MONDAY (Not related to this week’s theme.)
Q. Five major
leaguers have career totals of 400 home runs, 3,000 hits and 600 doubles. Who is the only switch-hitter on that list?
A. None of the above. Trick
question. [Beltran is the switch-hitter,
not Beltre.]
Player HR H 2b
1 Hank Aaron 755 3,771 624
2 Stan Musial 475 3,630 725
3 Adrian Beltre 462 3,059 618
4 Carl Yastrzemski 452 3,419 646
5 Cal Ripken 431 3,184 603
FCR - Ken Auerbach,
Bonita Springs, Florida
Incorrect guesses: Eddie
Murray, Pete Rose, Mickey Mantle, Chipper Jones
TUESDAY
Q. Who is the
only 300 game winner who never played minor league ball?
Hint: Until his
total was passed by Warren Spahn, he was the winningest lefty of all time, a
span of 62 years.
Hint: He was a
decent docent.
- With his 198th victory on 28-Jul-1909, Plank passed Jesse
Tannehill. On 29‑Sep‑1962, Plank was passed by Warren Spahn, when Spahn won his 327th. Spahn has more win than any other left-handed
pitcher in history and is not likely to lose that status any time soon.
- Plank often took teammates and visiting team
members on tours of the Gettysburg battlefield, very close to where he grew up. He has descendants who still live in the area.
FCR - Andrew Milner, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Incorrect guesses: Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, Bob Feller, Hoss
Radbourn, Herb Pennock
WEDNESDAY
Q. History’s winningest manager said he
would use which pitcher he had just one game to win?
Hint: He was often asked to be the 3rd-base
coach between starts because he was so adept as stealing the other team’s
signs.
Hint: For almost a half century, he was the only
player born in his home state elected to the Hall of Fame.
FCR - Matt Dicker, Chicago
Incorrect
guesses: Connie Mack, Christy Mathewson,
Dazzy Vance, Walter Johnson, Pete Alexander, Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, George
Earnshaw
THURSDAY
Q. Who did “Baseball” magazine consider the
2nd-best shortstop of the Deadball Era, behind only Honus Wagner?
Hint: He once threatened to kill a teammate with
a pair of the trainer's shears during a clubhouse argument.
Hint: His twin sister passed away when they were
quite young.
Hint: The Indians sold him to the Senators for
$200.
- Magazine quote, “Admit that he (Wagner) is in
a class by himself, a most obvious statement, and then state what is equally
obvious, that the head of the shortstop department outside the Flying Dutchman
clearly belongs to the Chicago star.” By writer F.C. Lane
- The Great
Falls Indians sold Tinker to the Helena
Senators, also in the Montana
State League, later in the 1900 season because of their
dire financial position.
FCR - Andrew Distler, New York city
Incorrect
guesses: Roger Peckinpaugh, Bobby
Wallace, Georges McBride, Ray Chapman, Johnny Evers
FRIDAY
Q. Which Hall of Famer was left-handed, but
learned how to throw with his right due to the scarcity of mitts for left-hand
throwers?
Hint: A chronic complainer, there is only one
know picture of him smiling.
Hint: He a short, thick-handled bat that weighed
48 ounces, one of the heaviest ever in baseball. For comparison, Tony Gwynn used a bat that
weighed 32 ounces.
Hint: He is the only player in the Hall of Fame
who had a twin brother.
FCR - Bill Deane, Cooperstown
Incorrect
guesses: Earl Averill, Luke Appling, Ty
Cobb, Rick Ferrell, Paul Waner, Johnny Evers, Ping Bodie
SATURDAY
Q. What Hall of Famer’s name is due to not
where he was born, but when.
Hint: He always gave 60%.
Hint: He and a mound opponent once each threw
1-hitters in the same memorable game.
Hint: The last player he ever hit with a pitch
was yesterday’s answer.
- Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, born 19-Oct-1876
- HBP Edd Roush in a highly-touted game on 04-Sep-1916 in a loss to Christy Mathewson and the Reds at Weeghman Park, Chicago.
FCR - Walter Cherniak, Woodbine, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Pete Alexander, Smoky Joe Wood,
Early Wynn, Dazzy Vance
SUNDAY
Q. Who is the only manager to lead two
different National League teams to World Series titles?
Hint: His daughter says he was very
self-conscious about his bald head and cleverly hid it like this: When catching and going after a pop‑up, he
always managed to flip off his mask without removing his cap.
Hint: In is best offensive season, he had 9 more
stolen bases than RBI.
Hint: And only 2 fewer sacrifice hits.
- Won WS w/1925 PIT (3 Hall of Famers) and
the 1940 WS w/CIN (1 Hall of Famer), but
lost the 1928 WS w/STL (6 Hall
of Famers + 3 more who appeared 9 or more times on the HOF ballot in addition
to 5 more with at least one appearance—that team was loaded!)
- In 1914, he stole 47 bases, had 38 RBI and led
the FL w/36 SH.
FCR - Mark DeLodovico, Rockville, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Nap Lajoie, Leo Durocher,
Wilbert Robinson
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Richard Giovanoni, Morton Grove, Illinois
(after the Roush question)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Wed - Hall
of Famers who played for Connie Mack
Thursday- Hall of Famers with twins, who never played
for the twins.
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