Pittsburgh won’t able to win them al

First, the Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl in early February.

Then, the Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup barely four months later.

“And somewhere,” writes Gene Collier of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “maybe Kobe Bryant is thankful Pittsburgh doesn’t have an NBA team.”

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Trivia time

Who holds the major league record for most hits in a game?

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Rays finally stop Phillies

As minor league baseball promotions go, this one was modest, as grossly overeating and dressing in ludicrous apparel were not required.

The plan was for the Philadelphia Phillies’ Class-A team in Florida, the Clearwater Threshers, to give away bobbleheads of each member of the starting lineup last Friday to salute the World Series champions.

The idea did not make it past officials with the Tampa Bay Rays, who reminded the Phillies that teams are prohibited from marketing a major league brand in the home territory of another big league franchise. Clearwater is about 20 miles from Tampa.

Having to cancel its plan could cost the minor league team more than $50,000, but Threshers General Manager John Timberlake thinks he can find something else to do with 8,000 bobbleheads.

Timberlake said the team is considering having an Adherence to the Rules night.

“We’ll give out gray molds of bobbleheads, and we’ll all wear white shirts with our Phillies logos covered up,” he said.

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You’re out of here again

According to the Boston Herald’s gossip column, New York Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett was ordered to leave a Barnes & Noble bookstore for repeatedly swearing on his cellphone in front of children. A security guard made the decision the morning after Burnett failed to last three innings in the Yankees’ 7-0 loss to the Red Sox.

Quipped the Herald: “Apparently early exits are getting to be a habit for the Pinstripes’ alleged ace.”

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Trivia answer

Johnny Burnett, who had nine hits in an 18-inning game for the Cleveland Indians in 1932.

(Question and answer provided by Alan Oken of Los Angeles.)

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And finally

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, to the Associated Press, on how he managed to score the winning run against the New York Mets all the way from first on a dropped infield pop-up: “I put it into second gear. I don’t have a third, fourth and fifth.”

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mike.penner@latimes.com