MONDAY
Q. Who is second only to Hank Aaron in hits,
singles, doubles, RBIs, games played, at bats, runs scored, extra-base hits,
times on base, offensive WAR, OPB, total bases, runs created, adjusted batting
runs, adjusted batting wins, plate appearances and sacrifice flies for the
Braves franchise?
Hint: He is the National League career leader for
home runs by a switch hitter.
Twint: He was the first player to have more than one
multi-home run game against Randy Johnson.
A. CHIPPER JONES (468
HR, Mantle and Murray with 536/504 respectively; Johnson HRs: 05-Sep-1999, 05-Sep-2000 [The only
times they faced each other on 05-Sep])
FCR - Larry Creeden, Boulder City, NV
Incorrect
answers: Andruw Jones, Eddie Mathews,
Dale Murphy
MONDAY MONDAY
Q. Who is the youngest player to reach 300
career home runs?
Hint: He is also the youngest to reach 400.
Hint: … and 500
Twint: … and 600.
A. ALEX RODRIGUEZ (Home runs by age
records Baseball Almanac)
FCR - Doug Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect
answers: Ken Griffey, Jr., Jimmie Foxx,
Eddie Mathews, Mel Ott, Albert Pujols, Babe Ruth
TUESDAY
Q. Who did David Wright surpass to become
the career New York Mets leader for RBIs, strikeouts, bases on balls and extra
base hits?
Hint: Wright is second behind this player for
career homers as a Met.
Hint: He was named National League Rookie of the
Year the same year Cal Ripken won his first MVP award.
Twint: After his rookie award winning year, he was an
All Star 8 consecutive seasons, but in the following 8 years he wasn’t selected
even once.
A. DARRYL STRAWBERRY
(Mets team batting records;
Straw’s 252 HR to Wright's 230; 1983 ROY; ASG 1984-91, ended
career 1999)
FCR - Morris Buenemann, Florissant, MO
Incorrect
answers: Ed Kranepool, Mike Piazza, Gary
Carter, Keith Hernandez
TUESDAY TUESDAY
Q. Who spent the first three years of his
career on the "restricted list", but then won the AL MVP in his
fourth active season?
Hint: He led his team to its first World Series
appearance that MVP season, as well as going back to the Fall Classic the
following year.
Hint: He was an All Star every year he was with
the Rangers, but not prior to or since.
Twint: After leaving the Rangers, he commented that
Texas was "not a true baseball town".
A. JOSH HAMILTON (Restricted
list for substance abuse 2003-05, AL MVP 2010; Texas
Rangers WS 2010-11; AS 2008-12;
Perhaps reacting to being booed at the end of his final season as a Ranger, he
made disparaging remarks
about the State of Texas, especially about Dallas being a "football
town".)
FCR - Wayne Strumpfer, Sacramento, CA
Incorrect
answers: Juan Gonzalez, Adrian Beltre,
Gary Matthews, Jr., Alex Rodriguez
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who edged out Justin Verlander by one
first place vote and 2% of the overall total votes for the Cy Young Award?
Hint: Two years prior he had finished 2nd
to King Felix for the coveted honor.
Hint: His junior year at Vanderbilt he went 11-0
and was Pitcher of the Year in the SEC and won Collegiate Baseball Player of
the Year, the Dick Howser Trophy and the Golden Spikes Award.
Twint: He is now part of a rotation that features
three different Cy Young Award winners of the past three seasons.
A. DAVID PRICE (2012 AL CYA vote; 2010 AL CYA vote; SEC POY,CB POY, The
Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, 2014
DET previous AL CYA winners: Scherzer 2013, Price 2012 and Verlander 2011)
FCR - Tommy Garber, Austin, TX
Incorrect
answers: Zach Greinke, King Felix
WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY
Q. What sinister ex-Devil turned angelic hero
on 25-Apr-1976?
Hint: A Hall of Famer even suggested that he
might have been at the Last Supper.
Hint: A winged angel, the Emmy Award, was nearly
his.
Hint: In 2008, he was elected to the Southern
California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Twint: He hit the last home run ever surrendered by a
Seattle Pilots pitcher.
A. RICK MONDAY ("Sinister
meaning left-handed; Attended ASU, the Sun Devils, Prevented
an on-field flag burning;
Tommy Lasorda, in
reference to his and Manny Mota's ages,
said, "They're so old they were waiters at the Last Supper! "; SoCal HOF; HR off
pitcher George Brunet 01‑Oct‑1969)
FCR - Doug Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect
answers: Vin Scully, Al Michaels
THURSDAY
Q. Which player was the captain of the
baseball, football & basketball teams at Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks,
CA in the 1960s?
Hint: Known as a free swinger, in 1982 he
established a post-deadball era record for the fewest bases-on-balls with fourteen
in 150 games.
Hint: Ozzie Guillen broke the record three years
later with twelve in 150 games.
Twint: He led the NL in fielding percentage in 1980
and then the AL in 1982.
Twint: In 1980 tied five other players for the
National League lead in hit-by-pitch.
A. TIM FOLI (NDHS;
1980 .981 NL leader, 1982 .985 NL
and Majors leader; walks/GP confirmed by Play
Index though Dave Robertson
achieved the identical stat in 1916; 6 HBP tied with Pete
Rose, Andre Dawson, Dan Driessen, Greg Luzinski and Elliott Maddux)
FCR - Charles Saeger, Minneapolis, MN
Incorrect
answers: Reggie Jackson, Benito
Santiago, Rob Deer, Rickey Henderson
THURSDAY THURSDAY
Q. Which Devil Rays rookie, in his home
debut, threw out Ichiro Suzuki at 3B trying to go from first to third on a
Chris Snelling single?
Hint: He was named Minor League Player of the
Year and was rated #1 prospect by Baseball America.
Twint: He finished second to Dustin Pedroia for
Rookie of the Year.
A. DELMON YOUNG (Outfield
assist: 01-Sep-2006; 2007 ROY vote; Minor’s POY and BA rank)
FCR - Tucker Warner, Spottsylvania, VA
Incorrect
answers: Rocko Baldelli, Carl Crawford,
Josh Hamilton, B.J. Upton, Ben Grieve, Wil Meyers
FRIDAY
Q. Who is the only player to win World
Series rings with both the 2008 Phillies and the 2010 Giants?
Hint: He was named the Most Outstanding Player of
the 1996 College World Series despite being on the team that lost the final
game.
Hint: Two years later he won the Golden Spikes
award.
Twint: Despite hitting only .209, the worst full
season of his career, he made a little history by having the last hit in
Veterans Stadium.
A. PAT BURRELL (1996 College World Series;
1998 Golden Spikes Award;
Last hit at Vet 29-Sep-2003)
FCR - Alex Kaufman,
Cleveland, OH
Incorrect
answers: Hunter Pence, Kevin Frandsen, Rocco
Baldelli, Aaron Rowand, Randy Winn
FRIDAY FRIDAY
Q. What pitcher has more career complete
games than any other in Seattle Mariners history?
Hint: He started and won two games of the 1989
World Series.
Hint: In that same Series, he broke a ten-year
hitless streak for American League pitchers with a two-RBI double.
Twint: In his only All Star Game appearance he faced
three batters and put down, in order, Mike Scioscia, Ozzie Smith and Tony Gwynn.
A. MIKE MOORE (56 CG
1986; 1989 WS; Game 4 double, prior hit 1979 WS Tim Stoddard b7
triple; t5 1989 ASG)
FCR - Timothy Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect
answers: Randy Johnson, Dave Stewart, Mark
Langston, Chris Bosio, Jamie Moyer, Rick Honeycutt, Chris Young, Dave Stieb
SATURDAY
Q. Whom did David Ortiz pass to become the
all-time leader for hits by a designated hitter?
Hint: He was first White Sox player to hit over
100 RBI at age 23 (or younger).
Hint: He hit an historic walk-off homer against
the Brewers in 1984.
Twint: He was the right fielder for the 1983 "Winning
Ugly" Chicago White Sox.
A. HAROLD
BAINES (Ortiz with 1,689 H 10-Jul-2013; 1982 105 RBI age 23,
later matched by the Big Hurt and Robin Ventura in 1991; 25th
inning HR to end the longest [by time/8h 6m] game in MLB history 8-May-1984; 1983 CWS “Winning Ugly” for
their style of play)
FCR - Stephen Meyerson, Brooklyn, NY
Incorrect
answers: Frank Thomas, Jim Thome, Edgar
Martinez, Hal McRae, Don Baylor
SATURDAY SATURDAY
Q. Who did Andre Dawson say was the
toughest competitor he ever saw in baseball?
Hint: A Pirate scout once said that only he and
Roberto Clemente had an arm rated the "absolute best".
Hint: Despite his arm and excellent defensive
prowess, he never won a Gold Glove in his seventeen years in the majors.
Twint: He was drafted out of high school in New York
City at age nineteen, acted as his own agent and negotiated a very handsome
contract.
Twint: He’s a Double-Unique.
A. SHAWON DUNSTON (Ratings according to
PIT scout Howie Haak in 1997; He and Ozzie Smith had considerable career
overlap, perhaps explaining his lack of a GG; $100,000 salary in his rookie
season; D-U means no one in major league history has ever had his first name OR
his last name.)
FCR - Scott Schleifer,
Suffern, NY
Incorrect
answers: Dave Parker, Jose Guillen,
Ellis Valentine
SUNDAY
Q. Who is the only Los Angeles Dodger pitcher
to lead the league in both shutouts and complete games but never make the
All-Star Game?
Hint: In his one season with the Detroit Tigers
he led the American League in games started, and led the majors with fifteen
losses.
Hint: In game four, he out-dueled Dave Stewart to
secure the Dodgers' (not the A's) third (Not only) victory in the 1988 World
Series.
Twint: He was drafted as the first overall pick in
two drafts – the second with the Yankees.
But they forgot to put his name on the "protected players list"
and he was taken by the A's in the free agent compensation draft.
Twint: As a result, a livid George Steinbrenner fired
general manager Murry Cook.
A. TIM BELCHER
(8SHO/10CG 1989; 1994 7-15 stats; Game 4 1988WS; draft
and protected players mix up story)
FCR - Jim Bigham, North Riverside, IL
Incorrect
answers: Johnny Podres, Rick Honeycutt,
Bob Welch, Claude Osteen, Mike Moore
SUNDAY SUNDAY
Q. Who is the head coach of the University
of Nebraska baseball team?
Hint: The city that is home to the university is almost
twenty times larger than his home town.
Hint: Since 1930, only Ichiro has had more hits
in a season.
Hint: He won three Gold Gloves in the big
leagues.
Twint: According to ESPN, his 2000 season was 15th
in the top "Angels Moments".
Twint: He’s also a Double-Unique.
A. DARIN ERSTAD (Lincoln, NE pop. 268,738,
Jamestown, ND pop. 15,427
[but houses the world’s largest statue of a buffalo]; U. of Nebraska achievements;
AL GGs 2000,2002,
2004; 240 H in 2000, Wade Boggs had 240 in
1985; ESPN story)
FCR - Cody Christie, West Fargo, ND
Incorrect
answers: Carney Lansford, Ellis
Valentine, George Sisler, George Kell, Wade Boggs
WEEKLY THEME – First
overall draft picks who played in the World Series.
Player Drafted
#1 WS
Strawberry 1980 3 WS Rings 1986 NYM
v BOS, 1996
NYY v ATL, 1999
NYY v ATL
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – No one
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Players with 400 home runs and more walks than strikeouts
- Third
basemen who were league MVPs
Wednesday
- #1
overall draft picks who have won major year-end awards
- #1
overall draft picks who have played on the All-Star team
- Building
a team, position by position with first round draft picks
- #1
overall draft picks- how about becoming a post-season series MVP
Sunday - First-overall
draft picks to win a World Series
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