MONDAY — 28-Aug
Q. Who
tied Babe Ruth for most home runs hit in Fenway Park by a visiting player?
Hint: #1
He was drafted into the military but found physically unfit to serve.
Hint: #2
He once set the record for the most home runs in a year where he did not
capture the league home run title.
- Ans. Mantle
& Ruth each hit 38 HR vs. BOS in Boston.
- #1 Drafted
for the Korean War, Mantle was found unfit for military service in Dec 1950 due
to an arrested case of osteomyelitis in his left leg. Mantle
was actually rejected twice more: on 13‑Apr‑1951 after his draft board again
cited the osteomyelitis and then, bowing to public pressure, one last time in
1952 when the knee he had damaged in the 1951 World Series prompted his final assessment
of “physically unqualified for military service”. [Reader Paul Rogers from Dallas has favored us with
this delightful anecdote: “Dr. Bobby Brown told me a story about Mantle being 4‑F. Dr. Brown had been recalled from the Yankees
to the Army early in the ’52 season and by the time of the World Series was in
a MASH unit in Korea. He got someone in
MLB to airmail him the ’52 World Series highlights film right after the Series
and played it for the soldiers in his unit. Upon seeing Mantle leg out an infield hit or a
bunt, they all booed, yelling, ‘Look at that 4-F bastard run! Look at that 4-F bastard run!’”]
- #2 He
hit 54 HR in 1961 behind teammate Roger Maris’ 61. Sammy Sosa’s 66 in 1998 is the standard
today.
FCR - Craig
Russell, Binghamton, New York
Incorrect guesses: Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris, Lou Gehrig, immie
Foxx
TUESDAY —29-Aug
Q. Which catcher
received David Wells’s perfect game?
Hint: #1 Owner of a
fiery temperament, he was always ready to defend his position or his team.
Hint: #2 If he were
asked, “What’s your twenty?”, he would very likely respond in the affirmative.
A. JORGE POSADA [SABR Bio]
- Ans. On 17-May-1998,
David Wells threw the 2nd
perfect G in NYY history and did it with Posada behind the plate.
- #1 Samples too numerous to list all, but he
might be best know for giving an opponent an elbow nudge. Watch
Posada give TOR P Jesse Carlson the shove that precipitated a well-known brawl
at the 2:00 mark of this video.
- #2 Posada’s uniform #20 has been retired by
NYY. Originally meaning location by CB
Radio users, “10-20” indicated one’s location.
So the question correctly answered would be a location.
FCR - Brian Nunnally,
Holly Springs, North Carolina
Incorrect guesses: Joe
Girardi, Jim Leyritz, A.J. Pierzynski, Mike Stanley
WEDNESDAY— 29-Aug
Q. Who scored the tying
run when Bucky went deep off Torrez?
Hint: #1 He once
played an entire season with more than three hundred chances and recorded not a
single error.
Hint: #2 He attended
the same high school as did Reggie Smith and Don Wilson and several other major
league standouts.
- Ans. In a 1-G playoff for the AL East on 02-Oct-1978,
9th-hitting Dent’s HR gave NYYa lead they never lost. Ahead of Dent, Chris Chambliss & White
had each singled.
- #1 In
1971 w/317 chances, White’s error board was blank.
- #2 White is an alum of Centennial HS
in Compton, California
FCR - Steve Berman,
Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Willie Randolph, Chris Chambliss, Jim
Spencer, Graig Nettles Don Mattingly
THURSDAY— 31-Aug
Q. Which
Yankees player passed Don Mattingly on the team’s career home run list, Tony
Lazzeri on the career hits list and Mickey Mantle on the career doubles list in
the same week?
Hint: #1
He once received three intentional walks in the same game.
Hint: #2
He played an entire season errorlessly with more than three hundred
chances.
A. BERNIE WILLIAMS [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In the week of 14-20-Aug-2002,
Williams exceeded NYY marks held variously by Don Mattingly, Tony Lazzeri
& Mickey Mantle.
-
#1 On 26-Sep-1999,
Williams, after striking out in the 1st, was give a free pass to
first base by Wilson Alvarez in the 2nd,
Rick White in the 4th & Jeff Sparks in the 6th. He is one of just nine Yankees to be given a
free stroll to first base thrice in a game.
He joined 8
other Yankees honored this way.
-
#2 In the 2000 season, Williams
had 355 chances in CF with nary an error.
FCR - Obrey Brown, Tallahassee
Incorrect guesses: Derek Jeter, Dave Winfield, Roy White, Aaron
Judge, Paul O’Neil
FRIDAY —
01-Sep
Q. Who was
a teammate of both Hall of Famer Eddie Collins, a rookie in 1906 and Dave
Philley, who played until 1962?
Hint: #1
He is his franchise’s career leader in pitching victories, innings
pitched, games started, batters face and complete games.
Hint: #2
His franchise retired his uniform number 16 in 1987.
-
Ans. Lyons & Collins were
teammates on CHW in 1923, 1924, 1925 & 1926. Collins had been a teammate of numerous
players whose careers began in the 19th century. Lyons & Philley were teammates on CHW in 1946.
-
#1 Lyons still leads the South
Siders in W (260), IP (4,161), GS (484), BF (17,797) & CG (356).
-
#2 Retirement video.
FCR - Frank Workman, Escondido, California
Incorrect guesses: Aaron Judge, Whitey Ford, Billy Pierce, Robin
Roberts, Chief Bender, Lefty Grove, Bobo Newsom, Early Wynn, Dizzy Dean, Luke
Appling, Lefty Gomez
T.G.I.A.T.D.W.— 01-Sep
Q. Who
is the only three-time winner of the Bob Feller Man of the Year Award?
Hint: #1
No switch hitter hit more doubles in a single season this century.
Hint: #2
In the past seven seasons he has finished in his franchise’s top three WAR
producers six times, twice finishing first.
A. JOSE RAMIREZ [B-R Bio]
-
Ans. Ramirez won the BFMOY in 2016, 2021 & 2022. The Cleveland Indians Man of the Year Award
was given annually to a CLE player between 1944 & 2009. In 2010, it became known as the Bob Feller
Award following the great pitcher’s death.
Ramirez could easily win it a 4th time this year.
-
#1 Ramirez hit 56 2B in 2017,
putting him in a tie with Brian Roberts (2009), Garret Anderson (2002) &
Nomar Garciaparra (2002).
-
#2 WAR standing in CLE in… 2016:
3rd; 2017: 2nd; 2018: 1st; 2020; 2nd;
2021: 1st; & 2022 :2nd. Ramirez
(with his team-leading 4.4 WAR so far in 2023) is on track to make it 7out of 8.
FCR - Dr.
Dave Serota, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Incorrect guesses: Alex Bregman, Freddy Freeman
SATURDAY — 02-Sep
Q. Who,
had he not been injured, might have prevented the shameful scar on baseball
that is the throwing of the 1919 World Series?
Hint: #1
Despite his association with the "Black Sox", he was one of
its three team members who are now in the Hall of Fame.
Hint: #2
After eschewing the platoon advantage at the start of a key at-bat, he
used the edge in the same at-bat to drive in the game’s winning runs.
-
Ans. Faber didn’t play in the
1919 Fall Classic because he had sprained his ankle right aftrer of a severe
bout of influenza. This story, among, no doubt, others, ranks his absence as one of the
reasons the Series was vulnerable to be rigged.
-
#1 Hall of Famers Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk & Faber were all on that 1919 White Sox team.
-
#2 On 22-July-1928, Faber came up to bat with 2 runners on base in
the 8th inning of a tied game with the NYY. After swinging at & missing the 1st
pitch batting right-handed against Yanks’ ace right-handed reliever Wilcy Moore, Faber switched batter’s boxes and proceeded to
knock in the go-ahead runs with a single batting lefty.
FCR - Obrey Brown, Tallahassee
Incorrect guesses: Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk, Garrett Anderson, Nomar Garciaparra
SUNDAY — 03-Sep
Q. Which
All-Star was the last player with game-winning walk-off hits in three straight
team wins?
Hint:
#1 He was a key member of the highest single-season home
run-hitting Major League team of all time.
Hint:
#2 He is the last Twins middle-infielder to amass 300 career
extra-base hits.
A. JORGE
POLANCO
[Wiki
Bio]
- Ans. Polanco played the hero on 15-Aug, 16-Aug
& 18-Aug-2021. He
was the last player with a walk-off RBI in
3 consecutive team wins since David Ortiz in the 2004 playoffs, & the first
in the regular season since Tony Pena in June 1982.
- #1 Polanco contributed 22 HR for 2019 MIN, finishing as one of eight players with 20 or
more to help them set the team total of 307 HRs in one season, just one ahead
off NYY’s 306 hit the same year.
- #2 To
date, Polanco has a total of 309
XBHs, made up of 177 doubles, 20 triples & 109 HRs in his MLB career that
began in 2014, all with MIN.
FCR - Jim Casey, Savannah
Incorrect
guesses: Eddie Collins, Carlos Correa,
Brian Dozier, Paul Molitor, Kirby Puckett
WEEK’S
FINALE
Q. Which player, fitting this week’s theme,
played in the Little League World Series, the College World Series, the
World Series, the MLB All-Star Game & the World Baseball Classic?
Hint:
#1 A World Series MVP teammate pitcher
said of him, “I never had a catcher before that I felt like cared more about
wanting me to be successful even before he wanted to be successful.”
Hint:
#2 He has four times had seasons of in
excess of nine hundred putouts each.
A. JASON
VARITEK [Wiki
Bio]
- Ans. Others
are veterans of several of these. Tek
has all of those listed.
- #1 Quote is from Josh Beckett, 2003 WS MVP
and Varitek battery mate on BOS 2006-2011.
- #2 Catchers
record putouts by catching pitches that result in strikeouts. Varitek had 900+ in 1999 (972); 2002 (912);
937 (2007); & 2008 (903)
FCR – Doug Greenwald,
San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEK’S
THEME – Select switch hitters who spent their entire American League careers
with one team (Min 10 years). Developed
from a theme guess by Tony Monti, Whitestone, NY.
Switch hitter Team Years WAR
Faber............................ CHW......................... 20............... 63.9
Lyons........................... CHW......................... 21............... 70.6
Mantle........................... NYY.......................... 18............. 110.2
Polanco......................... MIN.......................... 10............... 15.8
Posada.......................... NYY.......................... 17............... 42.7
Ramirez......................... CLE.......................... 11............... 42.9
Varitek........................... BOS.......................... 15............... 24.2
White............................. NYY.......................... 15............... 46.9
Williams........................ NYY.......................... 16............... 49.6
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Warren Kent, Whitehall, Michigan
(after Lyons)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Mon - Switch
hitters to win an MVP
Tues - Eight players with the most games hitting
home runs from both sides of the plate while wearing a Yankees uniform
- Highest on base
% for single season by position with 500 or more ABs for New York Yankees (Yikes!
Ed.)
- Most HRs by
switch hitter by position
- Players with more than 5 career games hitting
home runs from both sides of the plate
Wed - Yankees who wore #6
- Players who hit a home run from both sides of
the plate in the same game
- Yankees who hit a home run from both sides of
the plate in the same game
- All time NYY <insert random batting
stat> for switch hitters
- Yankees who switch-hit homers in the same
game
- New York Yankee players who have hit home
runs from both sides of the plate in a game
- The switch hitters at each position who
played the most games for the Yankees
Thurs - Expansion
era players of the New York Yankees who have spent their entire career of at
least 15 years with the club
- Players with
15-19 season careers all with the Yankees
Fri - Switch hitters who
spent their entire career with one franchise and then add something
- Switch hitters
with a 1.000 fielding percentage season
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