MONDAY
Q. What pitcher won 38 games by a score of
1-0?
Hint: He threw an additional 72 shutouts during
his storied career.
Hint: He is the only player to win both the
Chalmers and League MVP awards.
- 110 career shutouts, the all-time record
FCR - David de la Fuente, San Francisco
Incorrect answers: Christy Mathewson, Steve Carlton, Pete
Alexander, Cy Young, Nolan Ryan, Lefty Grove
TUESDAY
Q. Who is the only American League pitcher
to twice pitch 2 complete-game victories in a single day?
Hint: He assisted in the construction of the
original Comiskey Park by traveling to several other major league parks to get
construction ideas.
Hint: He is the last pitcher to win 40 games in a
season.
Hint: His career ERA is the most sterling of
all-time.
- 2 X 2 = 26-Sep-1905 and 29-Sep-1908
(Joe
McGinnity did it thrice in the
NL, all in the month of August 1903.)
- 40-15 in 1908 when his team only
won 88 that year. He also hit one of
their 3 (not a typo) home runs that season.
FCR: Kevin
Epstein, San Antonio
Incorrect
answers: Cy Young, Kid Nichols, Bobo
Gibson, Hoss Radbourn
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who is the only in the expansion era to
account for over 45% of his team’s victories in a single season?
Hint: He was the second National Leaguer to claim
a third Cy Young Award.
Hint: He leads all pitchers in major league
history in pickoffs.
- Carlton had 27 W, PHI had 59 =
46%
- He was also the first person to win 4 CYA.
- 145 career pickoffs. No one else even has 100.
FCR - David de la Fuente, San Francisco
Incorrect
answers: Tom Seaver, Clayton Kershaw,
Denny McLain
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Which 300-game winner started his career
as a reliever?
Hint: He won 121 games after turning 40.
Hint: He holds the National League career record for
wild pitches.
- Rookie in 1964, didn’t become a regular
started until 1967.
- He actually won 16 games in the season where
he was 46.
- 200 WP in the NL & another 26 in the AL
FCR - Bill Deane, Cooperstown
Incorrect
answers: Nolan Ryan, Dazzy Vance, Warren
Spahn, John Smoltz
THURSDAY
Q. Of the Hall of Famers native to the
state of Maryland, who is the oldest by birth?
Hint: He was the first 20th century pitcher
to earn 20 pitching victories in a season for the Braves.
Hint: Four years later, he lost more games that
year than has any other pitcher in the 20th century, or the 21st
for that matter.
Hint: He bought and ran a hotel in his hometown
after his playing days.
- B. 12-Apr-1876
- 20-17
in 1901
- 12-29 in 1905
FCR - Fred Worth, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Incorrect
answers: Johnny Sain, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, Addie Joss, Gaylord Perry
IN MEMORIAM
Q. What MLB team owner bought his team from
a businessman who was his direct competitor in the same industry?
Hint: He was recruited out of high school by his
hometown major league team.
Hint: He then played 2nd base in the
minor leagues of the team he later owned.
Hint: Among his teammates in the minors were
Charlie Lau, Coot Veal, Bert Shepard and Jose Valdivielso.
Hint: He is beloved in his hometown for making the
difficult decision to keep the major league team in place in spite of less-than-promising
economic conditions.
Hint: He is in the hockey Hall of Fame as he also
owned an NHL team. You’ll find his name
on the Stanley Cup.
- A pizza
mogul himself, he bought the Detroit Tigers from Tom
Monaghan for $85 million in August 1992.
- Minor
league career ended by injury.
- Owned the Detroit
Red Wings hockey team.
FCR - Barry Nelson, Guilderland, New York
Incorrect answers:
FRIDAY
Q. Whose 2,679 strikeouts are the most in
major league history by an American League left-handed pitcher?
Hint: With more than 1,000 plate appearances as a
batter, his first and only career home run was in the World Series.
Hint: He remains the only non-knuckle baller to
pitch more than 370 innings in a season since the Deadball Era.
Hint: He is the favorite player of the president
of SABR’s oldest chapter.
- He added another 153 with the Mets and Padres
at the end of his career. Frank
Tanana is a close 2nd w/2,669 and at 2,598, CC
Sabathia is within striking distance..
- WS HR 03-Oct-1968
off Nelson
Briles of STL.
- 376.0 IP in 1971 (Knuckleballer
Wilbur Wood floated 376.2 IP the next year.)
- Dave
Raglin, President of the Bob Davids
Chapter of the Society
of American Baseball Research, grew up a Tigers fan and is a founding and supporting
member of the Mayo Smith
Society.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect answers: Whitey Ford, Lefty Grove, Eddie Plank, Wilbur
Wood, Vida Blue, Hal Newhouser, Lefty Gomez
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the first Houston Colt 45 selected
as an All-Star?
Hint: He struck out Ted Williams, Moose Skowron, Jackie
Jensen and Mickey Mantle in All-Star competition—Williams on 3 pitches!
Hint: He once hit a 475-foot home run in the
minors.
Hint: A high-school rival and he were rookies on
the same team in the majors, but it was the other guy, who led the majors in
strikeouts, who was voted Rookie of the Year.
- ASG 1962
(DNP)
- K’ed Skowron,
Jensen
(That’s year’s MVP) & Williams
(That year’s batting champ.) in the 1958 ASG; Mantle
in ’68.
- Long HR hit 07-July 1955 at Syracuse’s
MacArthur
Stadium that helped secure a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
FCR - Timothy Doherty
Incorrect
answers: Jim Wynn, Hal Woodeshick, Don
Wilson, Bobby Shantz, Ken Johnson JR Richard, Joe Morgan
SUNDAY
Q. Who was the first pitcher to throw a
perfect 3-up, 3-down opening inning in a modern World Series game?
Hint: He was the first pitcher to win a 1-0 game
with his own extra-inning home run.
Hint: He and his brother were the first siblings
to play for the Red Sox (Americans).
Hint: Instead of a short nickname, his was long.
- Solo HR 03-Aug-1906 hit off Fred Glade
in the 10th
- Brother Ed
- “Long Tom” Hughes
FCR - Rick Fink, Edison, NJ
Incorrect
answers: Jack Morris, Cy Young, Wes
Ferrell
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers
with a 20-Loss, 200-strikeout season.
Player Year K’s L’s Team
ʺ 1979 208 20** ATL
*Led
league **Led majors
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Nobody
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Wed - List
of pitchers who won highest percentage of their team's games in one season.
- All-Time strikeout leaders
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