MONDAY
N.B.
This week’s questions, hints and theme come to us from Mark Pattison,
resident of the nation’s capital. (No,
not Ottawa.)
Q. Who
was “The Killer”?
Hint: He
was the first player to clear the left-field roof at Tiger Stadium.
Twint: He
was an All-Star at three different positions.
A. Harmon Killebrew (Tiger Stadium
HR: 03-Aug-1962
off Jim
Bunning; ASS pos. 1b, 3b, OF)
FCR - Arieh
Siegal, Austin, TX
MONDAY AGAIN
Q. Disney’s
famous VW was adorned with a certain number because it was the uniform number
of which player?
Hint: A
fellow Hall of Famer once said of his preferred approach when at the plate
against him, “Hit him before he hits you.”
Twint: One
of his high school baseball teammates was actor Robert Redford.
A. Don Drysdale (“Herbie” of The Love Bug, 53; Quote from Orlando
Cepeda; Van Nuys HS)
FCR - Jim
Casey, Savannah, GA
TUESDAY
Q. Which
Hall of Famer was the first rookie to hit three home runs in one game?
Hint: He
is one of only a handful of Hall of Famers to retire as a World Series
champion.
Twint: His
on-field, in-game fight with Frank Robinson was noted for its mano-a-mano
viciousness.
A. Eddie Mathews (3 HR 27-Sep-1952;
HOF ret. WS champs: Joe DiMaggio,
Johnny Mize;
Fight w/Robinson
15-Aug-1960)
FCR - Bill
Garrod, Edgewood, WA
TUESDAY AGAIN
Q. What
pitcher won 318 major league games primarily as a knuckleball artist?
Hint: He
is the only pitcher to hurl a shutout for his 300th big-league win.
Twint: He
gave up the only homer that his brother, also a knuckleball specialist, ever
hit in the majors.
A. Phil Niekro (ShO 06-Oct-1985;
HR to Joe
29-May-1976)
FCR - Steven
Young, Middletown, MD
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
succeeded Bobby Thomson in centerfield?
Hint: Many
believe he might have broken Babe Ruth’s career home run record were it not for
the conditions in the ballpark he called home over 12 seasons.
Twint: In
the 1960s he made a TV public service announcement warning kids against
blasting caps. “Remember now, don’t touch them.”
FCR - Fred
Brillhart, Mechanicsburg, PA
WEDNESDAY AGAIN
Q. Who
was the first of the tandem who hit back-to-back inside-the-park homers in an
American League game?
Hint: He
once played an entire doubleheader at shortstop without a single fielding
chance.
Twint: He
can be considered the best palindromic position player in big-league history.
(Yes, better than Robb Nen.)
A. Toby Harrah (Consec.
IPHRS w/Bump
Wills off Mike Torrez,
27-Aug-1977
off the Yankees’ Mike Torrez
[Done in the NL 23‑Jun‑1946
by Marv
Rickert and Eddie
Waitkus both off Nate Andrews,
Thanks to Blake Sherry for that one.] ; Double-header: 25-Jun-1976a
& 25-Jun-1976b;
Palindrome)
FCR - Bill
Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
THURSDAY
Q. Who
captained his team to five consecutive division titles?
Hint: His
kid brother also played in the majors and though their careers were of sixteen
and nine years respectively, they only overlapped by 53 days.
Twint: He
is now the CEO of Middleton Doll Co., makers of hand-painted collectible dolls.
FCR - Arieh
Siegal, Austin, TX
THURSDAY AGAIN
Q. What
nephew of All-Star Larry Bowa is on a team with two other players with his same
last name?
Hint: He
was selected 3rd in the 1996 draft by the Yankees, right after they
took Eric Milton and Jason Coble.
Twint: His
on-base percentage is in the top ten among active players.
A. Nick Johnson (Bowa, 2012 Orioles:
Steve
Johnson, Jim Johnson;
Milton,
Coble;
.3989 OBA)
FCR - Bob
Kimball, Washington, DC
FRIDAY
Q. Who
was the first player to lead each existing major league in triples?
Hint: His
record of 27 triples as a rookie has stood for over a century.
Twint: He
should not be confused with the manager of the same name who concluded his
managerial career more than a decade before our mystery man’s playing career
began.
Twint: He
should also not be confused with the manager of the same name who seemed to be
missing an “m”.
A. Jimmy Williams (Pittsburgh, NL, 1899, 28;
Baltimore, AL, 1901-02, 21 each
year; Mgr. Jimmy
Williams; Jimy Williams;
)
FCR - Bill
Garrod, Edgewood, WA
FRIDAY AGAIN
Q. Who
twice in a three-week period spoiled the Indians’ Mike Garcia’s no-hit bids?
Hint: He
was his team’s lone representative in the 1957 All-Star Game.
Hint: It
was the only All-Star selection in his eleven-year career and he never got in
the game.
Twint: It
was inevitable that he got caught up in the A’s-Yankees trade winds of the late
1950s.
A. Joe DeMaestri (Garcia’s one-hitters: 16-May-
& 05-Jun-1954;
’57 Kansas City
A’s; Trade 11‑Dec‑1959: Traded by Kansas City with Kent Hadley
and Roger
Maris to New
York for Hank Bauer,
Don
Larsen, Norm Siebern
and Marv
Throneberry)
FCR - Wayne
McCombs, Claremore, OK
SATURDAY
Q. Who
is part of the only father-son set who respectively led their major league in
losses in a season?
Hint: He
is the only starting pitcher in major league history to have a 3-foot-7-inch
tall teammate.
Twint: He
is one of only six major leaguers with the middle name Xavier.
A. Duane Pillette (Father Herman,
19 L 1923, Duane 14 L 1951; Short teammate the day he started: Eddie Gaedel
on 19-Aug-1951;
Middle name w/X: Fran Healy,
Francis
Healy, Jeff
Pfeffer, Carney Flynn,
Jimmy
Myers)
FCR - Tom
Zocco, Rocky Hill, CT
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who,
with seeming gladness, traded in his birth name of Claude for the moniker he
was known by throughout his professional career?
Hint: After
he retired, he earned a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
only the second ex-big leaguer ever to do so.
Twint: He
made his major league debut as a third baseman.
Twint: In
a dozen subsequent seasons after a position shift, he never bettered his third
base fielding percentage, but equaled it three times.
A. Skip Lockwood (Ret. 1980, MIT 1983, Art
Merewether, 1925; Fldg % @ 3b 1.000)
FCR - Jason
Carbone, Newark, DE
SUNDAY
Q. Who
led the American League in stolen bases in Ty Cobb’s first full season in the
majors?
Hint: His
last at-bat in the majors was the groundout that capped Addie Joss’ perfect
game.
Twint: He
should not be confused with the pitcher of the same name in the early 1960s.
Twint: Nor
should he be confused with the 1980 independent presidential candidate nor the
1980s country singer who share the same name.
A. John Anderson (39 SB in 1906; Joss’s
perfecto 02-Oct-1908;
John
Anderson; John B.
Anderson, John D. Anderson)
FCR - Damian
Begley, New York
WEEKLY THEME
– Last active players of a franchise after relocation
Anderson 06-Oct-1903 1901
Milwaukee Brewers->St. Louis Browns
Bando 19-Nov-1976 (breaks three-way tie of November 1) free-agency granting with
Joe Rudi and Bert Campaneris by virtue of his later signing with a different
team)
DeMaestri 11-Dec-1959 1954
Philadelphia->Kansas City A’s
Drysdale 05-Aug-1969 1957 Brooklyn->Los Angeles Dodgers
Harrah 08-Dec-1978 1971 Washington Senators->Texas Rangers
Johnson 31-Jul-2009 2004 Montreal Expos->Washington Nationals
Killebrew 16-Jan-1975 1960 Washington Senators->Minnesota Twins
Lockwood 22-Oct-1973 1969
Seattle Pilots->Milwaukee Brewers
Mathews 31-Dec-1966 1952 Boston->Milwaukee Braves (Was still with team when it
transferred from Milwaukee to Atlanta)
Mays 11-May-1972 1957 New York->San Francisco Giants
Niekro 07-Oct-1983 1965 Milwaukee->Atlanta Braves
Pillette 08-Jul-1955 1953 St. Louis Browns->Baltimore Orioles
Williams 11-5-1907 1902
Baltimore Orioles->New York Highlanders->Yankees
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme
– Arieh Siegal, Austin (after the Harrah question)
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