MONDAY
Q. Who
claimed to have had a better year than the president?
Hint: The
amount of his salary demands one year were only because he thought $1,000 per
week sounded pretty cool.
Twint: He
broke the single-season home run record four times.
A. Babe Ruth (Quote attributed to Ruth
following the 1929 season. U.S.
presidents made $75,000 per year between 1909 and 1948. Ruth went from $70,000 in 1929 to $80,000 in
1930; From 1922 to 1926, the Yankees paid Ruth $52,000 per season; HR record
1919 w/29, 1920 w/54, 1921 w/59 & 1927 w/60)
FCR - Bob
Dorrill, Kingwood, TX
MONDAY BONUS
Q. Whose
.365 is the highest season batting average ever by a switch-hitter?
Hint: He
never accumulated 200 hits in a season.
Hint: He
was the first American League batter to lead the league in home runs and
triples in the same season.
Twint: He
drove a car with Oklahoma license plate number “77-7777”.
A. Mickey Mantle (.365 in 1957; Career
high in H 188 in 1956; HR/3b 1955, Tied w/teammate Andy Carey
for 3b lead)
FCR - Bob Kimball, Washington, DC
TUESDAY
Q. Whose
baseball team has paid him no less than $20 million per season for the past
twelve consecutive seasons?
Hint: He
played for the U.S. in the 1992 World Junior Championship, where he led the
team with 16 RBI, scored 15 runs, hit .264 and slugged .509 as the team won
Silver.
Twint: A
player he was once traded for made the assist in the final out of Matt Cain’s
perfect game.
A. Alex Rodriguez (traded for Joaquin
Arias [PTBNL in the Alfonso
Soriano trade] 23-Apr-2004)
FCR - Derek
Norin, Arlington, VA
WEDNESDAY
Q. What’s
rookie’s arrival in the majors was so highly anticipated that a wire service
photo of him making his way from Sioux City, Iowa was distributed to the
national press?
Hint: He
was a basketball and football star in high school. The skyhook was his signature move on the
court and he could kick and throw for over fifty yards on the gridiron.
Hint: His
first major league hit, a home run, was hit off a future Hall of Famer.
Twint: He
was the first player to receive over 400 votes for the Hall of Fame in his
first year of eligibility.
A. Willie Mays (1st HR vs. Warren Spahn
on 28-May-1951;
409 HOF votes [94.7%] in 1979)
FCR - Arieh Siegal, Austin, TX
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
is the only* player to win MVP awards in consecutive seasons for teams in
different divisions?
Hint: Although
he was only 6th in Rookie of the Year voting, two other Rookie of
the Year Award winners were born in the same city he was, a city of fewer than
200,000 souls.
Hint: He
later more than compensated for an only very good debut.
Hint: A
hint of his future stardom was when he was named the Carolina League Player of
the Month.
Twint: He
chose to attend college after high school because the Giants signing offer was
under the dollar goal he had set for himself.
A. Barry Bonds (MVP 1992
Pittsburgh
Pirates, NL East, 1993
SF Giants
NL West; ROY Ken Hubbs
1962,
Alvin
Davis 1984, Riverside, CA; Attended
Arizona State University & graduated in 1986 w/a
degree in criminology; CLPOM 1985, playing for ; Giants offered & $70K, he wanted $75K.)
FCR - David Krassin, New York, NY
*Bill
Deane points out that when considering the question alone, Frank Thomas
also qualifies because the White Sox moved
from the AL West to AL Central
between those years.
THURSDAY
Q. Whose
rookie card helped launch the Upper Deck company?
Hint: He
hit the last home run in the Kingdome, ensuring his place in history by robbing
Juan Gonzalez of a home run later in the same game.
Hint: His
ten-year run of Gold Glove Awards ended when he switched leagues.
Twint: He
broke his wrist while making a highlight-reel catch on Kevin Bass’s line drive,
severely abridging his season.
Twint: His
dad spent one season as a Rockies coach.
A. Ken Griffey, Jr. (1989 card; last
Kingdome HR 27-Jun-1999;
AL OF GG 1990-99; Bass catch 26-May-1995;
Ken Sr. COL CO in 1996)
FCR - David de la Fuente, San Francisco, CA
FRIDAY
Q. Who
was the only American League player with at least 10 doubles, triples, home
runs and stolen bases in 1990?
Hint: He
was once ejected and suspended for using a corked bat.
Hint: After
a thorough investigation by MLB it was found to be the only one of his 77 bats
to have been altered.
Hint: The
Rangers gave him a $3,500 signing bonus even though their Dominican scout’s
report described him as “malnourished”.
Hint: He
hit his first career home run off of Roger Clemens, and the two retired within
two weeks of each other 18 years later.
Hint: It
was the only home run he would hit against The Rocket.
Twint: Friends
and close family call him Mikey.
Twint: He
twice led the league in home runs, both times hitting more than 15 fewer homers
than his top single-season total.
A. Sammy Sosa (26 2B, 10 3B, 15 HR, 32 SB
in 1990; corked ejection 03-Jun-2003;
1st HR 21-Jun-1989,
last game 29-Sep-2007,
Clemens’
last regular-season game 16-Sep-2007,
last ML game [ALDS] 07-Oct-2007;
NL HR ldr 2000 [50] & 2002 [49], top HR year 66 in 1998)
FCR - Alan Work, White Plains, NY
SATURDAY
Q. Who
is the only player to lead off four consecutive games with home runs?
Hint: He
set the American League record for most consecutive successful stolen base attempts
only to see Tim Raines break the record later that season.
Hint: He
hit an All-Star double off of a pitcher he had previously been traded with.
Hint: Baseball America listed him as the top
prospect in the AL East in 1988.
Hint: His
1993 season was shortened by chicken pox.
Twint: Only
Cal Ripken Jr. appeared more often in the Orioles lineup during Ripken’s
record-setting consecutive games streak.
Twint: He
became known for his “Luke Perry” sideburns.
A. Brady Anderson (leadoff HR 18- 19- 20-
and 21-Apr-1996;
36 consecutive SB in 1995; 1997 AS
2B vs. Curt
Schilling [traded w-Anderson for Mike
Boddicker on 29-Jul-1988; 1330 G during Ripken’s streak)
FCR - Damian Begley, New York, NY
SUNDAY
Q. Who
was the first player to have 100 RBI in a season in which he played in both
leagues?
Hint: That
same year, he became the first player to hit forty home runs in a season while
playing for two teams.
Hint: Two
seasons down the road, he was named Comeback Player of the Year.
Twint: His
cousin won a no-quite-fully-deserved American League Most Valuable Player
Award.
A. Greg Vaughn (HR, RBI 1996; COPY 1998;
Cousin Mo
Vaughn, ALMVP 1995 when most baseball historians now agree it should have
gone to Albert
Belle)
FCR - Michael Daponde, Sacramento, CA
WEEKLY THEME
– Ten stolen bases and fifty home runs in the same season
Player HR SB Year
Anderson 50 21 1996
Bonds 73 13 2001
Griffey 56 20 1998
“ 56 15 1997
Mantle 54 12 1961
“ 52 10 1956
Mays 51 24 1955
Rodriguez 54 24 2007
“ 52 18 2001
Ruth 59 17 1921
“ 54 14 1920
Sosa 66 18 1998
Vaughn 50 11 1998
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No one
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