18-May‑2015
MONDAY
Q. For
which player would opposing players remove their belts when coming to bat?
Hint: His
closest friend was a Hall of Fame pitcher with a completely opposite
personality.
Hint: Only
Williams and Ruth have better career on-base percentages.
Hint: Tony
could have caught him.
Twint: He
despised his nicknames.
A. JOHN
McGRAW (Playing third McGraw would, often unbeknownst to umpires, hold
a runners belt to give the defense an advantage; Friend was the with the
gentlest of Giants, Christy
Mathewson; OPB .4657; McGraw’s managerial total was 2,763, 2nd
all-time, and Tony
LaRussa chose to retire after winning the 2011 World
Series with 2,728. Had LaRussa
stayed on and been only as successful as his successor, he would have passed
McGraw around 14-Jun-2014; Nicknames: Mugsy and Little Napoleon)
FCR - Peter
Cottrell, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Ty Cobb,
TUESDAY
Q. Who
played in (2,209) and managed (2,072) the most games combined (4,279*) before
ever appearing in a World Series?
Hint: He
is the only person to have 2,000 hits, 200 home runs and 1,000 victories as a
manager.
Hint: He
was the first person to hit for the cycle at Three Rivers Stadium.
Hint: Two
years before he was a league MVP, he was traded for an MVP and future Hall of
Famer, straight up.
Twint: He
tied
Hall of Famer Goose
Goslin when, on 21-Jul-1975,
he grounded into four (4!) double plays in one game.
A. JOE TORRE
(2,342 H, 252 HR, 2,326 W as Mgr.; Cycle 27-Jun-1973;
MVP
in 1971, traded 17-Mar-1969 for Orlando
Cepeda, who had been MVP in
1967; Victor Martinez on 11-Sep-2011
GIDP X 4)
FCR - Alex
Griffel, Great Neck, NY
*Two games as player/mgr
Incorrect answers: Harvey
Kuenn., Mike Easler, Don Baylor, Dusty Baker, Felipe Alou, Bill
Virdon, Frank Robinson
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who,
translated, is the Lion from the Boulder?
Hint: Others
have chosen nicknames less patrician for him.
Hint: Were
he slightly less of a showman, he would have borrowed Yogi’s quip: “I never
really said everything that I said.”
Hint: What
he DID say was, "I made a game effort to argue but two things were against
me: The umpires and the rules."
Hint: He
was a winner on both sides of town and twice the mystery guest on “What’s My
Line?”
Hint: He
was born in the United States, but English was not his native language.
Twint: A
clue to his competitive nature can be found in this quote of his: "What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my
mother. I'd help her up, brush her off,
tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't
make it to third."
A. LEO
DUROCHER (Leo = Latin for Lion, du = “from the” in French, “rocher”
boulder in French; “The Lip” being the most famous; He is forever cited as the
source of the saying, “Nice guys finish last.”
Several sources say he admitted to saying it, others have him saying it
but denying the meaning and others still have him never having said it at
all. Durocher himself used whichever
version was most salutary at the time; Quote snatched from a rare moment of
humility; Played for the Yankees and managed the Brooklyn Dodgers and
the New York Giants; Spoke French
growing up; the quote about his mother
is the sanitized one.)
FCR - Joshua
Murphy, Iowa City, IA
Incorrect answers: Sal Maglie, Joe Garagiola, Casey Stengel,
Yogi Berra
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was honored with the first-ever monument in Yankee Stadium?
Hint: He
holds the strange record of having the most career home runs with all of them
being inside-the-park.
Hint: His
logical, law-school approach did not work with his big star.
Hint: A
future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court advised him to continue with baseball
instead of worrying ab out a career in law.
Hint: He
got his law degree anyway.
Twint: Babe
Ruth once dangled him by the ankles over the railing of a moving train car.
Twint: He
made a practice of visiting roller skating rinks in each road town his team
visited, making mental notes about how he would operate his own.
Twint: He’s
a double-unique.
A. MILLER
HUGGINS (9 IPHR; Was often at odds with G.
Ruth; William
Howard Taft was one of his law professors at U. of Cincinnati)
FCR - Neil
Cohen, Brooklyn, NY
Incorrect answers: Tony LaRussa, Joe McCarthy, Lou Gehrig, Casey
Stengel, Branch Rickey
FRIDAY
Q. Who
was the last out in the first perfect game ever pitched?
Hint: He
is the only Cleveland Blue to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of
Fame.
Hint: He
managed his team to all four Temple Cup series games.
Hint: He
twice managed the Superbas to first place finishes – the only manager to
achieve the feat even once.
Twint: He
may not have been the best manager as his team would say to him, “For Krissake!,
Just keep quiet and leave us alone. We'll
win this ball game if you only shut up.”
Twint: He
was a principal investor in the Baltimore Terrapins of the upstart Federal League.
A. NED
HANLON (He debuted in the major leagues in 1880 with the Blues – the
only year he played for the short-lived franchise (1879-84); lost in
1894-5, but 1896 and 1897 winner with Baltimore, the last two
years of the NL series where the top two teams met to decide a “champion”; 1899-1900
finished 1st in the NL; Superbas name stuck from 1899-1910; Quote from
SABR BIO)
FCR - Bob
Flynn, Chandler, AZ
Incorrect answers: Wilbert Robinson
WEEKEND
Q. Who,
though he never played in the Major Leagues, was called by Honus Wagner “one of
the greatest pitchers of all-time…smartest pitcher I’ve ever seen”?
Hint: It‘s
said that he got his nickname by beating a future Hall of Fame pitcher.
Hint: John
McGraw asked him to “tutor” Giant’s pitchers.
Twint: He
was a “Giant” in nearly every sense of the word.
A. RUBE
FOSTER (Other top players in the majors raved about him, including Frank
Chance who called him “the most finished product I’ve ever seen in the
pitcher’s box; Reported to have beaten Rube Waddell in a 1902 exhibition game;
McGraw couldn’t bring him on as a player due to the racial policies of the era,
so he brought him in as a pitching coach where he supposedly taught Christy Mathewson
his “fadeaway” pitch; He was a highly successfulChicago American Giant pitcher, a
highly successful manager, owner and Commission in the Negro Leagues as well as
sporting a 6-4 200pound frame)
FCR - CJ
Pentland, Delta, BC
Incorrect answers: Cy Williams, Smokey Joe Williams
WEEKLY THEME – Hall of Fame Managers who never
managed in the minor leagues
Manager Managing stints
Durocher BRO
1939-46, 48; NYG 1948-55; CHC 1966-72; HOU 1972-73
Huggins STL
1913-17; NYY 1918-29
Torre NYM
1977-81; ATL 1982-84; STL 1990-95; NYY 1995-2007; LAD
2008-10
Hanlon PIT
1899; PBB 1990; PIT 1891; BLN 1892-98; BRO 1988-1905; CIN 1906-07
Foster American
Giants (NNL) 1920-26
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No
one
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - People who were
multiple-time WS champions as both players and managers
Thursday - Yankee
managers
- Managers who
managed more than 1 New York team to a league pennant
- Hall of Fame
managers who managed in New York
Friday - New
York born managers who won a World Series for a New York team.
- Hall of Famer
managers who played for the Cardinals and whose resumes include time as a
player-manager
- Players who made
the Hall of Fame as managers
Weekend - One-time
player managers who got in the hall through veteran's committee voting
- HoF
player/managers
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