Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Pitching Game Finder...

Did you know (?) the last time a pitcher had 5+ IBB in a game was 1975:

  Cnt Player            Date       Tm   Opp GmReslt App,Dec    IP   H  R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP   ERA
+----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+
    1 Lynn McGlothen    1975-07-19 STL @SFG L  2-5  GS-6  ,L   6    9  4  4  7  3  1           34       33 26  1  0   5   0  0  0   0  1  1  0  0  0   6.00
    2 John Hiller       1974-08-09 DET @TEX L  3-4   9-14f,L   5.2  2  1  1 11  2  0               0  0 29 14  0  0   5   0  4  0   1  1  0  0  0  0   1.59
    3 Rudy May          1973-09-17 CAL @OAK L  2-3  CG 13 ,L  12.2 10  3  2 11  8  0           71       56 39  1  0   5   0  4  2   1  0  1  0  0  1   1.42
    4 Sam McDowell      1970-09-02 CLE @WSA L  1-4  GS-8  ,L   7.1 10  4  4  6  6  0           42       37 31  2  0   5   0  0  0   0  0  1  0  0  1   4.91
    5 Tug McGraw        1970-04-24 NYM @LAD L  0-1  10-14      5    3  0  0  6  2  0               0  0 24 15  1  0   5   0  3  0   0  0  0  0  0  0   0.00
    6 Mike McCormick    1967-07-19 SFG @PIT L  1-2  GS-11 ,L  10    8  2  1  8  4  0           66       46 37  2  1   6   0  1  0   1  2  0  0  0  0   0.90
    7 Robin Roberts     1957-09-10 PHI @STL L  3-4  11-14f,L   3    7  1  1  5  2  0               0  0 21 16  1  0   5   0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  0   3.00
    8 Warren Spahn      1954-06-09 MLN  NYG L  0-4  CG 9  ,L   9   11  4  4  9  5  0           45       45 33  3  0   5   0  2  1   1  0  0  0  0  0   4.00
   
Games found: 8.

Not that the plan really helped these teams...as they all lost their games anyway.

Now, if you really want to have some fun with your friends, ask them what Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez, Roger Maris, Andre Dawson and Garry Templeton have in common:

From 1954 to 2009, Batters with Games where IBB>=4

                   Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+-----+-------------------------+
 Barry Bonds           4 Ind. Games
 Garry Templeton       1 Ind. Games
 Manny Ramirez         1 Ind. Games
 Roger Maris           1 Ind. Games
 Andre Dawson          1 Ind. Games

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