Baseball trivia

[KnightsRule]

When, where and who played in the first intercollegiate baseball game?

[BULLO12]

When, where and who played in the first intercollegiate baseball game?

Amherst College won the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played when it defeated Williams College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts by a score of 73-32 in 1859

[KnightsRule]

Amherst College won the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played when it defeated Williams College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts by a score of 73-32 in 1859

I knew you would be there Bullo. I did not know the score. The best part is the game was a double header but the second game was CHESS.  I grew up in Pittsfield and my whole family is still there.  Williams and Amherst are two of the top schools in USA.  Williams is number one in a lot of people's minds and was the most expensive college in USA as of a couple of years ago.  Williams has some bigtime alumni like george steinbrenner, President Garfield, Fay Vincent, Bart Giamatti, numerous pulitzer winners, Nobel prize winners etc...

[smazza]

bullo is a whiz

[smazza]

bullo- if you are as good on regular trivia,you should go on jeopardy.

you could stay with me during filming

[Velcro]

You can't use search engines on Jeopardy ;D

And even if you could, it would take too long

[BULLO12]

I did have to use a search engine on this one.  But I am not bad a general trivia.  Not the off the wall type more of the Jeopardy type.  But if you pay attention to the clues the give a hint to the answer.

[Velcro]

jeopardy questions are pretty easy, for the most part... i think some of the questions smazz drops on us are much tougher than jeopardy.

[LastKnight]

I did not know the score. The best part is the game was a double header but the second game was CHESS.

Come on.....don't leave us hanging.......who won the chess match?  

[KnightsRule]

Come on.....don't leave us hanging.......who won the chess match?  

Bullo will have to answer that one.  Here is the story from Williams college website.

I copied a couple other Firsts for Williams college.

The first college catalog was published at Williams in 1795 and the first alma mater song written by an undergraduate, "The Mountains," was penned by Washington Gladden, class of 1859.

Williams was the first American college or university to sponsor a scientific expedition, in 1835.

The Hopkins Observatory at Williams, dating from 1838, is the oldest astronomical observatory in the U.S.

The first game of intercollegiate baseball was played between Williams and Amherst in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1859. Actually it was a doubleheader -- a baseball game and chess match.

The first students in America to wear caps and gowns at graduation were Williams Class of 1887. The growing discrepancy in the extravagance of garb worn by rich and poor students prompted the college to transplant from Oxford University the tradition of wearing academic dress.