2026-02-23 BRTL players with a minimum1,000 major league games played

MONDAY  — 23-Feb-2026

Q.  Which former Seattle Mariner holds the career and season records for most times caught stealing?

Hint: #1  For each of twenty-five consecutive seasons, he had at least one game where he hit a home run as his team’s lead-off batter.

Hint: #2  He was Nolan Ryan's 5,000^th strikeout victim?

A.  RICKEY HENDERSON  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  Batteries nailed Henderson 42 times in 1982.  Ty Cobb is close behind with his 38 CS in 1915.  For his career, he was caught 325 times in 1,741 attempts for an impressively low 18.7%.  Lou Brock holds the silver position w/307 CS.  Henderson played for SEA in 2000.

-  #1  Had a lead-off HR at lest once every year from 1979-2003.

-  #2  On 22-Aug-1989 in Arlington Stadium in Texas, Henderson became Nolan Ryan’s career strikeout victim numbers 4,999 & 5,000.

FCR -  Tom Veal, Spanaway, Washington

Incorrect guesses:  Omar Vizquel, Harold Reynolds.

 

 

TUESDAY  — 24-Feb-2026

Q.  Who was the first New York Highlander’s player to triple thrice in a game in only the third year of the franchise’s existence?

Hint: #1  In spite of being widely considered by contemporary observers to be the best-fielding first baseman of his era (some said “ever”), he led three separate major leagues in erors.

Hint: #2  One year he banged out more than 100 hits, but only played in 75 games.

A.  HAL CHASE  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  On 30-Aug-1906(2), Chase tripled 3 X against WSH pitching.  He fell short of a cycle by bot hitting a mere home run, but he did have 3 singles in the 1^st game that day as New York swept the twin bill.

-  #1  Chase led in errors..

For the AL –                      For the NL –                      For the Federal League

1905 NYY w/31;                 1917 CIN w/28                  1915 BUF w/19

1909 NYY w/36

1911 NYY w/38

1912 NYY w/27                  And…

“No other player in baseball history was so richly praised for his defensive skill—no one.  His (Hal Chase’s) brilliance with the glove is easier to document than Ty Cobb’s temper, Hack Wilson’s drinking or Walter Johnson’s fastball.  It is all over the literature of the sport.”

~ Author Bill James

-  #2  He had 101 H in 1914 playing for the Buffalo Blues.

FCR -  Michael Green, Las Vegas

Incorrect guesses:  Frank Chance, Charles Comiskey

 

 

WEDNESDAY  — 25-Feb-2026

Q.  Which future Chicago White Sox outfielder did the 1969 All-Star program proclaim was the greatest New York Mets player of all time?

Hint: #1  John Olerud finally topped his all-time best Mets single-season batting average.

Hint: #2  He appeared on the television show “Everybody Loves Raymond”.

A.  CLEON JONES [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.   Nothing can stop mankind’s inexhaustible demand for superlatives.  The quote was probably framed & hung in Tom Seaver’s trophy room.  Jones played for CWH in 1976.

-  #1  Jones’s .340 in 1969 stood atop the Mets’ stats until Olerud hit .354 in 1998.

-  #2  He played himself on the episode that aired on 01-Mar-1999 “Big Shots”.

FCR -  Lawrence Adams, Oxford, England, UK

Incorrect guesses:  Tommy Davis, Art Shamsky, Tommy Agee, Keith Hernandez

 

 

MIDWEEK BONUS  — 25-Feb-2026

Q.  Which player received history’s first recorded intentional bases-on-balls?

Hint: #1  He was the 21^st player to hit for the cycle, albeit the first one who pitched regularly.

Hint: #2  He was once sent home from a road game because of the dissension he had caused his team.

A.  JIMMY RYAN  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  On 23-May-1888, Braves player/manager John Morrill ordered his pitcher, Charlie Buffington, to throw nothing but balls to the Cubs batter Jimmy Ryan because of Ryan’s reputation as a hitter.  At the time, those 2 franchises were known simply as the NL’s Boston & Chicago teams.

NOTE:  Cooperstown ‘s Bill Deane adds this update, “On 02-Aug-1881, the NL's Buffalo Bison rookie Jack Lynch was already losing to the White Stockings, 5-0, when Abner Dalrymple came up in the bottom of the eighth with the bases loaded and one out.  Dalrymple was a good hitter, but not much of a slugger to that point; he would finish the season with a .321 batting average, but only one homer in four years.  He had just a single in four at bats in this game.  The on-deck hitter, George Gore, had won the NL batting title at .360 the previous year.  Nevertheless, Lynch apparently wanted no part of Dalrymple.  According to the next day’s Chicago Tribune, “At one time, when the bases were full, Lynch deliberately sent in seven bad balls rather than take the chances of a hit by Dalrymple, who was at bat, and in this way forced a run upon Chicago.  But all to no purpose, for Gore followed with a terrific drive for two bases, and three men came in on the hit.”  Chicago went on to win, 11-2.”

-  #1  Ryan’s cycle was on 28-Jul-1888, against the Detroit Wolverines.  Ran was 4-0 that year as a pitcher, but as a hitter, led the league* in hits, doubles, home runs & slugging.

-  #2  Read details of the incident here.

*…and therefor the majors since the NL was the only major league in operation in 1888.

FCR -  Patrick Ray, Paradise Valley, Arizona

Incorrect guesses:  Joe Wood, Babe Ruth, Nap Lajoie, George Wright

 

THURSDAY  — 26-Feb-2026

Q.  About whom was it decided that he would serve the team better as a slick-fielding, good-hitting position player than as an injury-prone pitcher?

Hint: #1  He's one of six players since 1900 who started their careers in the majors as pitchers and ended up as position players while totaling more than 50 games pitched and 50 games played at other positions.

Hint: #2  He played for five teams in the majors without ever being traded.

Hint: #3  He was one of the players interviewed by Lawrence Ritter for the 1966 baseball classic “The Glory of Their Times”.

A.  RUBE BRESSLER  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  In all or parts of 19 seasons 1914-1931, Bressler had 1,170 hits, 187 doubles, 87 triples & hit .301 with a career WAR of 19.3.  Pitching in all or parts of 7 seasons, he had a record of 26-32, an ERA of 3.40, 229 K with a career pitching WAR of 0.7.

-  #1  Career MLB record.

-  #2  In 1913, he was purchased by the PHA;

In 1917, he was purchased by Atlanta (Southern Association);

Also in 1917, he was drafted by CIN;

In 1928, he was selected off waivers by BRO;

In 1932, he signed as a free agent with PHI;

Later in1932, he signed as a free agent with STL.

-  #3  “The Glory of Their Times” synopsis.

FCR -  Jeff Freedman, Westwood, California

Incorrect guesses:  Sam Crawford, Smokey Joe Wood, Cy Seymour, Lefty O’Doul, Mel Queen

 

 

FRIDAY  — 27-Feb-2026

Q.  Who was the Most Valuable Player of the series that sent the Giants on to the first World Series they would win since moving to the West Coast in the Eisenhower administration?

Hint: #1  He was the star of the game in his rookie season where he hit three home runs and two fellow rookies joined him with one apiece.

Hint: #2  He played for eight major league teams in his twelve-season career.

A.  CODY ROSS  [Wiki Bio]

-  Ans.  Ross was MVP of the 2010 NLCS where SFG beat PHI to move on to the 2010 Fall Classic.  The Giants moved in 1958; Eisenhower was U.S. president 1953-61.

-  #1  On 11-Sep-2006, took Mets [pitching deep thrice.  His rookie teammates, Dan Uggla & Josh Willingham homered as well making the day unique.  In Marlins franchise history. it’s the only game with 5 HR by rookies.

-  #2  Ross played for FLA 5-yrs, ARI 2-yrs, SFG 2-yrs, LAD 2-yrs, BOS 1-yr, OAK 1-yr, DET 1-yr & CIN 1-Yr

FCR -  Matt Clairmont, New Minas, Nova Scotia

Incorrect guesses:  Edgar Renteria, Willie McCovey, Dusty Rhodes, Chuck Hiller, Orlando Cepeda

 

 

SATURDAY  — 28-Feb-2026

Q.  Who starred for Team USA in the Baseball World Cup and has a  brother who also played in the majors?

Hint: #1  He had a worthy twelve-year career in the majors but in his age thirty season—and only that year—he was an All-Star, received Most Valuable Player votes, earned Silver Slugger status, led the league in extra-base hits and had the highest one-season WAR of his career.

Hint: #2  Everyone agreed, even though he was in Paradise, he was a Rebel in college.

A.  RYAN LUDWICK  [Wiki Bio]

-  Ans.  Ludwick was one of the best on the US 1998 BWC squad.  His older brother, Eric Ludwick, a pitcher, preceded him to MLB with a 4-year career.

-  #1  I’m sure Ludwick would enjoy repeating any of his milestones/honors of 2008, but 14 other seasons could not only not duplicate that season, none of them came close.  He had made the NL AS team, received MPV votes & racked up a 5.5 WAR, essentially half of his 11.2 career WAR.  He turned 30 on 13-July, 2 days before the ASG was played.

-  #2  He stayed home to attended college, UNLV in Paradise, Nevada in 1996-1999, but the school’s rebel mascot was discontinued in 2021.

FCR -  Daniel Joslyn, Las Vegas

Incorrect guesses:  Justin Smoak, Seth Smith

 

 

SUNDAY  — 28-Feb-2026

Q.  Who hit his only two home runs on consecutive days, fifteen years into his twenty-year major league career?

Hint: #1  The following season he won his teams MVP award, voted by the local baseball writers.

Hint: #2  His father was the first major leaguer to have two sons follow him to the majors.

A.  JOHNNY COONEY  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  Cooney debuted 19-Apr-1921 & his last game was 30-Jul-1944.  He played a total of 1,172 games as a reliable player for 20 years.  However, his only two HR in all those games were in games played on Sunday, 24-Sep-1939(1) & Monday, 25-Sep-1939, playing for one of the worst teams in the NL, the Boston Bees (Braves).  Cooney did play in the 2^nd game of Sunday’s double header, so his blasts were not in back-to-back games.

-  #1  Cooney was Braves MVP in 1940.

-  #2  His father, Jimmy Cooney, played from 1890 to 1892.  His older brother, also named Jimmy, played for 6 teams over a 7-year career.

FCR -  DeLodovico, Rockville, Maryland

Incorrect guesses:  Gus Bell, Sandy Alomar Sr, Aaron Boone

 

 

WEEK’S FINALE  — 01-Mar-2026

Q.  Who played more games at third base than any other lefthander in the history of the game?

Hint: #1  He was such a good player overall that highly respected SABR researchers awarded him an Ex Post Facto Award as the hypothetical Most Valuable Player of his league one year, long before MVPs were given.

Hint: #2  He and Jimmy Macullar became the first North Americans to play professional baseball in Cuba.

A.  HICK CARPENTER  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  Of Carpenter’s 1,118 MLB games, 1,059 or 95% were played at 3^rd based.

-  #1  Pete Palmer’s & Gary Gillette’s research determined that the EPFA (?) for the American Association (AA) for 1882 deserved to be Carpenter.

-  #2  Carpenter & Macullar played in the Cuban League.  They were signed by team Colón & were so powerful that other teams refused to play against them.

FCR -  Jim Cochran, Tuscaloosa

Incorrect guesses:  Lave Cross, Eddie Mathews, Spud Johnson, Jimmy Collins, George Sisler, Kyle Seager, Roger Connor, John McGraw

 

 

 

WEEK’S THEME – BRTL players with a minimum1,000 major league games played.  Thanks to Ed Baranoski for this data.  (Bats Right Throws Left)

 

Player         WAR            HR          RBI     OPS+

Bressler............ 19.3......... 32......... 586........ 110

Carpenter.......... 4.6......... 18......... 543.......... 86

Chase................ 22.9......... 57......... 941........ 112

Cooney.............. 8.4............ 2......... 219.......... 87

Henderson...... 111.2....... 297....... 1115........ 127

Jones................ 18.0......... 93......... 524........ 110

Ludwick........... 11.2....... 154......... 587........ 109

Ross................. 13.5....... 132......... 508........ 104

Ryan................. 43.6....... 118....... 1093........ 124

First Correct Respondent identifying theme – Art Mugalia, Minneapolis (after Chase on Tuesday)

 

Incorrect theme guesses:

 

Wed     -  Players that threw left and batted right for a NY team

-   Most games played by BR, TL

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2026-02-16 Hall of Fame Pitchers with 2 triples in a game & Hall of Fame position players with 2 doubles & 2 triples in a game

MONDAY  — 16-Feb-2026

Q.  Who is the only right-hander with three consecutive pitching Triple Crown seasons?

Hint: #1  He won at least twenty games for three different National League teams.

Hint: #2  In the National League in the Modern Era, only Christy Mathewson had more seasons of thirty career complete games.

A.  GROVER CLEVELAND “Pete” ALEXANDER  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  No left-hander has ever done it.

1915 – Led NL in W (31), K (214) & ERA (1.22)

1916 – Led NL in W (33), K (241) & ERA (1.55)

1917 – Led NL in W (30), K (167) & ERA (1.83)

-  #1  Alexander won 91 for PHI, 83 for CHC & 34 for STL.

-  #2  In 6 seasons, his CG total was more than 30.  Mathewson did it 7 times.

FCR -  Kerry Osaki, Fountain Valley, California

Incorrect guesses:  Mordecai Brown, Greg Maddux, Albert Spaulding

 

 

TUESDAY  — 17-Feb-2025

Q.  In the famous “Merkle’s Boner” game, as replayed at the end of the season, Christy Mathewson was the losing pitcher.  Who was the winning pitcher?

Hint: #1  Ironically, he was the losing pitcher in Mathewson’s final career victory.            

Hint: #2  A BBTR player, he pitched for two different major league teams in Chicago.

A.  MORDECAI BROWN  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  Game on 08-Oct-1908.  Click here for details.

-  #1  Matty’s last W=04-Sep-1916.  Click for full story.

-  #2  A switch-hitter, he racked up a career total of 206 hits.  He played for the Chicago Cubs 1904-1912 & in 1914, played 33 games for the Federal League’s Chicago Whales.  There he had a record of 17-8 with a 2.09 ERA.  He went back to the Cubs in 1916 where he pitched on the final 12 games of his Hall of Fame career.

FCR -  Chris Betsch, Albany, Indiana

Incorrect guesses:  Fred Tenney

 

 

WEDNESDAY  — 18-Feb-2025

Q.  No one had more Hall of Fame teammates than this guy.  Following the clues, who is he?

Hint: #1  He was known to appear in vaudeville plays and was a mortician during the off season.

Hint: #2  Legendary broadcaster Red Barber called him, “The best of all former athletes who went to microphone, highly intelligent, industrious, great storyteller.”

A.  WAITE HOYT  [Film Bio]

-  Ans.  Hoyt (a Hall  of Famer himself) was a teammate of:

1 Home Run Baker

2 Mickey Cochrane

3 Earle Combs

4 Stan Coveleski

5 Kiki Cuyler

6 Bill Dickey

7 Leo Durocher

8 Jimmie Foxx

9 Lou Gehrig

10  Charlie Gehringer

11  Lefty Gomez

12  Hank Greenberg

13  Burleigh Grimes

14  Lefty Grove

15  Harry Hooper

16  Carl Hubbell

17  Travis Jackson

18  George Kelly

19  Tony Lazzeri

20  Al Lopez

21  Freddie Lindstrom

22  Heinie Manush

23  Mel Ott

24  Herb Pennock

25  Red Ruffing

26  Babe Ruth

27  Al Simmons

28  Bill Terry

29  Jim Thorpe (Football HOF)

30  Pie Traynor

31  Dazzy Vance

32  Arky Vaughan

33  Lloyd Waner

34  Paul Waner

35  Hack Wilson

36  Ross Youngs

Most lists show Burleigh Grimes with an equal in number of HOF teammates.

 

Was also on teams managed by Hall of Fame skippers:

1-    John McGraw

2-    Ed Barrow

3-    Miller Huggins

4-    Connie  Mack

5-    Bill Terry

6-    Pie Traynor

7-    Burleigh Grimes

-  #1  He peaked at $16,000 a year, but his average was around $10K.  He and almost every other major leaguer at the time need to work in the off-season.

-  #2  He was the play-by-play voice of the Cincinnati Reds for 24 seasons,

FCR -  Michael Green, Las Vegas

Incorrect guesses:  Eddie Collins, Lefty Gomez, Phil Rizzuto, Dizzy Dean, Burleigh Grimes

 

 

THURSDAY — 20-Feb-2025

NOTE:  Thursday's is the last of this week's 4-question theme.  The new theme starts on Friday.

Q.  Who is the only left-handed pitcher to suffer twenty or more losses in a season for the Giants?

Hint: #1  He is the last pitcher to earn a win after allowing eight runs in the first two innings of a game.

Hint: #2  As a lad, he was a batboy for Cleveland.

A.  RUBE MARQUARD  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  In 1914 Marquard had a records of 12-22.  No Giants pitcher has lost as many as 20 in a season since then.

-  #1  On 14-May-1913, Marquard was roughed up in he 1^st & 2^nd innings, but stayed on the mound through the 6^th.  He eventually gave up 11 runs, 7 of which were earned.  His teammates came through for him ad he got the W with some help from Red Ames out of the bullpen.

-  #2  As a young teenager, he spent his halcyon summer days at League Park, serving as a batboy for the Cleveland Broncos, who became the Naps when Lajoie joined the team in 1902.

FCR -  Barry Nelson, Guilderland, New York

Incorrect guesses:  Monty Kennedy, Roger Craig, Hooks Wiltse

 

THEME:  Hall of Fame Pitchers with 2 triples in a game

 

Player                   Date

Alexander............. 06-Jun-1917

 

Brown.................. 1910-07-31(1)

 

Hoyt..................... 08-Jun-1925

 

Marquard............. 24-Jul-1911

 

First Correct Respondent identifying theme – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Incorrect theme guesses:

Thur     -  Deadball Era starting pitchers

-   Hall of Fame pitchers who had at least 2 seasons with 20 wins and had a 2-0 record with an ERA of 1.50 or better in a World Series

-   Hall of Fame pitchers who had at least 2 seasons with 20 wins and had a 2-0 record with an ERA of 1.50 or better and at least one complete game in a World Series before 1930.  They also played on separate time periods for a team in the same city.

 

 

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2^nd half-week theme begins here

 

FRIDAY  — 20-Feb-2025

Q.  Who is the most recent batter to drive in at least a hundred runs in a season but strikeout fewer than ten times?

Hint: #1  He is the only twentieth-century American League batter with five extra-base hits in one game.

Hint: #2  He captained his high school basketball team to the state championship game three times, winning once.

Hint #3  In college, he led both the basketball and baseball teams to championships of the Big Ten Conference.

A.  LOU BOUDREAU  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  In 1948, Boudreau’s MVP season, he had 106 RBI & struck out 9 X.

-  #1  Four doubles & a HR makes for a fine day’s offensive output.  Six ALers have done it in the 21^st century.  Only 3 NL players did it in the 20^th century.

-  #2  Thornton Township HS in Harvey, Illinois, is where he led the "Flying Clouds" to 3 consecutive Illinois high school championship games, winning in 1933, finishing as runner up in 1934 & 1935.

-  #3  Boudreau attended the University of Illinois.  During the 1936-37 basketball & baseball seasons, he led each Fighting Illini team to a Big Ten Conference title & was named a NCAA Men's Basketball All-American.

FCR -  Dave Williams, Glastonbury, Connecticut

Incorrect guesses:  Joe Sewell, Nick Kurtz, Mark Whiten, Charlie Gehringer, Tommy Holmes, Frank Howard, George Kell, Tony Gwynn

 

IN MEMORIAM  — 21-Feb-2025

Q.  Who turned more career double plays than any other second baseman in major league history?

Hint: #1  He once said, “Over seventeen years, saving thousands of runs is like driving in thousands of runs.”

Hint: #2  He was the first player in his franchise to have a 163-games-played season.

Hint: #3  He was not as well-known for his offensive skills, but his first two career home runs were hit while he was still a teenager.

Hint: #4  A legendary broadcaster came to refer to him simply as “The Glove”.

Hint: #5  His fielding counterpart in the postseason one year beat him out of one prestigious award.

Hint: #6  He was succeeded in his position on the team by another Hall of Fame player.

Hint: #7  He received high praise for his fielding from the media & a fellow Gold Glove-winning teammate.

Hint: #8  Few athletes ever enjoyed a more joyous on-field celebration.

A.  BILL MAZEROSKI  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  Maz was involved in 1,706 double plays well ahead of Nellie Fox’s 2^nd-place 1,619.

-  #1  Mazeroski was the premier defensive second baseman of his era.  With great hands, quick feet, a sure arm & great range, he turned the double play into an art form.

-  #2  He played in every game on the Pirates’ 1967 schedule, a record he held alone until Bobby Bonilla tied it in 1989.

-  #3  Mazeroski’s 20^th birthday was 05-Sep-1956.  The first 2 of his 138 career home run came on    16-Aug-1956 (off Robin Roberts no less!) & 19-Aug-1956(1).

-  #4  Ford Frick award-winning, long-time Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince coined the apt nickname.

-  #5  NYYs’ 2^nd baseman Bobby Richardson had 11 hits, 8 runs & 12 RBI in the 1960 WS.  He was selected as The Sporting News 1960 World Series MVP, the only player to win that honor playing on a losing WS team.  Mazeroski was honored with the Babe Ruth Award.

-  #6  Mazeroski was the Pirates’ team captain from 1963 until his retirement after the 1972 season.  Formidable slugger Willie Stargell was then named team captain & served in that honored role from 1973 through 1982

-  #7  Bill Virdon (1962 GG winner), marveled at Maz, ”Nobody ever played second base like he did, and I've been in the game 50 years.  The impressive thing about Maz was that he did everything perfectly.  I backed him up for 10 years and never got a ball.”  Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Jim Murray observed in a 1966 column, “A half-century ago, a second base combination made something like nine double plays in a season and a poet (Franklin P. Adams) immortalized them with a poem, ‘Tinker to Evers to Chance'… Mazeroski makes 161 and they abbreviate his name in the box score.”

-  #8  On 13-Oct-1960, at 3:36 PM Eastern Time, Mazeroski hit the only walk-off home run in a World Series Game Seven, when he smacked his epic bottom-of-the-ninth homer to decide the 1960 World Series.  The attendance was 36,683, many of whom were at home plate ecstatically awaiting Mazeroski.

FCR -  John Michael Pierobon, Fort Lauderdale

Incorrect guesses:  Ozzie Smith

 

 

SATURDAY  — 21-Feb-2025

Q.  Who hit the fiftieth home run in modern World Series history?

Hint: #1  He played for six different minor league teams, not including semipro leagues, but when he reached the majors, he wore the uniform of that team for the next nineteen years.

Hint: #2  He is the first major leaguer to have a season of six hundred at-bats without a single stolen base.

A.  BILL TERRY  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  On 04-Oct-1924, still in his rookie season, Terry hit a Walter Johnson fastball over the left field wall in the 1^st game of the World Series.  Terry was the batter that Johnson said he least liked to face.

-  #1  Terry played for NYG for 14 seasons & managed them for 10.  For five seasons, 1932-1936, he did both.

-  #2  In 1934 he was caught attempting a stolen base with Dizzy Dean pitching. That was the only time that year he even tried.  50+ major leaguers have matched it since.

FCR -  Dave Williams, Glastonbury, Connecticut

Incorrect guesses:  Willie Stargell, Ray Schalk, George Sisler, Cal Ripken

 

 

WEEKEND BONUS

Q.  Who is the only player to play on all four Boston Red Sox World Series championship teams in the twentieth century?

Hint: #1  He was the first player to lead off both games of a double header with a home run.

Hint: #2  He was one of the multiple future Hall of Famers on a team that famously finished last.

A.  HARRY HOOPER  [SABR Bio]

-  Ans.  Hooper was part of all the postseason action in:

1912 (Boston def. the Giants 4-3);

1915 (def. the Phillies 4-1);

1916 (def. Brooklyn 4-1);

1918 (def. the Cubs 4-2);

Heinie Wagner also played on these 4 teams but only played in the 1912 WS/.

The Boston Red Sox won 4 World Series.  The Boston Americans won 1.

Same franchise, but that wasn't the question.

-  #1  HR games=30-May-1913(1), 30-May-1913(2).  It had since been accomplished by Rickey Henderson (05-Jul-1993),

Brady Anderson (21-Aug-1999) &

Ronald Acuna Jr. (13-Aug-2018)

-  #2  On the White Sox in 1924 were players:

Hooper,

2B Eddie Collins,

P Ted Lyons,

P Red Faber,

C Ray Schalk

& managers in succession

Johnny Evers

 Ed Walsh &

Collins.

(That would be Ed², Red, Ted & Ev.)

FCR -  Phil Koss, Elkhorn, Wisconsin

Incorrect guesses:  Dustin Pedroia, Jimmy Collins, Johnny Damon

 

 

SUNDAY  — 22-Feb-2025

Q.  Who was the first native of Alabama to appear in an All-Star game?

Hint: #1  He once had an impressive hitting streak that mimicked the season it was done in.

Hint: #2  Five of his seven siblings also played professional baseball, but only he made the majors.

A.  HEINIE MANUSH  [Ala. Bio]

-  Ans.  Manush was the starting left fielder All-Star in the second-ever game, 1934.

-  #1  Playing for WSH in 1933, he had a 33-consecutive-game hitting streak.

-  #2  Manush was the youngest of 8 in his German-American family.

FCR – Dennis Walls, Orrington, Maine

Incorrect guesses:  Rudy York, Joe Sewell, Dixie Walker

 

 

THEME:  Hall of Fame position players with 2 doubles & 2 triples in a game

 

Player                   Date

Boudreau.............. 26-Apr-1948

 

Hooper................. 05-Sep-1919 &

 

                              28-Sep-1924

 

Manush................ 24-May-1929 &

 

                              23-Jul-1932

 

Terry.................... 13-Sep-1931(2)

 

 

First Correct Respondent identifying theme – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Incorrect theme guesses:

Fri        -  Player managers who won a world series 

 

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