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/
Horsehide Trivia home page: https://sites.google.com/site/tnfotobbpics/home/horsehide-trivia
Rk
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Name
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Yrs
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From
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To
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Age
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1
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11
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1920
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1932
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25-37
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2
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8
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1998
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2007
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22-31
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3
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8
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1993
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2004
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28-39
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4
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8
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1959
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1970
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23-34
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5
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8
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1957
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1973
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23-39
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6
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7
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1996
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2003
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27-34
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7
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7
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1993
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2000
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23-30
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8
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6
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2004
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2012
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24-32
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9
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6
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2003
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2010
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23-30
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10
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6
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1997
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2006
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26-35
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11
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6
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1987
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1999
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23-35
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12
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6
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1954
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1965
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23-34
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