including myself, do not count as a major league. Sorry if that caused confusion, but I have been consistent through out all my trivia questions in ignoring the NA.Now I'm really confused because Boyd's managing experience also occurred in the NA and I don't see any information that says he played or managed in a league other than the N.A.
Gee Walker
09-29-2006, 08:29 AM
Boyd also only managed in the NA, as player-manager for two games with the Brooklyn Atlantics. So, effectively, by KCGhost's definition, he has no major league experience either as a player or as a manager.

Stubing's career was unique in a few ways. His hitting career was exclusively as a pinch-hitter, where he went 0 for 5 with four K's. His managerial career came with the same team, 21 years later. He coached the Angels from 1985 to 1990, so he did have some post-season experience in the 1986 ALCS. He wasn't fired after his 0-8 managerial stint, but returned as a coach.

The anagram is killing me... I need another G to get the words managed and games...
KCGHOST
09-29-2006, 10:17 AM
The anagram is killing me... I need another G to get the words managed and games...


Neither "managed" or "games" is in the anagram.

Okay, to correct my earlier statements. I was using the SBE to checkout players and baseball-reference to check out managers and sometimes they conflict.

Forget Bill Boyd for a minute and look at the question another way. The "no hits" is needed to fill the anagram, but you need to focus on Stubing's managerial record.
KCGHOST
10-02-2006, 08:27 AM
But the word "losses" is.
KingSwisher
10-02-2006, 03:45 PM
This one has gone the way of "the guy telling such a convulted joke for so long that no matter the punch line, it's not going to be funny" scenario
mordeci
10-03-2006, 02:45 PM
"the guy telling such a convulted joke for so long that no matter the punch line, it's not going to be funny"
Ironically, that's the title of my autobiography
KCGHOST
10-04-2006, 03:38 PM
Most Losses No Wins And With No Hits Playing