Q. Who is the
only Milwaukee Brewer to collect 200 hits in a season three times?
Hint: He was the
first player to hit an inside-the-park home run in Exhibition Stadium.
Hint: He was once
described in Baseball Digest as the “Rodney Dangerfield of baseball”.
- 219 H in 1980 led
the AL and remains the franchise record; had 205 in 1982 & 203 in 1983.
- Baseball Digest,
June 1981, p. 18 article by The
Boston Herald American’s Joe Giuliotti, mostly because Cooper’s
outstanding 1980 was overshadowed by George Brett’s .390 that year, among other
things.
FCR - Joe Liss, Metairie,
Louisiana
Incorrect guesses: Paul
Molitor, Robin Yount, Hank Aaron
TUESDAY
Q. Who helped
teammate Ben Sheets claim his first major league pitching victory by slamming
three home runs in his support?
Hint: He was not
very popular in the Queen City as he was the first opposing player to hit ten
career home runs at the Great American Ballpark.
Hint: His baseball
accomplishments at USC put him on a par with the greatest players that school
has ever had.
- At USC, he is in the tops of the all-time offensive
record book, a worthy peer of Mark McGwire.
FCR - Mike Anderson, Maumelle, Arkansas
Incorrect guesses: Fred Lynn, Craig Counsell, Richie Sexson,
Andruw Jones
WEDNESDAY
Q. What name bursts into a movie plot around
a breakfast campsite in a 1991 comedy?
Hint: As a baserunner, he once famously
fielded a ground ball and tossed it to the opposing shortstop, thereby avoiding
a double play.
Hint: He abandoned his teenage fling with boxing after
suffering seven straight knockouts.
- In “City Slickers” the city slickers are
true-believer baseball fans who are challenged with an off-the-cuff, seemingly
insignificant question. The scene:
- Barbara Robbins: No. I like baseball. I just never understood how you guys can spend
so much time discussing it. I mean I
think the game is great, but I don't MEMORIZE who played third base for
Pittsburgh in 1960.
- Berquist: (Without hesitation and nearly in
unison with colleagues Mitch Robbins and Ed Furillo: “Don Hoak!”
[Reader Jeff Rowell added the following: “The
female line is actually Helen Slater's character Bonnie Rayburn not Patricia
Wettig's Barbara Robbins who is not in the scene. Of course I noticed that the
IMDb quotes page has it wrong which I'm assuming is where the quote was pulled
from. I only noticed because I knew Billy Crystal's character's last name is
Robbins and that his wife wasn't on the trip with him.”]
- In the G on 21-Apr-1957 Hoak intercepted a grounder hit by
teammate Wally Post and flopped it to opposing SS Johnny Logan. The umps ruled Hoak out—that was easy. Post, however, was allowed to remain safe at
first base The MLB rules committee acted
quickly and now in such a circumstance, both runners would be out, citing
baserunner’s deliberate interference.
FCR - Dave Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect
guesses: Vic Wertz, Van Lingle Mungo,
Mickey Mantle, Mookie Wilson, Marv Throneberry, Henry Aaron
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What Badger’s signing bonus was driven so
uncomfortably high by a bidding war among multiple franchises and their scouts,
that it was a chief motivator for major league baseball to institute the draft?
Hint: He was the first player to homer in his
expansion team’s new permanent stadium.
Hint: He got the chance later in his career to
play for Ted Williams.
- Playing He so impressed the scouts that a
bidding war ensued for his signing. He
received a $200,000 signing bonus from LAA so high that it was the most ever paid.
FCR - Steven Harmon, Sacramento
Incorrect
guesses: Mike Epstein, Harmon Killebrew,
Ken McMullen, Bob Johnson
THURSDAY
Q. Who won the Pacific Coast League Most
Valuable Player Award the year before Tony Perez did?
Hint: He is only the second-ever MVP from the
Salt Lake City Bees in the 120-year history of the PCL.
Hint: A rookie from the University of Utah, he
played 134 games in centerfield for the Cubs the year after they lost Ken
Hubbs?
Hint: During his eight-year career in the majors,
he played every outfield position and every infield position.
- Dick Hall, fellow U of U alum, won the PCL MVP
in 1959 playing for SLC.
- Full-time CF for CHC in 1964.
Hubbs, NL ROY in 1962. Hubbs died just before spring training in ’64.
FCR - Dan Silverberg, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Don Hahn, Don Young, George
Altman, Bob Dernier, Adolfo Phillips
FRIDAY
Q. Who was only fifteen games into his thirteen-year
MLB career when a work stoppage shut down everyone’s games?
Hint: During a two-year stretch, he had seven
walk-off hits for the Cubs, five of them home runs.
Hint: He sometimes suffered an identity crisis,
at least among television baseball announcers.
Hint: He is the only Toronto Blue Jay ever to
lead his league in sacrifice hits.
*Home run
- His opposite number, the SS for FLA in the 2003 NLCS, had he exact same name on
the scorecard. The Marlins Alex Gonzalez is from Venezuela. does not use a middle
name and went on to win a ring that year.
- Led the AL in SH w/16 in 2000.
FCR - John Rickert Terre Haute
Incorrect
guesses: George Bell, Andre Dawson, Derek
Lee, Carrol Hardy
SATURDAY
Q. Who was called the “toughest pitcher he
ever faced” by Ty Cobb himself?
Hint: His career pitching stats far surpass even
those posted by an in-his-prime Pedro Martinez.
Hint: He advanced from Class D to the majors
during his first season as a professional.
- Over Weilman’s 9-year career (1912-1920), Cobb
hit just .236 against him and .383 versus the rest of the American League. (Admittedly, Cobb may have said this about
more than one pitcher.)
- After playing just 50 G with the 1912 Maysville Rivermen of Kentucky’s
Blue Grass League (the equivalent of a modern-day Rookie league) Weilman made
his major league debut with SLB on 24-Aug-1912.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Addie Joss, Walter Johnson, Bob
Feller, Joe Wood, Chief Bender, Babe Ruth, 3-Finger Brown, Bill Bayne, Rube
Waddell, Satchel Paige
SUNDAY
Q. What Dallas, Texas-born slugger hit the
first home run in the history of Taiwan Major League Professional Baseball?
Hint: He needed a fielder’s mitt for only 3% of the
games during his eight-year major league career.
Hint: While providing color on Red Sox post-game
shows on NESN, his signature “Kapow” was used to describe a home run.
Hint: His “Fans” and “Sons” have extended his
baseball presence well beyond his playing career.
Hint: He is the eponymous inspiration for this
week’s theme.
- HR in TML in 1996. Exact game yet to be verified.
- In 12 of his 389 career games in the majors,
he played 1st base. Baseball‑Reference
lists his positions as “Designated Hitter and Pinch Hitter”.
- “Sons
of Same Horn”
is a cyber message board dedicated to Boston Red Sox fans. A group calling themselves “Fans of Sam Horn”
nominated him to be President if Red Sox Nation. No records of an actual election exist.
- Striking out six times in a game was
christened a “Sam Horn” by his teammate after Horn became the 5th
player to do it. The Dickson Baseball
Dictionary lists it as a single word, “Horn”, although it is usually used
with both names.
FCR - Chuck McGill, Westford, Vermont
Incorrect
guesses: Don Orsillo
WEEKLY
THEME – Batters who struck out six times in a single game. The “Olympic Rings” or platinum sombrero
applies to a player striking out five times in a game. A “Sam Horn” refers to a player striking out
six times in a game. The term was coined
by pitcher Mike Flanagan after teammate Sam Horn of the Baltimore Orioles
accomplished the feat in 1991.
Player Date _ Team Opp _ Rslt Innings __ PA K
Cooper........... 14-Jun-1974......... BOS..... CAL........ L
3-4........ 15................ 8................. 6
Cowan............ 09-Jul-1971.......... CAL..... OAK........ L
0-1........ 20................ 8................. 6
Gonzalez........ 09-Sep-1998........ TOR..... CLE........ L
3-6........ 13................ 6................. 6
Hoak............... 02-May-1956........ CHC..... NYG........ L
5-6........ 17................ 9............... 6
Horn............... 17-Jul-1991.......... BAL...... KCR........ L
8-9........ 15................ 8................ 6
Jenkins........... 08-Jun-2004......... MIL....... ANA........ W
1-0....... 17................ 7................ 6
Reichardt........ 31-May-1966........ CAL..... CLE........ L
5-7........ 17................ 8................. 6
Weilman......... 25-Jul-1913.......... SLB...... WSH....... T
8-8........ 15................ 6................. 6
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Michael Temple, Chicago (after Hoak)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Players
drafted by the Cardinals in the rule 5 draft and then returned who went on to
become all-stars
Tuesday - All-time
Milwaukee Brewers games played leaders
- Former
Brewers who reached World Series, but not on their first team
- All-Stars
is in the Miller Park walk of fame is it
- Milwaukee
Brewers who hit three home runs in one game.
- Platinum
sombrero owners -- 5 strikeouts in a game
Wed - Platinum
sombrero owners -- 5 strikeouts in a game
- Players
who led their leagues in putouts and double plays in the same season
Thurs - Two-sport
stars
Friday - Theme
is MLB players with a high school named after them
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