MONDAY
Q. Who
struck out seventeen batters in a major league game at the tender age of
seventeen?
Hint: He
had a game of fifteen Ks just three weeks prior.
Hint: He
graced the cover of Time magazine and THEN graduated from high school.
Twint: His
rise to fame was as rapid as his fastball.
A. BOB
FELLER (17 K G 13-Sep-1936;
15 K G 23-Aug-1936;
Time cover 19-Apr-1937,
Graduation in May)
FCR - Timothy
Kearns, Washington, DC
Incorrect answers: Dwight Gooden, Stephen Strasburg, David Clyde,
Joe Nuxhall, Mark Fidrych, Herb Score, Lindy McDaniel
MONDAY ALSO
Q. What
fireballer ranks in the Top 5 for career strikeouts for three different
franchises?
Hint: He
won a World Series ring with the only other team he played with.
Hint: All
four of the franchises he played for didn’t exist when Ted Williams played.
Twint: By
a whopping margin of 50, he holds the modern career record for wild pitches.
A. NOLAN RYAN
(Angels: #1 w/2,416 K, Astros: #1 w/1,866 K, Rangers #4 w/939 K [With the Mets,
he only [ONLY!} ranks 23rd w/493 K.]; WS ring with the 1969 Mets; WP
record 277, runner-up is Phil
Niekro @ 226)
FCR - Eugene
Schwartz, Weston, CT
Incorrect answers: Randy Johnson, Bert Blyleven, Roger Clemens, Curt
Schilling
TUESDAY
Q. What
Hall of Famer was the only pitcher to hit a walk-off grand slam for the
Yankees?
Hint: He
is the only Yankee pitcher to throw over 200 complete games for them.
Hint: No
Yankee pitcher hit more career home runs and that doesn’t even take into
account the ones he hit for the Red Sox and White Sox.
Twint: He
holds the all-time record for losses in a season by a Red Sox pitcher.
Twint: He’s
also in second place on the same list.
A. RED
RUFFING (GS 14-Apr-1933;
162 CG [Next is Lefty
Gomez w/173]; 30 HR for NYY [6 for BOS, 0 for CHW; 25 L in 1928, 22 L in
1929)
FCR - Fred
Worth, Arkadelphia, AR
Incorrect answers: Babe Ruth, Vic Raschi, Jack Chesbro, Bob Grim,
Ed Lopat
TUESDAY ALSO
Q. What
pitcher with 109 career losses did the Indians trade to the Giants for another
pitcher with 109 career losses?
Hint: Their
years of major league service, salaries and career WAR were also nearly
identical.
Hint: He
retired #8 on the all-time strikeout list in the liveball era. The player he was traded for now occupies that
very spot.
Hint: When
he joined the Indians as a rookie, he was five years younger than any other
pitcher on the team.
Twint: Teammate
All-Star pitcher Dick
Radatz once said of him, "We thought he was just stupid. It turned out he was never sober."
Twint: He
(Not Radatz) later became the Pirates' drug and alcohol counselor.
A. SAM
McDOWELL (Traded for Gaylord Perry: 9
yrs. Each, 1971 salaries $72K/$75K, WAR 42.3/42.3.; 18 Yrs old in 1961, next
were Joe
Shaffernoth and Bob
Allen @ 23)
FCR - Mark
Jones, Birmingham, AL
Incorrect answers: Gaylord Perry, Jack McDowell, Jim Perry
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
was the only pitcher in American League history to clinch a pennant with a
no-hitter?
Hint: He
was with the Indians, but not chiefly.
Hint: He
was drafted by the Giants but never played for them.
Twint: In
the only trade of his thirteen-year career, he was traded straight-up for a
future Hall of Famer.
Twint: No
other players were involved on either side.
Twint: He
was on the winning side in the World Series every time he played in the
postseason.
A. ALLIE
REYNOLDS (29-Sep-1951; Nicknamed “Superchief”, he is a Creek Indian;
Drafted by the NFL New York Giants; Traded
11-Oct-1946 by CLE
to NYY for
Joe
Gordon; 6 WS rings: 1947, 1949-53)
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Chief Bender, Kerry Wood, Roy Halladay, Mike
Scott, Mike Garcia, Tommy John, Early Wynn
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
was the first left-handed pitcher to win a Rookie of the Year Award?
Hint: Led
his league in wild pitches in both his first two seasons.
Twint: The
Red Sox once offered Hank Greenberg’s
Indians $1,000,000 to purchase his contract – and Greenberg turned it down.
A. HERB
SCORE (ROY
1955; 12 WP in 1955, 11 in 1956; Joe
Cronin offered the money [worth over $8million today] to which Greenberg
said, “Joe, I could not let you have Score.”)
FCR - Larry
Lamb, Oakwood, OH
Incorrect answers: Sandy Koufax, Sam McDowell, Warren Spahn, Roy
Halladay, Fernando Valenzuela, Whitey Ford, Gary Peters, Jon Matlack, Vida
Blue, Bobby Shantz
THURSDAY
Q. Which
pitcher holds the record for most bases on balls issued by a rookie in the post-expansion
era?
Hint: His
only World Series appearance was the last game of his career.
Hint: He
was the first American League pitcher to homer since the adoption of the
designated hitter.
Hint: He
pitched one inning and his team won by the largest World Series run
differential since 1960.
Twint: And
in that game he took the win by a single run.
A. BOBBY
WITT (143BB led the league in 1986, Sam Jones issued 185 his rookie
season in 1955; Game 6
2001 WS ARI 15-2 (13
run victory) over NYY with the record of 14 set in 1936; solo
shot 6th inning 30-Jun-1997
3-2 victory TEX over LAD)
FCR - Richard
Marston, Newport Beach, CA
Incorrect answers: Mike Morgan, Ken Holtzman
FRIDAY
Q. Which
pitcher holds the Cincinnati Reds’ franchise record for career strikeouts?
Hint: He
once threw a no-hitter only to watch his team suffer a no-hit defeat the very
next day.
Hint: He
attended the same high school from which Frank
Chance and Tom
Seaver are alumni.
Twint: He
pitched another “no-hitter” four years prior but he gave up two 11th
inning hits, and when the rules defining a no-hitter were officially changed he
lost his no-no.
Twint: Incidentally,
the first hit was a homer and he lost the game 1-0.
A. JIM
MALONEY (1,592 Ks;
30-Apr-1969
no hitter won 10-0 over HOU, Then the Astros’ Don Wilson
threw a tidy 4-0 no-no
thrown at CIN
the next day 01-May-1969;
Previous no-no: 14-Jun-1965,
he pitched 10 hitless [prior to 1991 rule change, this
was a no-hitter], then gave up an 11th inning dinger to NYM Johnny
Lewis)
FCR - Dave
Gross, Wind Gap, PA
Incorrect answers: Bucky Walters, Jim O’Toole, Tom Browning,
Mario Soto, Johnny Vander Meer
SATURDAY
Q: Who
was the first modern Baltimore Orioles pitcher to have a 20-win season?
Hint: He
was also the first Baltimore Orioles pitcher to lead the American League in
shutouts.
Hint: Just
one season prior – his rookie year - he led his league in bases on balls and
wild pitches.
Twint: He
once went 8.2 innings without giving up a hit, and his reliever closed the
ninth completing the no-hitter – and yet they lost 2-1.
Twint: Two
games prior, his first start of the same season, he gave up a 9th-inning
one-out hit that was the only one in his complete-game shut-out victory.
A. STEVE
BARBER (20-13 in 1963, 8 ShO 1961
tied Camilo
Pascual; 1960 113
BB and 10 WP; Combined no hitter with Stu
Miller 30-Apr-1967,
the two runs were the result of three walks, a wild pitch and a fielder’s
choice; 16-Apr-1967,
Jim
Fregosi broke up the no-no with a double)
FCR - Dave
Pugh, Baltimore, MD
Incorrect answers: Jim Palmer, Hoyt Wilhelm, Dave McNally, Chuck
Estrada, Stu Miller, Wally Bunker, Milt Pappas
SUNDAY
Q: Who
surrendered the last triple at the Los Angeles Coliseum?
Hint: It
was to a future Hall of Famer.
Twint: Who
finished the last few innings of Sandy Koufax’s first World Series start?
Twint: He
didn’t give up a hit, but Koufax still lost the game 1-0.
Twint: He
got a ring with that team, but a few years later he was on the losing end when
the Los Angeles Dodgers took their second Fall Classic since moving west.
Twint: He
was a Yankee because the Dodgers wanted a “Moose” on first, beating out a
certain “Horse” that failed to make the squad despite hitting a try-out homer
off Koufax.
A. STAN WILLIAMS
(1959
WS Game 5, LAD v CWS, Koufax
went 7i, but lost 1-0 with Williams pitching no hit ball the last two innings;
He was a NYY
in 1963 when the LAD swept them; 26-Nov-1962
he was traded to the NYY for Bill
Skowron; Mr Ed
tried out for the Dodgers; Surrendered a 3b to Ernie Banks
19-Sep-1961)
FCR - Douglas
Sher, Charleston, SC
Incorrect answers: Dean Chance, Warren Spahn, Roger Craig, Sandy
Koufax, Don Drysdale, Ron Perranoski, Early Wynn
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers who had 10 strikeouts and 10 bases-on-balls in the same game.
Pitcher Date BB K Dec.
Barber 13-Aug-1961 11 11 W
Feller 7-Aug-1941 11 13 L
6-Aug-1937 10 12 T
Maloney 19-Aug-1965 10 12 W
McDowell 4-Jul-1964 11 12 L
2-May-1970 10 10 L
Reynolds 14-Jun-1946 10 10 L
Ruffing 5-Sep-1927 11 12 W
Ryan 14-Jun-1974 10 19 W
Score 16-Apr-1957 11 10 L
Williams 17-May-1961 12 11 W
Witt 1-Sep-1990 10 10 W
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Douglas
Sher, Charleston, SC
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - Pitchers who led
their leagues in strikeouts and walks
- Pitchers who
had their careers interrupted due to military service
- Pitchers
clocked at over 100 mph
- Top 10 MLB
strikeout leaders
- Pitchers with multiple 300 Strikeout
seasons
Tuesday - Season
strikeout leaders who made their first career starts as teenagers
Wed - Pitchers who led
their leagues in strikeouts and wild pitches in the same season
- Pitchers who
led their leagues in Ks and WP at some point in careers
- Pitchers who
led their leagues in Ks in years when they walked at least 100 batters
- Pitchers
considered to be the fastest in the league
Thursday - Cleveland
Indian pitchers who led the league in strikeouts
- Pitchers to
walk 10 or more batters in a game
Friday - Pitchers
to have more than one game with double digit walks
- Pitchers who have led their league in
strikeouts and walks allowed
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