Q. Who is the center
fielder in the Negro League Baseball Museum Field of Legends?
Hint: Bill James
rates him the fourth-greatest player of all time, behind Ruth, Wagner and Mays.
Hint: It was said,
“He's so fast that he makes Ty Cobb look like Ham Hyatt.”
FCR - Michael
Mattsey, Robinson, Illinois
Incorrect guesses: Cool
Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Willie Mays
TUESDAY
Q. What player
was chosen in the 40th round of the Draft, received Rookie‑of‑the‑Year
votes, twice received MVP votes, stole more than 470 bases, yet was never
selected to an All-Star team?
Hint: He made a
leaping, over-the-wall catch of a Barry Bonds's drive preventing Bonds from
tying Babe Ruth on the career home run list.
Hint: He hit .333
in the World Series the year his team won.
- 6th in ROY votes in 2000;
got MVP votes in 2003
& 2004
and has 614 career SB. As for being
drafted, as correction to the question is in order. Pierre Drafted by SEA in the 30th round
of the 1995 MLB June Amateur Draft, the Seattle Mariners in the 48th
round of the 1996 MLB June Amateur Draft and the Colorado Rockies in the 13th
round of the 1998 MLB June Amateur Draft.
None of those draft positions reflect his eventual value to MLB.
- Catch made on 09-May-2006
at AT&T Park in front of the 39,357 in attendance. Bonds didn’t homer for another 11 days.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect guesses: Kenny Lofton, Otis Nixon, Devon White, Torii
Hunter, Jim Edmunds, Omar Moreno, Curt Flood, Jay Payton
WEDNESDAY
Q. What Brown University alum threw a no
hitter between graduation events?
Hint: He led in WAR in two of the three years of
his franchise’s existence.
Hint: He was 2nd in the 3rd
year.
Hint: The last out of that his no-hitter was a
player who would become a Hall of Fame major league manager.
- Perfecto 12-Jun-1880. It was history’s first perfect game. Brown U. had already been operating
for over a century by the time of his graduation.
- 32 W in 1880
& 23 W in 1881. 1882 was the only
additional year of the franchise. Had WAR’s of 7.3, 4.4 & 1.0, finishing
behind the legendary Harry Stovey
in 1882.
- 27th out = Ned
Hanlon
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Allie Reynolds
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who was the top fan vote-getter in his
league of the only All-Star Game he ever played in?
Hint: He knows a lot.
Hint: Many still believe that it is impossible to
overstate his athletic ability.
- 1989
ASG Top AL vote-getter. Will Clark led all players.
- G.O.A.T.?
FCR - Maureen Walsh, Tallahassee
Incorrect
guesses: Joe Charboneau, Wally Joyner, Chris
Young, Mark Fidrych
THURSDAY
Q. Who held the career postseason record
for WHIP until 2014?
Hint: He won exactly one game in each
of the first three consecutive World Series championships ever to be won by the
same team.
Hint: Two of his three wins were
complete games. In the one that wasn’t, he got every out but
the last one.
Hint: His nickname was “Hoot”.
- WHIP
of .729 was finally bested by Jeremy
Affeldt w/SFG. He finished in
2014 at .702.
- In 1937, Johnny Murphy
got Giants’ catcher Harry
Danning to fly out for the final out.
FCR - Mark DeLodovico, Rockville, Maryland [Even
before the correction!]
Incorrect
guesses: Bob Gibson, Mariano Rivera, Jack
Billingham, Hoot Evers, Art Nehf, Red Ruffing, Mordecai Brown, Burt Hooten,
Whitey Ford, Lefty Gomez, Ernie Shore
FRIDAY
Q. Who, in the season’s antepenultimate
inning, hit the 50th home run off Bert Blyleven, setting a new
all-time record for most home runs surrendered by a pitcher in a single year?
Hint: He enjoyed 5 full seasons as a first base coach
in Chicago.
Hint: He often used a whistle to get the
attention of outfielders for re-positioning.
Hint: He and an All-Star Cubs first baseman
attended the same Cincinnati high school, but 5 years apart.
- HR 04-Oct-1986,
7th inning. That record still
stands. Blyleven is also 3rd
on the same list. It was only Boston’s 5th
HR that season.
- Coached CHW 2013-17
- Attended Woodward High School as did Leon
Durham.
FCR - Scott Matteson Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect
guesses: Billy Williams, Ron Kittle, Ed
Brinkman
SATURDAY
Q. What future former Cub is the most
recent player to lead his league in triples in consecutive seasons.
Hint: He hit a triple and an inside-the-park home
run in the same game. It was the first
time anyone on his team had done that in 35 years.
Hint: He lost the Rookie-of-the-Year vote to a
pitcher who did not play in the majors in 2018.
Hint: He led his team in strikeouts his first
four years in the majors, which is possibly why he was traded during his fifth
season.
Hint: The Dodgers drafted a pitcher from his high
school.
- 3b + ITP HR = 10-Aug-2012,
a 2b away from a cycle. 3b/HR combo last
accomplished for DET in 1977 by Steve
Kemp
- Led DET in K’s 2010-2013, averaging more than
150 per season. Led the AL in his rookie
year, 2010, w/170.
- LAD drafted fellow Billy Ryan High
alum Javy
Guerra in the 4th round in 2004.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Lance Johnson
SATURDAY SATURATED
Q. Who managed to scratch out a 32.50 ERA
for the A’s one year?
Hint: He had more luck in the minors with an ERA
under 2.00 in four different stops with an additional four stints of under
4.00.
Hint: He comes from Norse and Greek mythology.
- On 06-Aug-1995,
in 1⅔ innings in 1995 he surrendered 6 earned runs in relief of Todd
Stottlemyre against a 1st-place Mariners team before Coach Dave Duncan
brought in Ramon Fermin who didn’t fare much better, but finished the game
anyway.
- Born with the name Phoenix
and attended Valhalla High School
in El Cajon, California.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Kendall Graveman, Mike Marshall,
Stanley Jefferson
SUNDAY
Q. What speedster stole 10 bases over 3
seasons for the Orioles?
Hint: His minor league stolen base total, however,
is possibly the best in recent memory, including one season where he totaled
81.
Hint: He accomplished something only Ken Griffey,
Jr. had done in the history of the majors.
- 3 SB in 2001, 0 in 2003 & 7 in 2004
- He played in a major league game with his
father. In fact, did it 4 times: 03‑Oct,
04‑Oct,
05-Oct (2) and 06-Oct-2001,
all at Camden Yards.
FCR - Josh Murphy, Cedar Rapids
Incorrect
guesses: Russ
Snyder, Stanley Jefferson, Jeff Stone, Rick Dempsey, Alan Wiggins
WEEKLY THEME – Select
players who names call to mind U.S. state capitals.
Considered but not
included this week were -
Raleigh
Aitcheson,
Madison
Bumgarner,
Denver
Grigsby,
Jesse Jefferson
City,
Mike Lansing,
Carson
(City) Bigbee
Trent(on) Hubbard,
Bucky
Harris(burg),
Dean
Anna(polis),
Indian(apolis)
Bob Johnson,
June(au)
Greene,
Jarrod
Salt(Lake City)alamacchia,
Charlie
Frank(fort),
Columb(us)ia Lou Gehrig,
Al Alb(any)urquerque,
Frank
Sac(ramento)ka,
Baton Roug(e)ned
Odor,
Don
August(a) or even
Saint Paul Molitor,
as good as that would have been.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – David Washburn, Marietta, Georgia (After
Pierre)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Friday - Cities
- Cities that
are the last names of MLB players / All-Stars
- Cities that
had baseball teams
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