MONDAY
Q. Who won a record
nine (9!) league ERA crowns?
Hint: The next closest
pitcher has six.
Hint: He is the only hurler
to be able to boast of two immaculate innings in one season.
Hint: He was the 2nd native
of Maryland elected to the Hall of Fame.
A. LEFTY GROVE
- Won 5 with the A’s and 4
with the BoSox
FCR - Ken
Bell, Miami FL
Incorrect answers: Pete Alexander, Lefty Gomez, Walter
Johnson, Sandy Koufax
TUESDAY
Q. Which Hall of Fame
pitcher played high school ball, even though he had dropped out of school in
the 4th grade?
Hint: He was the first
National League pitcher to earn an All-Star game victory.
Hint: He was the first
National League pitcher to lead the league in strikeouts for 4 consecutive
seasons in the All-Star era.
Hint: He is the only
pitcher to get 2 hits in one inning in a World Series game.
Hint: He was the first
person elected to the Hall of Fame from his native state.
A. DIZZY DEAN
- 1936
ASG
- NL K leader 1932-35, his
first four full seasons in the majors, totaling 775 K’s.
- 2 H in WS inning, 1934
WS, G 7, 3rd inning, 1st, a double off Auker, the 2nd a single off Hogsett.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San
Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Carl Hubbell, Dazzy Vance, Warren Spahn,
Pete Alexander, Christy Mathewson
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who hold the record
for the most consecutive scoreless inning by a left-handed pitcher?
Hint: He ended the Yankees'
12-game World Series winning streak.
Hint: He gave up a then
All-Star game record 3 runs in one inning.
Hint: This is offset by
another fairly famous All-Star game record.
A. CARL HUBBELL
- 3 R in 4th
inning 1937 ASG
- K’d 5 AS batter in a row in 1st & 2nd innings in 1934
ASG, a feat later tied by Fernando Valenzuela in 1986. All 5 of Hubbell’s are in the Hall of Fame. Of
Fernando’s 5, only Cal Ripken is.
FCR - Steve
Elsberry, Windsor Heights, IA
Incorrect answers: Al Leiter, Tommy John, Cliff Lee, Randy
Johnson, Clayton Kershaw, Grover Cleveland Alexander, John Franco, Sandy
Koufax, Orel Hershiser
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What pitcher holds
the record for issuing the most bases-on-balls in a complete-game shutout?
Hint: He once compiled a
pitching triple crown the same year that a teammate of his won the batting
triple crown.
Hint: Evidently not content
to lead in just those three categories, he also led in Complete Games, Win-Loss
percentage, Shutouts, ERA+, Hits per 9 innings and WHIP.
Hint: For good measure, he
had 2 saves.
Hint: With some transparent
false modesty, he once said, "Nobody knows how fast I am. The ball
doesn't get to the mitt that often."
A. LEFTY GOMEZ
- 11 BB in ShO 01-Aug-1941
FCR - Joe Matocha, Meriden,
CT
Incorrect answers: Lefty Grove,Walter Johnson, Eddie Lopat,
Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Rube Waddell, Whitey Ford, Nolan Ryan, Dizzy Dean,
Pete Alexander
THURSDAY
Q. What pitcher had to
be smuggled out of Cuba to avoid the machete-wielding husband of a nightclub
dancer in whose intimate embrace he was caught red-handed?
Hint: He had 13 or more
victories in each of his first 5 full season. Unfortunately, he also had
double-digit losses in each of those years.
Hint: He was the youngest
player in the National League his first season and still in the top ten
youngest 2 years later.
Hint: He was the first
Dodger to lead the league in strikeouts since Dazzy Vance.
Hint: He paid an
eye-popping $15,000 in fines in 14-year big league career.
Hint: SABR member Frishberg
never compensated him a single cent.
- Was caught in bed with the wife. Dodgers
executive Babe Hamberger had to smuggle Mungo in a laundry cart to a
seaplane waiting off a wharf in order to escape the country.
- 20 years old in 1931
- In 1970, jazz composer-singer Dave Frishberg wrote,
performed, recorded and released a song entitled “Van Lingo Mungo”, the lyrics of which are names of
major leaguers. Always a baseball aficionado, Frishberg joined the Society
for American Baseball Research in 1984. Mungo and his wife both
quite liked the song, but it earned them no income.
FCR - Dave Serota,
Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: Minnie Minoso, Pedro Martinez, Don
Drysdale, Fernando Valenzuela, Kirby Higbee, Juan Pierre
FRIDAY
Q. Who hit the first
triple in All-Star Game competition?
Hint: He led his league in
pitching wins and ERA in his first full season in the majors.
Hint: His ERA was improved
by over a third of a point (run) the following season, but he finished second
to the MVP in that statistic.
Hint: He is the only
pitcher Walter Alston ever faced in an at-bat in the major leagues.
Hint: The U.S. county where
he was born had no paved roads, no electricity, and no running water at the
time of his birth.
A. LON WARNEKE
- 1933 ASG
- 22-6 in 1932; 2.37 ERA
- 2.00 ERA in 1933; MVP Carl Hubbell finished at 1.66
- Montgomery County, Arkansas
FCR - Robert Bloomberg,
Seattle, WA
Incorrect answers: Dizzy Dean, Preacher Roe, Lefty Grove,
Sandy Koufax, Carl Hubbell
WEEK-ENDING BONUS
Q. Who was the last
major league pitcher to lose over 25 games in a season?
Hint: He was the winning
pitcher in the first night game every played at Crosley Field.
Hint: He was the first
player to play in the World Series in his first and last seasons.
Hint: He was on a different
team each time.
Hint: He played on a World
Series winner in the middle of his 15-year career with a third team.
FCR - Dave Serota,
Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: Jim Britt, Ben Cantwell, Johnny Van Der
Meer, Ewell Blackwell
SATURDAY
Q. Who holds the career
record for World Series wild pitches?
Hint: He once pitched for
his first major league team against the baseball team of the college that he
had graduated from earlier that day. His new team won, 11-2.
Hint: The team had actually
attended his graduation ceremony.
Hint: He played for 13
seasons for that team and never any other.
Hint: He almost died on the
mound from the heat of a St. Louis afternoon when he collapsed on the mound
with no discernible heartbeat, but was packed in ice and revived.
- Mound incident 18-May-1937
FCR - Larry Hayes, San
Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Bill Hallahan, Christy Mathewson, Jack
Morris
SUNDAY
Q. Which pitcher threw
a 1-hit shutout in his final start before leaving baseball for a 27-year career
in the Navy?
Hint: It was his 197th and
final career win.
Hint: In spite of his last
name, his ancestry was Scots-Irish.
Hint: He was so unafraid to
speak his mind on the field that one legendary sports journalist called him a
“hothead” in the writer’s memoirs.
A. LARRY FRENCH
FCR - Fred Worth,
Arkadelphia, AR
Incorrect answers: Adonis Terry
SUPER SUNDAY BONUS
Q. What former Tiger
pitcher did Branch Rickey fail to take by ruse away from the Cubs?
Hint: He is the final
pitcher to qualify to be in this week’s theme.
Hint: After retiring, he
had eye surgery for his detached retinas. Nevertheless, he eventually went
blind.
Hint: He is too often
confused with a pitcher of the same name who was better known for his nickname.
Hint: He was the fourth
native of his state admitted to that state’s sport Hall of Fame in the baseball
category, but the first not to be already enshrined in THE Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown.
A. BILL LEE
- An alum of LSU, Lee was the target the great Mahatma, but
tripped up by
FCR - Tim Doherty, Los
Angeles, CA
THEME FOR THE WEEK - ERA below 3.50 for the
hitter’s decade 1930-39 (100 W min.)
Player ERA IP G W L
Dean 2.96 1,908.1 305 147 80
Derringer 3.48 2,589.8 318 155 164
French 3.42 2,481.2 430 156 134
Gomez 3.24 2,234.2 322 165 89
Grove 2.91 2,399.0 351 199 76
Hubbell 2.71 2,596.2 383 188 104
Lee 3.21 1,570.2 240 106 70
Mungo 3.42 1,715.1 275 101 99
Schumacher 3.38 1,736.2 274 117 81
Warneke 3.23 2,021.0 318 144 85
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No one
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - 1936 All-Stars
Wed - First even pitcher to win the MVP
- Winningest pitchers of the 1930s
- Statistical leaders of the 1933 season
- Starting pitchers in the All-Star game in the
1930s
- Pitchers on the inaugural NL All Star team
- Most career 1-0 victories
Thurs - Strikeout leaders from the 1930's
- Pitchers who led the league in wins and saves at least
once
- League leaders in strikeouts from the 1930s
Fri - Starting pitchers in the first
All-Star games
- Pitchers of record in the first all star games
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