MONDAY
Q. Whose
curmudgeonly on-air style limited his appearance to a single televised pre- and
post-game broadcast during the 2015 World Series?
Hint: Carl
Yastrzemski trails him by almost 2,000 as the career leader in plate
appearances.
Hint: Ichiro
tied (and almost broke) his record of ten 200-hit seasons.
Twint: He
is one of only eight players to cross home plate safely in a game 2,000 times.
A. PETE
ROSE
- It
was for the only game the Mets won, Game
3, 30-Oct-2015
- Rose
= 15,890 PA; Yaz =
13,992
- Ichiro
fell a mere 16 hits short of doing it for an 11th season w/184 H in
2011
- 2,165, good for 6th
place, but trailing the leader, Rickey
Henderson, by over 100
FCR - Mark
Mapes, Madison, WI
TUESDAY
Q. What
Hall of Famer was the first Chicago Cubs player to win the Rookie of the Year
Award?
Hint: The
second one, though not a Hall of Famer, was right behind him.
Hint: He
was the last player hit-by-pitch by Sandy Koufax before the Dodgers moved into
Dodger Stadium.
Twint: Only
he, Willie
Mays and Ernie
Banks did Kirby Puckett list as his on-field heroes during Puckett’s Hall
of Fame induction speech.
- HBP 20-Sep-1961
FCR - J.R.
Richardson, Clarksville, MD
Incorrect answers: Ernie Banks, Ken Hunt, Ken Hubbs, Ryne
Sandberg, Ron Santo
TUESDAY TWICE
Q. Who
was the first American League MVP to wear glasses while playing in the year he
won?
Hint: He
is the only player to win more home run titles for the White Sox than Bill
Melton.
Hint: He
once said, "I'll play first, third, left; I'll play anywhere except
Philadelphia."
Twint: He
was traded for Jim Essian twice in a six-month span.
A. DICK
ALLEN
- AL MVP
1972 (Led the league in HR, RBI, BB, SLG, OBP, OPS & OPS+) [FURTHER
RESEARCH REVEALS THAT ZOIILO VERSALLES WAS LIKELY BESPECTACLED
IN HIS 1965
MVP YEAR. EVEN FURTHER RESEARCH
SHOWS THAT 1965 OCCURRED BEFORE 1972. Sadly, he doesn’t fit our theme.]
-
HR titles in 1972 & ’74 (Melton
only won once—1971)
- Jim
Essian trades 03-Dec-1974 & 05-May-1975 (Other players were involved.)
FCR - Charlie
Vascellaro, Baltimore, MD
Incorrect answers: Greg Luzinski, Ron Kittle
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
is the first catcher to catch 100 games in fifteen seasons?
Hint: He
stopped Johnny Bench's ten-year run of National League Gold Glove awards at
catcher.
Hint: He
won a Gold Glove for all three teams he played for.
Twint: His
son won four Gold Glove Awards.
A. BOB
BOONE
- 15
total, 1973-89,
- GG
1979-89 for PHI; 1982, 86-88 for CAL; 1989 for KCR
- Bret
Boone won 1998 CC for CIN; 2002-04 for SEA
FCR - Bill
Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
Incorrect answers: Gary Carter, Jim Sundberg, Ivan Rodriguez,
Ted Simmons, Benito Santiago, Tony Pena, Carlton Fisk
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
was the first native of Connecticut to receive a Hall of Fame vote?
Hint: A
Hall of Fame opposing manager once said of him, “In a pinch he hits better than
anybody in our league outside of Cobb.”
Hint: He
received MVP votes for the first four years that any kind of MVP award existed.
Hint: In
one six-year stretch, he played in the World Series five times; on the winning
side four.
Twint: If
things were divided evenly, he’d have been worth a hypothetical $25,000.
Twint: Frank Chance called him
the best shortstop he had ever seen, including Honus
Wagner.
A. JACK
BARRY
- Received
HOF votes in 1938 & ‘39
- Quote
from Hughie
Jennings
- Received MVP votes 1911-14
- In the World Series 1910, ’11, ’13,
’14 & ’15, winning all but fluky 1914
- Played
SS in what was called “The
$100,000 Infield” which was comprised of Eddie Collins
@ 2b, Frank
Baker @ 3b & Stuffy
McInnis @ 1b. Collins
and Baker
are in the Hall
of Fame.
FCR - Paul
Goodson, Cheyenne, WY
Incorrect answers: Frank Baker, Eddie Collins, Roger Connor, Jim
O’Rourke
THURSDAY
Q. What
do-wop/soul/motown-type recording artist once led the National League in
doubles?
Hint: He
was the first batter Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven ever faced in the majors.
Hint: He
homered.
Hint: Blyleven
still got the win.
Twint: A
contemporary major leaguer had a name very similar to his. They played the same positions and were (and are)
often mistaken for each other.
Twint: When
the Braves made plans to move to Atlanta, he said publicly that he’d play with
the team but would not move his family south.
A. LEE
MAYE
- Led
the NL w/44 2b in 1964. His musical
recording career
happened before, during & after his major league career. He usually sang under his full name Arthur
Lee Maye.
- Blyleven’s
debut: 05-Jun-1970
- Lee Andrew May enjoyed a major league
career (1965-82) very similar to Maye’s
(1959‑71).
FCR - Mark
DeLodovico, Rockville, MD
Incorrect answers: Cesar Tovar
THURSDAY TWICE
Q. Who
was the first Los Angeles Dodger to hit three home runs in a single game?
Hint: The
first of those was the first inside-the-park homer ever hit in the L.A.
Coliseum.
Hint: The
third one was an eleventh-inning walk-off.
Hint: The
SoCal press sometimes referred to him as “Big D”.
Twint: He
was once a Saint and is now fittingly a pastor in
his hometown of Oklahoma City.
Twint: His
record for consecutive errorless outfield games wasn’t broken for 28 years.
A. DON
DEMETER
- 3-HR
day 21-Apr-1959
- Teammate
Don Drysdale owned the sobriquet “Big D” a little longer
- Played
for the St. Paul Saints 1957-58.
- Played
266 errorless OF games Sep-1962 to Jul-1965, broken by Darren Lewis 16‑Jul‑1993.
FCR - Mark
Kanter, Portsmouth, RI
Incorrect answers: Willie Davis, Don Drysdale, Duke Snider,
Wally Moon, Tommy Davis, Dusty Baker
THURSDAY THRICE
Q. Who
managed the Tigers between Les Moss and Sparky Anderson?
Hint: He
played on three World Series-winning teams in the 1960’s despite a postseason
batting average of .133.
Hint: He
served the Tigers as coach for 24 seasons, eighteen at first base and six years
at third base.
Twint: He
led the Western League with 14 triples one season.
Twint: He
was once traded for an ugly bird
- Was
manager for two games, 12-Jun-1979
& 13-Jun-1979
and won both.
- 1963,
’65 Dodgers & 1968 Tigers
- Tigers’
coach 1972-95; 19 years as first-base coach and 5 years as third-base coach
- Triples
crown playing for Class A Pueblo in 1957
- Traded
by the Dodgers to the Tigers for Phil
“The Vulture” Regan 15-Dec-1965
FCR - Maxwell
Kates, Toronto, ON
Incorrect answers: Alan Trammel, Ralph Houk, Alex Grammas
FRIDAY
Q. Who
replaced Alvin Dark as manager, guiding that team to an
18-41 record to finish the season?
Hint: He
himself was replaced by Ken Aspromonte the
next year.
Hint: Right
after his debut as a player, his missed three years and most of a fourth to
military service.
Hint: He
then had a very productive decade as a middle infielder.
Hint: An
All-Star in the minors, he played for teams as varied as the Cloverleafs and
the Leafs.
Twint: He
compiled a respectable record of 2,185-1,987 over 33 seasons as a skipper in
the minors.
Twint: That
total ranks him fourth all-time for minor league victories as a manager.
Twint: He
retired for good after winning the Florida State League championship for the
Lakeland Tigers.
A. JOHNNY
LIPON
- Managed
CLE
during the 1971 season.
- Minor league All-Star in 1941 when
he led the Michigan State League with 176 hits and
35 HR’s for the Muskegon Reds, and tied for the league lead with 115
RBI. He was named the league's all-star shortstop.
- He
was a minor league manager in the Indians’, Pirates’ and Tigers’ systems from
1959 thru 1992.
FCR - Jim
Turner, Tallahassee, FL
Incorrect answers:
END-OF-THE-WORKWEEK WORKOUT
Q. Who
is the only Detroit Tiger to lead the majors in triples between Barney McCosky in
1940 and Curtis Granderson in 2007?
Hint: He
did it in his rookie season.
Hint: Twice
he finished as high as third in the AL in stolen bases against tough
competition though: It was Luis Aparicio
who led both those years.
Twint: His
unwanted record of most strikeouts by a batter in a single season was broken by
Harmon
Killebrew the year after he set it.
Twint: His
first major league hit was home run off Jim
Perry.
A. JAKE
WOOD
- Led
AL in 3b w/14 in 1961
- 3rd
in AL SB in 1961, ‘62
- 141
K in 1962
- 1st
H 11-Apr-1961
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Rockville, MD
Incorrect answers: Hoot Evers, Dick Wakefield, Dick McAuliffe,
Jim Northrup, Ron LeFlore, Harvey Kuenn
SATURDAY
Q. Who’s
first major league hit came when hit pinch-hit for Hall of Famer Waite Hoyt?
Hint: It
came in the first loss during the first season the Yankees won a pennant.
Hint: In
spite of a .316 career batting average, he has never received a single Hall of
Fame vote.
Twint: He
is buried where more major leaguers are interred than in any other city.
Twint: He
is included in virtually every fantasy baseball team that is animal-based.
-1st H 14-Apr-1921
- Not
H of F eligible with only 393 career AB’s
- Buried
in Colma, California
FCR - Dave
Serota, Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: Wally Pipp, Lloyd Waner, Bob Meusel ,
Roger Peckinpaugh, Earle Combs
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who
was the last former Brooklyn player to play on a Canadian expansion team?
Hint: He
was not on the team, however, for their postseason celebrations.*
Hint: When
he was with Cleveland, he hit two triples in a game, becoming the first Indians
batter to do so in more than five seasons.
Hint: He
is a native of Venezuela, but went to a Dominican high school.
- Played
20 games for the Brooklyn
Cyclones of the A-level New
York-Pennsylvania League at the end of the 2007 season.
- Played
in 91 G for TOR
in 2015 with a line of .273/.321/.372 and did not make the postseason roster [*CORRECTION: WAS ON ALDS AND ALCS ROSTERS.]
- Two
3b on 04-Aug-2012;
Josh
Barfield had hit 2 in a G on 07-May-2007
- Attended
High School: Dr. Domingo Badarraco Bermudez
in Venezuela
FCR - No
one
Incorrect answers: Sandy Amoros
SUNDAY
Q. Which
New York Mets player got his final career hit on the last day of play in 1994,
just before the work stoppage settled over the majors like a fetid miasma?
Hint: During
his brief stint with the Orioles, he hit his first major league home run off
Jack Morris.
Hint: His
father had six RBI in two sips of coffee as a Chicago Cub.
Twint: He
played every position in the bigs except centerfielder and pitcher.
Twint: He
passed away earlier this year after a ten-year fight with leukemia.
- Last
H 11-Aug-1994
- 1st
HR 12-Sep-1990
- D.
01-Mar-2015
FCR - Paul
Goodson, Cheyenne, WY
Incorrect answers: Kevin McReynolds, Howard Johnson
WEEKLY THEME – Players with a run
scored in a major league game where their teams were no-hit (in the Retrosheet
era)
Player Game No-Hit
by How scored …
Allen 29-Jul-1968 George
Culver E > E > FC >
Sac
Barry 24-Apr-1917 George
Mogridge BB > Sac > Sac
Boone 19-Sep-1986 Joe
Cowley BB > BB >
Sac > Sac
Carrera 27-Jul-2011 Ervin
Santana E > SB > FC
> Sac
Demeter 17-May-1963 Don Nottebart E > E > Sac > Sac
Hawks 13-Sep-1925 Dazzy
Vance E > E > Sac
Lipon 01-Jul-1951 Bob
Feller E > SB
> E > Sac
Maye 25-Aug-1967 Dean
Chance BB > BB > E
> WP
McKnight 08-Sep-1993 Darryl Kile BB > WP > E
Rose 23-Apr-1964 Ken Johnson* E > E > FC > E
Tracewski 30-Apr-1967 Steve
Barber* BB PR for BB >
BB > Sac > WP
Williams 28-Jul-1976 Blue Moon
Odom** BB > BB > FC > E
Wood 30-Apr-1967 Stu
Miller* BB > BB
PR > WP > FC
*Lost game
**Relieved in 6th by Francisco
Barrios
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme –
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - National Leaguers
who played the most consecutive games (say 600 or more)
Tuesday - Players
who have broken up multiple no-hitters. (i.e.,
were the only players on their teams to get hits in those games)
- NL ROY in the
1960's
- Next wild
theme guess: Players who were the only player on their team with a hit in a
game in which they got at least 3 hits.
Wed - Chicago players who
hit at least 30 homeruns in a season
Saturday - Pinch
hitters
Sunday - All
have nicknames involving birds for Thanksgiving
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