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Name the head baseball coach in this year’s College World Series who made history twenty years ago this week as one of a major league record six pitchers to combine for a no-hitter.  For a bonus point, name the left fielder on the winning team who was a former Rice baseball player.  Email your answer(s) here.

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Last Friday, the Penn Quakers made history when they defeated the Auburn Tigers, 6-3, in 11 innings, becoming the first Ivy League team to defeat a SEC team in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.  (Thanks, Mike Ross!) 

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Name the first Ivy League team in history to defeat a SEC team in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.  For a bonus point, name the SEC team.  Email your answer here.    

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After a forty-four year consecutive streak, Florida State will not be appearing in the 2023 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Florida State and Miami, whose own forty-four game streak was snapped in 2017, “will be sharing this record for consecutive appearances for many years to come”. (Thanks, Elizabeth Gillis, Mike Ross and Walt Greenberg!)

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After a forty-four year consecutive streak, name the university that will not be appearing in the 2023 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.  Email your answer here.

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Besides Danny Lehmann, former Rice baseball player Eddie Dyer (1920-21-22) had a career W-L record of 446-325 managing in the major leagues in addition to guiding the Cardinals to the World Series title in 1946.  Read the Rice game notes (page 2).  (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

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Besides Danny Lehmann, name another former Rice baseball player with a winning record managing in the major leagues.  Email your answer here. 

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First, thanks to Walt Greenberg for the guest trivia question!

On May 6, former Rice baseball player and current Los Angeles bench coach Danny Lehmann managed the Dodgers to a 2-1 win over the Padres in Dave Robert’s absence, resulting in a perfect 1.000 winning percentage.  Read more.

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Name the former Rice baseball player whose winning percentage as a manager in the major leagues is a perfect 1.000.  Email your answer here.

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Name a Knight in France’s National Order of Merit who will receive a 2023 Laureates Award on May 4.  Email your answer here.