MONDAY
Q. Who was the first pitcher to strike out
18 batters in a 9-inning game?
Hint: He was the first to throw the same number
of strikeouts in a game as years in his age.
Hint: In the first 11 All-Star games, he was the
only American league starting pitcher to use his given name.
Hint: He incorporated himself to decrease his tax
burden.
- 18 K 02-Oct-1938
- 17 K @ age 17 13-Sep-1936
- Incorporated as Ro-Fel, Inc.
FCR - Madison McEntire, Bryant, Arkansas
Incorrect answers: Charlie Sweeney, Roger Clemens, Mel Harder
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the first catcher to win the
Most Valuable Player Award in the League Championship Series and World Series
in the same year?
Hint: Besides Mickey Cochrane, no other catcher
has ever had 100 runs, 100 base-on-balls and 100 RBI in the same season.
Hint: He caught no-hitters in each league.
- NLCS MVP & WS MVP 1982
- 1979 = 101 R, 121 BB*, 112 RBI
- No-hitters (AL = Jim
Colborn of KCR
vs. TEX 14-May-1977; NL
= Bob
Forsch of STL
over MON 26-Sep-1983)
*Led league
FCR - Richard Tepedino, Hillsborough, New Jersey
Incorrect
answers: Buster Posey, Ivan Rodriguez,
Johnny Bench, Joe Mauer, Gene Tenace
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the first Los Angeles Dodger
pitcher to win a Gold Glove?
Hint: He once surrendered a home run to Willie
Stargell that sailed completely out of Dodger Stadium.
Hint: He and Dave McNally made baseball history.
- GG’s 1974,
75
- Messersmith and McNally
were two early key forces in erasing MLB’s reserve clause, eventually leading
to true free agency for
players.
FCR - Bob Kimball, Sutton, Massachusetts
Incorrect
answers: Bill Singer
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who won the first-ever League
Championship Series MVP?
Hint: His most recent LCS was tainted by a play
by a fan.
Hint: He was voted Manager of the Year after his
very first season as a manager.
Hint: Hint middle name is merely an initial.
- 1977
NLCS MVP
- Won 103 games, but not the division, with SFG in 1993.
- Full, given name = Johnnie B.
Baker
FCR - Rick Steinheiser, Gilbert, Arizona
Incorrect
answers: Dave Roberts, Davey Johnson,
Moises Alou
THURSDAY
Q. What journeyman relief pitcher, with
over 300 mound appearances on his MLB résumé, vaulted to prominence with his 6th
team in the postseason of his 11th year?
Hint: He never led the league in any category,
but the brain trust at MLB’s television channel ranked him as the most coveted
reliever in the game.
Hint: His WAR on his last team ranked him 12th
with them.
Hint: “FanGraphs” reveals that one of the
league’s top 3 offensive players insisted on being on his team so as not to
have to face him.
- W/CLE as of 01-Aug-2017
- Edwin Encarnacion made the comment about not
wanting to face him anymore.
FCR - Jeff Fink, Howell, New Jersey
Incorrect
answers: Moe Drabowski, Roberto
Hernandez, Stu Miller
FRIDAY
Q. What Hall of Famer was once sold for
$200 and another player?
Hint: Contemporaries considered him to be the
best National League shortstop after Honus Wagner.
Hint: His twin sister died at an early age,
leaving him an only child.
Hint: If he was ever going to be the best, he
left nothing to chance. (You should need no hint beyond this one.)
- George Tebeau,
the manager of the Denver Grizzlies of the Western League sold Tinker to the Great
Falls Indians of the Montana
State League in June of 1900. Great
Falls then sold Tinker to the Helena
Senators, also in the Montana State League, for $200 later in the season
due to the team's financial insolvency.
- Had a key role in the classic poem “Baseball’s
Sad Lexicon”.
FCR - Charles
P. Riordan, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Incorrect
answers: Johnny Evers, Frank Chance,
Ernie Banks
MCCV
Q. What former Penn State quarterback had a
rookie season characterized by 152 straight games played without a home run,
then in the season’s penultimate game, homered for the last round-tripper ever
hit by his franchise in that city?
Hint: He played 5 more years in the majors only
to end up with a lackluster career batting average that exactly matched the one
in his rookie season.
Hint: After he retired as a Tiger, he was
inducted into the Hall of Fame of his old team.
- Was briefly on the football team at Penn State
in 1948 in spring practice. Rookie year with SLB was 1953
and homered on 26-Sep
in a loss.
- .219 for 1953; .219 for career 1953-58.
- Finished his baseball career as the coach for
the Towson
University Tigers in suburban Baltimore.
Per Wiki: “He was a 1996 honoree into the Orioles
Hall of Fame, inducted with Jerry
Hoffberger and Cal Ripken,
Sr. These three men were so well thought of in Baltimore that a crowd of
400 showed up at the luncheon at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel.”
Note: MCCV = TGIF (Merci cieux c’est
vendredi) Also often rendered DMCV (Dieu
merci c’est vendredi)
FCR - Nobody
Incorrect
answers: Jim Leyland, Robert Fick, Tom
Brookins, Burt Hooton, Dave Bancroft, Ernie Banks
SATURDAY
Q. Which future World Series-winning
manager hit a home run on the first pitch of his first major league at-bat?
Hint: He managed a victory against a manager who
was also his team’s owner.
Hint: As a player, he and a teammate, a Hall of
Famer to be, each hit a solo, inside-the-park home run in the same game.
Hint: As a manager, he was once traded for an
active player.
- Led PIT over BAL in 1979 WS; MLB
debut HR 12-Apr-1955
w/MLN off Gerry
Staley of CIN.
- ATL, managed for 1 G by owner Ted
Turner on 11-May-1977,
lost to Tanner’s PIT 2-1.
- Tanner and Ernie
Banks w/IPHR’s 18-Jul-1957.
- Traded by OAK to PIT for Manny
Sanguillen + $100,000 on 05-Nov-1976.
FCR - Kevin Johnson, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Incorrect
answers: Casey Stengel, George Stallings
SUNDAY
Q. In the not-quite-yet-great pitching
history of the Colorado Rockies, who is their all-time leader in innings
pitched, games started, batters faced, and… yes, losses?
Hint: So dominant a pitcher was he as a teenager,
that in his entire high school pitching career, he surrendered exactly one home
run. It was future major league All-Star
Kevin Youkilis who did the honors.
Hint: He played in the Futures Game then later was
selected to the NL All-Star team.
Hint: He finished his decade-long career above
league average in spite of pitching in the majors’ least friendly park to
pitchers, averaging just shy of 200 innings per season.
- Cook was also the Rockies' career win leader
until passed by Jorge De La Rosa in 2015.
- Cook played for Hamilton High School in
Hamilton Ohio; Youk played for neighboring Sycamore High School both schools in the northern Cincinnati suburbs.
- Career ERA+ = 103
- Career IP 162-game average = 199
FCR
- Chaunce Venuto, Tooele, Utah
Incorrect answers: Jorge de la Rosa,
Jeff Francis, Ubaldo Jimenez
WEEKLY THEME – ??
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – No one
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Wed - Debuted
as teens, became All Stars and played in the WS.
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