MONDAY
Q. Who
was the oldest pitcher to toss a perfect game?
Hint: He
is the all-time leader in innings pitched.
Hint: He
is the all-time leader in batters faced.
Hint: He
is the all-time leader in complete games.
Hint: He
is the all-time leader in game started.
Hint: It’s
True that no one is close to him in any of these categories.
Twint: Oh,
yeah. He is also the all-time leader in
pitching victories.
A. Cy Young (He WAS the oldest at 37 years, 7 months, 1 day old on 05‑May‑1904. He was trumped, however, one century later on
18‑May‑2004
when Randy Johnson threw his own perfecto.] ; 7,356 IP; 29,565
BF; 749
CG; 815 GS;
Full name Denton True Young; 511 W)
FCR - Walt
Cherniak, Woodbine, MD
MONDAY MORE
Q. Who
was the American League’s first Triple Crown winner?
Hint: He
won the batting title by an astounding 75 points.
Hint: Craig
Biggio broke his record for career doubles by a right-handed hitter.
Twint: Once,
protesting a dirty game ball, he threw the ball out of the stadium, causing the
umpire to forfeit the game.
A. Napoleon Lajoie (TC 1901 [Young also
won the TC that same year, but for pitchers.]; Batting AVG .426, besting the Orioles’ Mike Donlin
at .340; 657 2b to Biggio’s
668)
FCR - Bill
Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
TUESDAY
Q. Who
was the first player since Carl Yastrzemski to lead his league in all three
legs of the Triple Crown?
Hint: He
won the Comeback Player of the Year Award two times.
Hint: Adam
Dunn passed him in 2012 for career strikeouts.
Twint: He
won two Gold Glove Awards playing for the Expos.
Twint: He
was the first player to collect thirty runs-batted-in in April.
A. Andres Galarraga (Won RBI, HR in 1996,
AVG in ’94; CPOY 1993, 2000; 2,003 K, Dunn now
has 2,031; GG 1989, 90; 30 RBI Apr 1994)
FCR - Mike McCroskey, Sugar Land, TX
IN MEMORIAM
Q. According
to Red Barber, who, “…along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, is one of the
two or three most important men in baseball history.”?
Hint: Tom
Seaver observed, “[his] exclusion from the Hall of Fame is a national
disgrace.”
Hint: Joe
Morgan added, “They should vote him in and then apologize for making him wait
so long.”
Hint: Bob
Costas stated, “There is no non-player more deserving of the Hall of Fame.”
Hint: He
himself observed, “It is an amusing anomaly that the Hall of Fame has made me
famous by keeping me out.”
Hint: He
negotiated Major League Baseball Players Association’s first collective
bargaining agreement with the owners in 1968, earning the players their first
minimum salary increase in two decades.
Hint: Two
years later he got arbitration included in the Collective Bargaining Agreement,
in his own estimation his greatest achievement in the first two decades of the
MLBPA.
Hint: He
later used arbitration to open the door to free agency.
Twint: He
led the MLBPA through three strikes and two lockouts.
Twint: He
was honored by the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2000 and
inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
Twint: In
1997 the MLBPA created an award in his honor.
A. Marvin
Miller (minimum salary increase from $6K to $10K; 1972, 80, 81 strikes,
1973, 76 lockouts; used arbitration to argue 1974 Catfish
Hunter case, which weakened the reserve clause and led the way to free
agency; Marvin
Miller Man of the Year Award given to “the player in either league whose
on-field performance and contributions to his community inspire others to
higher levels of achievement.”)
FCR - Andrew Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
was the first player to win a batting title in different major leagues?
Hint: Illness
shortened his dominant career.
Twint: He
is often called the best player of baseball’s first major league, the National
Association.
Twint: Only
Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby and he have three seasons with batting averages over
.400.
A. Ross Barnes (Batting champ in the National
Association and NL; Owns the career NA records in runs (459), hits (530),
doubles (99), walks (55), stolen bases (73), total bases (695), times on base
(585), runs produced (694), batting average (.390), on-base percentage (.413),
and slugging percentage (.511).
FCR - Art Springsteen, Sunapee, NH
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What
former Gator was the first infielder to join the 30-30 club?
Hint: His
rookie stats were nearly as good as a teammates’, but that teammate was the
runaway Rookie of the Year Award winner.
Hint: He
didn’t get a single vote.
Twint: He
has served as an instructor or coach for the Yankees, Expos and Red Sox.
A. Tommy Harper (San
Francisco State U. Gators, 3b 1970 31 HR, 38 SB; 1963
ROY Pete Rose)
FCR - John Michael Pierobon, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL
THURSDAY
Q. In
1876, the Louisville Grays won only 30 games.
Who was their winning pitcher?
Hint: He
only gave up only one over-the-wall home run in a career that totaled 1,405
innings and had a career ERA of 1.90.
Hint: His
major league career ended with him on his knees begging a future Hall of Famer
for reinstatement.
Hint: That
action gained him a personal gift of $50, but he never played another game in
the majors.
Twint: He
admitted to wrongdoing, taking money to lose games.
Twint: He
became a policeman in his hometown of Philadelphia, but fell prey to alcohol
and gambling and died at age 34.
A. Jim Devlin (Won all 30 G and took all
but 1 of their 36 losses; Early NL star Lip Pike
hit the HR in question; Jim Clinton
was 0-1, losing the season’s final game; NL President William Hulbert was the
generous but steadfast league president.)
FCR - John Rickert, Terre Haute, IN
FRIDAY
Q. Who
boasted, "I'll make them all forget that a guy named Ty Cobb ever pulled
on a baseball shoe," even though he had twice before played for New York
teams?
Hint: Almost
understandable, since he had led his former league in runs, hits, stolen bases
and slugging, to name but a few categories.
Twint: Ben,
he… (cough)
A. Benny Kauff (Led in stats in the Federal League. I, for one, still remember Cobb.)
FCR - Kevin Johnson, Broken Arrow, OK
END-OF-THE-WEEK BONUS
Q. Who
is the only player to win two World Series championships with the Florida
Marlins?
Hint: He
was traded for a total of nine players during his seventeen-year career, but
for players whose time in the majors amounted to only 181 games.
Hint: With
his wife, he finished third in the 1993 U.S. doubles racquetball championship.
Twint: His
sister-in-law was a producer on the show Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire.
A. Jeff Conine (WS wins 1997 & 2003; Traded
for Chris
Fussell [40 G], Denny
Bautista [131 G], Angel Chavez
[10 G])
FCR - Mark Lewers, Blacksburg, VA
BEGINNING-OF-THE-WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who
is the only major league pitcher to lose a nine-inning complete game no-hitter?
Hint: It
was an error by a future Hall of Famer that cost him the victory.
Hint: The
only postseason experience in his thirteen-year career was 2/3 of a perfect inning
against the Yankees in the World Series.
Hint: If
the other seven pitchers on his team that day had pitched as well, the game
might not have been the last of the Series.
Twint: For
each of five consecutive seasons, he worked in excess in exceed of 200 innings.
Twint: He
is sometimes confused with the player of the same name who debuted eleven years
earlier.
A. Ken Johnson (No-no 23-Apr-1964;
HOF Nellie
Fox booted a grounder by Vada Pinson,
allowing the game’s only run; WS G 09-Oct-1961;
200+ IP 1963-67; Other Ken Johnson)
FCR - Tom Kennedy, Houston, TX
SATURDAY
Q. Whose
solitary vote prevented Warren Spahn from becoming the first unanimous Cy Young
Award winner?
Hint: He
was a former teammate of Spahns’.
Hint: He
was the last Indians pitcher in the 20th century to collect a pinch
hit.
Twint: He
was the last Boston native to play for the Boston Braves.
A. Dick Donovan (1957
CYA voting; W/Spahn 1950, 51 & 52 Braves; PH
28-Jul-1963;
b. 07‑Dec‑1927)
FCR - David Stinson, Silver Spring, MD
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Whose
autobiography was entitled “My Time at
Bat: A Story of Perseverance”?
Hint: After
retiring from the majors, he coached baseball at Howard University for 28
years.
Hint: His
Minor League career highlights include Rookie of the Year Award, back-to-back
league batting titles and a league Most Valuable Player Award.
Twint: He
played every position on the diamond except pitcher during his eleven-year
career in the majors.
A. Chuck Hinton (Book)
FCR - Matt Gibson, Barboursville, WV
SUNDAY
Q. Who
led the National League in triples in his rookie season, but then in the rest
of his thirteen-year career only ever led his team once.
Hint: …and
that was a three-way tie.
Hint: Hit
his 100th career home run off Matt Garza.
Twint: He
founded the "Catch 22 for Blue Foundation" to benefit victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
A. David Dellucci (12 3b 1998; HR 04-Aug-2008;
Foundation)
FCR - Damian Begley, New York, NY
WEEKLY THEME
– League leaders from expansion teams
Name Year Team LG Category Quant.
Barnes 1876 White Stockings NL *OBP 1.052
Conine 1993 Marlins NL Games played 162
Dellucci 1998 Diamondbacks NL Triples 12
Devlin 1876 Grays NL *Complete games 66
Donovan 1961 Senators AL
ERA 2.40
Galarraga 1993 Rockies NL
Batting AVG .370
Harper 1969 Pilots AL Stolen bases 73
Hinton 1961 Senators AL SB% 81.48
Johnson 1962 Colt 45’s NL K/BB ratio 3.870
Kauff 1914 Hoosiers FL *Hits 211
Lajoie 1901 Athletics AL *Batting AVG .426
*Led in many other categories as well
First Correct Respondent to
Identify Theme – Bill
Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
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