MONDAY — 27-Jul-2026
Q. Which
former Tiger holds the record for the most World Series home runs by a third
baseman?
Hint: #1
He has represented the U.S.A. six times in international competition.
Hint: #2
He was the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player the same year he lost the
Home Run Derby to a player who had the advantage of playing in his home park.
A. ALEX BREGMAN [B-R Bio]
-
Ans. Bregman has hit 6 HR in WS
games.: 2 in 2017, 3 in 2019 & 1 in 2022. He played for the LSU Tigers in college. He broke the previous record of 5 held
jointly by Graig Nettles & Ron Cey.
-
#1 Bregman in a USA uniform:
Year Event Result
2011 18U
Baseball World Cup 🥇 Gold
2012 18U
Baseball World Cup 🥇 Gold (All-World Team)
2013 Collegiate
National Team 🥇 Gold
2015 WBSC
Premier12 4th
place
2017 World
Baseball Classic 🥇 Gold
2026 World
Baseball Classic Returned to
Team USA roster
-
#2 The HRD in 2018 was a
Nationals Park in Washington, DC., as part of the ASG celebrations. Bregman
advanced to the finals before losing to the Nats star Bryce H
FCR - Terry
Gans, San Crlos, California
Incorrect guesses: Chipper Jones. Travis Fryman, Eddie Mathews, Miguel
Cabrera
TUESDAY — 128-Jul-2025
Q. Which former Raven owns the record for the
most postseason pitching victories in major league history?
Hint:
#1 He broke his nearly four-year-long
drought without a shutout, by pitching one on Mothers’ Day.
Hint:
#2 He led an expansion team to its first
pennant and first World Series.
A. ANDY PETTITTE [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Pettitte’s
postseason Victories:
7 in ALDS competition
7 in ALCS competition
5 in World Series
competition = 19 total
He pitched for Houston’s San Jacinto College Ravens
before going pro.
- #1 Pitching
at home for the Astros on 14-May-2006, Pettitte walked just
one, gave up 3 hits, but 0 runs throwing a 9-inning shutout—half of HOU’s
shutouts that year. His previous ShO had
been for NYY on 30-Jun-2002.
- #2 Pitching
on a staff that included Roger Clemens, Roy Oswalt & Brad Lidge, Pettitte was
a key part of Houston's first National League pennant.
FCR - Dan Schoenholz, Walnut Creek, California
Incorrect
guesses: Randy Johnson, Max Scherzer,
Jamey Wright
WEDNESDAY
— 29-Jul-2025
Q. Which Hall of Famer was the youngest pitcher to
win his 300th game?
Hint:
#1 He is the only pitcher to win thirty
games in a season seven times.
Hint: #2 He was young Casey Stengel’s coach on an amateur
team in Kansas City.
Hint: #3 He won the Kansas City bowling championship
at the age of 64.
A. KID NICHOLS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Won
#300 on 07-Jul-1900. He was 30 years, 10 months old.
- #1 John
Clarkson & Tim Keefe did it 6 times each.
Only Nichols did it 7.
Year
Record
1.) 1891 30-17
2.) 1892 35-16
3.) 1893 34-14
4.) 1894 32-13
5.) 1896 30-14
6.) 1897 31-11
7.) 1898 32-12
- #2 Nichols
also coached at Missouri Valley College during WWI.
- #3 [Channeling
a future Beatles hit?]
FCR - Mark Haynes, Dumfries, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Pud Galvin
THURSDAY -- 30-Jul-2025
Q. Which former Cincinnati Reds player hit the
first World Series grand slam this century?
Hint:
#1 He was chosen as the Most Valuable
Player of the League Championship Series preceding that World Series.
Hint:
#2 In the final season of his
eighteen-year major league career, he received the prestigious Lou Gehrig
Award.
A. PAUL KONERKO
[SABR Bio]
- Ans. Playing
for the White Sox, Konerko homered with 3 men on base in the 7th inning
of Game 2, of the in 2005 WS, off
the 1st pitch thrown by Astros reliever Chad Qualls. Scoring ahead of him sere Juan Uribe, Tadahito Iguchi
& Jermaine Dye.
- #2 The
2014 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award went to Konerko, capping off his
career. [N.B. There exists
some controversy about whether Konerko was that year’s winner. Wikipedia and MLB are on one side, everyone
else lists Adrian Beltre as the 2014 winner.]
FCR - Jeff Papas, White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Incorrect
guesses: Josh Hamilton, Addison Russel,
Tony Perez, Paul O’Neill, Shane Victorino
SABR 54
BONUS —
30-Jul-2025
Q. Which one-time White Sox player spent more
than fifty per cent of his games in the outfield as a rookie, but played 101 of
his 138 games at first base the very next season?
Hint: #1 The first year he hit twenty home runs, he fell
just short of stealing twenty bases that same season.
Hint: #2 Once, when chastised for smoking and drinking
as a professional athlete responded, “I ain't an athlete, lady, I'm a baseball
player.”
- Ans. Kruk
was drafted by, broke in with & spent his first 2+ years with SDP. In his final season, he played 45 games with &
homered twice for, CHW.
- #1 In
1987 for PHI, Kruk successfully stole 18 bases and was thrown out 10 times.
- #2 Case
closed? Perhaps not. His physique may have suggested otherwise, but
a career with 34 triples and 58 stolen bases point to a considerably better
athlete than he claimed to be.
FCR - Stephen Wright, Naperville, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Dick Allen, Darin Erstad, Joey
Votto, Ron Leflore, Josh Hamilton, Chipper Jones, Roy Sievers
FRIDAY — 31-Jul-2025
Q. Who is only the fifth switch-hitter to reach
the four-hundred-home run mark?
Hint:
#1 One year, he hit more than twenty
home runs, all from the left side, before the All-Star Game.
Hint:
#2 He is currently campaigning to be a
U.S. Congressman.
A. MARK TEIXEIRA [B-R Bio]
- Ans. Teixeira
hit his 400th HR (& 401st) on 03-Jul-2016. He hit his last one later that year, ending
with 409. Only switch-hitters Mickey
Mantle (536), Eddie Murray (504), Chipper Jones (468) & Carlos
Beltran (435) hit more.
- #1 After
hitting 27 HR before the 2005 ASG, Teixeira’s 1st, he started at
first base & homered in the 6th inning off lefty Dontrelle Willis. As a result, it was his first right-handed HR
of the season.
- #2 Teixeira
is the Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Texas's 21st
Congressional District. He won the GOP
primary in March, advancing to face Democratic candidate Kristin Hook in the
general election on 03-Nov-2026.
FCR - Jaime Aron, Dallas
Incorrect
guesses:
SATURDAY
— 01-Aug-2025
Q. Who ranks just one place ahead of Cy Young in
career Fewest Bases-on-Balls per Nine Inning Pitched?
Hint:
#1 He was once an All-Star in the Cape
Cod League while playing for the Harbor Hawks and is a former Scarlet Knight
and Lion.
Hint:
#2 He earned a master's degree in
psychology at Boston University and authored a book
with a title that paraphrases the wisdom of Yogi Berra.
A. BOB TEWKSBURY [Wiki Bio]
- Ans. Tewksbury’s
BB/IP rate at 1.4543, is slightly
better than Young’s 1.4890. Tewksbury ranks
23rd overall, but 3rd-best in the Live Ball Era.
- #1 He has
the most MLB games pitched, inning pitched & most wins among alumni of Rutgers
University of New Brunswick New Jersey as well as among alumni of St. Leo
University of St. Leo, Florida. Tewk starred for the Harbor Hawks of the wood-bat Cape
Cod League.
- #2 His
book is titled, “Ninety Percent Mental”.
FCR - Walt Cherniak, Woodbine, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Ron Guidry
AN
AUGUST* QUERY—
02-Aug-2025
Q. Who threw the pitch that earned an opposing
player an unwanted nickname?
Hint:
#1 He was the pitching half of the
battery who first threw out Rickey Henderson twice in a single game.
Hint:
#2 He appeared on the cover of Sports
Illustrated as a promising rookie.
*Pronounced
“aug-GUST” and not “AUG-ust”.
A. MIKE TORREZ [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Torrez’
16-win 1978 season was forgotten with 1 pitch when he gave up a 3-run HR to
light-hitting Yankee shortstop, Bucky Dent, in the late innings
of the season-ending, division-deciding 163rd game.
- #1 On 07-Jun-1980, Henderson, after
successfully stealing 2nd base, was thrown out trying to steal 3rd
base in the 5th inning by BOS C Doug Rader. Henderson got caught again by Rader while attempting
to steal 2nd base in the 7th inning.
- #2 Torrez
appeared on the 11-Mar-1967 issue with Johnny
Bench, Cisco Carlos, Alan Foster & Don Pepper. Torrez’ MLB career was 18 years long. In this cover photo, only Bench came close w/17. Foster was next w/10 years followed by Carlos
w/4. Don Pepper had 3 AB in 4 games in
1966 but quit baseball to run the family's turkey farm when his father died.
FCR - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Incorrect
guesses: Jerry Augustine, Don August
THEME: Players born in state capital cities
Topeka,
Kansas................................. Torrez
................... 22.9
Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.................... Pettitte................... 60.2
Annapolis,
Maryland.......................... Teixeira................. 50.5
Concord,
New Hampshire................. Tewksbury............ 20.8
Albuquerque,
New Mexico................ Bregman............... 45.2
Providence,
Rhode Island................. Konerko................ 28.0
Charleston,
West Virginia.................. Kruk....................... 25.1
Madison,
Wisconsin........................... Nichols................ 118.2
Addition
qualifiers include
-
Hartford,
Connecticut......................... Randy
Bush........... 37.5
Boise,
Idaho....................................... Vance
Law............. 10.6
Lansing,
Michigan.............................. Vic
Saier.................. 15.0
Jackson,
Mississippi.......................... Chet
Lemon........... 55.6
Jefferson
City, Missouri..................... Steve
Rogers......... 44.7
Lincoln,
Nebraska.............................. Les
Mann............... 14..6
Trenton,
New Jersey......................... George
Case......... 17.8
Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma................. Bullet
Rogan.......... 57.8
Salem,
Oregon................................... Scott
Hatteberg...... 10.0
Columbia,
South Carolina.................. Kirby
Bigbe............ 17.7
Pierre,
South Dakota......................... Floyd
Bannister...... 26.4
Nashville,
Tennessee........................ Roy
Cullenbine...... 32.2
Richmond,
Virginia............................ Billy
Nash............... 33.8
Olympia,
Washington........................ Geoff
Jenkins......... 21.9
Cheyenne,
Wyoming......................... Brandon
Nimmo..... 28.0
(There
are, of course, many others.)
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Incorrect
theme guesses:
Mon - Players
who hit 3 GS in a calendar month
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