Our First Trivia Winner!
Hey, this is pretty exciting, we’ve got our first winner for the Trivia Tuesdays questions! 
Congratulations to Margie for answering all five questions correctly. Although the judges have told me that there is a more correct answer for the fifth question. (Not really, we don’t have any judges, just a box of trivia cards from 1985!)
However, here’s an explanation of the fifth question’s official answer: I’m going to consider that you are correct on the fifth question as well, although history shows that several failed attempts to sustain a professional baseball league in 1887, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1896, and 1891, finally and disastrously ending on June 15th of 1891. The next revival o1f the Pacific Northwest League was in 1901, when the National Association was organized and the league became a Class B member.
So although Margie is correct, there was a league started in Portland in 1887, the league fell apart and failed before the end of the season, making it a “less-than-official” beginning. By 1901, the league was revived, and baseball had officially begun.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Hooray! I am honored!
The baseball question was hard because there were all of those dates out there … it took me a while to find which date was the “first” one, and decided to go with that year instead of the other because of the “first” requirement.
Fun contest!