02-Nov‑2015
MONDAY
Q. What
Hall of Famer stubbornly refused to change his cross-handed batting stance
until he was a professional?
Hint: He
seldom clowned around, at least not for very long.
Hint: Bud
Selig sold him his first car.
Twint: He
is the only player to accumulate exactly 400 total bases in a single season.
Twint: In
the fourteen seasons where they both got MVP votes, he finished ahead of Willie
Mays six times.
Twint: But
finished behind him eight times.
A. HANK
AARON
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He batted right-handed with his left hand on top http://lesterslegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/sherry-magee.jpg
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Played with the Indianapolis
Clowns
FCR - David
Karpinski, Roseville, MN
Incorrect answers: Joe Torre, George Kell, Robin Yount, Eddie
Mathews, Paul Molitor
TUESDAY
Q. Who
is the only pitcher to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award
twice?
Hint: In
his sixteen seasons in the majors, he was the only one of his teammates ever to
win the award.
Hint: This
in spite of the fact that nine of his teammates are now enshrined in
Cooperstown.
Twint: Only
he has struck out five consecutive batters who were all eventually elected to
the Hall of Fame.
A. CARL
HUBBELL
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HOF teammates: Freddie Lindstrom, Travis
Jackson, Bill Terry, Mel Ott, Edd Roush, Gabby Hartnett, Dave Bancroft, Johnny
Mize, Joe Medwick
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In the 1934 All-Star Game, Hubbell whiffed Babe
Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons,
and Joe Cronin, all now Hall of Famers.
FCR - Larry
Hayes, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Sandy Koufax, Don Newcombe, Dale Murphy, Bob
Gibson, Dizzy Dean, Hal Newhouser
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
won the Rookie of the Year Award without even establishing himself as a starter
on his team?
Hint: The
four hits, including a still-unequaled two triples, in his debut game off one
of his league’s most dominant pitchers, probably influenced the ROY voters.
Hint: Only
once in his first five seasons did he get 400 at-bats.
Hint: Only
Barry Bonds ever had more intentional bases-on-balls in a single season.
Twint: He
hit at least one grand slam in each of nine consecutive seasons.
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Played on 52 of the 154-game season his rookie year. The reason?
The previous year’s ROY,
Orlando Cepeda occupied his spot, first base.
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Debut 30-Jul-1959,
all 4 hits off Robin Roberts.
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45 IBB in 1969 (Bonds topped that thrice.)
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At least one GS every year 1964-72, as record since tied by A-Rod 2005-13
FCR - Geoffrey
Dunham, Sebastapol, CA
Incorrect answers: Steve Howe, Hoyt Wilhelm, Albert Pujols, Ted
Sizemore, Bob Horner
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
was the only pitcher with 200 innings each season from 1990-2000?
Hint: He
led his league in innings pitched five times during that stretch.
Hint: Eighteen
times in his career did his effort top 200 innings.
Hint: His
rookie season was the only one with fewer than 100 innings pitched.
Twint: He
holds the career record for putouts by a pitcher.
Twint: He
also holds pitchers’ record for putouts in a single game.
A. GREG
MADDUX
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Led NL in IP 1991-95
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31.0 IP in debut season of 1986
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530 PO’s
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7 PO’s 29-Apr-1990
FCR - Mark
Jones, Birmingham, AL
Incorrect answers: Roy Halladay, Randy Johnson, Javy Vasquez,
Mark Buehrle, Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens, Tom Glavine, Charles Nagy
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the first 20th century Philadelphia Phillie to win a batting title?
Hint: He
very likely would have won the Chalmers
Award had it been introduced just a year earlier.
Hint: When,
after eleven seasons, he was traded to the Braves for Oscar Dugey, he trailed
only the immortal Ed Delahanty in Phillies’ career games played, hits, doubles,
triples, extra-base hits and W.A.R.
Hint: A
scribe in an opponent team’s city called him, “…one of the best all-around
players the game has ever seen.”
Twint: He
had never played even one minor league game before becoming a regular in the
majors.
Twint: He
once knocked out umpire after a disputed called 3rd strike.
A. SHERRY
MAGEE
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He hit .331 in 1910, breaking a string of 4 straight years by Honus
Wagner
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Chalmers Award won
first by Frank
Schulte (NL)
and Ty
Cobb (AL)
in 1911
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Also led the NL that year in R, RBI, OBP, SLG, OPS and TB
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KO’ed ump Bill
Finneran 10-Jul-1911
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Quote from a Cincinnati beat writer.
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Suited up the day after he signed his contract 27-Jun-1904.
FCR - Larry
Hayes, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: John Titus, Richie Ashburn, Chuck Klein, Nap
Lajoie, George Sisler
FRIDAY
Q. Who
was the most recent first baseman to steal 40 bases in a season?
Hint: Three
years before, he led the league in doubles.
Hint: He
hit .333 in postseason play, but it wasn’t enough to get his team to victory.
Hint: He
and Barry Bonds share an alma mater.
Twint: He
had his best seasons after moving to a new team.
Twint: That
same trade brought Bret
Saberhagen to the Mets.
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46 SB 1993 w/STL
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40 2b in 1990 w/NYM
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Postseason BA 1988 NLCS vs. LAD
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Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo, CA
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Traded 11-Dec-1991 w/Kevin
Reynolds & Keith
Miller for Bill
Pecota and Saberhagen.
FCR - Larry
Hayes, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Lance Berkman, Mark Grace, George Sisler,
Derek Lee, Rod Carew, Jeff Bagwell, Jose Offerman
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who
was the first New York Yankee position player to be awarded a Gold Glove?
Hint: He
won it in his sophomore season; played ten more seasons in the majors and never
won another.
Hint: He
was part of the trade that brought Roger Maris to the Yankees.
Hint: Before
securing a place in the majors for good, he was named Minor League Player of
the Year by the Sporting News.
Twint: Mickey
Mantle, Willie Mays, Carl Yastrzemski, Brooks Robinson and Joe Adcock were all
teammates of his.
A. NORM
SIEBERN
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GG 1958
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Traded 11-Dec-1959: by NYY w/ Hank
Bauer, Don
Larsen & Marv
Throneberry to KCA for Joe
DeMaestri, Kent
Hadley and Roger
Maris.
-
MLPOY
1957
FCR - Michael
Griffin, Southaven, MS
Incorrect answers: Bob Cerv, Jerry Lumpe, Gil McDougald, Joe
DeMaestri, Roy Sievers, Tom Tresh, Woody Held, Red Schoendienst, Hank
Bauer
SATURDAY
Q. Who
set the record of twelve hits in twelve consecutive at-bats? [Alas, we couldn’t find box-score
corroboration of this feat, but did find many references that
Hint: The
record has been tied, but not broken.
Hint: He
managed the Red Sox for the most games without ever taking them to the
post-season.
Hint: He
was fired as Red Sox general manager the same day Red Sox pitcher Dave Morehead
threw a no-hitter.
Twint: He
hated his nickname, but he’d had it since childhood.
Twint: He
signed some autographs as Frank.
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12 H in 12 AB set in June 1938
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Tied by Walt Dropo in 1952
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Mgr of BOS for 1,116 G 1955-62
-
Morehead no-no 16-Sep-1965
FCR - Bill
Carle, Lee’s Summit, MO
Incorrect answers: Walt Dropo, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Kling, Jim
Bottomley, Billy Herman
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who
would have substantially beaten Roger Clemens for the 1986 ERA title if he had
only pitched five more innings?
Hint: With
the Angels, he set a major league record by not issuing a single walk in his first
30 appearances.
Hint: One
year he was one of six pitchers on his team to boast at least ten wins apiece.
Twint: He
won World Series rings in consecutive years.
Twint: His
son played minor league baseball.
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1.72 ERA in 157 IP; Clemens
had a .248 in 254 IP
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No-BB record in 1st 30 G with CAL in 1991
-
TOR in
1987 had 6 with 10+ W: Jimmy
Key (17); Jim
Clancy (15)’; Dave
Stieb (13); Jeff Musselman
(12); John
Cerutti (11); and Eichhorn
(10)
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Son Kevin
FCR - Rich
Klein, Plano, TX
Incorrect answers: Mike Witt, Donnie Moore, Frank Tanana, Bert
Blyleven, Kevin Brown, Mark Langford
SUNDAY
Q. Who,
according to baseball-reference was the first ever free agent signed by the
Cincinnati Reds?
Hint: He
is a member of the Iowa High School Hall of Fame in two sports, baseball and
basketball.
Hint: He
is a member of the Buena Vista University Hall of Fame in two sports, baseball
and basketball.
Hint: In
high school he also starred in track, but his scholarship to Drake University
was for basketball.
Twint: He
was in the military from February to August of 1969, missing most of the
season.
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Reds
signing 12-Jan-1981
FCR - Richard
Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Don Gullett, Greg Vaughn, Johnny Vander Meer
WEEKLY THEME – Noted players with (advancing
pairs of) double letters in their names
Aaron
Hubbell
McCovey
Maddux
Magee
Jefferies
Higgins
Eichhorn
Biitner
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Terence
Vent, Spokane, WA
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - Member of the 1957 or 1958
Brave's World Series teams
- Living HOF MLB
stars who started in Neg. Lgs
Tuesday - Giants
with at least two MVPs
- NL MVP's who
were defeated by the Yankees in the World Series
- Hall of Famers
with just one career inside-the-park homerun
Wed - Hall of Famers with
at least two very well-known nicknames
- American
League Rookies of the Year
- First-ballot
HOFers whose only WS loss came to the Yankees
- Led the league
in ERA for at least 3 years in a row
Friday - Double
letter double all-stars
Saturday - Highest
career WAR by players who were at one time the youngest in the league
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