MONDAY
Q. Who,
on the last day of regular-season play in 2010, saved the game for his team
that guaranteed them the division title?
Hint: In
so doing, he earned his league’s saves title.
Hint: Had
their opponents won that day, it is they
who would have won the division.
Hint: His
counterpart that day, Heath
Bell, with a save, could have walked away with the saves title.
Hint: He
is one of only seven players from his home state of New Hampshire to be named
to an All-Star team.
Twint: He
may have the strangest facial hair in major league history.
A. BRIAN
WILSON (03-Oct-2014;
48th S [also led MLB]; SDP; NH AS; Beard
pix)
FCR - Dean
Kloner, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Huston Street
OFF-TO-A-GOOD-START BONUS
Q. Who
was the first player to hit a home run in four consecutive League Championship
Series games?
Hint: He
was named MVP of that series even though his team didn’t win it.
Hint: Aeronautic
trot.
Twint: A
tremendous athlete in high school, he received sixty scholarship offers to play
football in college plus five for basketball but none for baseball.
A. JEFFREY
LEONARD (NLCS HRs 1987;
On HRs, would circle the bases as if an airplane.)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Carlos Beltran, Hank Aaron, Nelson Cruz,
Scott Brosius
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who
was the first National League pinch hitter to hit a World Series home run?
Hint: To
assuage the concern that Jackie Robinson would not get the usual handshake
after hitting his first home run after signing with the Dodgers, he stepped up
and did it, making it baseball's first black-white handshake.
Hint: A
native of Youngstown, Ohio where it was commonplace for athletes of all races
and creeds to play with each other, he explained the handshake that helped
break baseball’s color barrier by simply saying, "Our teammate hit a home
run so I shook his hand."
Hint: He
was one of the colorful players interviewed for Roger Kahn’s seminal book "Boys
of Summer".
Twint: "Shotgun"
A. GEORGE
SHUBA – passed away 29-Sep-2014 (Yogi
hit the first in the AL; Handshake’s role in history; Link to photo of the handshake
; Nicknamed
for his spraying hits into all parts of the outfield; "Boys of
Summer".)
FCR - Mark
Kanter, Portsmouth, RI
Incorrect answers: Carl Furillo, Dusty Rhodes, Pee Wee Reese,
Ralph Branca, Duke Snider, Andy Pafko
TUESDAY
Q. Who
is the only pitcher other than Walter Johnson to win an American League strikeout
title for the Senators?
Hint: His
father died the morning after watching him win Game One of the 1940 World
Series.
Hint: No
pitcher threw for more innings in a season in the 1930s than he did.
Twint: With
strange symmetry, he won Opening Day games for the St. Louis Browns in 1938-39,
then lost Opening Day games AGAINST the Browns in 1940-41.
A. BOBO
NEWSOM (113 K in 1942; WS W 02-Oct-1940;
392.2 IP in 1939; Wins for Browns: 19‑Apr‑1938
& 22-Apr-1939
then Losses to Browns: 16-Apr-1940
& 16‑Apr‑1941)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Camilio Pascual, Schoolboy Rowe
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
broke Jerry Lynch’s record for career pinch-hit home runs?
Hint: His
own record was recently surpassed by a Canadian.
Hint: Excellent
at drawing walks, his career on-base percentage of .355 dwarfed his lifetime .258
batting average.
Twint: Before
Alex Rodriguez, he was the last New York Yankee to hit two home runs in a
single inning.
A. CLIFF
JOHNSON (20 PH HR; Passed in 2010 by Matt
Stairs; 2 HR 30-Jun-1977
7th inning)
FCR -
Incorrect answers:
THURSDAY
Q. What
pitcher led the National League in appearances in the strike-shortened season
of 1995?
Hint: He
would appear in at least fifty games for that and each of the following eight
consecutive seasons that he played in the majors.
Hint: He
received a World Series share from his team in his last season in the majors
despite not playing in that Series.
Twint: He
would not play in the majors again.
A. CURT LESKANIC
(ALCS G#7 W 17‑Oct‑2004;
50+ G 1995-2004 [Did not play in 2002.] 2004 WS)
FCR - Scott
Matteson, Shawnee, KS
Incorrect answers: Brandon Puffer, Dennis Eckersley, Mike Timlin,
Rob Murphy, Eric Gagne, Mike Myers
FRIDAY
Q. The
Seattle Mariners franchise had been in the majors for over twenty years before
one of their pitchers got an RBI. Who
was he?
Hint: The
odyssey that was his major league career saw him play for eight different major
league teams in a twelve-year period.
Hint: He
was handed the ball to start the game 229 times, demonstrating the trust his
managers had in him (at least until he was traded or released).
Twint: His
father had also played in the majors.
A. OMAR
OLIVARES (RBI: 28-Aug-1997;
First Mariner game 06-Apr-1977;
Father Ed Olivares)
FCR - Jim
Berardinucci, Sewell, NJ
Incorrect answers: Mike Moore, Jaime Moyer, Eric Bedard, Freddy
Garcia, Mike Morgan
SATURDAY
Q. What
speedster collected at least two hits in ten of the first eleven games he
started in the majors.
Hint: Two
of his cousins are much more famous athletes, but in different professional
sports.
Hint: A
major league contemporary of his with nearly identical skills and the same last
name, is not, however, related.
Twint: In
the minors, he stole fifty bases in each of three consecutive seasons.
A. CURTIS
GOODWIN (MLB debut 02-Jun-1995;
Cousins NFL Hall of Famer Walter
Payton and NBA star Gary Payton;
Not related to Tom
Goodwin)
FCR - Josh
Sullivan, Tomball, TX
Incorrect answers: Billy Hamilton, Lonnie Smith, Ozzie Smith,
Vince Coleman, Mookie Wilson, Willie Wilson
PLAYOFF BONUS
Q. Who,
in 2007, broke the International League’s 95-year-old record for the longest
consecutive-games hitting streak?
Hint: His
43 games is still the standard.
Hint: Jack
Leliveldt was the previous record holder.
Twint: His
last name could be said to describe his origins.
A. BRANDON
WATSON ("Watts son" [We don’t actually know what area of Los
Angeles he was born in.])
FCR - Josh
Sullivan, Tomball, TX
Incorrect answers: Jimmy Rollins,
Rick Short
SUNDAY
Q. Who
was the first third baseman to be a first-round draft pick of the 1970s?
Hint: He
led the PCL in batting the year after his major league debut.
Hint: His
only National League home run was off Rookie of the Year Award winner Rick
Sutcliffe.
Hint: He
was the first ever Padre to take Sutcliffe deep.
Twint: He
played for the Hanshin Tigers after his major league career.
A. PAUL
DADE (1976 PCL
batting title: .363 for the 1976 Salt Lake
City Gulls; HR off Sutcliffe
25‑Jun‑1979)
FCR - Geehoon Hong, Bayside, NY
Incorrect answers: Bob Horner, Graig Nettles, Dave Roberts, Rick
Schu, Phil Nevin, Kurt Bevacqua
WRAP-UP BONUS
Q. What
middle reliever pitched for eleven major league teams during his twelve-year
major league career?
Hint: A
true baseball nomad, he also toiled for ten minor league teams during that same
period.
Hint: This
doesn’t even count the seven minor league team he pitched for prior to making
the big time.
Hint: He
was born in Ohio, attended high school in Michigan then went to college in
Kentucky.
Twint: Perhaps
all this was his destiny since he was born in the Year of the Pitcher.
A. RICK
WHITE
FCR - Josh
Sullivan, Tomball, TX
Incorrect answers: Brett Tomko, Mike Morgan
WEEKLY THEME – Players who wore
uniform #00 for more than one season
Player Teams/Years
Dade CLE (1977, 78, 79)
Goodwin CIN (1996, 97)
Johnson TOR (1985, 86)
Leonard SFG (1987, 88), MIL (88), SEA (89, 90)
Leskanic MIL (2000, 01)
Newsom WSH (1943, 46, 47)
Olivares STL (1993), PHI (95)
Watson WSN (2005, 06, 07), CIN (06)
White CLE (2004), PIT (05), CIN (06), PHI
(06)
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – FCR -Josh
Sullivan, Tomball, TX
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - 2010 playoff teams
who are in the playoffs this year
- Players with
awesome beards
Tuesday - MVPs
of past championship series who are playing in this year’s series
- Players who
played on playoff teams for both the Giants and the Dodgers
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