MONDAY
Q. Who was the first San Diego Padre batter
to lead the National League in a Triple Crown category?
Hint: He was only the fifth player in the history
of baseball to get 3,000 hits and 450 home runs.
Hint: In a 22 year career, he never played a
single day in the minors.
Twint: George Steinbrenner traded him to the
Angels, but then claimed he only did so at the urging of then Yankee Manager
Bucky Dent.
A. Dave
Winfield (118 RBI in 1979; 5th player and draft status SABR bio; Steinbrenner
controversies)
FCR
- Derek
Norin, Arlington, VA
TUESDAY
Q. Who succeeded Roberto Clemente as the
Pirates right fielder?
Hint: Known for his powerful arm, he threw out
Jim Rice at third base and Brian Downing at home in the 7th and 8th
innings respectively in the 1979 All-Star Game.
Hint: Not surprisingly, he was the MVP of that
game.
Twint: A teammate of his won the National League,
National League Championship Series and World Series Most Valuable Player Awards
that year, giving his team a sweep of all such awards.
Twint: He hit what might be considered the longers
home run in baseball history with a swat that traveled 150 miles.
A. Dave
Parker (17-Jul-1979
ASG box; 1979
awards; playing a home game with the Charleston Charlies, the ball landed
in a coal car of a passing train that traveled 150 miles before
being picked up in Columbus, OH.)
FCR - Gene Schwartz, Weston, CT
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who, after a horrific injury 21‑Aug‑2013,
tweeted to his fans “While baseball isn’t life I, love this game to death.”
Hint: He was selected 14th in the
first round of the 2007 amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves.
Hint: In his 2010 Major League debut, in his
first at bat he hit a thre-run homer off Carlos Zambrano.
Twint: He was the National League Rookie of the
Month for April and May of that year.
Twint: He also started the 2011 season with a home
run in his first at bat.
A. Jason
Heyward (Broken
jaw on a Jonathan Niese pitch; 2007
amateur draft; debut 5‑Apr‑2010;
Rookie
of the Month 2010;; box
31-May-2011)
FCR - Bill Carle,
Lee’s Summit, MO
HISTORIC
DAY BONUS (Not related to this week’s theme)
Q. What Hall of Famer was present fifty
years ago today at the Lincoln Memorial?
Hint: Following his baseball career, he was an
outspoken advocate for civil rights.
Hint: He was possibly the most famous person
present.
Twint: He served on the board
of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP).
A. Jackie
Robinson (http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20130824/baseball-great-jackie-robinson-joined-mlk-at-march-on-washington)
FCR - Samuel Olken, Chicago, IL
MIDWEEK
BONUS
Q. Who was the New York Mets all-time runs
batted in leader until he was passed by David Wright?
Hint: He and Doc Gooden are the only two players
to win a World Series with both the Yankees and the Mets.
Hint: He did not play in the 1998 World Series.
Twint: In 1987 he became the 10th member
of the 30-30 club.
Twint: He is mentioned in the rap lyrics of the
song “Cuz My Gear”.
A. Darryl
Strawberry (NYM
RBI leaders; NYM
and NYY WS winners; 30-3 0 club; Performed by
Riff Raff and Chief Keef)
FCR - Rich Klein,
Plano, TX
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the regular first baseman for
the Montreal Expos the first time they finished the season in first place?
Hint: After being displaced from the Expos roster
by Vladimir Guerrero, he was traded to the Florida Marlins where he won a World
Series ring despite spending two long stints on the disabled list, accruing
only 137 at bats.
Hint: His double-turned-home-run-turned-double caused
the first use of video replay by umpires in a major league game.
Twint: After this, the use of video replay was then
banned until it became official in 2008.
Twint: He once called Bobby Valentine the dumbest
manager in baseball.
A. Cliff
Floyd (Roster
1994 MON; 1997
Marlins, though he didn’t play in the WS; Controversy
31-May-1999
vs STL: He hit a ball off the scoreboard initially called a double. The Marlins protest changed the umps’ call to
a home run. [In a long-odds coincidence,
Umpire
Frank Pulli who made the call passed away this week]. STL
immediately then protested the call and the umps used video replay to reverse
the reveral and call a it double; Valentine failed to
protest brush back pitches thrown at Floyd that set off a feud that
included a public spat over Floyd’s making the Valentine-managed 2001 NL
AS team.)
FCR - David Krassin,
New York, NY
FRIDAY
Q. Whom did Ozzie Guillen take out of a
game claiming, “I don’t like the way he runs the bases.”?
Hint: Ironically, he was claimed by the White Sox
when the Blue Jays put him on waivers for his “lackadaisical approach to the
game”.
Hint: He finished second to Vladimir Guerrero in
the Home Run Derby where the two combined for a total of five long balls.
Twint: He hit a key 2-run homer in the World
Baseball Classic seminals against Japan to propel Puerto Rico into the finals.
Twint: Earlier this year he went 6-6 becoming the
32nd American League player to do so.
A. Alex
Rios (Benched for failing
to hustle 29-Jun-2011; six years remaining on a $69.35million contract, he
was claimed by
the CHW; 2007 Home
Run Derby results, record low total in the “bat off” system was 4 in 1997; 3-1
PR victory put them in the finals vs DR; 6/6 vs. DEt 09‑Jul‑2013)
FCR - Bill Carle,
Lee’s Summit, MO
END-OF-THE-WEEK
BONUS
Q. Who was the first Brewer to achieve
back to back 20-steals/20-home run seasons?
Hint: He beat the Brewers in Milwaukee’s first
salary arbitration in 12 years, garnering a raise to $4.8million.
Hint: He was selected by the fans as the final
player for the 2008 All-Star Game.
Twint: In a remarkable series of three consecutive
plate appearances against the Mets, he hit three home runs including his first
career walk and his first career grand slam.
Twint: In 2005 he and teammates Prince
Fielder and Rickie
Weeks guided the Nashville
Sounds to the Pacific
Coast League Championship.
A. Corey
Hart (20/20 in 2007; 30-Aug-2008; Jose Mercedes went
to arbitration in 1998; 2008
ASG final roster spot; 28-May
2010 walk off, 29-May 2010 grand slam; 2005 PCL
championship defeated Tacoma
Rainiers 3-0
FCR
- Mitch Bellow, Oakland, CA
SATURDAY
Q. Who, after being traded to the Phillies
in the winter of 82-83, was nicknamed “5-4-1”?
Hint: Though rarely a lead-off hitter, he was
given the opportunity in 1985 and hit a lead-off home run, then a grand slam in
his next at bat in his team’s 26-7 victory over the Mets.
Hint: Thus, he was the first of only five players
in major league history to hit two home runs in the first inning.
Twint: His “Bermanism” was based on a famous
Hendrix song.
Twint: He is the manager of the Alexandria Aces.
A. Von
Hayes (Traded
“five [players] for one”, i.e., Manny Trillo,
Julio
Franco, George Vukovich,
Jay
Baller and Jerry
Willard; box 11‑Jun‑1985
and he also walked with the bases loaded for a total of 4 RBI; 2
HR 1st inning: Bret
and Aaron
Boone, David
Ortiz & Mike
Cameron; Labeled Von
“Purple” Haze by Chris
Berman from Jimi’s Purple Haze; Aces roster)
FCR
- Mitch Bellow, Oakland, CA
WEEKEND
BONUS
Q. In a season this century, who led his
league in hits, doubles, batting average, slugging, on base plus slugging, OPS+,
runs created, total bases, adjusted batting runs, adjusted batting wins and
offensive winning percentage while finishing second in home runs with 46?
Hint: Despite this, he was third in his league’s
Most Valuable Player voting behind players who led in only two categories each.
Hint: He also won a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger
that year.
HInt: It was the only season of his fifteen-year
major league career that he led his league in an offensive category.
Twint: His uncle inspired the movie Mr. Baseball.
Twint: He helped establish Project 3000.
A. Derrek
Lee (2005
stats; 2005
MVP vote behind Pujols
led R/IBB and Andruw Jones
led HR/RBI; Uncle Leron Lee
was the first MLB player to move to Japan at the height of his career and to
wed a Japanese woman; Project
3000 founded with Boston Celtics CEO/co-owner Wyc Grousbeck to eradicate a
rare inherited form of blindness)
FCR: Jim McCoy, Melrose, MA
SUNDAY
Q. What Phillies batter, in his first three
consecutive a- bats of the game, hit a three-run, grand- slam and solo-shot
home run—one short of the “homer cycle”?
Hint: This tied the Phillies runs batted in
record of eight in one game.
Hint: He started his professional career as a
catcher, but Blue Jays management moved him to the outfield.
Twint: At age 31, he signed a $126 million dollar
deal with the Nationals.
Twint: Due to a lackluster 2011, then injury in
2012, he was replaced in right field by Bryce Harper.
Twint: He has since returned to right field with
Harper moving to center.
A. Jayson
Werth (16-May-2008
box; RBI
record tied with Mike
Schmidt; Became a full-time outfielder with Syracuse
in 2002; $126million/7-year
deal; 06-May-2012
injury with Harper starting the next game; current roster
WSN)
FCR
- Alex
Poterack, Providence, RI
WEEKLY THEME – Players over 6' 4" with 20 steals in a
season
Player Ht SB Year Team
24 2000 "
23 2008 "
20 1983 Phillies
48 1984 "
21 1985 "
24 1986 "
20 1988 "
28 1989 "
20 1979 "
34 2010 White Sox
23 2012 "
Strawberry 6' 6" 27 1984 Mets
26 1985 "
28 1986 "
36 1987 "
29 1988 "
20 2009 "
26 1976 "
21 1978 "
23 1980 "
*As
of 31-Aug
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme
– Alan Monarchi, Red Hook, NY
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