Q. Who is the
only pitcher to throw more no-hitters in the majors than did Sandy Koufax?
Hint: He also
played in more seasons in the majors than did Rickey Henderson.
Hint: He also gave
up fewer hits per 9 innings than any pitcher in major league history.
- 7 no-hitters to
Koufax’ already-amazing 4
- 27 big-league
seasons to Henderson’s absurdly-long 25
- 6.56 hits per 9
innings pitched. Clayton Kershaw was
once headed toward this mark, but has been trending down (up) since the end of
2016.
FCR - Samuel Bass,
Decatur, GA
Incorrect guesses: Randy
Johnson, Walter Johnson
TUESDAY
Q. Who is the
only major league All-Star ever born in Washington state’s second-most populous
city?
Hint: He was the
only 2nd-baseman to hit 30 home runs in consecutive seasons in the
20th century.
Hint: Roberto
Alomar broke his record for the most Gold Glove awards won by a second baseman.
- B. 18-Sep-1959 in Spokane (spoh-KANNꞋ), behind
only Seattle in size
- 30 HR in 1989, 40 in 1990
- Alomar
won 10 GGs as compared to Sandberg’s amazing 9.
FCR - Michael Green, Las Vegas
Incorrect guesses: Jeff Kent, Bobby Doerr, Joe Gordon
WEDNESDAY
Q. What former Wildcat passed Lee Smith to
become the career MLB saves leader?
Hint: Of all pitchers with 50 or more career
saves, he ranks 3rd all-time with an 89% success ratio.
Hint: Played his entire career with only one
kidney and was the recipient of the Hutch Award.
- Passed Smith
on 24-Sep-2006
w/479th career S. Attended
the U.
of Arizona.
- Ranking behind only Mariano Rivera and Joe
Nathan in career S %.
- Had a kidney removed at 6 weeks of age. Hutch Award in 2004.
FCR - Kellen Nielson, Blanding, Utah
Incorrect
guesses: Mariano Rivera
THURSDAY
Q. Who owns the highest single-season
batting average in the history of the Lost Angeles Dodgers?
Hint: He beat John Smoltz by 40 rounds and Smoltz
is a scratch golfer.
Hint: LeBron may have copied him when he “took
his talents…”.
- Hit .362 in 1997
- Hall of Famer selected in the 62nd round,
40 rounds further back, for a
Hall of Famer, than Smoltz who was taken in the 22nd round, the
previous high.
- Went from LAD and “took his talents to South
Beach” (at least for 5 G).
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Tommy Davis, Matt Kemp
FRIDAY
Q. Who has won more Gold Gloves at first
base than any other player?
Hint: According to a bio in Sports Illustrated, his childhood and youth were a nightmare
because his father pushed him so hard to succeed.
Hint: Now he teams with Clyde (not the camel) to
create the corniest TV commercials in the Tri-State Area.
- 11 GG
- Article
by William Nack kin SI. Others
wrote.
- TV
ads for men’s hair product with Walt
“Clyde” Frazier
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses:
FRIDAY BONUS
Q. Who has the second-most Gold Gloves of
any first baseman?
Hint: His boss today supplanted him as the most
popular player on his team.
Hint: His once-popular restaurant finally closed
its doors.
- 9 GG
- Currently manager
of MIA,
partly owned by Derek
Jeter
- “23” closed 12 years
ago this month
FCR - Barry Nelson, Guilderland, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Wes Parker, Ryne Sandberg,
George Scott
END-OF-THE-WORKWEEK
BONUS
Q. What future former Yankee lost a
National League batting title when his manager benched him to protect his
numbers, only to see Bill Madlock go 4-for-4 and take the title by 3 points?
Hint: In high school, where a Cooperstown Hall of
Famer was also an alum, baseball was his fourth-best
sport.
Hint: It was not uncommon for him to participate
in a track meet and high school baseball game literally simultaneously.
Hint: The 151st of his career 152 home
runs was by far the most famous.
- 1976 Griffey hit .336 to Madlock’s .339. He never came close again. Played for NYY 1982-86.
- Stan Musial was a teammate at Donora High
School. Football, track and basketball
were Griffey’s priorities.
- In the 1st inning of the game on 14-Sep-1990
in SoCal, Griffey homered, knocking in the game’s first batter, Harold
Reynolds. The next batter was his son,
Jr., who looked at 3 Kirk McKaskill balls before homering to deep left-center.
FCR - Mark Hayne, Dumfries, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Rennie Stennett
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the first future manager to be a
member of the Baseball Digest
All-Rookie Team?
Hint: He was the first player in the now
45+-year-old history of his franchise to get 200 hits in a season.
Hint: Led the league in plate appearances the
same year he played every one of the 162 games on the schedule. Never did either again in his 18 years as a
player in the majors.
Hint: Jack Morris gave him his 2,500th
hit in the majors, but he was the 2,500th strikeout victim of Nolan
Ryan.
- 200 H in 1979.
No Ranger or Senator (2.0) had done it before.
- Same season had 200 H.
- Ryan’s K #2,500 12-May-1978;
H #2,500 off Morris,
04-Apr-1989
(Opening Day of Bell’s last season)
FCR - Dan Silverberg, Aventura, Florida
Incorrect guesses: Joe Torre, Paul
Molitor, Lou Piniella, Toby Harrah, Robin Ventura, Dave Martinez
SUNDAY
Q. What Big Apple native was the first Seattle
Mariner to collect six hits in one game?
Hint: The next season, he became the first 21st-century
Mariner to hit a home run and steal home in the same game?
Hint: He was the first out of the first triple
play ever turned at Tropicana Field.
Hint: His beautiful home in the northwest
recently made news.
A. RAUL IBANEZ
- TP
= 02-Sep-2006
- Issaquah
home for sale at $4.4 mil.
FCR - John Burbridge, Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania
Incorrect guesses: Dave Valle, Edgar
Martinez
WEEK’S
FINALE
Q. Who won the Rookie of the Year Award the
same season George Brett came in 3rd in ROY voting?
Hint: He won the first game of the World Series
and scored the winning run in the second game, contributing in his team’s first
ever World Series championship.
Hint: He was the first post-WWII National League
right fielder to handle eleven fielding chances in one game.
Hint: His father played in the Negro Leagues and was
a teammate of Satchel Paige.
- 1974
NL ROY; Brett
was 3rd in AL
ROY voting.
- 1980 WS
- 11 chances = 11-Sep-1978
- “They called my father ‘Bake’. I didn’t know why. They started to call me Little Bake and it’s
been Bake all my life,” he said.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Gary Matthews
WEEKLY THEME – All-Stars
originally drafted later than the 10th round.
Player Year Round Pick* MLB Yrs Career
WAR
*Pick
number in that round/Overall pick in that draft
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – No one.
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Starters
whom began career as relief pitchers
Tuesday - First
ballot HOFers who played in both 80s and 90s
- Famous
Ryne/Ryans
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