MONDAY
Q. Until
the election of Greg Maddux, which Hall of Fame inductee had the largest number
of votes in a single year?
Hint: Over
a period of 903 games, he played in a record 8,264 consecutive innings.
Hint: This
broke the 95-year-old record of 5,152 established by George Pinkney
in 1890.
Hint: His
dad pulled him from the game that ended the streak saying "What the
hell—he couldn’t hit a twenty-run homer."
Twint: He IS “Iron Man”.
A. Cal Ripken (Maddux 555 HOF votes, Ripken
537; SABR
article "Ripken's Record for Consecutive Innings Played"; On, 14-Sep-1987,
down 17-3, Cal
Ripken, Sr., his manager, answering why he pulled him.)
FCR - Dave
Wise, Hyde Park, NY
Incorrect answers: Lou Gehrig, Tom Seaver, Cy Young, Nolan Ryan,
Stan Musial, Christy Mathewson, Snuffy Stirnweis, Sandy Koufax
TUESDAY
Q. Who
was the first career New York Yankee to get 3,000 hits?
Hint: He
holds the Yankee career records for hits, strike outs, stolen bases, singles,
times on base, hit by pitch, games played, at bats, ground into double plays and
plate appearances.
Hint: Along
with Hank Aaron, he also holds the major league record for consecutive seasons
with 150 hits.
Hint: Despite
often being #1, he will always be number 2.
Twint: Had
there then existed instant replay, his only home run in his inaugural
postseason would most definitely been ruled NOT to have cleared the wall—without
helping hands.
A. Derek Jeter (Yankee
career leaders; 17 seasons 150+hits tied
in 2012; most likely will retire #2 at the end of this season; his 1996 solo
postseason home run was aided by Jeffrey Maier)
FCR - Michael
Daponde, Sacramento, CA
Incorrect answers: Lou Gehrig, Dave Winfield, Frankie Frisch, Hector
Lopez
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who,
except for a single vote cast for Frank Malzone, would have been the unanimous
choice for Rookie of the Year?
Hint: In
that same rookie season, he was the starting left fielder in front of his hometown
crowd though it represented a road game for his team.
Hint: He
grounded into a double play that scored the only run in the game where Bobby
Richardson snagged Willie McCovey's World Series ending line-out.
Twint: He
is the only Ford Frick Award winner to take the honor the same year his former
team won a World Series.
A. Tony Kubek (2009 FFA
winner; ROY
1957; 1957
WS MLN 4-3 over NYY; Game 7
1962 WS box)
FCR - Art
Springsteen, Sunapee, NH
Incorrect answers: Tom Tresh, Moose Skowron, Gil MacDougald,
Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto,
Joe Gordon, Harvey Kuenn, Orlando Cepeda, Matty Alou, Willie McCovey, Luis
Aparicio
THURSDAY
Q. Who
pulled off the only unassisted triple play in the majors between the careers of
Walter Johnson
and Jim
Thome?
Hint: Two
days after he did it, he was traded to the White Sox for Tim Cullen.
Hint: Ironically,
he had been traded from the White Sox
to Washington for Cullen earlier that year—the first time players had been
swapped twice for each other by the same teams in the same season.
Hint: Five
years earlier he was traded to the White Sox in a deal that included future
Hall of Fame players Louis Aparicio and Hoyt Wilhelm.
Twint: He
was the 1st base coach for the Milwaukee Brewers from 1980-1983.
A. Ron Hansen (UTPs,
30-Jul-1968
in 11-1 L to CLE, UTPs by Johnny Neun
31-May-1927
& Mickey
Morandini 09-Sep-1992;
Cullen
trade 02-Aug-1968;
1st Cullen trade: 13-Feb-1968;
Trade w/Aparicio
& Wilhelm
14-Jan-1963; Brewers
managers/coaches)
FCR - Eric
Stone, Los Gatos, CA
Incorrect answers: Mickey Morandini, Eddie Brinkman, Bill Wambsganss
FRIDAY
Q. Who
is the first New York Yankee to win two Most Valuable Player awards since Roger
Maris managed the feat 1960-61?
Hint: He
is the only Texas Ranger to lead his league in home runs for three consecutive
seasons.
Hint: He
did it his first three years with the team.
Twint: Through
the 2013 season, he led all other active players in career Wins Above
Replacement.
A. Alex Rodriguez (MVP 2005,
2007;
HR lead: 2001-2003 52/57/47HR; Active Player
WAR 116.00)
FCR - David
Krassin, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Alfonso Soriano, Mark Teixeira
SATURDAY
Q. Who
finished second to Ryan Braun for the National League Jackie Robinson Award?
Hint: He
broke Ernie Banks’s record for homers by an NL rookie shortstop.
Hint: He
and former Red Sox player John Valentin are the only two players in Major
League history to record an unassisted triple play and hit for the cycle.
Hint: Not
in the same game. That would be a
record.
Twint: He
graduated from the same high school as former commissioner Peter Ueberroth.
A. Troy Tulowitzki (2007
ROY 126 to Braun's 128 votes; 24 HR to
Banks's 19; "Tulo
hits for fifth cycle in Rockies history; Fremont
High School alumni)
FCR - Paul
Healey, Minneapolis, MN
Incorrect answers: Starlin Castro, Aaron Hill, Kelly Johnson,
Barry Larkin, Nomar Garciaparra, Hanley Ramirez, Eric Bruntlett, Alex Rodriguez
SUNDAY
Q. Who
was the first player on his team to have a 20 HR-20 SB season since Alfonso
Soriano did it?
Hint: For
good measure, he repeated the feat the next year.
Twint: He
is the only National League infielder to win a Silver Slugger Award in each of
the past two seasons.
Twint: This
year he had the unusual honor of losing an inside-the-park home run on replay.
A. Ian Desmond (2012
25 HR/21 SB, 2013 20 HR/21 SB, Soriano
had a 46/41 season in 2006; SS awards;
04-Apr-2014
reviewed IPHR which cost his team a run in a 2-1 loss to ATL)
FCR - Jim
Harris, Washington, VA
Incorrect answers: Jimmy Rollins, Ian Kinsler, Alfonso Soriano,
Mike Trout, Nelson Cruz, Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, Paul O'Neill,
Derek Jeter
WEEKLY THEME – Tall (6 ft 3 in or
more) Shortstops selected to the All-Star Game.
SS Hgt ASG at SS
Desmond 6' 3” 2012
Hansen 6' 3” 1960 both games
Jeter 6' 3” 1998-2002, 2004, 2006-12
Kubek 6' 3” 1958, 59, 1961 both games
Rodriguez 6' 3” 1996-98,
2000-3
Ripken 6' 4” 1983-1996
Tulowitzki 6' 3” 2010-11,
2013
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No
one
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday
- Pitchers
with most wins.
- Pitchers
with most shutouts
- Pitchers
with most innings pitched
- Pitchers
with most strikeouts per 9 innings
- Pitchers
with most games started
- Pitchers
with most walks
- Pitchers
with most losses
- Pitchers
with most earned runs
- Pitchers
with most wild pitches
- Pitchers
with most batters faced
- Pitchers
with most strikeouts
- Pitchers
with fewest hits per 9 innings
- Pitchers
with most hit batsmen
- HoF'ers
from Texas
- People who have publicly stated that they want to be Derek
Jeter
Tuesday
- Most hits with
one team
- Members of the
3,000 hit club who played their entire career with one team
- All-time hit
leaders for the original eight AL franchises
- Most games at
each position
- Most at-bats
at each position
ROY winners to accrue 3,000 hits with just one team
- Players who
spent their entire careers of 20 years or more with one team
- Shortstops
over six feet tall
- Shortstops
over 5'10" tall
- Shortstops who
hit the most career HRs
- Shortstops who
hit the most career base hits
Wednesday
- ROY winners who won a World Series before appearing in
400 games
- SS
who were Rookie of Year
- ROYs who mostly played
shortstop
- Rookie of the
year shortstops spent their career on one team
- AL ROY SS’s
Sunday
- Tall
shortstops with 20 homer seasons
- SS with more
Walks than K's in a single year?
- SS with more
chances than AB's in a single year?
- SS with the
same number of steals as HR in a single year
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