Q. Who is the
only Cy Young Award winner who managed to get his brother elected to the Hall
of Fame in Cooperstown?
Hint: He [the HOF
brother] surrendered Hank Aaron’s first American League home run.
Hint: His son is a
professional golfer who has won a tournament on the PGA Tour.
FCR - Jim Casey, Savannah
Incorrect guesses: Gaylord
Perry, Joe Niekro, Wes Ferrell, Vic Raschi, Ken Brett, Mike Maddux
TUESDAY
Q. What former
Tiger went on to pitch for a couple of avian teams?
Hint: He has World
Series championship rings from two different teams. Had he stayed longer with either one, he’d
have even more.
Hint: He threw the
first-ever regular-season pitch in Sky Dome.
Hint: Hall of
Famers Wade Boggs, Tim Raines and Phil Niekro were teammates.
- Played for the Clemson Tigers, the Toronto
Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles.
- Got a ring w/TOR in 1992. They won again the next year. Got a ring w/NYY in 1996. They won again in 1998, ‘99 & 2000.
FCR - Walt
Cherniak, Woodbine, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: David Wells, Jack Morris, Doyle Alexander, Al
Leiter
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the only Montreal Expo to amass
20 pitching wins in a season?
Hint: Among his teammates in the majors were players
whose nicknames were Delay, Steady and Hustle.
Hint: He has two World Series game wins to his
credit, but no World Series ring.
- 20-11 in 1978s
- Was a teammate of Mike “The Human Rain Delay” Hargrove w/CLE in 1980; of “Steady” Eddie Murray w/BAL in 1982; and of Pete “Charlie Hustle” Rose w/CIN 1971-73.
FCR - Naftali Greenwood, Kiryat, Israel
Incorrect
guesses: Jim Kaat, Dennis Martinez,
Pedro Martinez, Bill Stoneman, Steve Rogers, Fergie Jenkins, Bryn Smith,
Dave McNally, Bartolo Colon
THURSDAY
Q. What former landlocked Commodore was the
only pitcher to be the Yankees' lone representative on an All-Star team?
Hint: It was the only All-Star selection of his
19-year major league career. (He didn’t get into the game.)
Hint: As a Yankee, he once surrendered four home
runs in an inning.
Hint: He became an agent after he retired,
representing Frank Thomas, Todd Helton and Lance Berkman, among others.
- 02-May-1992, top of the 5th. His teammates scores 4 times in the bottom of
the 6th, but it wasn’t enough.
FCR - Joseph Cosgriff, New York City
Incorrect
guesses: Randy Johnson, Chase Wright,
Todd Stottlemyre, Steve Hamilton
FRIDAY
Q. Who was teaching in high school when he
was scouted and signed to a major league contract?
Hint: Donn Clendenon, Cookie Rojas, Dusty Baker
and Richie Zisk were among his teammates in his decade-plus major league career.
Hint: He was born in Pennsylvania, but attended
high school and college in California.
Hint: He was the pitching coach for the Atlanta
Braves’ affiliate in the Carolina League for the first 10 years of that team’s
existence.
- Was w/Clendenon w/PIT 1967-68; W/Rojas w/KCR 1971-75; W/Baker w/ATL in 1975; & W/Zisk w/CHW in 1977
FCR - Bill Carle, Lee’s Summit, Missouri
Incorrect
guesses: Jim Morris, Larry Jaster
SATURDAY
Q. Who suffered a strained right calf
muscle, sending him to the Disabled List, when he jumped out of his bullpen
chair to join an on-field fight?
Hint: Eight years earlier, he had led his league
in pitching appearances. His opposite
number—the pitching appearances leader in the other league—only had two more,
yet also brought home the league MVP and a World Series Championship.
Hint: Former major leaguer Chris Denorfia is
married to his daughter.
- 78 G w/CIN led the NL in 1984; DET’s Guillermo “Willie”
Hernandez appeared in 80 G that same season.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Steve Bedrosian
SUNDAY
Q. Who tied Camilo Pascual’s Twins’ record
for most strikeouts in a game?
Hint: His sole career home run came off Phil
Niekro.
Hint: Even though he was born in Iowa and died in
Michigan, he grew up in the town that hosts the arm wrestling championships.
- 15 K’s on 26-Jun-1973, tying Pascual’s 15 on 19-Jul-1961. Current holder is Johan Santana w/17 on 19-Aug-2007.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Joe Niekro, Dave Boswell, Jim
Merritt, Bill Hands, Johan Santana, Jim Kaat
WEEKLY THEME – Losing
pitcher in a Nolan Ryan no-hitter
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Ain’t no such person this week!
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Brothers
with the most wins between them.
- Pitchers
with both 20 wins and a World Series appearance for 3 consecutive seasons.
- Older
brothers who won fewer games than their younger siblings.
Wed - Pitchers
named Jim
- Pitchers
who have led their teams in season wins whose last names end in "y".
Sen - Pitchers
who were teammates of Zoilo Versalles
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