This Bike Tour Had Extended Time Trial

Charlie Hamilton, 40, a software engineer from Provincetown, Mass., arrived Sunday at Fenway Park on his bicycle, completing an 11,741-mile journey.

Hamilton, beginning April 2, biked to all 30 major league ballparks, and raised $13,000 for cancer research and treatment.

“It’s totally out of character,” Hamilton said of his adventure. “I have always gone to work every day and all that kind of stuff. This is my midlife crisis.”

So why did he do it?

“It was a cockamamie scheme,” Hamilton said.

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Trivia time: This season, pitcher Randy Wolf of the Philadelphia Phillies hit two home runs in a 15-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Who is the only major league pitcher to hit three home runs in a game?

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Multipurpose flattop: When “Fox NFL Sunday” host James Brown asked Terry Bradshaw whether he wished he had Howie Long’s good looks, Bradshaw said, “No. Look at him. You can land a helicopter on top of that big head.”

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Missing persons: Early in the second quarter Sunday, when Indianapolis held a 28-14 lead over Green Bay, Fox’s Cris Collinsworth said, “I think it is safe to assume that every defensive player missed the team bus.”

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Diaper dandies: Kansas City Chief Coach Dick Vermeil said last week that it was time for running back Larry Johnson, the Chiefs’ first draft pick in 2002, “to take your diapers off and get to work.”

Said ESPN’s Michael Irvin: “He should be telling his whole defense to get out of their diapers. They’re the ones playing like babies.”

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Add Chiefs: Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: “Should we call roadside assistance to get that Chiefs’ bandwagon out of the Interstate 70 ditch?”

And that was before the Chiefs dropped to 0-3 with Sunday’s overtime loss to Houston.

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All bottled up: TBS commentator Charles Davis, on USC’s second-half defensive effort against Stanford: “It’s like Pete Carroll put his defensive players into a bottle of carbonated water and just shook ‘em and shook ‘em.... They’re just waiting to explode on somebody.”

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Now that’s dumb: Matt Kenseth, who hit the tire barrier entering the pits during Sunday’s NASCAR race, told TNT, “If there was a list of the dumbest things ever done in a race car, I definitely topped that.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1975, Kansas’ Nolan Cromwell, who became an All-Pro safety for the Los Angeles Rams, rushed for 294 yards, then an NCAA record for quarterbacks, in a 20-0 victory over Oregon State.

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Trivia answer: On May 13, 1942, Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves hit three consecutive home runs in a 6-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

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And finally: Of Chief cornerback Eric Warfield being charged with driving under the influence for a third time in three years, Jim Armstong of AOL.com wrote: “Three DUIs in three years? For a guy making millions? One word, dude: limo.”

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Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.