MONDAY
Q. What
season began the Cubs’ current fruitless run of no World Series championship?
Hint: It
was player/manager Frank Chance’s first full season as skipper where the team
didn’t at least go to the World
Series.
Hint: The
ERA for the entire pitching staff that year was a microscopic 1.74, second best
all-time in modern day play.
Hint: The
record, BTW, was set by them, two
years earlier.
Twint: Only
two players on the team hit more than two home runs that year.
A. 1909 CHICAGO
CUBS (Last WS championship W:
1908; 1907 ERA 1,73; 4 HR ea: Frank
Schulte, Joe
Tinker)
FCR - Morris
Buenemann, Florissant, MO
Incorrect answers: 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915
TUESDAY
Q. Playing
on which team did Maury Wills set the single-season plate appearances record
that would stand for over a decade?
Hint: They
also had the first ever Cy Young Award winner from a team in their time zone.
Twint: Wills
also broke Ty Cobb’s single-season, modern era stolen base record that year.
A. 1962 LOS
ANGELES DODGERS (759 PA, broken by Pete Rose in 1974; CYA Don Drysdale,
Pacific
Time Zone; 104 SB to Cobb’s
96 in 1915)
FCR - Douglas
Sher, Charleston, SC
Incorrect answers: Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos
WEDNESDAY
Q. No
team that Casey Stengel managed, ever won as many games as his 1962 Mets
lost. Which team came closest?
Hint: A
rookie pitcher won twenty games for them to lead the team that year.
Hint: In
his seven additional seasons in the majors, that young pitcher would never
again come close to that performance.
Twint: They
were the first Yankee team to have a league MVP without winning the pennant.
A. 1954
NEW YORK YANKEES (1962 NYM lost 120, 1954 NYY won 103; Bob
Grim, 20-6; MVP:
Yogi
Berra)
FCR - Steve
Schwartz, Chico, CA
Incorrect answers: 1952 NYY, 1953 NYY, 1956 NYY, 1858 NYY, 1961
NYY, 1962 NYY
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Which
of manager Dusty Baker’s twenty teams won the most games?
Hint: A
home run by Mike Piazza on the final day of the regular season took the wind
out of their sails.
Hint: Two
members of that team have become successful major league managers.
Hint: Another
has become one of the most respected pitching coaches.
Twint: It
was the last year before the advent of the Wild Card.
Twint: It
was Baker’s first year as a manager.
A. 1993 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
(103 W;
Mgrs. Matt
Williams, Bud
Black; Pitching coach Dave
Righetti; Wild card put in place in 1994, first implemented in 1995)
FCR - Morris
Buenemann, Florissant, MO
Incorrect answers: 1991 SFG, 2001 SFG, 2003 SFG, Frank Robinson,
Tony LaRussa
THURSDAY
Q. What
team finished only three games behind the Yankees, yet the only league leader
they had in ANY offensive category was in Fewest At-bats per Strikeouts?
Hint: The
four pitchers in their starting rotation averaged nineteen wins apiece.
Hint: Their
staff leader took home the Cy Young Award, the sixth time this franchise had
boasted that honor.
Twint: Their
manager and two of their players would end up in the Hall of Fame.
A. 1980
BALTIMORE ORIOLES (Rich Dauer
29.3 AB/K; Pitchers’ Ws: Stone
25,
McGregor 20,
Flanagan
16, Palmer16;
HOF’ers: Mgr. Earl
Weaver, Eddie
Murray, Jim Palmer)
FCR - Charlie
Vascellaro, Baltimore, MD
Incorrect answers: 1953 CLE
FRIDAY
Q. What
team’s leading hitter had an average that was more than 70 points higher than
any he’d had before and any he would have later in his seventeen-year major
league career?
Hint: The
highest previous average for a year belonged to Ted Williams.
Hint: Some
credited the diluted talent because of the league that year, but that doesn’t
explain why most other players didn’t experience similar performance spikes.
Hint: Their
pitching staff had three in the top six in the league in wins.
Hint: The
team had made two dramatic, historic trades in the prior two years with the
team closest to it geographically.
Twint: No
team in the history of their franchise had won more game at that point.
A. 1961
DETROIT TIGERS (Norm Cash
.361 [Williams
hit .388 in 1958.]; Winning
pitchers: Frank Lary 23, Jim
Bunning 17 & Don
Mossi 15; Trade
with the Indians. Harvey Kuenn for Rocky Colavito after the 1959
season. Manager
Jimmy Dykes for Joe Gordon during the 1960 season.; 101-61)
FCR - Andrew
Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
Incorrect answers: 1978 BOS
SATURDAY
Q. What
team traded an All-Star catcher, an All-Star shortstop to the Pirates in
exchange for shortstop who would make it to the Hall of Fame?
Hint: Among
their eight starting position players were four future Hall of Famers.
Hint: Three
of the remaining four finished in the top ten of MVP voting for that season.
Hint: The
eighth starter would play on four future All-Star teams and receive MVP votes
in six of his eighteen major league seasons.
Twint: Their
Hall of Fame manager had managed and played in each of the three previous
seasons, but sat himself down this year.
A. 1942
BROOKLYN DODGERS (BRO traded Pete
Coscarart (SS) and Babe Phelps (C) to
PIT for Arky Vaughan.
BRO HoFers: Billy
Herman, Pee
Wee Reese, Joe
Medwick and Vaughn,
Mickey
Owen, Pete
Reiser & Dolph
Camilli received MVP votes that year; 8th player was Dixie
Walker; Mgr. Leo Durocher)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: 1940 BRO, 1928 WSH
SUNDAY
Q. On
which team did Baby Doll, Hooks, Pug and Razor all play?
Hint: Two
teammates of theirs would later square off as managers of the 1st
and 2nd place teams in one of the American League’s closest races
ever.
Hint: Another
teammate would go to eject more players from World Series games than any other
umpire.
Twint: The
manager and two outfielders were also Cooperstown-bound.
A. 1915
DETROIT TIGERS (William
Chester “Baby Doll” Jacobson, George
August “Hooks” Dauss, Tillar H.
“Pug” Cavet & Ralph
Overton “Razor” Ledbetter; Later Mgrs. Del
Baker & Ossie Vitt
led the 1st-place Tigers and 2nd-place
Indians
respectively in 1940; Ump George Moriarity;
Mgr. Hughie
Jennings, OF Ty
Cobb & Sam
Crawford)
FCR - Steve
Bonfield, Calgary, AB
Incorrect answers: 1922 SLB, 1927 SLB
WEEKLY THEME – Teams with 100 or more
wins in a season and no postseason games played.
Team Year Wins Winner Wins
Chicago
Cubs 1909 104 PIT 110
Detroit
Tigers 1915 100 BOS 101
Brooklyn Dodgers 1942 104 STL 106
New
York Yankees 1954 103 CLE 111
Detroit Tigers 1961 101 NYY 109
Los
Angeles Dodgers 1962 102 SFN 103
Baltimore
Orioles 1980 100 NYA 103
San
Francisco Giants 1993 103 ATL 104
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Robert
Workman, Ashburn, VA
Incorrect theme guess: The theme must be
years the sum of whose digits is a prime number. 1+9+0+9=19
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