MONDAY
Q. Who is the only forty-year-old player
to get 200 hits in a season?
Hint: With
a career batting average of .322, he batted over .300 in 15 of his 20 career
seasons, with no year less than .293.
Hint He
made a highly controversial catch of a ball off the bat of Earl
Smith in the World Series.
Twint: Two
future Hall of Famers who witnessed the catch, called it the "best catch I
ever saw" and the "best catch ever made in baseball".
Twint: Questioned
his whole life about the play, he always answered as Commissioner Landis had
asked him to, with a maddeningly vague retort:
"The umpire called him out."
A. SAM RICE
(207 H in 1930—already 40 years old when the season began, b. 20-Feb-1890;
Catch in G 3 1925
WS; Quotes from Goose
Goslin & Bucky
Harris respectively, Commissioner
Kennesaw Mountain Landis)
FCR - Eric
Stone, Los Gatos, CA
Incorrect answers: Rod Carew, Derek Jeter, Honus Wager, Tris
Speaker, Tony Gwynn, Paul Molitor, Zach Wheat, Max Carey, Ty Cobb, Sam
Crawford, Nap Lajoie, Pete Rose
TUESDAY
Q. Who,
along with teammates Joe Jackson
and Eddie
Collins, publicly promised their team's owner that they would capture the
1917 American League pennant?
Hint: They went
on to win the World Series that year a feat that team would not duplicate for
88 years.
Hint: He
scored the final run of the final game of that Series.
Twint: He
received a lifetime ban for his knowing about and failing to expose the "Black Sox"
scandal.
Twint: He
felt his punishment was unnecessarily severe, once telling in an interview,
"A murderer even serves his sentence and is let out. I got life."
Twint: Though
he has been dead for over fifty years, there are efforts to reinstate him
posthumously, to receive—as it were—an honorable discharge.
A. BUCK
WEAVER (Chicago White Sox owner Charles
Comiskey, 1917
CHW; 1917
WS; Banned by baseball commissioner K.
M. Landis; Told to told novelist James T. Farrell)
FCR - David
Knox, Pinson, AL
Incorrect answers: Babe Ruth, Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Red
Faber, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
was the first Cleveland Indian to win a league Most Valuable Player award?
Hint: He
was the also the first player in major league history to hit 60 doubles in one
season.
Hint: Only
Earl Webb hit more doubles in a season.
Twint: He
is the first of only two first basemen to turn an unassisted triple play.
A. GEORGE
BURNS (1926 AL
MVP [Indians Hall of Famer Tris
Speaker had won the Chalmers
Award in 1912.]; 64 2b in 1926; Webb
67 2b in 1931; Burns tied for 2nd w/Joe Medwick;
UTP 14-Sep-1923)
FCR - Ron
Kaufman, Thornhill, ON
Incorrect answers: Tris Speaker. Lou Boudreau, Earl Averill, Al
Rosen, Joe Gordon, Nap Lajoie, Chase Utley, Joe Jackson
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
was the third player in the majors to hit thirty home runs in a season?
Hint: Two
days later, Rogers Hornsby equaled his 30 and went on to take the majors' home
run crown that year with 42.
Hint: He
replaced Tris Speaker in centerfield when Speaker was traded from the World
Champion Red Sox to the Cleveland Indians.
Twint: That same year he got his only World Series
ring.
A. TILLIE
WALKER (1922
30th HR 23-Aug-1922 preceded by Ruth and Ken
Williams; Hornsby
30th 25-Aug-1922; 1916 Tillie
to BOS)
FCR - Scott
Matteson, Shawnee, KS
Incorrect answers: Mel Ott, Babe Ruth, Cy Williams, Jimmie Foxx,
Ken Williams, Ray Chapman, Steve O'Neill
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who
was the only person in uniform for all three Yankee perfect games?
Hint: An
iconic coach, he changed his uniform number every year to reflect the number of
years he had been in baseball.
Hint: Last
year he wore #66.
Hint: In
all, he wore the uniforms of fourteen different teams as a big league player,
manager, or coach.
Hint: He
won two World Series championships as a player and four as a coach, but his
greatest accomplishment came as a manager when led the Cubs to the postseason.
Hint: That
earned him Manager of the Year honors, missing unanimity by one vote, the lone
remaining vote going to a former teammate.
Hint: He
managed the Red Sox to three consecutive 90-win seasons.
Hint: For
that effort all he got was one playoff game, a harrowing loss.
Twint: Spaceman
Bill Lee
gave him his nickname, The Gerbil.
Twint: The
balls he took to the head on three different occasions were a significant part
of why all major league batters wear helmets today.
A. DON
ZIMMER (Perfectos: Don
Larsen’s, David
Wells’s & David
Cone’s; WS wins: 1955, 59, 96, 98, 99 & 2000; 1989 Cubs; MOY
1989 [Roger
Craig]; Red Sox 1977, 78, 79; 1978 one-game
playoff with Yankees. Dent
went deep.)
FCR - Timothy Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect answers: Yogi Berra
THURSDAY
Q. Whose
mid-season designation as manager ended the managerial career of Walter
Johnson?
Hint: He
was the Cleveland Indians' starting catcher for their 1920 World Series winning
team.
Hint: In
Game One of that series, he hit two doubles with two RBIs against Rube Marquard
providing the margin of victory in the Indians 3-1 win over the Robins.
Twint: The
Robins' Hall of Fame manager, Wilbert Robinson, dubbed him the "King of
Maskmen".
A. STEVE O'NEILL (1935 replaced Johnson;
Managerial
record; 1920
WS; 1920
WS G1 boxscore; nickname reference SABR BIO)
FCR - Larry Creeden, Henderson, NV
Incorrect answers: Clark Griffith, Pinch Thomas, Tris Speaker
FRIDAY
Q. Who
holds the major league record for sacrifices in one season?
Hint: Despite
a shortened career, he is also sixth on the career list for sacrifices.
Hint: His
stolen base total one year was his franchise's record for 63 seasons.
Hint: He
often regaled his teammates with his singing and piano playing.
Twint: It's
a shame he's not better known for what he did during his career rather than how
it ended.
A. RAY
CHAMPMAN (67 sacrifices in 1917; 334 in his career; 52 SB in 1917; Was
killed with a pitch thrown at dusk by Carl
Mays 16-Aug-1920)
FCR - Gary
Glasser, Fort Lee, NJ
Incorrect answers: Eddie Collins, Jerry Royster, Nate Adcock,
Denny McLain
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was the first Yankee to lead the American League in stolen bases?
Hint: That
was the first time any Yankee stole more than fifty in a season.
Hint: His
total of 510 hits in the majors paled in comparison to the 2,093 he got in the
minors.
Hint: That
was enough to get him elected to the International League Hall of Fame.
Twint: His
brother and cousin both played in the majors.
Twint: The
year he led the AL in stolen bases, he didn’t lead the majors, but he had
twelve more than George Burns,
who led the NL.
A. FRITZ
MAISEL (74 SB in 1914; Brother George
Maisel, cousin Charlie
Maisel; major league SB leader that year was Benny
Kauff from the Indiana Hoosiers
of the Federal League)
FCR - Andrew
Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
Incorrect answers: Ben Chapman, Wally Pipp, Hall Chase, Earle
Combs, Birdie Cree, George Selkirk
SUNDAY
Q. Who
was the first professional baseball manager for a team in Beckley, West Virginia?
Hint: When
a couple of Hall of Fame Marylanders became his teammates, he was already a
seasoned veteran.
Hint: He
went to Boston before they did.
Twint: He
came from the same home town as Mel Allen.
Twint: His
nickname was "Bugger".
Twint: He
was the only player to homer off Babe Ruth when Ruth pitched for the Yankees.
A. FRANK
WELCH (Player/mgr 1931-32; Lefty
Grove and Jimmie
Foxx joined the A’s in 1925, Welch had been with the team since 1919; Bought
by the Red Sox in the 1926
off-season, Grove was traded to Boston
in 1933,
Fox in 1935;
Welch and Allen
born in Birmingham, Alabama)
FCR - No
one
Incorrect answers: Frank Baker, Frank McCormick, Jimmie Foxx,
Lefty Grove, Sol White, Dick Hoblitzell
WEEKLY THEME – Batters who hit home
runs off noted pitcher Babe Ruth.
Batter Date For Of
note…
Chapman 13-Jul-1915 CLE IPHR
O'Neill 28-Aug-1915 CLE Bounced
Rice 25-Jun-1919 WSH IPHR
Welch 01-Oct-1921 PHA IPHR
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Dave
Washburn, Marietta, GA (After the Burns Q.)
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