Monday, August 4, 2014

July 28-August 3, 2014 Hitters with six seasons of 40 or more home runs

MONDAY
Q.         Who was the first Boston Red Sox player to lead the league in home runs in consecutive seasons?
Hint:     The season prior to these years he led the majors in complete games, topping Pete Alexander by one.
A.         BABE RUTH (11 HR and 29 HR 1918-19; 35 CG 1917)
FCR -    Tim McCarthy, Washington, DC
Incorrect answers:  Ted Williams, Cy Young, Smoky Joe Wood

TUESDAY
Q.         Who is second on the career list for home runs hit off right-handed pitchers?
Hint:     53,775 for the home opener then an average of 7,396 for the next three games against the same team.
A.         HANK AARON (534 HR to Barry Bonds's 535; 8-Apr-1974 passed Babe Ruth with career HR #715 vs. LAD)
FCR -    Al Blumkin, Brooklyn, NY
Incorrect answers:  Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth, Harmon Killebrew, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Ken Griffey, Jr.

WEDNESDAY
Q.         Who was the first player to win the Most Valuable Player Award in his first full season after winning the Rookie of the Year Award?
Hint:     Leo Durocher, his first manager, said of him, "He lit up a room when he came in. He was a joy to be around."
A.         WILLIE MAYS (1951 NL ROY, 1954 NL MVP [1952 & 53 seasons considerably shortened by military service.]; Durocher quote Mays SABR BIO)
FCR -    Don Masi, San Antonio, TX
Incorrect answers:  Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Barry Bonds, Ernie Banks., Albert Pujols, Cal Ripken, Ernie Banks, Fred Lynn, Ichiro Suzuki

MIDWEEK BONUS
Q.         Who was the most recent American League player to lead his league in home runs six different seasons?
Hint:     He is the only player to have more homers than Hammerin' Hank in the 1960s.
A.         HARMON KILLEBREW (Led 1959, 62-64, 67, 69, the most since Ruth led 12 seasons; 393 HR to Aaron's 375 1960-69)
FCR -    Kevin Warren, Briarcliff Manor, NY
Incorrect answers:  Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle

THURSDAY
Q.         Who was National League Rookie of the Year the same year Ichiro Suzuki took the award for the American League?
Hint:     He ended Barry Bond’s streak of four consecutive MVP awards.
A.         ALBERT PUJOLS (2001 NL ROY; 2005 MVP after Bonds’s 2001-4)
FCR -    Mark Linneman, Sacramento, CA
Incorrect answers:  Jeff Kent,

FRIDAY
Q.         Who is the only player to win an MVP at two different positions with two different teams?
Hint:     He is the last American League position player to win the award with a batting average under .300.
A.         ALEX RODRIGUEZ (MVP 2001 TEX SS, 2003 NYY 3B; BA .298 2003)
FCR -    Daniel Durany, Fort Worth, TX
Incorrect Answers:  Robin Yount, Hank Greenberg, Reggie Jackson, Jimmie Foxx

END-OF-THE-WEEK BONUS
Q.         Who has the most career home runs against left-handed pitching?
Hint:     A year to the day after his birth, Casey Stengel managed his last major league game.
A.         BARRY BONDS (227 HR v lefties; Born 24-Jul-1964, Box 24-Jul-1965, Stengel replaced by Wes Westrum the next day)
FCR -    Chuck Durante, Dover, DE
Incorrect answers:  Mark McGwire, Babe Ruth, Frank Thomas, Dave Winfield, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome

SATURDAY
Q.         Whose only World Series home run was a walk-off against Jay Howell?
Hint:     It would prove to be the only win for his team that Series.
A.         MARK McGWIRE (Game 3 18-Oct 1988; 1988 WS LAD beat OAK 4-1)
FCR -    Barry Nelson, Guilderland, NY
Incorrect answers:  Dave Kingman, Bill Mazeroski, Joe Carter

SABR 44 BONUS
Q.         Who holds the single season and career records for strikeouts as a Chicago Cub?
Hint:     He holds the National League record for hitting 300 home runs in the fewest number of games.
A.         SAMMY SOSA (174 K in 1997, 1,815 total; 300 HR in 1,052 G)
FCR -    Matt Dicker, Chicago, IL
Incorrect answers:  Ernie Banks, Dave Kingman, Mordecai Brown, Hack Wilson, Billy Williams

MIDWEEKEND BONUS
Q.         Who was the last American League player to win the MVP unanimously?
Hint:     In 2005 he ended the season tied with Mickey Mantle for career home runs.
A.         KEN GRIFFEY, JR. (1997 MVP with SEA; 536 HR)
FCR -    Bill Schneider, Hamilton, OH
Incorrect answers:  Alex Rodriguez, Frank Thomas, Roger Maris

SUNDAY
Q.         Whose career Philadelphia Phillies slugging percentage ranks behind only that of Chuck Klein?
Hint:     Only two Phillies have hit more home runs in a season than he did in his best year there, neither of them being Chuck Klein.
A.         JIM THOME (.541 over 3 seasons to Klein's .553 over 15; 47 HR in 2003 behind Mike Schmidt's 48 and Ryan Howard's 48 & 58)
FCR -    Tommy Bennett, New York, NY
Incorrect answers:  Mike Schmidt, Ryan Howard, Cy Williams, Dick Allen

END-OF-THE-WEEKEND BONUS
Q.         What 50th draft choice became the 50th player to hit 400 home runs?
Hint:     He set the National League high-water mark for home runs in a month by a rookie in his first full month in the Bigs.
A.         ADAM DUNN (2nd round of the 1989 Draft; 12 HR Aug-2001)
FCR -    Chaunce Venuto, Tooele, UT
Incorrect answers:  Babe Ruth, Ken Griffey, Jr., Albert Pujols, Mike Piazza, Rudy York, David SOrtiz

WEEKLY THEME – Sluggers six with 40-home-run seasons






First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – No one

Incorrect theme guesses:

Monday
               -  Players who went into the stands after hecklers
               -  Players who have been knocked unconscious on the field

Tuesday   -  Babe Ruth’s records
               -  Career top lifetime home run hitters.

Wednesday
               -  Players with eleven or more seasons with 30 home runs
               -  Players with the most HR's in the pre-steroid era
               -  Fifteen or more seasons with 20 home runs
               -  Top all-time home run hitters
               -  Top career HR leaders not tainted by [alleged] steroids violations
               -  Players who won a home run title the year they won an MVP

Thursday  -  Ten or more seasons with 100 runs batted in

Saturday – Top home runs hitters of all time.
               -  ML HR leaders for state of birth

Sunday    -  Guys immortalized in bronze at MLB ballparks
               -  Youngest players to reach 500 Home Runs

Horsehide Trivia blog has the questions and answers from this week as well as from previous weeks:  http://horsehidetrivia.blogspot.com/


Rk
Name
Yrs
From
To
Age
1
11
1920
1932
25-37
2
8
1998
2007
22-31
3
8
1993
2004
28-39
4
8
1959
1970
23-34
5
8
1957
1973
23-39
6
7
1996
2003
27-34
7
7
1993
2000
23-30
8
6
2004
2012
24-32
9
6
2003
2010
23-30
10
6
1997
2006
26-35
11
6
1987
1999
23-35
12
6
1954
1965
23-34




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