MONDAY
Q. Which
Hall of Famer was a Parade Magazine All-American in 1977 as a high school
quarterback?
Hint: He
was the first player to have both a 40-home run and a 50-stolen base season during
his career.
Hint: He
signed a contract making him the highest-paid player in baseball.
Hint: He
retired two years later, midway through his record-setting deal.
Twint: His
last game at Wrigley Field was also the last game at which Harry Caray sang
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch.
Twint: Last
year Baseball America named him Minor League Manager of the Year.
A. Ryne Sandberg (54 SB in 1985, 40 HR in
1990, other 40/50 players Brady
Anderson & Barry Bonds;
$28.4M extension signed in Mar-1992; Retired 1994, returned 1996; last Wrigley
game 21-Sep-1997,
Caray died the following
off-season; 2011 BA Mgr of the Year for The Iron Pigs of Lehigh
Valley)
FCR - Ira
Kotel, Short Hills, NJ
TUESDAY
Q. Who
has more pitching victories than any other black pitcher?
Hint: He
was a star on his high school hockey team.
Hint: He
is the last pitcher to win 25 games in a season yet not win the Cy Young award
that year.
Twint: At
no time has he sung for the Black-Eyed Peas or done commercials for Weight
Watchers.
A. Fergie Jenkins (284 W; Chatham
Vocational High School; 25 W 1974, AL CYA
to Catfish
Hunter)
FCR - Frank
DiPrima, Morristown, NJ
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
extended his single-season RBI record 69 years after he set it?
Hint: Babe
Ruth correctly predicted that this record would outlast his own season home run
record.
Hint: He
also held the National League season home run record for 68 years.
Twint: On
his first days in the majors, he wore his Hall of Fame manager’s uniform
because there was no other small enough.
Twint: He
had no estate when he passed away and his funeral expenses were donated.
A. Hack Wilson (191st
RBI in 1930 credited in 1999; 56 HR in 1930 passed by Mark McGwire
and Sammy
Sosa in 1998; John McGraw’s
uniform
FCR - Bill Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the first manager of the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League?
Hint: He
was the first player to win a batting Triple Crown for Boston.
Hint: His
Hall of Fame manager at first mistook him for an aspiring bat boy.
Twint: Ted
Williams said he never wanted to break this player’s single-season batting
average record because, “…I like him a lot.”
Twint: He
and his co-heavenly twin both coached at Boston College.
A. Hugh Duffy (1901 Brewers;
TC
1894* Turns out he did NOT win the Triple Crown in 1894. Thanks to Arieh Siegel for pointing out that Sam Thompson
had the RBI llead at 147; Mgr. Cap Anson;
Other Heavenly Twin: Tommy
McCarthy)
FCR - Kevin Johnson, Broken Arrow, OK
FRIDAY
Q. Who
was the first native of Wisconsin to be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Hint: Although
he finished 532 of the 562 career games he started, he once stated, resorting
to hyperbole, “The biggest strain my arm ever underwent was at the Polo Grounds
when I counted 30,000 tickets.”
Hint: He
started the most Opening Days for the Boston Braves.
Twint: In
his obituary, he was quoted as saying that he was proudest of never having been
lifted for a reliever. (It wasn’t true,
but, hey, let him have that memory.)
A. Kid Nichols (HOF 1949)
FCR - Andrew Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was the first non-Caucasian elected to the Hall of Fame?
Hint: Racist
Ty Cobb called him the “…brainiest pitcher I ever saw.”
Hint: He
attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,
Jim Thorpe’s alma mater.
Hint: He
retired from baseball in 1950 and died four years later, but not before being
elected to the Hall of Fame.
Twint: Connie
Mack often used him as a third base coach because of his sign-stealing ability.
A. Chief Bender (Chippewa [sometimes called “Ojibwa”]
Indian, HOF 1953)
FCR - Jim Casey, Savannah, GA
SUNDAY
Q. Who
is credited with developing the hit-and-run play?
Hint: His
record as a pitcher was 0-8 with a 4.99 ERA.
Hint: Baseball
guru Bill James calls him the worst player in the Hall of Fame.
Twint: As
a 55-year-old player-manager, he put himself in as a pinch hitter and got a
single.
Twint: He
was, however, thrown out trying for second.
A. Tommy McCarthy (Single minor league
at-bat for the 1913
Newark Bears)
FCR - Kevin Johnson, Broken Arrow, OK
WEEKLY THEME
– Hall of Famers who played for the Phillies, but for fewer than 50 games
Player Games
Wilson 7
Jenkins 8
Sandberg 13
Nichols 21
McCarthy 26
Duffy 34
Bender 48
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Barry
Kramer, Reisterstown, MD
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