MONDAY
Q. Whose
legitimate save in the 2002 postseason never made it to the stats for that
game?
Hint: That
save was, however, more memorable than the 314 career saves that this player’s
teammate had.
Hint: That’s
not even including their time as Griffin Greats.
Twint: Going
by his initials was easier than always being confused with his famous father.
A. J.T. SNOW
(Saved Dusty
Baker’s son
Darren at a dangerous
play at home plate in G 5 of the 2002 World Series;
Teammate Robb
Nen was the team’s closer that year; They attended Los Alamitos High School and
were teammates there too; First name is Jack, like his father, NFL star and later
announcer, Jack Snow.)
FCR - Andrew
Distler, New York, NY
Incorrect answers: Josh Hamilton, Tim Worrell
TUESDAY
Q. What
Chicagoland native was selected by Rawlings as the best fielding first baseman
from 1951 to 2000?
Hint: He
was cast in episodes of the television shows “The Brady Bunch”, “Matt Helm,”
“McMillan & Wife” and “Police Story”, but was a regular on “All That
Glitters”.
Hint: He
also had parts in movies, notably “Pleasure Cove” and “Cry from the Mountain”.
Twint: His
offense as well as his defense helped the Dodgers win the 1965 World Series.
A. WES
PARKER (B. Evanston, IL, Rawlings
GG Team)
FCR - Mike
Caragliano, Flushing, NY
Incorrect answers: Keith Hernandez, Gil Hodges, Mark Grace,
Tommy Hutton, Steve Garvey, Dee Fondy, Bill Skowron
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
was carried off the field by his teammates after the deciding game of the one
of the closest series in postseason history?
Hint: He
stole twenty or more bases per season for nine straight years in the majors.
Hint: He
graduated as an Owl after his baseball career, but his son was a Terp.
Hint: He
played well for Giants teams based in four different cities.
Twint: He
sacrificed some of his pro baseball career to fight in the war in Viet Nam.
Twint: He
holds an honorary doctorate from Neumann
University.
A. GARRY
MADDOX (1980 NLCS;
20+ SB 1973-80; Graduated from Temple
University, son Garry
II, though born in Stanford, attended
the University
of Maryland; Salt Lake
City Giants, Fresno
Giants, Phoenix
Giants & San Francisco
Giants; ))
FCR - Jack
Sullivan, Louisville, KY
Incorrect answers: Darryl Strawberry, Marquis Grissom, Jack
Morris, Bobby Thomson, Dan Gladden
THURSDAY
Q. What
future former Yankee was the last American Leaguer to hit for the cycle in the
20th century?
Hint: He
won his only Silver Slugger Award the same year his infield partner won the
American League MVP.
Hint: Playing
for two minor league teams at two different levels and in two countries, he won
the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award.
Twint: He
played with teammates who confessed their use of performance enhancing drugs.
A. ERIC
CHAVEZ (Cycle 21-Jun-2000;
SS 2002 [MVP Miguel
Tejada]; 1998 played for the AA Huntsville
Stars & the Edmonton
Trappers; Teammates Tejada and Jason
Giambi)
FCR - Paul
Goodson, Cheyenne, WY
Incorrect answers: Alfonso Soriano, Mark Teixeira, Robinson Cano,
Alex Rodriguez, Kelly Johnson, Luis Gonzalez, Chris Singleton, Tony Fernandez,
Willie Randolph, Robin Ventura, Bob Watson
FRIDAY
Q. Who
although playing for them for only 6 of his 11 major league seasons, retired
atop his original team’s leaderboard for career stolen bases?
Hint: Stolen
base percentage as well.
Hint: He
played alongside Darrell Evans, Bob Boone, Tony Fernandez and Bobby Grich, but
he never played on a team where his teammates didn’t recognize him as the
superior fielder.
Twint: In
a famous mix-up by the Topps card company, the picture of his younger brother
graced the card with his name in it one year.
A. GARY PETTIS
(186 SB for LAA [Since passed by Chone
Figgins]; SB % 79.83 [Since passed by Mike
Trout]; Wrong
card showing 16-years-old Lynn Pettis)
FCR - Barry
Nelson, Guilderland, NY
Incorrect answers: Tim Raines, Lance Johnson, Ralph Garr, Harold
Reynolds, Vince Coleman, Luis Aparicio
SATURDAY
Q. What
eighteen-year-old turned down a football scholarship to ASU because he needed
the money baseball offered it immediately?
Hint: He
had just become a father and felt the responsibility.
Hint: In
the majors, he usually batted second, but his first at-bat often came with his
team leading 1-0.
Hint: His
cap falling off on great outfield plays became his trademark.
Twint: His
playing career ended with an unsuccessful season in Japan.
A. DWAYNE
MURPHY (With the A’s, he regularly hit right behind Rickey
Henderson, MLB’s all-time record holder for leadoff home runs; Played for
the Yakult
Swallows with Floyd Bannister
in 1990)
FCR - No
one
Incorrect answers: Willie Mays, Dave Winfield, Rick Monday,
Garry Maddox, Jim Edmonds
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who
was the San Diego Padres’ original, first-ever expansion draft choice?
Hint: "Next
to Clemente," All-Star teammate Chris Cannizzaro said, "Ollie had the
best arm I have ever seen in a right fielder."
Hint: He
was named the Most Valuable Player in the California League the year before he
debuted in the majors.
Hint: He
graduated from the same high school attended by Tony Gwynn, Chase Utley,
Randy Moffitt and Milton Bradley.
Twint: He
was born in Alabama, but raised in southern California and never experienced
racial prejudice until he went to his first minor league assignment in Salem,
Virginia.
Twint: When
the team returned to Salem, Ollie Brown told his manager to tell the Giants to
move him to another team and location or he would quit baseball.
Twint: They
did and he flourished in Decatur, IL and Fresno, CA.
Twint: Called
“The Original Padre”, his favorite nickname was “Downtown”.
A. OLLIE
BROWN (Obit;
MLB
1968 Expansion Draft; Athlete-fecund Long
Beach Polytechnic High School; Minor
League Stats)
FCR - Bill
Gilbert, Lakeway, TX
Incorrect answers: Oscar Gamble, Terry Crowley
SUNDAY
Q. Who
collected the first ever RBI against the Padres?
Hint: His
fielding was something to crow about.
Hint: Bill
James thought he would be a good manager and he did lead two teams to the
postseason.
Hint; He
was the first player to win a Gold Glove Award for the Astros.
Twint: Landmark
book “Ball Four” tells of a particularly scatological prank he pulled.
A. DOUG
RADER (RBI 08-Apr-1969;
GG 1970-74; Ball Four reference? [You’ll have to read the book.])
FCR - Jack Moore, TX
Incorrect answers: Bill Virdon, Roger Metzger, Craig Biggio, Art
Howe
WEEKLY THEME – Players with five or
more Gold Glove Awards who were never All-Stars
Player GG Pos Years
Pettis 5 OF 1985, 86,
88-90
2+
Arenado 2 3b 2013, 14
Cabrera 2 SS 2001, 07
Geronimo 4 OF 1974-77
Hosmer 2 1b 2013, 14
Markakis 2 OF 2011, 14
Matheny 4 C 2000, 03-05
Molina 2 C 2002, 03
Ordonez 3 SS 1997-99
Parra 2 OF 2011, 13
Reese 2 2b 1999, 2000
Simmons 2 SS 2013, 14
Stanley 4 OF 1968-70, 73
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No
one
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - Players whose
fathers played professional sports.
Tuesday - Slick
fielding, light-hitting first basemen
- Six-time Gold
Glovers
- Multi-year NL
Gold Glove 1B winners
- First basemen
who threw left and switch-hit.
- NL first basemen
with the most Gold Gloves
- Switch-hitting
1Bs to win 6 consecutive GGs
Saturday - Players who played for
west coast teams who have won the most Gold Gloves
- Multiple gold
glove winners who never made all star team
Sunday - Players
raised in California who won five or more Gold Gloves
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