MONDAY — 25-Mar
Q. Who is the first
former Little League player to be elected to the Hall of Fame?
Hint: #1 He was the tenth
baseball player to win the prestigious Hickok Belt.
Hint: #2 He hit ten
or more home runs in every full season of his twenty-three year career.
A. CARL YASTRZEMSKI [SABR Bio]
- Ans. 20 others have made it since,
but Yaz was the first—a Hall of Famer on the first vote in 1989. Yaz was the 10th baseball player
to win, but it had been won 10 times before he did. Sandy Koufax won twice.
- #1 The Hickok
Belt is award annually to an
outstanding professional athlete.
- #2 From 1961 through 1983, Yaz racked up 452 HR,
only once with a season of HR in single digits, his first one, when hit 7 in 91
G.
FCR – Fred Worth, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Incorrect guesses: Stan
Musial, Rusty Staub, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Mike Schmidt, Cal Ripken,
TUESDAY — 26-Mar
Q. Who was the first
American League catcher to win the Rookie of the Year Award?
Hint: #1 He was the
third catcher in his franchise to be voted Most Valuable Player.
Hint: #2 He was a
handball champion in college.
A. THURMAN MUNSON [SABR Bio]
- Ans. AL ROY in 1970. The 1968 NL ROY winner, Johnny Bench,
was the only C who did it prior.
- #1 NYY MVP C = Yogi Berra (1951, 54, 55); Elston Howard (1963); Munson (1976).
- #2 He won several handball titles while
attending Kent State University.
FCR - George Alfano,
Redlands, California
Incorrect guesses: Bill
Freehan, Elston Howard, Carlton
WEDNESDAY — 27Mar
Q. Which former Baltimore
Oriole was the first Hall of Famer to play in two perfect games?
Hint: #1 He didn’t
win his first Silver Slugger Award until he was thirty-four years old.
Hint: #2 He attended
college on a football scholarship.
A. REGGIE JACKSON [SABR Bio]
- Ans. When OAK teammate Catfish
Hunter threw a perfect G on 08-May-1968, Jackson
played RF. In 1984, playing for CAL on
the last day of the season, Jackson
DH’ed while teammate Mike Witt throw a perfecto at TEX. Jackson played for BAL in 1976.
- #1 Won SS in 1980 & 1982.
- #2 His football coach at ASU relented & allowed
Jackson to play baseball as well.
FCR - Barry Lipinski,
Somerset, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Doug
DeCinces, Jim Thome, Don Baylor, Eddie Murray, Frank Robinson, Boog Powell,
Nick Markakis
MIDWEEK BONUS — 27-Mar
Q. Which
one-time Baltimore Oriole won every American League stolen base title in the
1980s except those won by Rickey Henderson?
Hint: #1
He was on teams that won championships in the state of Oregon in
multiple sports.
Hint: #2
He attended the same university as Tony Gwynn and Steven Strasburg.
Hint: #3
He is a winner of the Roberto Clemente Award.
A. HAROLD REYNOLDS [Wiki Bio]
-
Ans. Reynolds led the AL in SB w/60
in 1987. Henderson won all the rest.
-
#1 He starred in football & basketball as well as baseball at Corvallis High School. He was a member of
the state championship (AAA) football team in 1978, graduated in 1979, and was
inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. He
was also a member of the Corvallis' American Legion Baseball team that won
state & regional titles in 1978.
-
#2 Reynolds went to San Diego
State University.
-
#3 The Clemente Award
is perhaps the most prestigious in baseball.
FCR - Michael
Schneider, Wilmington, Delaware
Incorrect guesses: Al Bumby, Brady Anderson, Willie Wilson, Tim
Raines
THURSDAY — 28-Mar
Q. Who is
the only player to win a batting title in the majors as a California Angel?
Hint: #1
He didn’t win by much.
Hint: #2
Thanksgiving dinner at his house included an All-Pro running back.
A. ALEX JOHNSON [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Johnson hit .329, his
career best, in 1970.
-
#1 His .32899 was just a
skosh ahead of Carl Yastrzemski’s .32862.
-
#2 Ron Johnson, his
brother, younger by 5 years, was an All-American football halfback for Michigan
& All-Pro for the New York Giants, the first Giants player to rack up 1,000 rushing yards in one season.
FCR - Michael
Schneider, Wilmington, Delaware
Incorrect guesses: Mike Trout, Rod Carew, Lyman Bostock, Brian
Downing
FRIDAY — 29-Mar
Q. Which
one-time Baltimore Oriole was the first post-expansion player to hit thirty
home runs in each of his first two seasons?
Hint: #1
He was a regular golfing partner of Billy Pierce.
Hint: #2
His neck was broken in the first professional game he ever played.
A. RON KITTLE [B-R Bio]
-
Ans. Kittle hit 35 in 1983 &
32 in 1984. Played for BAL in 1990.
-
#1 Pierce and his wife socialized
with many ex-White Sox players. Kittle
was among the most frequent guests.
-
#2 In Kittle’s own words, “I
made it out of spring training and went to the Midwest League
with the Clinton Dodgers. In my first
official game and my first at bat, I hit a double. I scored on a single by Mike Scioscia. As I was sliding across home plate, a late
and high throw came in. The catcher
jumped to catch the ball and landed on me.
What I would later learn, he broke my neck.”
FCR - Steve
Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Leon Wagner, Jim Gentile, Eddie Mathews,
Frank Robinson
SATURDAY — 30-Mar
Q. Which BBTR catcher played for six different major
league franchises between 1969 and 1980?
Hint: #1
He was the first major leaguer to attend the university that has since
produced an additional thirty major leaguers plus more than one hundred sixty
players who have played baseball at the professional level.
Hint: #2
Not that he would brag about it now, but he went to work for Boeing after
his playing days.
A. BOB STINSON [Wiki Bio]
-
Ans. Stinson caught for LAD, STL,
HOU, MON, KCR & SEA.
-
#1 Miami Dade College has
also produced 21 All-American baseball players since 1971.
- #2 He
also played on the Boeing team & volunteers coaching baseball
teams of several leagues in the greater Seattle area.
FCR - John
Salvino, Denver
Incorrect guesses: Ted Simmons, Ray Fosse, Ron Karkovice, Alan
Ashby
WEEKEND EXTRA — 30-Mar
Q. Who
is the only player in the Expansion Era to hit two bases-loaded, bases-clearing
triples in one game?
Hint: #1
He has a particular fondness for a certain Cy Young Award winner and
fellow broadcaster.
Hint: #2
He is half of one of the most respected baseball announcer teams in the
game.
A. DUANE KUIPER [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In the 1st &
5th innings of the G on 27-Jul-1978(2), Kuiper cleared the bases with triples as CLE beat NYY 17-5
in Yankee Stadium.
-
#1 In a 1-0 count, on 29-Aug-1977,
Kuiper hit the only
home run of his 12-year & 3,379-AB
major league career off Cy-Young-Award-winner-to-be
Steve Stone.
-
#2 Paired with former Giants’
pitcher, Mike
Krukow, they make the SFG TV broadcasts
come alive. [They were both part of the
Giants’ team that lost 100 games in a season, the only such season in that
franchise’s 130 years of operation.]
FCR - Susan
Nelson, Moscow, Tennessee
Incorrect guesses: Rick Dempsey, Randy Hundley, Bob Uecker, Tim
McCarver
SUNDAY — 31-Mar
Q. Who spoiled
no-hitters in the ninth inning twice in a calendar week?
Hint: #1
In his ten-year career in the majors, he played for six teams and played
alongside nine men who are now in the Hall of Fame.
Hint: #2
He played exactly one game for the Dragons, going oh-for-four.
A. NELSON LIRIANO [Wiki Bio]
-
Ans. On 23-Apr-1989 as
the 1st batter in the 9th
inning, Liriano tripled off TEX’s Nolan Ryan for TOR’s only H of
the G. Then 5 days later,
Liriano hit a double as the 1st batter of the 9th inning,
again TOR’s only H, this time victimizing CAL’s Kirk McKaskill.
-
#1 Hall of Famers on the same
team as Liriano: Fred McGriff, Phil
Niekro, Kirby Pucket, George Brett, Jim Leyland, Eddie Murray, Mike Piazza,
Todd Helton & Larry Walker not to mention Jim Thome in the minors
-
#2 Liriano, in 1999, played in a
single G for the Chunichi Dragons
of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
FCR - Jim
Casey, Savannah
Incorrect guesses: Jim Qualls, Horace Clarke, Cesar Tovar
WEEK’S THEME – The 9 batters whose lone
hit defined each of Nolan Ryan’s American League one‑hitters. He had three more in the NL, tying Bob Feller’s MLB mark.
Yastrzemski................ 09-Jul-1972.............. (1st inning, 1
out single)............................................ 96.5
Jackson....................... 13-Jul-1979.............. (9th inning, 1
out single)............................................ 74.0
Munson....................... 29-Aug-1973............. (1st inning, 1
out single)............................................ 46.1
Reynolds..................... 03-Jun-1989............. (1st inning, 0
out single)............................................ 15.9
Johnson...................... 27-Jun-1974............. (1st inning, 2
out single)............................................ 10.0
Kittle............................ 26-Apr-1990............. (2nd inning, 0
out single)............................................. 4.7
Stinson........................ 15-Apr-1977............. (5th inning, 1
out single)............................................. 4.3
Kuiper......................... 05-May-1978............ (6th inning, 0
out single)............................................. 4.0
Liriano......................... 23-Apr-1989............. (9th inning, 1
out triple)............................................. 3.0
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
(After Kittle)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tues - Red Sox players whose names begin with C
Thur - They all played in
1978 American League East tie breaker game
-
MLB all stars who also starred in football in college
Fri - On-time
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