MONDAY — 03-Jun
Q. Who was the last
player/manager to lead his team to a World Series championship?
Hint: #1 He is the last
player to have over 100 RBI in a season with fewer than ten strikeouts.
Hint: #2 He led his
high school basketball team to the Illinois state championship.
A. LOU BOUDREAU [SABR Bio]
- Ans. CLE’s last WS win was under Boudreau’s
guidance. His performance as a player
also had much to do with it.
- #1 In his MVP year of 1948, Boudreau had 106 RBI
& exactly 9 K. Nobody since.
- #2 At 5’11”, he was captain of the Thornton Township HS in Harvey, IL basketball team (They did not have a baseball
program.) & led the "Flying Clouds" hoops squad to 3 straight Illinois
HS championship G, winning in 1933 & finishing as runner up in 1934 &1935.
FCR - Dr. Philip Guiliano,
Chester, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Joe
Cronin, Mickey Cochrane, Joe Sewell, Pete Rose, Bucky Harris
TUESDAY — 04-Jun
Q. Aside from Ichiro
Suzuki, who is the only American or National League player, to lead his league
in hits for four (4!) consecutive seasons?
Hint: #1 His first
career home run was a lead-off, inside-the-park homer off a future World Series
MVP.
Hint: #2 He is the
only member of the Astros who was on the team when they were in the
National League.
A. JOSE ALTUVE [B-R Bio]
- Ans. Altuve led the AL in hits 2014-2017 with 225,
200, 216 & 204 respectively. (Ichiro led 5 X. Kirby Puckett, Tony Oliva, Rogers Hornsby, Ty
Cobb & Ginger Beaumont each managed 3 in a row.)
- #1 On 20-Aug-2011 exactly 1 month after his MLB
debut, Altuve's was the game’s first batter.
He hit an inside-the-park homer off San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner.
- #2 Altuve has been an Astro since the 2011
season. The Astros (nee Colt 45’s) were
an NL team from 1962 to 2012. They have
been in the AL since the 2013 season.
FCR - Jason Winston,
Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses: Rusty
Staub, Ty Cobb
WEDNESDAY — 05-Jun
Q. Which player had
the longest hitting streak for the original American League Washington
Senators?
Hint: #1 He followed
his brother into the majors.
Hint: #2 He compiled
seven five-hit games and fifty-two four-hit games in his seventeen-year major league
career.
A. HEINIE MANUSH [SABR Bio]
- Ans. H streak of 33 G in 1933.
- #1 Heinie’s (much) older brother Frank had a cup
of coffee with the A’s in 1908.
- #2 The year he won the AL batting title with a .378
avg., 1926, Babe Ruth was second with .373.
FCR - Leonard
Epstein, Dallas
Incorrect guesses: Ed
Delahanty, Zoilo Versalles, Joe Cronin, Ossie Bluege, Mickey Vernon,
Sam Rice, Lloyd Waner,
MIDWEEK BONUS — 05-Jun
Q. Who
was the first twenty-first century player to collect at least three stolen
bases in each of consecutive games?
Hint: #1
In his franchise’s first World Series, he contributed two home runs, but
only one stolen base.
Hint: #2
As he finished high school, he was offered scholarships to play
basketball as a point guard at UCLA. He
also had an option to play college football as a quarterback at, among others,
USC, Oklahoma and Florida.
Hint: #3
He is the only player this century to have a game with four stolen bases
and five runs scored.
A. CARL CRAWFORD [B-R Bio]
-
Ans. On 16- & 17-Aug-2006, Crawford
was 3 for 3 each day. Greg Zaun was TOR’s
C on the 16th, Benjie Molina in the 17th. Pitchers varied.
-
#1 In the 2008 WS, TBR succumbed
to PHI 1-4. Crawford homered in G 1 off Cole Hamels (the
Series MVP) & again in & G 4. He stole his lone base in G 3, TBR’s lone W.
-
#2 At Jefferson Davis High School
in Houston, Texas, he was a letterman in football & basketball as well as
in baseball.
- #3 On 24-Jun-2006,
vs. TOR, Crawford stole 4 bases and scored 5 X.
FCR - Richard
Klee, North Hollywood, California
Incorrect guesses: Chone Figgins, Jackie Robinson, Carlos
Beltran, Maury Wills
THURSDAY
— 06-Jun
Q. Who
has stolen more bases than any other player for the Boston Red Sox?
Hint: #1
He played baseball collegiately one year and was on a team whose record
was 26-0-1. Among the victims were
Stanford and Cal.
Hint: #2
He was the first Hall of Famer to hit a leadoff home run in both ends of
a doubleheader.
A. HARRY HOOPER [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Hooper, with exactly 300 SB,
is the franchise leader.
-
#1 Playing for Saint Mary's
College of California, Hooper was on a team that contained 5 future major
leaguers. (See bio.)
-
#2 Hooper hit one HR each on 30-May-1913(1)
& 30-May-1913(2).
FCR - Sarah
Grynpas, Philadelphia
Incorrect guesses: Bobby Doerr, Tris Speaker, Dustin Pedroia, Carl
Yastrzemski, David Ortiz
FRIDAY — 07-Jun
Q. Who
won a Silver Slugger award playing shortstop for the Tigers the year Alan
Trammell was out with a broken leg?
Hint: #1
Eight years later, playing for a different team, he had a sixty-game
errorless streak on his way to winning a Gold Glove Award.
Hint: #2
He and Hall of Famer Al Kaline are the only Tigers to have three
twenty-home-run seasons before the age of twenty five.
A. TRAVIS FRYMAN [Wiki Bio]
-
Ans. In 1992 Trammell dealt with a nagging
elbow injury & broke his ankle early in the season, playing in only 29
games for DET. Fryman had played some SS
before, but most of his career, before and after ’92, was at 3B. That season, Fryman became a SS and won his only
SS.
-
#1 Fryman played for CLE in 2000.
-
#2 Fryman = 21, 20, 22 in 1991-93;
Kaline = 27, 27, 23 in 1955-57.
FCR - Adam
Foldes, New York City
Incorrect guesses: Miguel Cabrera, Miguel Tejada
SATURDAY — 08-Jun
Q. Only
two players have led their league in OPS and defensive WAR in the same
season. One of them was Willie Mays in
1954. Who is the other?
Hint: #1
He was the last New York Yankee to have at least twenty triples in a
season.
Hint: # When
drafted high by the NFL's Cardinals, he instead chose baseball, partly because
his high school was located less than five miles from Yankee Stadium.
A. SNUFFY STIRNWEISS [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In 1945, Stirnweiss led the
AL with a .862 OPS. His defensive
WAR was a sterling 2.8.
-
#1 Stirnweiss led the majors with 22
3B in 1945. He led the AL in 1944 w/16.
-
#2 He starred in three sports at Fordham Preparatory School, a known alma mater of baseball talent. He was a football phenom in college at U. of
North Carolina, where he stood out in both football and baseball. As a football player, he played quarterback,
halfback & punter.
FCR - Jason
Winston, Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses: Curtis Granderson, Lou Gehrig, Derek Jeter
SUNDAY — 08-Jun
Q. Who
was the first batter for a regular-season game on the West Coast?
Hint: #1
He moved to the west coast with his first team.
Hint: #2
His career was dotted with Hall of Fame teammates.
Hint: #3
His high school also produced the president of a major league, two major
league team owners and two Hall of Fame players.
A. GINO CIMOLI [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. On 15-Apr-1958, Cimoli stood
in the box at Seals Stadium and faced the Giants’ Ruben Gomez & struck
out.
-
#1 Cimoli was with BRO in 1956 & 57 then with LAD in 1958.
- #2 With Dodgers, Cimoli shared the dugout with Roy
Campanella, Don Drysdale, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie
Robinson, Duke Snider, Dick Williams & Walter Alston (mgr.). With PIT, he had Roberto Clemente &Bill
Mazeroski. His Braves teammates were
Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews & Warren Spahn. In St. Louis, Stan Musial &
Bob Gibson were also on the team. In
KC, Tony LaRussa &Luke Appling (Coach).
Orioles Luis Aparicio, Robin Roberts & Brooks Robinson were there to
greet him. The expansion Angels, however,
didn’t have the stars that they would have later.
- #3 Also alumni of San Francisco’s Galileo H.S.
were Joe DiMaggio, Tony Lazzeri, one-time AL President Bobby Brown as well as Richard Goldman, co-owner of SFG, Walter A. Haas, Jr., owner of OAK.
FCR - Andy
McCue, Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses: Pee Wee Reese, Jim Davenport,
WEEK’S FINALE — 09-Jun
Q. Who signed
his first contract before serving in the U.S. military during the time of the Viet Nam War but returned to play six
years in the majors for the White Sox and Senators?
Hint: #1
He was born in a community of fewer than 400 souls at the time of his
birth. He was raised, however, in
Warren, Ohio.
Hint: #2
He is the final player to qualify for this week’s theme.
-
Ans. Signed originally by CHW in
1966, he saw action of more than 100 G in 4 of his 6 years.
-
#1 At 27.6 miles south of Montgomery,
Lapine is an unincorporated community in Montgomery & Crenshaw counties in
Alabama. It is little more than an
unincorporated ZIP code today.
-
#2 See below.
FCR - Mark
DeLodovico, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Denny McLain
WEEK’S THEME – Live
ball era American League players who hit 2 doubles & 2 triples in
the same game.
Player Date Career WAR
Boudreau.................... 26-Apr-1948..................... 63.2
Hooper........................ 28-Sep-1924.................... 53.6
Altuve.......................... 17-May-2017.................... 50.9
Manush....................... 24-May-1929.................... 48.1
Manush........................ 23-Jul-1932..................... 48.1
Crawford...................... 02-Aug-2005.................... 39.1
Fryman......................... 26-Jul-1994..................... 34.4
Stirnweiss.................. 03-Sep-1945(2)................... 27.4
Stroud........................... 04-Jul-1968....................... 3.2
Cimoli........................... 27-Apr-1962....................... 1.3
Bold =
Hall of Fame
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Warren Kent, Whitehall, Michigan
(after Stirnweiss)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Mon - MVP’s
who became managers with the same team that they won their MVP for
- Jewish
players
- Hall
of Famers with Jewish heritage
- Players
who won ROY before it was a national award
Tues - Players
who appear in 56: The Streak: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5723854/
-
10 or greater total bases in a mlb game without hitting a home run
Wed - Players
who have four seasons of 200+ Hits
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