MONDAY
Q. Which
Hall of Famer was the only player to amass 1,000 RBI during the 1970's?
Hint: A
former teammate of his was the next player closest.
Hint: He
was nicknamed "Hands" by his childhood friends due to his monumental
metacarpi.
Hint: He
remains the youngest player to homer in an All-Star game.
Twint: In
spite of a Hall of Fame career, multiple championships and an engaging
personality, he will never be the most famous baseball player from his home
state.
A. JOHNNY
BENCH
- 1,013
RBI 1970-79
- Tony Perez 954 RBI
1970-79
- Huge
hands, hallmark of many great catchers
- 1969 ASG;
21 Years 228 days
- Mickey
Mantle was also from Oklahoma
FCR - Duncan
Crowl, San Juan Capistrano, CA
Incorrect answers: Andruw Jones, Tony Perez, Willie Stargell,
Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Robin Yount
TUESDAY
Q. Who
holds the record for most consecutive errorless games by a first baseman in a
season?
Hint: He
is the only player to participate in the game Hank Aaron hit his 715th
home run and the game Pete Rose got his 4,192nd hit.
Hint: He
is the only player in the modern era to have three consecutive seasons with fewer
than 100 runs while collecting 200 hits.
Hint: And
he did it twice!
Twint: He
considered running for public office until he got publicity that he didn’t
want.
A. STEVE
GARVEY
- 159
G in 1984
- HR
#715 08-Apr-1974;
H# 4,192 11-Sep-1985*
- ≤
100 R / ≥ 200 H: 1974-76; 1978-80
- Let’s
just say that some private affairs became public
ones.
FCR - David
Krassin, New York, NY
* Although
MLB continues to recognize Cobb's final hit total as 4,191, thorough
independent, multiple-source research has revealed that 2 of Cobb's hits were
counted twice, leaving his final (otherworldly) total at 4,189. Rose broke that record against Reggie
Patterson with a 1b in the 1st inning of a game vs. CHC 08-Sep-1985. Rose finished with 4,256.
[That headline might read “Cobb, Cubs, corroboration!”]
Incorrect answers: Bill Buckner, Kevin Youkilis, Wes Parker,
Mike Lum, Joe Torre
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
was the last Alabama native to score a run in the All-Star game? (Excepting
Bo Jackson in 1989)
Hint: He
missed by one year being the first player ever on his franchise to win a Gold
Glove.
Hint: The
player who was first is now in the Hall of Fame.
Hint: He
replaced a Hall of Famer in his post-playing career.
Twint: This
in spite of his contralto voice.
A. OZZIE
SMITH
- 1983
ASG
- GG for SDP
1980
- Dave Winfield won GG in 1979 for SDP
- Became
the voice of “This Week
in Baseball” replacing legendary announcer Mel
Allen
- OK. Fair enough.
Perhaps it’s a proper tenor.
FCR - Doug
Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Tim McCarver, Billy Williams, Craig Biggio,
Henry Aaron
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What
hard-as-nails dude once made the Carolina League look like child’s play?
Hint: This
in spite of only being a 13th-round draft pick.
Hint: The
future A’s GM Billy Beane, after watching him in the minors, said, "(He)
is perfectly designed to play baseball… has no
concept of failure."
Twint: The first
season he played full-time in the majors, his team won its division by 21.5
games.
- In
1983 he led the Carolina
League in at-bats (525), runs (132), hits (188), triples 13), batting
average (.358) and stolen bases (with 105, a league record for 17 years)
- 1986 Mets, NL East
(BTW, that team also won the World Series)
FCR - Fred
Worth, Arkadelphia, AR
Incorrect answers: Scott Hatteberg, Andy Van Slyke, Don Baylor
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the only player on the 1992 World Series champion Blue Jays to win a league
MVP during his career?
Hint: In
one stretch, he piled up more than 90+ RBI’s in each of nine consecutive
seasons.
Hint: Only
one of those was under 100.
Hint: His
Hall of Fame teammates now include Craig and Greg.
Twint: No
other second baseman has more career home runs.
Twint: …or
career RBI’s.
A. JEFF
KENT
- MVP
1990
- 90+
RBI 1997-2005
- 93
RBI in 2003
- Biggio
and Maddux; Additional HOF teammates: Dave Winfield, Roberto Alomar, Eddie Murray
- 351
HR while playing 2nd base
- 1,413
RBI
FCR - Fred
Worth, Arkadelphia, AR
Incorrect answers: Roberto Alomar, Paul Molitor, Dave Winfield,
Joe Carter, Randy Johnson, Rickey Henderson, Fred McGriff, George Bell
FRIDAY
Q. What
former All-Star can often be seen on “The Housewives of Orange County”?
Hint: Only
three St. Louis Cardinals ever hit more home runs in a season than he did. They were all first basemen.
Hint: He
hit the last American League Opening Day grand slam of the 20th
century.
Hint: He
won more Gold Gloves than Devon White, Kirby Puckett or Carl Yastrzemski.
Twint: He
retired just shy of joining the 400-Home-Run Club.
A. JIM
EDMONDS
- 42
HR in 2000 & 2004; Only Mark
McGwire, Albert
Pujols & Johnny
Mize had more.
- OD
GSHR 02-Apr-1996
- 393
career HR
FCR - Bill
Carle Lee’s Summit, MO
Incorrect answers: Jack Clark, Keith Hernandez, Tino Martinez,
Albert Pujols
SATURDAY
Q. Who
can claim responsibility for the lowest point and highest point in recent
postseason action for the St. Louis Cardinals?
Hint: He
was originally called up to replace the production of a flagging World Series
hero.
Hint: In
spite of his slight frame, he was all-league in football for three years in
high school.
Twint: He
is the first ever Rainbow to play for the Cardinals.
A. KOLTON
WONG
- Inserted
as a pinch-runner in the 9th inning with his team behind by 2 runs,
he was picked off to end Game 4
of the 2013
World Series; He hit an improbable walk-off home run to beat the Giants in Game 2
of the 2014 NLCS
- Kapālama
High School, Honolulu, HI
- University of Hawaii;
debuted 16-Aug-2013
FCR - Neil
Bhaerman, Pittsburgh, PA
Incorrect answers: David Eckstein, Michal Wacha, Matt Carpenter,
Pete Kozma, Dane Iorg
SUNDAY
Q. What
former Yankee clinched an NLCS series win with a walk-off homer off a previous
NLCS MVP?
Hint: His
first major league hit was off that year’s Cy Young Award winner.
Hint: Because
of a signing bonus of almost $1 million, he became not a beaver, but a volcano,
a sun, a scorpion and a defender, among other things.
Twint: His
paternal grandparents were held in an internment camp in Colorado during World
War II.
Twint: He
met his wife, a dental assistant, after being hit by a pitch in the face in his
first ever game with a high-A team.
- W/NYY for 1 G 08-Jul-2013;
Hit a walk-off HR off Michael Wacha that won the NL pennant for SFG 16-Oct-2014. He’d only hit 22 HR’s in parts of 7 MLB
seasons.
- First
H off Brandon
Webb 19-Apr-2006
- Bonus
of $955,000 and so didn’t attend Oregon State; Minor
League record
- 1st
G w/San
Jose in 2004; Wife Rochelle
FCR - Doug
Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: David Justice, Lance Berkman, Jack Clark, Jim
Leyritz, Todd Pratt
LABOR DAY WEEKEND BONUS
Q. What
manager has had to be assured that his job is safe despite his team resting
only six games under .500?
Hint: Hardly
his fault as he has six players with negative WAR ratings and another at 0.0.
Hint: As
a player, he himself ranks in the top 20 all-time in WAR for the franchise he
now heads up.
Hint: Although
nominally avian himself, he never played for an ornithologically-eponymous
franchise.
Twint: Only
he and Matt Williams have won a Gold Glove Award in each league as third
basemen.
Twint: The
most similar player to him by far, according to the similarity scores method, is Ron Cey.
- Ranks
13th in WAR in CHW
history despite playing for them for only 10 of his 16 seasons in the majors.
1.
Ron Cey (960)
2.
Todd Zeile (916)
3.
Brian
Downing (895)
4.
Bobby
Bonilla (894)
5.
George
Hendrick (894)
6.
Sal Bando (892)
7.
Ken Boyer (886)
8.
Vinny
Castilla (882)
9.
Ken
Singleton (879)
10.
Fred Lynn (877)
FCR - Jason
Hoagland, Columbus, OH
Incorrect answers: Bucky Dent, Lloyd McClendon, Buck Showalter,
Jose Cardenal
WEEKLY THEME – Players who have a game-ending
hit that was hit fair and over the fence in a National League Championship
Series. All were home runs except
Ventura’s, which, because his teammates never allowed him to touch any base but
first, was ruled a single.
Player NLCS G Off Inning Result
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Dave
Washburn, Marietta, GA
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - Most World Series games
played in the 1970s
Wed - Hit a walk off home
run in a championship series and his team went on to win the World Series
- '13' -- each
player involved with the number 13
Thursday - People
who homered in the 1993 World Series
Sunday - Asian-American
playoff heroes
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I too was at the Ryan-Ventura game, along with all my kids and others! Robin, we're with you in spite of this gaffe!
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