- This week’s
questions and theme were submitted by reader Joe Ullian of Santa Barbara.
MONDAY
Q. Who
has held the career outfield assists record for an amazing 89 consecutive
seasons?
Hint: The
current leader has less than one third of his total.
Twint: He
won all three World Series he played in, one of them as player-manager.
Twint: He
became a left-handed thrower only after breaking his right arm in a fall from a
horse.
A. Tris Speaker (449 OF A, current leader Carlos
Beltran has 128; WS in 1912
& 1915
and 1920
as plyr/mgr w/ the Indians)
FCR - Mark
Lewers, Blacksburg, VA
TUESDAY
Q. What
Gold Glove winner was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of
Fame?
Hint: His
fear of flying caused his premature retirement from the majors.
Hint: His
only World Series appearance was as a pinch runner.
Twint: He
played on a College World Series champion where the runner-up included future
U.S, President.
Twint: He
co-owned a restaurant in Jack London Square.
A. Jackie Jensen (1959 GG; College
Football HOF 1984—2 years after his death. He played at Cal, scored a TD in the 1949 Rose
Bowl and was 4th in voting for the 1948 Heisman Trophy; Cal 1947, in the 1st College
World Series, defeating a Yale team with George H.W. Bush in the Finals; Bow
& Bell, with "Boots" Erb, Oakland, CA)
FCR - Mark
Pattison, Washington, DC
TUESDAY TUE-WICE
Q. What
Kansas City Royal was the only American Leaguer to collect at least ten
doubles, ten triples and ten home runs in 2000?
Hint: Twice
that year he had five-hit games.
Hint: He
also had the game-winning RBI for the Yankees in the clinching game of his last
League Championship Series.
Twint: He
went three for seven in the 2013 World Baseball Classic qualifying round while
playing for his mother's country's team?
A. Johnny Damon (2000 42 2b, 10 3b &
16 HR [Bobby
Abreu, Neifi
Perez & Vladimir
Guerrero achieved those standards in the senior circuit; GWRBI G 6 ALCS 25‑Oct‑2009;
Thailand,
losers to the Philippines,
8-2, and New
Zealand, 12-2 in November, 2012.
Damon had 3 1b and a BB.)
FCR - John
Michael Pierobon, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
WEDNESDAY
Q. What
eighteen-year veteran was an All-Star in each league, won the Willie Mac Award
and once finished only nine points behind Tony Gwynn for the batting title?
Hint: His
numbers one season would have won the Triple Crown five times during his career
yet he never even won a single leg of the TC in any year.
Hint: Six
years earlier, he had won a Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award in the
same season.
Twint: He
got his only World Series ring playing in his final season, back on the team he
had debuted with.
A. Ellis Burks (AL AS
1990, NL AS 1996
& Willie Mac Award
2000; 1996 stats of .344, 40 HR, 128 RBI would have won NL TC in 1988,
89, 90, 91, Would have won AL TC in 1989; WS 2004 Red Sox)
FCR - Jack
Sullivan, Louisville, KY
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
is the only player to play on four Boston Red Sox World Series championship
teams?
Hint: He
was the first major leaguer to lead off both games of a doubleheader with a
home run.
Twint: His
father was born on Prince Edward Island and his mother in Frankfurt, Germany.
Twint: In
his later years he served as Postmaster of his town.
A. Harry Hooper (WS 1912, 1915, 1916
& 1918;
HRs 30-May-1913; Postmaster of Capitola, CA, appointed 1933)
FCR - Bob Dorrill, Kingwood, TX
THURSDAY
Q. Who
might have prevented Slaughter from scoring had he stayed in the game
(according to Slaughter himself)?
Hint: He
was the youngest of nine children.
Twint: He
had doubled home the tying runs late in Game 7 of his only World Series.
Twint: He
was one of two players to be replaced due to injury in that same half inning.
Twint: He
was married to his wife Emily for 61 years.
A. Dom DiMaggio (WS, G 7 15‑Oct‑1946;
his 2‑out double to right-center scored Russell
and Metkovich
to tie the game 3-3; He twisted his ankle on the double and Leon Culberson
ran for him. With next batter [Ted Williams]
at the plate, Cardinals'
catcher Joe
Garagiola split a finger and was replaced by Del Rice.)
FCR - Mark Lewers, Blacksburg, VA
THURSDAY EXTRA
Q. Who
had two hits, two walks, and scored twice in his big league debut, scoring his
first run on a Babe Ruth home run?
Hint: He
was his alma mater's first All‑American basketball player, under a coach whose
name lives on there.
Twint: His
three children all graduated from his alma mater.
Twint: One
was a baseball All‑American.
A. Billy Werber (Debut 25‑Jun‑1930,
2nd game, vs. visiting Browns' George Blaeholder. It was Ruth's 541st HR. He added #542 in the same game. Yankees won 16-4 for a doubleheader sweep; Duke,
1930, coach Eddie Cameron,
as in 'Cameron
Indoor Stadium'; William
Werber, Jr., [1952 All‑America], Patricia, and Susie.
FCR - Paul Hirsch, Danville, CA
FRIDAY
Q. Who
doubled to left as the first batter ever to come to bat for a Seattle major
league team?
Hint: Willie
Stargell was a high school teammate.
Hint: Although
many would guess that he was a multi-year All-Star, his only appearance in an
All‑Star Game was as a pinch runner.
Twint: He
was inducted into a team's Hall of Fame 25 years after suing that team for
wrongfully firing him.
A. Tommy Harper (At Anaheim, 08‑Apr‑1969,
for the Seattle Pilots. When Mike Hegan
promptly homered, Harper scored the first ever Seattle run; Encinal
High School, Alameda, CA; 1970 ASG
at Cincinnati. Harper ran for Harmon
Killebrew after his 5th inning leadoff single and was caught
stealing 2 outs later, Johnny Bench
to Glenn
Beckert; 1985 suit against the Red Sox, who dismissed him as coach for his
reaction to a situation involving racial exclusion during Spring Training. The suit was settled out of court. He was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame
in 2010.)
FCR - Dave Pugh, Baltimore, MD
WEEK-ENDING EXTRA
Q. Who’s
dulcet tones bring just the right New England accent to Boston Rex Sox’
broadcasts?
Hint: He
only hit seven home runs in 10 major league seasons, but they were off pitchers
with a total of 1,135 career wins.
Twint: He
has written five children‘s books featuring a monstrous mascot.
Twint: Got
an RBI single to left off Steve Busby
in his first major league at bat.
A. Jerry Remy (He grew up in Somersert, MA;
HRs off Jim
Perry 215, Fergie
Jenkins 284, Mike Norris
58, Catfish
Hunter 224, Jack Morris
254, Eduardo
Rodriguez 42, and Matt Keough
58; The books are in his "Hello, Wally!" series, the “Wally the Green
Monster” series published by Mascot Books; Debut hit 07‑Apr‑1975)
FCR - Herb Whalley, Houston, TX
WEEKEND-BEGINNING EXTRA
Q. Who
set a record for triples in the first ever World Series?
Hint: It
has never been broken.
Hint: He
was the last surviving player from the 1903 World Series.
Hint: He
was a mentor to Babe Ruth in Ruth’s professional debut.
Twint: He
was at the plate when a famous spitball went wild and brought in the run that
won a second straight pennant for his team.
A. Freddy Parent (3 triples in a WS by an
American Leaguer was, unbelievably, tied by two teammates in the very same Fall
Classic: Buck
Freeman & Chick Stahl. Billy
Johnson tied it in 1947 but it
has never been bested. [N.B. in that
same 1903 WS, Tommy Leach,
third baseman on the opposing Pirates, hit
4 WS triples for the major league record.]; b. 11‑Nov‑1875, d. 02‑Nov‑1972;
10‑Oct‑1904, 9th inning of 1st G at New York. Jack Chesbro's wild pitch with 2 out and a 1- 2 count on
Parent scored Lou Criger
from 3rd with what held up as the winning R in a 3-2 W for the Boston Americans
over the Highlanders. The win clinched the AL pennant on the
season's last day. Boston had of course
won in 1903.)
FCR - Randall Chandler, Germantown, TN
SATURDAY
Q. What
infielder threw so hard that his Hall of Fame first baseman was caught
illegally padding his first baseman’s mitt?
Hint: He
hit his first professional home run in his first exhibition game. It was a Grand Slam off Cleveland’s Bob Feller.
Hint: Nicknamed
“Rawhide” for his toughness, he famously dressed down teammates Ted Williams
and Lefty Grove for incidents on the field.
Hint: According
to The Sporting News, he once
collided so violently with Detroit’s Joe Hoover that the unfortunate Tiger
infielder passed a kidney stone on the spot!
Hint: Further
adding to his reputation as a tough guy, he often took the field with the stub
of a cigar in his mouth.
Twint: On
24‑Sep‑1940,
he homered after four future Hall of Famers all homered (except the batter just
ahead of him who only tripled).
A. Jim Tabor (Padded glove belonged to Jimmie Foxx;
HR string 24‑Sep‑1940
Ted
Williams, Jimmie Foxx,
Joe
Cronin, Bobby Doerr)
FCR - Steve Schwartz, Chico, CA
SUNDAY
Q. Who,
at age 22, opened the season in place of an injured Ted Williams?
Hint: He
once replaced Warren Spahn as manager.
Hint: This
rural Illinois native led his minor league with 20 wins and 177 strikeouts and a
nine-inning no-hitter at age 18.
Twint: He
was signed as a Rule 5 draftee three times.
A. Gary Geiger (Played LF for the BOS 12‑Apr‑1959,
in place of Ted Williams;
Replaced Spahn to manage the 1971 Tulsa Oilers
of the American Association; Born Sand Ridge IL 04‑Apr‑1937. Was 20-7 with 1.98
era in 1955 at Hamilton,
Ontario, of the PONY League, the no-hitter vs. Erie; Rule 5 signee by the
Indians from the Cardinals in 1957, by the Braves from the Red Sox in 1965, and
by the Astros from the Cardinals in 1968)
FCR - Mark DeLodovico, Rockville, MD
WEEKLY THEME
– Players who led the Red Sox in steals for three consecutive seasons
Burks 1987-90
Damon 2002-05
DiMaggio 1948-50
Harper 1972-74
Hooper 1916-19
Jensen 1954-56
Parent 1904-06
Remy 1978-80
Speaker 1912-15
Tabor 1939-41
Werber 1933-36
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Jack
Sullivan, Louisville, KY (after the Hooper question)
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