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onomatopoeia said:
Who was part of an NBA Championship team in the same year in which he was an All Star twice in MLB's National League?
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Gene Conley.

Conley played Major League Baseball in 1952 and 1954-63 and in the NBA in 1952-53, 1958 - 61 and 1962-64. In 1959, Conley was a member of the NBA Champion Boston Celtics, and was named to both 1959 Baseball All-Star games, as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Conley was also a member of the 1957 World Series Championship Milwaukee Braves team, and he is the only person to win championships in two of the four major American sports .
 
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Who am I?

I had a twenty year career in Major League Baseball, with slightly less than 51% of my regular season games played for American League teams.

I won Rookie of the Year, one World Series Championship, and four Gold Gloves.

I was a switch hitter, and a nine time All Star.

I am not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Among Major League Baseball players with 300 or more career stolen bases, I have the highest lifetime success percentage.

I played in all 162 games in one of my seasons, and in 150 or more games seven times, including my rookie season.

In seven post seasons, playing for five different teams, I had a .609 Slugging Percentage and a 1.021 OPS in 256 plate appearances.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
Who am I?

I had a twenty year career in Major League Baseball, with slightly less than 51% of my regular season games played for American League teams.

I won Rookie of the Year, one World Series Championship, and four Gold Gloves.

I was a switch hitter, and a nine time All Star.

I am not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Among Major League Baseball players with 300 or more career stolen bases, I have the highest lifetime success percentage.

I played in all 162 games in one of my seasons, and in 150 or more games seven times, including my rookie season.

In seven post seasons, playing for five different teams, I had a .609 Slugging Percentage and a 1.021 OPS in 256 plate appearances.
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Tony Fernandez
 
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Who am I?

I had a twenty year career in Major League Baseball, with slightly less than 51% of my regular season games played for American League teams.

I won Rookie of the Year, one World Series Championship, and four Gold Gloves.

I was a switch hitter, and a nine time All Star.

I am not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Among Major League Baseball players with 300 or more career stolen bases, I have the highest lifetime success percentage.

I played in all 162 games in one of my seasons, and in 150 or more games seven times, including my rookie season.

In seven post seasons, playing for five different teams, I had a .609 Slugging Percentage and a 1.021 OPS in 256 plate appearances.


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Tony Fernandez
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Nope.

Tony Fernandez was a switch hitter, he won one World Series and four Gold Gloves, and he is not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Fernandez did not win Rookie of the Year, he did not have 300 or more career Stolen Bases, and his post season Slugging Percentage and OPS were .420 and .787.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
Who am I?

I had a twenty year career in Major League Baseball, with slightly less than 51% of my regular season games played for American League teams.

I won Rookie of the Year, one World Series Championship, and four Gold Gloves.

I was a switch hitter, and a nine time All Star.

I am not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Among Major League Baseball players with 300 or more career stolen bases, I have the highest lifetime success percentage.

I played in all 162 games in one of my seasons, and in 150 or more games seven times, including my rookie season.

In seven post seasons, playing for five different teams, I had a .609 Slugging Percentage and a 1.021 OPS in 256 plate appearances.
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Great question. The things that are throwing me for a loop are the 50/50 split between AL and NL and the playoff slugging %. Sounds very much like a power speed guy who probably had quite a few 30/20 seasons. Which throws my Willie McGee guess out the window.
 
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In the 1952-53 NHL season, Gump Worsley won the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year, Playing 50 full games in tandem with Chuck Rayner, (20 games), who was in his final season.

Worsley was returned to the minors, (Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League), for all of the 1953-54 season, after requesting a $500 raise to his salary.

Another rookie goaltender replaced Worsley for the 1953-54 season, playing in all 70 games with a respectable 2.54 Goals Against Average and 5 Shutouts, but Worsley's replacement played in only seven NHL games during the following 4 seasons before playing regularly for the rest of his career, except for his final season.

Name the goalie who replaced Gump Worsley for 1953-54.

Answered correctly by tml.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
Who am I?

I had a twenty year career in Major League Baseball, with slightly less than 51% of my regular season games played for American League teams.

I won Rookie of the Year, one World Series Championship, and four Gold Gloves.

I was a switch hitter, and a nine time All Star.

I am not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Among Major League Baseball players with 300 or more career stolen bases, I have the highest lifetime success percentage.

I played in all 162 games in one of my seasons, and in 150 or more games seven times, including my rookie season.

In seven post seasons, playing for five different teams, I had a .609 Slugging Percentage and a 1.021 OPS in 256 plate appearances.
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Tim Raines
 
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Who am I?

I had a twenty year career in Major League Baseball, with slightly less than 51% of my regular season games played for American League teams.

I won Rookie of the Year, one World Series Championship, and four Gold Gloves.

I was a switch hitter, and a nine time All Star.

I am not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Among Major League Baseball players with 300 or more career stolen bases, I have the highest lifetime success percentage.

I played in all 162 games in one of my seasons, and in 150 or more games seven times, including my rookie season.

In seven post seasons, playing for five different teams, I had a .609 Slugging Percentage and a 1.021 OPS in 256 plate appearances.


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Tim Raines
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Nope.

Raines played 62% of his games in the National League, he never won a Gold Glove, he never played 162 games in a season, he won two World Series, and he is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His Stolen Base Percentage, (84.7%), is elite.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
In the 1952-53 NHL season, Gump Worsley won the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year, Playing 50 full games in tandem with Chuck Rayner, (20 games), who was in his final season.

Worsley was returned to the minors, (Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League), for all of the 1953-54 season, after requesting a $500 raise to his salary.

Another rookie goaltender replaced Worsley for the 1953-54 season, playing in all 70 games with a respectable 2.54 Goals Against Average and 5 Shutouts, but Worsley's replacement played in only seven NHL games during the following 4 seasons before playing regularly for the rest of his career, except for his final season.

Name the goalie who replaced Gump Worsley for 1953-54.
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Johnny Bower.
 
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