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This is a sequel to my previous question about athletes who won a championship in their only season of being a member of a team, which was a fairly general question. This time I'm asking about a more specific set of circumstances. Leonard was only a part of the Toronto Raptors for one season, but in that one season, he pretty much led the team to the championship to the point of being awarded Finals MVP and becoming a hero in Canada. Has a similar situation ever happened before in the history of sports, where the player who was instrumental in winning a championship was only a member of the team for that one season? Or is Leonard's case unique or unusual in the world of team sports? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:03, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
I asked the following question at Talk:Cricket on 6 August, but it has attracted zero responses so far. I'm sure I asked the question somewhere previously, also to no avail. So, over to the Ref Desk for an instantaneous and incontrovertibly correct answer:
A friend asks "help me remember a superhero : pretty minor one, origins way back in the 60s for sure, cape, costume is white (I think), no face (I think), and is one of those curious characters who exists somewhat outside of everything, like the Watcher or Silver Surfer. I believe I'm thinking of a character whose name has two words... I keep grasping at "moon" (but not Moon Knight) and, for some reason, Dr. Fate (I don't know why)...
Also, bizarrely, I keep thinking of the flower, monkshood... the shape perhaps being reminiscent of some aspect of the costume... Is there another character whose headpiece is shaped somewhat like Dr. Fate's? -- he wears something on his head that keeps his whole face (if he has one) in shadow, as I remember -- I think it was a DC character -- I think maybe his name has something to do with time? And that he moved at will through time?
I know this guy never had his own book. Which is one thing I loved about him. All my favorite heroes were the ones who flitted through the background, showing up now and again to add their peculiar spice, then fading away again..." Saudade7 10:56, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
"I keep grasping at "moon" (but not Moon Knight)" Any chance that the character is Moonman/Brice Rogers, a DC super-villain from 1958? Dimadick ( talk) 11:35, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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This is a sequel to my previous question about athletes who won a championship in their only season of being a member of a team, which was a fairly general question. This time I'm asking about a more specific set of circumstances. Leonard was only a part of the Toronto Raptors for one season, but in that one season, he pretty much led the team to the championship to the point of being awarded Finals MVP and becoming a hero in Canada. Has a similar situation ever happened before in the history of sports, where the player who was instrumental in winning a championship was only a member of the team for that one season? Or is Leonard's case unique or unusual in the world of team sports? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:03, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
I asked the following question at Talk:Cricket on 6 August, but it has attracted zero responses so far. I'm sure I asked the question somewhere previously, also to no avail. So, over to the Ref Desk for an instantaneous and incontrovertibly correct answer:
A friend asks "help me remember a superhero : pretty minor one, origins way back in the 60s for sure, cape, costume is white (I think), no face (I think), and is one of those curious characters who exists somewhat outside of everything, like the Watcher or Silver Surfer. I believe I'm thinking of a character whose name has two words... I keep grasping at "moon" (but not Moon Knight) and, for some reason, Dr. Fate (I don't know why)...
Also, bizarrely, I keep thinking of the flower, monkshood... the shape perhaps being reminiscent of some aspect of the costume... Is there another character whose headpiece is shaped somewhat like Dr. Fate's? -- he wears something on his head that keeps his whole face (if he has one) in shadow, as I remember -- I think it was a DC character -- I think maybe his name has something to do with time? And that he moved at will through time?
I know this guy never had his own book. Which is one thing I loved about him. All my favorite heroes were the ones who flitted through the background, showing up now and again to add their peculiar spice, then fading away again..." Saudade7 10:56, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
"I keep grasping at "moon" (but not Moon Knight)" Any chance that the character is Moonman/Brice Rogers, a DC super-villain from 1958? Dimadick ( talk) 11:35, 16 August 2019 (UTC)