City Folk (Part 10) The Sports Edition Quiz

Answer: Tracy Austin

All those players are in that Hall of Fame and all of their surnames are cities, but Tracy Austin was the youngest inductee. Born in Rolling Hills, California, Ms. Austin also became the youngest U.S. Open Women's Singles Champion in history when she won in 1979. She was 16 years and 9 months old. Austin won the U.S. Open again in 1981. She was a Wimbledon Mixed doubles Champion in 1980 with her brother John.

Austin, Texas is the most populous city in the U.S. without a pro sports team in any of the four major U.S. sports: football, baseball, basketball, hockey. It used to be San Jose, California, but now they have a pro hockey team. Austin is the 11th most populous city in the United States with 932,000. Interestingly, Fort Worth another Texas city would be the next most populous without a pro sports team. Fort Worth is the 16th most populous city.

Answer: He's one of 5 quarterbacks to throw 5,000 yards in a season

In truth, Troy Aikman never even threw for more than 3,500 yards in an NFL season. He was however, a champion typist in high school. When his sister backed out of the competition, Troy took her place ended up winning the Oklahoma state championship. After coach Jimmy Johnson drafted him, Troy's first year as a Dallas Cowboy quarterback was inauspicious to say the least. He went winless at 0-11. Troy was a quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners in college, but after breaking his leg he transferred to UCLA and became their quarterback.

The city of Troy, New York took up that name after a vote from the citizens in 1789. Before they were called Troy the town was called Ashley's Ferry. And of course the name Troy was originally famous via "The Iliad" by Homer.

Answer: Most career stolen bases

Rickey Henderson's career record 1,406 stolen bases (he retired in 2003) is so overwhelming that the gap between him and the second place base stealer Lou Brock is laughable (Brock retired in 1979). He has 468 more stolen bases than Brock's 938. Put it this way, when he retired in 2003 he was the only player in MLB history (which goes back to 1876) with more than 1,000 stolen bases.

Tris Speaker holds the record for most career doubles, and Sam Crawford holds the record for most career triples. And despite being so far ahead in career steals, Henderson doesn't hold the record for single-season steal. That record belongs to Hugh Nicol.

Henderson, Nevada, the biggest of the U.S.'s many cities named Henderson, has 69 city parks (including 5 school parks), totally almost 1,300 total acres developed.

Answer: played in 14 All-Star games

John Stockton played in "only" 10 All-Star games (1989-1997 plus 2000). There are around three dozen players who have played in more All-Star games than that, Kareem Abdul Jabbar played in the most: 19. Stockton's 10 consecutive seasons averaging over 10 assists per game is unprecedented: Magic Johnson is close behind with 9 consecutive. But after that, even players known for being great in assists pale: Oscar Robertson, Isaiah Thomas, Kevin Johnson, Steve Nash all attained only 4 consecutive seasons averaging over 10 assists per game. Stockton's 3,265 career steals was a new NBA record when he retired in 2003 (the then record was 2,310 held by Maurice Cheeks). Michael Jordan, who retired in the same year as Stockton, also broke the record but was over 700 behind Stockton, with 2,514 career steals. Jason Kidd retired in 2013 with 2,684 career steals, to push Jordan back to third.

Prior to the city of Stockton, California becoming incorporated in 1850 it had gone by various names including: Gas City, Mudville, and Tuleburg.

Answer: Tied Mike Schmidt in 1984 for MLB lead in RBIs with 106.

Although both Carter and Schmidt had 106 RBIs to lead the National League in 1984, the American League's Tony Armas of the Boston Red Sox had 123. Schmidt and Carter certainly tailed each other with their baseball prowess; in 1980 Schmidt beat out Carter for the season MVP award. Carter came in second place.

Gary, Indiana borders Lake Michigan of the Great Lakes. The United States Steel Corporation founded Gary, Indiana in 1906, when it became the home of that company's newest steel plant.

Answer: Chris Evert

Jim Rome had fallen into the childish habit of jokingly calling Jim Everett "Christ Evert" for a few years, although not to Everett's face. So all seemed nice at first when Everett appeared as a guest and then after welcoming Jim Everett, Rome said "No, check that" as if to correct himself and said "Chris Evert." This annoyed Jim Everett who then said, "look you've been calling me that behind my back.." to which Rome replied well "I said it right here." Everett warned that if he said it again, they better take a station break. Everett leaned forward toward Rome who sat across the table, and told him, "well I think that you probably won't say it again." Rome said, "I bet I do" and he did. Everett the stood up and upended the table that was between them. He then grabbed Rome who was backing up and pushed him to the floor. Assistants rushed in to break things up.

Nicknamed "The Eternal City", Rome, Italy receives between 7 and 10 million tourists a year. The sports scene at The Roman Colosseum, consisted of actual battles in which it is estimated that more than half a million people and 1 million wild animals were killed. 435 A.D. is the last year in which a gladiator fight was fought.

Answer: Los Angeles Dodgers

Jackson became the first player to hit five home runs in a single World Series in that 1977 contest in which Reggie's New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 2. In that deciding 6th game of the Series on October 18th, Reggie first faced Dodgers' pitcher Burt Hooten in the 2nd inning and got a walk. But when he faced Hooten again in the 4th inning, he lined the first pitch for a homer to right field. In the next inning, Jackson bashed reliever Elias Sosa's first pitch for a home run. And in the 8th inning, he took pitcher Charlie Hough downtown on the first pitch.

Jackson, the capital city of Mississippi was initially known as LeFleur's Bluff when it was settled next to the Pearl River. It was named after a French-Canadian trader. When it was chosen as the site for the state capital, lawmakers voted to rename the city after Andrew Jackson.

Answer: Texas Rangers

Dallas managed the Phillies from 1979 to 1981, the Yankees in 1989, and the Mets from 1993 to 1996. Managing the Phillies in 1980 he won the World Series, and has therefore earned a place on the Philadelphia Phillies Wall of fame. He had a winning percentage of .565 with the Phillies but he had below 500 records with both the Yankees and Mets.

When the roof to the Dallas Cowboys Stadium is closed, the entire Statue of Liberty could still fit inside. The son of oil tycoon H.L. Hunt, Lamar Hunt was a co-founder of the American Football League and a Dallas resident when he coined the term 'Super Bowl'.

Answer: Catcher

Benito Santiago, born in Puerto Rico, joined the San Diego Padres in 1986 and the next year set an MLB record for a rookie by hitting safely in 34 consecutive games. That was also a record for the longest hitting streak by a catcher. His defensive playing improved incredibly well -- to the point where in 1988 he led the NL among catchers in throwing out base stealers.

Santiago is the capital city of Chile. One of the tallest buildings in all of South America is The Gran Torre, located in Santiago. It is 64 stories tall.

Answer: New York Knicks

Playing back up forward, for The Knicks, Phil Jackson was part of the 1970 and 1973 championship seasons, coached by Red Holzman. Jackson played for 10 seasons with the Knicks. Jackson has 11 Championship rings as a coach, and another two as a player to give him a total of 13, more than anyone.

The city of Jackson, California was named after Colonel Alden Jackson when it was founded in 1848; Jackson, Alabama (and Mississippi) was named after General Andrew Jackson when it was founded in 1816; Jackson, Georgia was named after governor James Jackson; and Jackson Indiana was named for Newton J. Jackson who had founded the village around a saw mill.