MONDAY
Q. Who
was the only player to win Rookie of the Year with a New York Giant and a New
York Yankee finishing 2nd and 3rd in the same voting respectively?
Hint: He
was later traded to the New York Giants, but chose to retire rather than accept
that indignity.
Twint: He
once “called out” the Yankees for not racially integrating sooner.
A. JACKIE
ROBINSON (1947
ROY vote, only one award for the majors; NYG Larry Jansen 2nd,
NYY Spec Shea 3rd; charged the NYY organization, but not the
players, with racism on NBC)
FCR - Doug
Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers:
TUESDAY
Q. What
former Compton High School quarterback holds the National League record for
career World Series home runs?
Hint: He
holds the record for most homers against any single pitcher.
Hint: Two
of those homers were the last two hit in Ebbetts Field.
Twint: His
first two career homers came in the first game of a doubleheader, the first of
which was hit inside-the-park.
A. DUKE
SNIDER (19 HR off
Robin Roberts; 22-Sep-1957
he had two 2-R homers; 1st inning IPHR and 7th inning 2-R
shot both off Curt Simmons 2-May-1948(1))
FCR - Doug
Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Hank
Aaron, Roy Campanella
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
won the first Gold Glove given to a first baseman?
Hint: Along
with Willie Mays and Roy McMillan, he took the honor the first three years it
was awarded.
Hint: Dal
Maxville broke his infamous record of futility by going 0-22 in the 1968 World
Series.
Twint: Unlike
Maxville, he did manage to get an RBI on a line drive off the man who finished
2nd in the AL MVP voting that year.
A. GIL
HODGES (1957-9 GG
Awards; Hodges went 0-21 in the 1952 WS; Allie
Reynolds won game 7, the same game Hodges got his RBI, and finished second
to Bobby
Shantz for the AL MVP)
FCR - Roy
Glasser, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Incorrect answers: Ted Kluszewski, Vic Power
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Whose
near-fatal kidney ailment led to a 42-year broadcasting career after nine years
as a productive player in the majors?
Hint: He
won his state’s prep Player of the Year honors in football and basketball, the first
player to receive both awards in different sports in the same year.
Hint: His
home run in the ninth inning of a World Series seventh game was too little too
late.
Twint: His
high school teammate was Dick Musial, Stan’s son.
A. MIKE
SHANNON (Played 1962-1970 for STL, Has been in the broadcast booth for
them since 1972; Attended Christian Brothers College
HS in Clayton, MO, a suburb of
St. Louis; WS HR off Mickey
Lolich [WS MVP] 10-Oct-1968)
FCR - Mike
McCroskey, Sugar Land, TX
Incorrect answers: Jerry Coleman, Pee Wee Reese, Tony Kubek, Ron
Santo, Ralph Kiner, Bill Skowron, Joe Garagiola, Bob Feller, Rex Barney,
Jim Gilliam, Ken Harrelson
THURSDAY
Q. Who
holds the Dodger franchise record for most triples in a season by a catcher?
Hint: Four
times he hit at least seven three-baggers in a season—the only catcher to do it
more than once wearing a Dodger uniform.
Hint: His
first career home run was the only walk-off home run he would hit in his
fourteen-year stay in the majors.
Twint: He
wrote an autobiography about great days and “Other Days with Others”.
A. JOHN
ROSEBORO (Nine 3B 1958, 7 each ’59, ’62-3; HR 19-July-1957
against the Cubs driving in Hodges
and Cimoli,
Roseboro’s 12th G, but only his 1st @ C [Incidentally, it
was Gil
Hodges Night.; From Glory Days with the Dodgers and Other Days with
Others, referring to his encounter with Juan
Marichal who infamously retaliated against a Roseboro “brush-back
throw-back” by hitting Roseboro on the head with his bat.)
FCR - Mel
Williams, Middlebury, IN
Incorrect answers: Steve Yeager, Mike Piazza, Mickey Owen, Paul
Lo Duca, Duke Ferrell, Bruce Edwards, Tommy Corcoran, Mike Scioscia
FRIDAY
Q. Alfonso
Soriano was the second player to hit his 200th career home run at
RFK Stadium. Who was the first?
Hint: He
was also the first player to hit ten home runs in a span of 20 at-bats.
Hint: Only
he, Frank Robinson, Dick Allen and Mark McGwire won a Rookie of the Year Award
in one league and a home run title in the other.
Twint: He
was the only player to win a home run title for that franchise in that city.
A. FRANK
HOWARD (200th FR 14-Apr-1968,
Soriano’s
200th 13-Aug-2006;
HR run 12‑15‑May‑1968 [That certainly was not the WEEK of the Pitcher!]; HRs
Title 1968, 70)
FCR - Dean
Kloner, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Vlad Guerrero, Carlos Delgado, Dick Allen,
Jason Bay, Carlos Beltran, Miguel Cabrera
SATURDAY
Q. Who
had a higher batting average than any other qualifying catcher in the “Year of
the Pitcher”?
Hint: …or
any other player on his team?
Hint: He
once came to bat in a major league regular-season game when his brother was the
home-plate umpire.
Twint: He
figures in a famous Danny Kaye song.
Twint: He
was in the first trade between the Giants and Dodgers since they moved west.
A. TOM HALLER(.285
in 1968; Brother Bill
Haller umped in the majors 1961, 63-82, worked the game on 14-Jul-1972;
Kaye’s
“The Dodger Song”
describing a fictionalized Giants/Dodgers game; Traded with Francis
Kacheta from SFG to LAD for Ron
Hunt & Nate
Oliver on 13-Feb-1968. It was the
first trade between those two teams since they moved from New York)
FCR - Kevin
Warren, Briarcliff Manor, NY
Incorrect answers: Dick Dietz, Bill Kunkel, Bill Haller
SUNDAY
Q. Who
became a deputy sheriff in Berks County, Pennsylvania after retiring from
baseball?
Hint: He
took his only major league team to court because of how they released him.
Hint: He
won a substantial settlement, but eliminated his chances of working in baseball.
Hint: Though
he would become a major league All-Star in the outfield, his minor league
manager tried to convert him into a pitcher.
Hint: Accuracy
was a problem and he was too good a hitter not to have in the lineup on a daily
basis.
Twint: He
won a National League batting title, hitting 33 points higher than his teammate
who won the MVP.
A. CARL
FURILLO (Sued the Dodgers in 1960; Minor
league mgr. Fresco
Thompson, AS in 1952,
53;
Hit 345 in 1953, MVP
teammate Roy
Campanella hit .312)
FCR - Bob
Kimball, Sutton, MA
Incorrect answers: Curt Flood, Rocky Colavito, Dick Allen, Buck
Weaver
WEEKLY THEME – Guys with a World Series
home run off Hall of Famer and holder of numerous World Series records: WHITEY FORD
Year Batter Date Gm Inning
1955 Furillo 28-Sep-1955 1 2nd
Snider 28-Sep-1955 1 3rd
1956 Robinson 03-Oct-1956 1 1st
Snider 03-Oct-1956 1 3rd
1962 Haller 08-Oct-1962 4 2nd
1963 Roseboro 02-Oct-1963 1 2nd
Howard 06-Oct-1963 4 5th
1964 Shannon 07-Oct-1964 1 6th
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Steve
Schwartz, Chico, CA
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - "The Boys of
Summer"
- Dodger Heroes
Wed. - Players
on the last BROOKLYN Dodger team (1956) to have the number 4 as part of their
uniform number.
- Players that
played for all the Dodger pennant winners from 1947 to 1956
- Players in
more than one World Series with the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Dodger players
on the field when Bobby Thomson hit “The Shot Heard Round the World”?
- Members of the
55 Dodgers WS Team
- Men who played with the Brooklyn Dodgers during all
four of their 1950s World Series
- Dodgers staring line up in
the 1952 World Series
- Ebbets Field
all-time hits leaders (>1500)?
- Home run in
game 7 of WS being on losing team
Saturday - Two-sport
college athletes
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