MONDAY
Q. Whose final batting average one season
left him .0001 behind the winner?
A. Ted
Williams’ (.3428 to George Kell’s .3429 in 1949)
FCR - Jan Finkel, Swanton, MD
We
thought the answer was Williams, but further investigation shows:
|
1910
|
Hits
|
ABs
|
Average
|
|
227
|
591
|
0.3840948
|
|
|
194
|
506
|
0.3833992
|
|
|
0.0006955
|
|||
|
1931
|
|||
|
157
|
450
|
0.3488889
|
|
|
213
|
611
|
0.3486088
|
|
|
Diff.=
|
0.0002801
|
||
|
1945
|
|||
|
195
|
632
|
0.3085443
|
|
|
124
|
402
|
0.3084577
|
|
|
Diff.=
|
0.0000866
|
||
|
1949
|
|||
|
179
|
522
|
0.3429119
|
|
|
194
|
566
|
0.3427562
|
|
|
Diff.=
|
0.0001557
|
||
|
1970
|
|||
|
202
|
614
|
0.3289902
|
|
|
186
|
566
|
0.3286219
|
|
|
Diff.=
|
0.0003683
|
||
|
1976
|
|||
|
215
|
645
|
0.3333333
|
|
|
175
|
527
|
0.3320683
|
|
|
Diff.=
|
0.0012650
|
||
|
2003
|
|||
|
212
|
591
|
0.3587140
|
|
|
209
|
583
|
0.3584906
|
|
|
Diff.=
|
0.0002235
|
TUESDAY
Q. Who finished second to Buster Posey in
the 2012 National League MVP voting?
A. Ryan
Braun (422 to
285)
FCR
- Dan
Laquet, Belleville, IL
TUESDAY
TWICE
Q. Who were the first brothers to both
pitch for the Angels?
A. Jeff
Weaver, Jered Weaver (2006 Los
Angeles Angels of Anaheim)
FCR
- Jake
White, Fontana, CA
WEDNESDAY
Q. What Pirate Hall of Famer is the oldest
player to hit an inside-the-park home run?
A. Honus
Wagner (age 42 on 01-Jul-1916,
the last HR of his 21-year career)
FCR - Samuel Olken, Chicago, IL
MIDWEEK
BONUS
Q. Randy Johnson’s 2001 season set a
one-year record for strikeouts per nine innings with an incredible
13.4099. Whose already impressive record
of 13.2047 did he break?
A. Pedro
Martinez’ (1999)
FCR
- Ira Kotel, Short Hills, NJ
THURSDAY
Q. Which former Major League home run
champ played the most games before he stole a base?
A. Cecil
Fielder (SB 02-Apr-1996,
in his 1096th G. He stole
another later that year, the only two
of his regular and post-season career)
FCR - Brett McGinness, Reno, NV
THURSDAY
DOUBLEHEADER
Q. Among major leaguers who only played
for one team, whose games-played total is second only to Carl Yastrzemski’s 3,308?
A. Stan
Musial’s (3,026)
FCR - Ewan Smith, Richmond, VA
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the only Phillies player to hit
for the cycle twice?
A. Chuck
Klein (01-Jul-1931
and 26-May -1933)
FCR
- Barry
Sparks, York, PA
FRIDAY
FRIDAY
Q. Who is the only player to have a
50-double season in the American League and the National League?
A. Albert
Pujols (Cards
2003 [51], 04
[51] & Angels
2012 [50])
FCR - Morris Buenemann, Florissant, MO
IN
MEMORIAM
Q. Who was the first batter Sandy Koufax
faced in his major league debut?
Hint: He was the first MLB Baseball player to win
a World Series in the U.S. and Japan.
Hint: He was the first player to get a
post-season hit off Don Larsen after Larsen’s perfect game.
Hint: He holds the post-war career fielding
record for successful chances per game and total chances per game.
Hint: He was the first shortstop to start a
regular season game for the Milwaukee Braves.
Hint: In the first regular season game played at
Milwaukee County Stadium, he caught a pop foul that was the first out ever made
at the Braves new home field.
Hint: In the 1955 All Star Game played on his
home field, with the American League up 5-0, his 7th inning RBI that
scored Willie Mays was the first National League run scored in a game that
ended with a 12th inning Stan Musial walk-off home run that gave the
senior circuit a 6-5 win.
Hint: Driven in by a Hank Aaron home run, he
scored the winning run in the game where the Milwaukee Braves clinched their
first pennant.
Hint: He also drove in the tying run then scored
the winning run on a bottom of the 10th home run by Eddie Mathews to
even the 1957 World Series at two games apiece.
Hint: In that same Game 4, he set a World Series
record for shortstops with 10 assists.
Twint: Don Hoak of the Reds was once called out for
fielding a ball as a base runner and then tossing it to this Braves shortstop
to avoid a double play – which resulted in a rule change that eliminated both
the runner and the hitter for intentional interference.
Twint: When he tried out for the Boston Braves, he
only had two left-footed shoes but didn’t complain about the pain during the
“couple of hundred ground balls” he fielded.
Twint: When he finally sat down, the Braves scout
Dewey Griggs said “Kid, next week, we’re going to buy you a new pair of shoes”.
Twint: In 2000, he and a Milwaukee Sentinel sports editor founded the Milwaukee Braves
Historical Association.
Twint: Known for starting fights, he once said “I
didn’t mind starting fights. Mathews
was always there to finish them for me”.
Twint: He once said that “Rome wasn’t born in a
day”.
Twint: His son played two years in the minors with
the Yankees
Twint: His son told me that after he left baseball,
he really appreciated how difficult it was to play at the top major league
level. And how much he finally understood what his father achieved.
Twint: We traditionally have provided this many
hints only on the passing of a baseball person of enormous standing such as Bob
Feller or Stan Musial. We have made an
exception here because this man was a personal friend and patient of our own
Gregg Gaylord.
A. Johnny
Logan http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/219068291.html
(Koufax debut 24‑Jun‑1955;
WS MLN
1957 & 1964
Nankai Hawks; Larsen
WS H 05‑Oct-1957
5th inning; MLN Debut 14‑Apr‑1953;
1955
ASG; Winning R in 11th inning of pennant clincher 23‑Sep‑1957;
WS HR 06‑Oct‑1957;
Hoak
incident 21‑Apr‑1956
2nd inning; MBHA;
Son Jimmy
Logan; ).
FCR - Frank DiPrima, Morristown, NJ
END-OF-THE-WEEK
BONUS
Q. Who was the first catcher elected to
the Hall of Fame?
A. Connie
Mack (610 G
at C, HOF 1937)
FCR
- Michael Frank, New York, NY
SATURDAY
Q. What manager has won more games than
any other for the Milwaukee Brewers?
A. Phil
Garner (563)
FCR - Dave Wise, Hyde Park, NY
SATURDAY
SECONDS
Q. “On my tombstone just write, ‘The
sorest loser that ever lived.’”
A. Earl
Weaver (quote
06-Oct-1986)
FCR - Mike Spatz, Ellicott City, MD
SUNDAY
Q. Who is the Phillies career stolen base
leader?
A. “Sliding” Billy Hamilton (510 SB
in 3629 PA. 2nd is Rollins at
417 with 8698 PA)
FCR
- Mark
Hayne, Dumfries, VA
SUNDAY
BEST
Q. Who was the last hurler to win the
pitching Triple Crown and not win the Cy Young Award?
A. Hal
Newhouser (1945;
CYA first awarded 1956)
FCR
- Andrew
Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
WEEKLY THEME – Questions from SABR43 Trivia Quiz not
correctly answered.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – R.J.
Lesch, Adel, IA (A semi-finalist himself, he figured this out after the Monday
question was posted.)
Horsehide
Trivia blog has the questions and answers from this week as well as from
previous weeks: http://horsehidetrivia.blogspot.com/
Horsehide
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