MONDAY {Wild card—question
& answer not related to this week’s theme.
[…and not at all a “Monday” question in the Horsehide Trivia sense of
the word.}
Q. Who was the
first eventual Hall of Famer to hit 2 home runs off another eventual Hall of
Fame pitcher in the same inning?
Hint: Baseball
Historian John Thorn calls him, “the greatest player of the period before
professional league play.”
Hint: He once led the
league in triples while playing for Boston.
Hint: His brother,
who was also his manager, was a decent player too.
FCR - Bill Helm,
Cottonwood, Arizona
Incorrect guesses: Harry
Wright, Ed Delahanty, Dan Brouthers, Andre Dawson
TUESDAY
Q. From the end
of World War II through the beginning of MLB expansion, nobody had more league
stolen base titles than Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio. Who had the second most?
Hint: He was the
first payer to win his league’s MVP in his first full season after winning his
league’s Rookie of the Year Award.
Hint: After his
career, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- In the span 1945-1962, Aparicio
had 7 (1956-62); Mays had 4 (1956-59). Minnie
Minoso, Maury Wills, Bob Dillinger & Bill Bruton each had 3.
- ROY
1951; MVP
1954 (He spent 1952-53 mostly in military
service.)
- PMOF conferred by President Barack Obama 24-Nov-2015.
FCR - Naftali Greenwood, Kiryat, Arba, Israel
Incorrect guesses: Jackie Robinson, Maury Wills, Curt Flood, Lou
Brock, Jackie Jensen, Stan Musial
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who had seven seasons where he walked at
least 100 times PLUS had 200 hits in each of those same years?
Hint: He was voted MVP in his third full season, even
though he’d received not a single vote for Rookie of the Year.
Hint: Much of his character was revealed when he
said, “I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, but I also love
the challenge of defeat.”
Hint: The first base he stole in the majors was
home plate.
- No other player had more than 4
such. In those years, 1927, 30, 31, 32,
34, 36 & 37, Gehrig averaged 210 H & 114 BB! [NOTE: Wade Boggs did it 1986-89.]
- MVP n 1927 (ROY not begun until 1947
but Gehrig would likely have lost to Heinie Manush in 1923, Al Simmons in 1924
and Mickey Cochrane in 1925, depending on when they determined his rookie
season was.)
- Stole home 24-Jun-1925
in his first full season. He had 5 more
SB that year and only 94 more in his 17-season career.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, Wade
Boggs, Ted Williams, Cal Ripken, Tony Gwynn, Willie Mays
THURSDAY
Q. What Hall of Famer has been an outspoken
advocate for electronic ball and strike calls for more than four years?
Hint: His team’s lead broadcast announcer seldom
announced his name without saying his first full name then his middle name then
last, especially for his first at-bat.
Hint: He played a different position in high
school and college than the one he dominated in the majors.
- Schmidt’s statement 10-Apr-2014
- It doesn’t take too much imagination to
remember Harry Kalas saying, “Michael Jack Schmidt”.
- Was a SS before joining PHI. (If you unfamiliar with what position he
played in the majors, please give me a call.)
FCR - Kevin Johnson, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Derek Jeter, Greg Maddux, Sandy
Koufax
FRIDAY
Q. Whose first six seasons managing in the
majors resulted in his teams finishing 10th, 9th, 8th,
8th, 6th and 9th?
Hint: His only career cycle came less than two
weeks after Wally Westlake’s.
Hint: Finished his career holding the record for
double plays by a right-hander at his position.
- Five seasons w/WSA: 1963-67 + 1st
year w/NYM. (Notice the SRO attendance the first time they played
the other expansion team!)
- Westlake’s cycle 14-Jun-1949;
Hodges’: 25-Jun-1949
- Had 1,733 DP @ 1B. Passed by Chris Chambliss in 1984.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Frank Robinson, Danny Murtaugh,
Casey Stengel, Joe Torre, Jackie Robinson, Wes Westrum
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the first American League
outfielder to play a full season without committing an error?
Hint: He’s the only outfielder ever recorded to
collect seven hits in one game.
Hint: He is the fifth player in American League history
to have eleven consecutive 20-home run seasons.
Hint: A future World-Series-champion manager was his
teammate on his first professional team.
- In 1965, his first season back with CLE, he
played all 162 G, 1,426⅓ IN, had 274 chances, threw out 9 baserunners and made
exactly zero errors.
- 7 H = 24-Jun1962. Added a BB for good measure. It was a marathon affair vs. NYY, going 22
innings.
- 20+ HR:
1956-66
- Played with Joe
Altobelli on the 1951
D-league Daytona Beach Islanders.
Altobelli skippered BAL
to a WS in 1983.
FCR - Naftali Greenwood, Kiryat, Arba, Israel
Incorrect
guesses: Rip Radcliff, Wilbert Robinson, Ted
Williams, Mickey Mantle
SUNDAY
Q. Who is the only other player to qualify
for this week’s theme?
Hint: He qualified only last week.
Hint: He hit his first career grand slam off
Stephen Strasburg.
Hint: He is not the most recent member of the
10-RBI-in-a-game club.
Hint: His double-digit major league ERA is envied
by very few.
Hint: He’s always got three doubles.
- [See theme]
- [See theme]
- Strasburg
GS = 25-Jun-2014
- Had 10 RBI on 06-Jun-2017. Mark Reynolds did it since, on 07-Jul-2018
- Gave up 2 R in 1 IP on 14-Aug-2017
- Double ‘o’ in Scooter; double ‘n’ & ‘t’ in
Gennett.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas
Incorrect
guesses: Kike Hernandez, Alex Avila,
Mark Reynolds, Josh Hamilton, Anthony Rendon, J.D. Martinez
WEEKLY THEME – Players
with 4 home runs in a regular season game who also have homered in All-Star
competition.
Player 4 HR/G ASG HR
Colavito.... 10-Jun-1959............ 1959b
.................................................. 1961b
.................................................. 1962b
Gehrig....... 03-Jun-1932............ 1936
.................................................. 1937
Gennett..... 06-Jun-2017............ 2018
Hodges..... 31-Aug-1950............ 1951
Mays......... 30-Apr-1961............ 1956
.................................................. 1960b
.................................................. 1965
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Wed - Players
with the most career hits winning exactly ONE batting title.
- Hall
of Fame players who hit four home runs in a game.
Fri - Players
who hit 4 homers in a game.
Sun - 4
homers in a game by a right hander.
-
- MLB All-Star position
players who pitched at least once.
-
- HOF position players with
400+ HRs who also did some MLB pitching
-
- Players who hit four home
runs in one game
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