MONDAY
Q. Who said, “I think I was the best ballplayer I ever saw.”
Hint: Willie McCovey said, “He was the finest player I ever saw, make no mistake about it.”
Twint: Leo Durocher said, “He’s Joe Louis, Jascha Heifetz, Sammy Davis and Nashua rolled into one.”
A. Willie Mays
First Correct Respondent - Alan Work, White Plains, NY
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who is the career home run leader among players born in Netherlands?
Hint: His 35 minor league home runs in 2010 led the entire Mariners franchise (including the Major and minor league teams).
Hint: He was part of the European Big League Tour in Netherlands earlier this month.
Hint: He played for the Gold Medal-winning Dutch team in the 2007 European Championship and also for the Dutch team in the 2009 WBC.
Twint: His sister is a professional basketball player in Europe.
Twint: His father won a silver medal with the Dutch national baseball team in the 1979 European Championship.
A. Greg Halman (2 HR, Robert Eenhoorn is the only other Netherlands native to hit a ML HR; sister Naomi Halman plays for Canary Islands)
FCR - Paul Hirsch, Danville, CA
TUESDAY
Q. Who said, “Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting!”
Hint: Mel Ott said, “He stopped everything behind the plate, and hit everything in front of it.”
Twint: Paul Richards said, “He’s the toughest man in the league in the last three innings.”
A. Yogi Berra
FCR - J.R. Richardson, Clarksville, MD
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who said, “If there ever has been a man born to be a hitter, it was me.”
Hint: Stan Musial said, “He was the greatest hitter of our era.”
Twint: Carl Yastrzemski said, “He studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market.”
A. Ted Williams
FCR - Peter Mitchell, Mission Viejo, CA
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who said, “I’m a great BP pitcher. Now I realize I was throwing BP the last few years of my career.”
Hint: Ted Williams said, “He had the best fastball of any left-hander I ever faced.”
Twint: Tris Speaker said, “If nothing happens to this kid, he’s going to be one of the best who ever pitched.”
A. Herb Score
FCR - Russ Lake, Champaign, IL
THURSDAY
Q. Who said, “I don’t care much for Halloween because its colors remind me of the Giants.”
Hint: About him future Giants manager Roger Craig said, “He was a great defensive player. He could jump higher than any outfielder I ever saw.”
Twint: Gene Mauch opined, “He looked better striking out than any of us did hitting a triple.”
A. Duke Snider
FCR - Christopher Bell, New York
THANKFULLY: A DOUBLE-HARBAUGH BONUS
Q. Who said, “As long as I have a chance to beat you, I’m going to take it.”
Hint: Tommy Lasorda said, “He was my idol. He had an electrifying personality, and he was the most aggressive manager I’ve ever seen.”
Twint: Branch Rickey said, “He had the ability to take a bad situation and make it immediately worse.”
A. Leo Durocher
FCR - Russ Lake, Champaign, IL
FRIDAY
Q. Who pointed out, “There was anti-Semitism throughout my playing days, and it came from the stands, it came from the managers, the coaches and players.”?
Hint: Cleveland columnist Hal Lebovitz said, “He was like Albert Belle in that he was a perfectionist and very emotional.”
Twint: Casey Stengel said, “He’ll give you the works every time: Gets all the hits, gives you the hard tag in the field. That feller’s a real competitor.”
A. Al Rosen
FCR - Henry Hascup, Lodi, NJ
SATURDAY
Q. Who said, “I throw the ball as hard as ever, it just takes longer to get to the plate.”
Hint: Kansas City columnist Bill Vaughn said, “He’s a pretty good pitcher for a hitter.”
Twint: Maury Wills (recovered from alcohol and cocaine addictions) said, “I’m standing here with the man who saved my life. He was a channel for God’s love for me because he chased me all over Los Angeles trying to help me.”
A. Don Newcombe
FCR - Randall Chandler, Germantown, TN
SUNDAY
Q. Who said, “Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.”?
Hint: Vin Scully said, “I always imagined him as the type of guy who would ride shotgun on a stagecoach through Indian country.”
Twint: Sparky Anderson said, “He’s my hero. He’s inconspicuous and the players do the job.”
A. Walter Alston
FCR - Henry Hascup, Lodi, NJ
WEEKLY THEME – Major leaguers who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1955, its first full year of publication.
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Gregg Gaylord, Chicago (after the Durocher question)
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