MONDAY
Q. Who
holds the career record for home runs by a shortstop?
Hint: He
wrote a book titled “Hothead” claiming it was based on his own life.
Hint: He voluntarily ended his own record streak
on September 20, 1998?
Twint: He was managed by his father in three
different major league seasons.
A. Cal
Ripken Jr. (345 SS HR [N.B. A-Rod was closing in before he was switched to
3b.]; 2,362 consecutive
games played; Cal Ripken,
Sr. managed BAL 1985, 87 and 88)
FCR
- Sean
Fink, Edison, NJ
MONDAY
QUESTION #2
Q. Who was the first Major League Baseball
Rookie of the Year?
Hint: Only he and Alvin Dark were so honored
before there were separate American and National League awards.
Twint: The award now bears his name.
A. Jackie
Robinson (ROY 1947, Dark 1948, Jackie Robinson
Award)
FCR
- Matt Gibson,
Barboursville, WV
TUESDAY
Q. Who has the highest single season
American League batting average since Ted Williams hit .406?
Hint: He was voted his league’s MVP that year.
Hint: That season, his team lost the World Series
to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Twint: His older brother is still the youngest
pitcher ever to appear in a World Series.
Twint: He was named his former team’s hitting coach
30-May-2013.
A. George
Brett (BA .390 1980 KCR; AL MVP
1980; PHI over KCR 4-2; Ken Brett 19.020yo
08-Oct-1967)
FCR - David Wallack, Greenwood Village, CO
TUESDAY
QUESTION #2
Q. Who drove in what would prove to be the
winning run in Game 7 of the 1975 World Series?
Hint: Though only a career .271 hitter, he topped
his league four times in on-base percentage.
Hint: When he hit his career high of 27 home runs
in a season, he led the majors in on base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS,
OPS+ and sacrifice flies.
Twint: His last World Series appearance was also
the last for Pete Rose, Mike Schmidt, and Tony Perez.
Twint: They lost that series to Baltimore four
games to one.
A. Joe
Morgan (Top 9th RBI to provide winning margin in CIN 4-BOS 3
victory; OBP
led 1972, 74-76; 27HR 1976, OBP/SLG/OPS/OPS+/SF, .444/.576/1.020/186/12; 1983 WS
all with PHI)
FCR - Michael
Daponde, Sacramento, CA
TUESDAY
BONUS
Q. To whom was Jim Bouton referring when a
fan asked him how he pitched to this player, Bouton answered “Reluctantly”?
Hint: Bouton also said the best way to pitch to
him was “underground”.
Hint: He is the only player to hit a home run
completely out of Memorial Stadium.
Twint: In his first season with the Orioles he
nearly drowned when his teammates, not believing him when he said he couldn’t
swim, pushed him into a swimming pool.
A. Frank
Robinson (Jim
Bouton quotes; 8-May-1966,
451ftHR;
traded to Baltimore, saved by
Andy Etchebarren; “Close don’t
count” Time Magazine 31-Jul-1973)
FCR - Fred Worth,
Arkadelphia, AR
WEDNESDAY
Q. Which player established the record of
five hits in a single World Series game?
Hint: They were all singles.
Hint: He is the only player to reach 3,000 hits
with a triple.
Twint: In the 1993 World Series, he had a slugging
percent of 1.000 and a batting average of .500 in 24 at bats getting two
doubles, two triples and two home runs.
Twint: Like Joe Mauer, he was once a Raider.
A. Paul
Molitor (Game 1 1982WS; 5 singles,
2RBI, 1R; 1993WS;
16-Sep-1996; Cretin-Derham
Hall HS Raiders)
FCR - David Krassin,
New York, NY
WEDNESDAY
QUESTION #2
Q. When Roger Clemens was asked to name
the game’s three most dangerous hitters, he said this player is the first,
fourth and seventh?
Hint: He has more hits in the 1980s than any
other player.
Twint: For the same decade, he is second only to
Rickie Henderson in runs scored.
Twint: He shot the manager of the Chicago Cubs.
A. Robin
Yount (Clemens
quote; 1731 H 1980-89;
957R with Henderson at 1111R confirmed on play index; While hunting quail with Cubs
Manager Dale Sveum and former teammate, Yount accidentally shot him while
trying to unload on a quail)
FCR - Fred Worth,
Arkadelphia, AR
HUMP
DAY BONUS
Q: When a Yankee scout reacted badly
during negotiations, whose father said “Nobody throws a pencil in my
house. Get the hell out and never come
back”?
Hint: After that, instead of going pro, he
attended an NCAA Division-1 college with a scholarship that was half baseball
and half basketball.
Twint: While at Notre Dame, he signed with a major
league team with a bonus of $108,000 and an offer to pay the rest of his
college education, and his father increased his allowance from $2 to $3 a week.
Twint: As a high school basketball player he broke
the Long-Island record for average points per game held previously by Jim
Brown.
A. Carl
Yastrzemski’s (His father countered a $60K offer from scout Ray Garland
with a $100K offer. Garland flipped his pencil in the
air hitting the ceiling and said “$100,000?
Are you crazy? The Yankees will
never pay that.”; Attended ND 1957-58; Bridgehampton HS)
FCR - Lou Schiff, Deerfield Beach, FL
THURSDAY
Q: Who said that the best moment of his
career was when he hit a walk off home run driving in Johnny Logan in the 11th
inning to clinch the National League pennant?
Hint: In the World Series that year, he hit .393
with 3 home runs and a triple in 28 at bats.
Twint: They won the Series in 7, but he was not
bestowed the honor of Most Valuable Player of the Series.
Twint: That honor went to a pitcher.
A. Hank
Aaron (MLN 4-STL 2 on 23-Sep-1957;
1957 WS
stats and MVP; WS MVP Lew Burdette)
FCR - Andrew Milner,
Bryn Mawr, PA
THURSDAY QUESTION #2
Q: Who was the first catcher named by the
BBWAA as Rookie of the Year?
Hint: In his second trip to the World Series he
experienced what he said was “…the most embarrassing moment of my life.”
Twint: He is a baseball player with a contradictory
name.
Twint: He once hosted a baseball instruction
television show for kids with Tommy Lasorda and the San Diego Chicken.
A. Johnny
Bench (ROY
1968; 1972 WS struck out on a 3-2 count when Rollie Fingers, at the
direction of Dick Williams; faked
an intentional walk to Bench and threw a slider for strike three; He did a
lot of squatting
and was seldom benched; TV show “The
Baseball Bunch”)
FCR - Harvey Judkowitz, Miami, FL
FRIDAY
Q: Whose son that got his first major league
hit 24 years to the day that Dad got his first major league hit?
Hint: Both hit doubles.
Hint: Both of their teams lost the game by the
identical score of 7-6.
Twint: He led his league in batting average eight
times, and led total hits seven times, but never won a Most Valuable Player
award.
Twint: He did however, win the Branch Rickey, Lou
Gehrig and Roberto Clemente Awards over the course of his career.
A. Tony
Gwynn (Tony/Tony Jr. debuts
19-Jul-2006
and 19-Jul-1982;
1995 Branch Rickey Award, 1998 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, 1999 Roberto Clemente
Award)
FCR - Michael Berry, Culver
City, CA
FRIDAY
QUESTION #2
Q: To whom was announcer Jack Buck
referring when he announced after this player’s Game 6 World Series
extra-innings walk off home run “And we’ll see you tomorrow night!”?
Hint: His team went on to win the World Series
where both teams, for the first time in baseball history, had finished last in
their respective divisions the previous season.
Twint: He had a horrific career-ending injury when
he was hit in the face by a Dennis Martinez pitch and suffered a broken jaw.
Twint: After high school, he became a Brave.
A. Kirby
Puckett (26-Oct-1991
MIN v ATL walk off; 28-Sep-1995,
his last major league season game; Bradley
University Braves, Peoria, IL)
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, RI
WEEK-ENDING
BONUS
Q: Which Hall of Famer faced nearly 7,000
fewer batters than Cy Young, but had over twice Cy Young’s strike out total?
Hint: He also pitched 99 fewer games than Cy
Young.
Twint: And yet, he never won the Cy Young Award.
Twint: He was the last pitcher inducted into the
Hall of Fame in the 20th Century.
A. Nolan
Ryan (BF/K/G
Young 29,565/2,803/906, Ryan 22,575/5,714/807; HOF Induction 1999).
FCR - Rick Zucker visiting Abbey
Garber in Dallas, TX
SATURDAY
Q: Who is the only player in the 3,000 hit
club with fewer than 1,500 hits for each of the teams he played for?
Hint: He was once referred to on the air as “...
the stretch limo of baseball players”.
Twint: He never played a game in the minor leagues.
Twint: He was once arrested for killing a seagull,
but was provided a strong defense by Billy Martin.
A. Dave
Winfield (6
teams, 1,300 H was most with NYY; Martin
said “They say he hit the gull on purpose.
They wouldn’t say that if they’d seen the throws he’d been making all
year. It’s the first time he’s hit the
cutoff man”.)
FCR - Mitchell Below, Oakland, CA
SATURDAY
QUESTION #2
Q: The year Mike Flanagan won the Cy Young
Award, whom did he dub “Cy Old”?
Hint: He gave up the most home runs of any
pitcher in an All-Star Game.
Hint: His teammates believed they would win when
he ate pancakes for breakfast, earning him the nickname “Cakes”.
Twint: In his 558-game career, facing 16,114
batters, he never gave up a grand slam.
A. Jim
Palmer (Flanagan responded when asked about another former Oriole CYA
winner “Yeah, Palmer is Cy Old” he
replied without cracking a smile; 3HR ASG 19-Jul-1977; 303HR allowed; Palmer
interview, final question)
FCR - Kevin Johnson, Broken Arrow, OK
SUNDAY
Q: What pitcher performed an age-related
feat that has been equaled only by Kerry Wood?
Hint: He is the first pitcher to win 24 games in
a season before the age of 21.
Twint: Only Nolan Ryan has thrown as many
one-hitters.
A. Bob
Feller (Matched his age w/17 Ks in a G @ 17 13‑Sep‑1936,
Wood
w/20 Ks in a G @ 20 06‑May‑1998;
24 W 1939, age 20; 12 one‑hitters)
FCR - Richard
Schabowski, Saint Francis, WI
SUNDAY
QUESTION #2
Q: What former starter walked fewer than
100 batters in his last 670+ innings in the majors?
Hint: He had over 350 major league starts before
this streak began.
Twint: During one six-season stretch, he struck out
458 and walked a mere 51.
A. Dennis
Eckersley (97 BB/674 IP 1988-98; 361 GS 1975-87; 6 yrs: 1988-93)
FCR - R.J. Lesch, Adel, IA
WEEKLY THEME – First-ballot Hall of Famers inducted with
another first-ballot Hall of Famer since the original 1936 group was elected.
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme
– Bill Deane, Cooperstown, NY
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