MONDAY
Q. Whose
Topps baseball card is the most valuable one in their pantheon?
Hint: He
was one of the “M & M” Boys.
Twint: He
said, "My biggest regret is that I didn't hit .300 for my career."
A. Mickey Mantle (1952
Tops #311; w/Roger Maris;
hit .298)
FCR - Rev.
Gerry Beirne, Narragansett, RI
TUESDAY
Q. Whose
Oakland A’s career home run record did Mark McGwire break?
Hint: He
lost 35 of his collection of 97 cars in a warehouse fire. They were uninsured.
Twint: He
stirred things everywhere and not just as a straw.
A. Reggie Jackson (McGwire’s 269th
HR 14-Sep-1995;
Cars)
FCR - Matt
Gibson, Barboursville, WV
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
broke Jimmie Foxx’s record for career home runs by a right-handed American
League batter?
Hint: He
was the first batter to hit a home run over the left-field roof at Tiger
Stadium.
Hint: He
hit it off a Hall of Fame pitcher.
Twint: He
hit his only inside-the-park home run 15 years before he retired.
A. Harmon Killebrew (535th HR 17-Aug-1972
[since passed by Alex Rodriguez]; HR 03‑Aug‑1962
off Jim
Bunning, Roof 94’ high 340’ from home plate; IPHR 04-Jul-1961)
FCR - Fred Brillhart, Mechanicsburg, PA
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
was the first National Leaguer to win the Most Valuable Player award three
times?
Hint: He
held the record for National League hits for over nineteen years.
Hint: His
penultimate career hit was singled passed the feet of the player who would
later break his record.
Twint: He
was noted for his harmonica play.
A. Stan Musial (MVP 1943,
46,
48;
Passed Honus
Wagner on 29-April-1962
with his 3,421st H, his 5th hit of the day. He was passed by Pete Rose
on 10-Aug-1981)
FCR - Bill Carle, Lee's Summit, MO
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the first player to win a Gold Glove award for the Tigers?
Hint: He
never played a minor league game.
Twint: He
is the only Hall of Famer not named Babe Ruth
born in the city of Baltimore.
A. Al Kaline (GG 1957; b.19-Dec-1934)
FCR - Fred Worth, Arkadelphia, AR
FRIDAY
Q. Which
Triple Crown winner missed being a unanimous Most Valuable Player winner by a
single vote?
Hint: His
first game for Minneapolis was protested because he was not eligible to play
until the player he replaced reported for military duty.
Twint: He
played in the Junior World Series against Havana.
A. Carl Yastrzemski (Sole other 1967
MVP vote went to Cesar Tovar;
Lee
Howell entered the U.S. Army 15-Sep-1959.
Yaz only played for the Minneapolis
Millers in the postseason; 1959 Junior World Series)
FCR - John Wanamaker, Binghamton, NY
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was the first Angel to compile a 25-game hitting streak?
Hint: He
attended the same high school as did Manny Ramirez, but did not play for their
baseball team.
Hint: He
was already playing semi-pro baseball at the time.
Twint: He
was born in a strictly racially segregated environment
A. Rod Carew (Streak 23-May
to 21-Jun-1982;
George
Washington High School in New York City; Played for the Bronx Cavaliers,
who played in Macombs
Dam Park and Crotona
Park in New York; b. 01-Oct-1945 on a racially segregated train as it
traveled near Gatun
in the Canal Zone, Panama.)
FCR - Tom Blaha, Bowling Green, OH
SUNDAY
Q. Which
player, after hitting the left-field foul pole, was called out at third base?
Hint: He
released an eponymous Chardonnay wine in 2008, all proceeds going to his
community.
Hint: He
met his wife on a team flight between Kansas City and Boston.
Twint: Politician
Gordon Beard said of him, “They didn’t name a candy bar after him, but in
Baltimore, they name their children after
him.”
Twint: Umpire
Ed Hurley said, “He plays third base like he came down from a higher league.”
A. Brooks Robinson (02-Aug-1964
erroneously call out by field umpire John Rice; charity
wine called Brooks Robinson Chardonnay with all of his proceeds donated to the
Baltimore Community Foundation in a fund created in the name of Brooks and his
wife Connie Robinson.)
FCR - Randall Chandler, Germantown, TN
WEEKLY THEME
– Players on the losing side of an All-Star Game at least ten times:
Carew 13
Jackson 12
Kaline 10
Killebrew 10
Mantle 11
Musial 10
Robinson 15
Yastrzemski 12
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No
one
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