MONDAY
Q. What All-Star had a brother and father who preceded him appearing in the Mid-Summer Classic?
Hint: His All-Star appearances eventually totaled more than theirs did, combined.
Hint: No one in major league history played in more All-Star games at his position.
Hint: Only Willie Mays stole more bases in All-Star competition and Mays had fifty (50!) more total All-Star plate appearances.
- His father, Sandy Alomar, played in the 1970 ASG. His brother, Sandy, Jr., played in the 1990 ASG, as did Roberto, but Sandy was a starter and Robbie entered the game in the 7th, replacing Ryne Sandberg at 2nd base.
- Played in 9 ASG (Selected to 3 others). Dad & Bro totaled 4 played in, with Jr. selected to an additional 3.
- Nellie Fox & Charlie Gehringer each played in 6 ASG.
- Mays stole 6 All-Star bases. Robbie is tied for with Kenny Lofton w/5. Mays had 82 ASG PA (most all-time by 10). Robbie had 32.
FCR - Charlie Riordan, Chevy Chase, MD
Incorrect answers: Cal Ripken, Ken Griffey, Jr., Aaron Boone, Sandy Alomar, Jr., Buddy Bell, Matty Alou
TUESDAY
Q. What Hall of Fame third baseman, born and raised in Arkansas, played 80 games at 3rd base for the Orioles in 1957?
Hint: (That ws his final year in the majors. He did not play in the majors in 1958 as stated originally in this hint. Sorry.)
Hint: He was the last pre-expansion player to collect over 55 doubles in a season.
Hint: He once crawled to third base to record a forceout after having his jaw broken by a Joe DiMaggio line drive.
Hint: He found himself in the broadcast booth due to the sudden tragic death of a Hall-of-Famer-turned-sportscaster.
- Brooks Robinson played 47 G @ 3rd for BAL in 1957, but 140 in 1958.
- Kell’s 56 2b in 1950 led the AL and tied him for 9th all-time.
- DiMaggio play: 6th inning 29-Aug-1948
- Mel Ott died in an automobile accident a week before Thanksgiving in 1958 and Tigers’ business manager Harry Sisson offered Kell the job as his replacement.
FCR - Dave Pugh, Baltimore, MD
Incorrect answers: Brooks Robinson, Al Rosen, Billy Gardner
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who pitched for the 1990 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks rather than get involved in labor skirmishes in the majors that year?
Hint: He holds the major league record of the most career wins without ever pitching a shutout.
Hint: His 308th career save by completing Nolan Ryan's 308th career victory.
Hint: Only he can claim to be the reliever who finished six All-Star games.
- 124 W; 0 ShO
- 308th save 23-Jul-1991. Although he appeared in 44 games for them that year and notched 4 wins and 2 losses, this was Gossage’s only save with Texas.
Final pitcher for his team in ASGs in 1975, 77, 78, 80, 84* & 85. NOTE: Mariano Rivera tied this record when he finished the game for the AL in 1997*, 2000, 2004, 2005*, 2006* & 2009*.
FCR - Doug Greenwald, San Francisco, CA
*Also got the save.
Incorrect answers: Lee Smith, "Steady Eddie" Guardado, Bruce Sutter, Dave Righetti, Jeff Reardon, Jeff Russell, Bryan Harvey
Incorrect answers: Lee Smith, "Steady Eddie" Guardado, Bruce Sutter, Dave Righetti, Jeff Reardon, Jeff Russell, Bryan Harvey
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What hurler was the last pitcher honored as “Player of the Year” by Baseball Digest?
Hint: He averaged 195 strikeouts per season for 24 straight years.
Hint: He will be pitching for the Kansas Stars in National Baseball Congress World Series in 2016.
- 4,672 K over 24 years
- NBC WS
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco, CA
Incorrect answers: Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Dwight Gooden
THURSDAY
Q. What teammate once beat out Tony Gwynn for a National League batting title?
Hint: His foundation was involved in an effort to move the Braves spring training facility from to St. Petersburg.
Hint: He was the first player to hit a home run in a 1-0 game 3 times in one season.
Hint: For one of the franchises he played for, he is their all-time leader in career on-base percentage, career slugging percentage and (obviously) career OPS.
FCR - Paul Goodson, Cheyenne, WY
Incorrect answers: Ken Caminiti, Steve Garvey, Dave Winfield, Larry Walker, Andre Dawson, Fred McGriff
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the second overall pick behind the journeyman Jeff Shaw, with whom he was later a teammate?
Hint: He only played 2 games in the bigs for the team that drafted him.
Hint: In his 17-year major league career, he played for 7 teams, all in one league.
Hint: In one of his stops, a one-year stint, he won a World Series championship.
Hint: He missed two entire seasons due to injury.
Hint: The player he is most similar to, per baseball-reference.com, is Magglio Ordonez.
- Played for PIT, MON, FLA, HOU, CHC, SFG & NYM.
- Was on the WS champion 1997 Marlins
- Missed 1991 and 1999 (Do not look up the Youtube video of his 1990 injury with MON if you have a weak stomach.)
FCR - John Wilson, Mesa, AZ
Incorrect answers: Reggie Sanders, Greg Swindell, Raul Ibanez, Kevin Mitchell
SABR 46 BONUS
Q. Whose 13-Year-old major league record for saves in a career did Trevor Hoffman break?
Hint: He was the first relief pitcher to earn 15 saves in his team's first 30 games in a season.
Hint: Along the way, he also set the record, later broken by Kazuhiro Sasaki for saves in April.
Hint: For a time, he held the career saves record for two different franchises.
Hint: ...and still does for one of them.
Hint: He served as the pitching coach for the South Africa national baseball team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2009 World Baseball Classic
- No pitcher has more career saves for CHC than Smith’s 180.
FCR - Kellen Nielson, Blanding, UT
Incorrect answers: Elroy Smith, Bruce Sutter, Jeff Reardon, Mariano Rivera, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley
SATURDAY
Q. Fergie Jenkins had the first 20-win season as a Texas Ranger pitcher. Who had the second one?
Hint: He pitched in one game his first year, none in his second year and one in his third year.
Hint: In his fourth year, he was finally a regular and placed 6th in the Rookie-of-the-Year voting.
Hint: No collegiate yellow jacket has more pitching wins in the majors.
- 1 G in 1986, 0 in 1987 & 1 in 1988
- Attended and played for Georgia Tech. Garnered 211 wins in the majors. George Mogridge is 2nd with 132.
FCR - Calvin Johnson, Atlanta, GA
Incorrect answers: Rick Helling, Bobby Witt, Kenny Rogers
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who was the first second baseman to join the 30/30 club?
Hint: He was the first player to receive $10M in arbitration.
Hint: He made his major league debut as a pinch-runner for Darryl Strawberry.
Hint: He still holds a franchise’s single-season home run record.
- 2002: 39 HR, 41 SB (the latter number led the league)
- Received $10M for 2006 season
- Hit 46 HR for WSN in 2006. Eclipses all HR highs set in Montreal too.
FCR - Rick Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Jeff Kent, Joe Morgan, Howard Johnson, Billy Ripken, Ron Hunt
SUNDAY
Q. Who homered in six consecutive games, tying the 24-year-old record of a future Hall of Famer?
Hint: His daughter, a beauty queen, married his one-time teammate.
Hint: He managed the Rangers in Dallas for one year.
Hint: Four more than four seasons, his brother was his teammate in the majors. That team won three straight pennants including two World Series.
- Daughter Sara Cooper, a flight attendant at the time, married Don Blasingame in 1960. Dancing the Charleston she won the Talent portion and was a finalist (top 10) in the Miss America Pageant in 1957.
- Brother Mort Cooper played with Walker on the Cardinals 1940-45. NL pennant 1942-44; WS champs 1942, 44.
FCR - Rick Tharp, Gaithersburg, MD
Incorrect answers: Dale Long, Buddy Bell, Whitey Herzog, Frank Thomas
MONDAY POST-OP POST
Q. After Nolan Ryan did it, who was the next pitcher to have a 20-win season for that franchise?
Hint: He was the first 21st-century moundsman to earn 10 wins for a team in each league during the same season.
Hint: He recently broke a record held by Randy Johnson and did it in an unlikely location.
- 21-8 in 2005 for the Angels, leading him to a Cy Young Award; Ryan was 22-16 in 1974.
- He became the oldest player to hit his first home run at age 42 years and 349 days old and did it in Petco Park in San Diego, notorious as a difficult park to homer in. Previous record hold was Randy Johnson who was 40 years and 9 days old.
FCR - Jim Lovelace, Kent, OH NOTE: [Thanks to Scott Schleifer of Suffern, NY for pointing out that Colon belongs in this week. Scott adds, “Colon was selected for 2013, but per wikipedia ‘Grant Balfour replaced him on the roster due to Colon's ineligibility to pitch’, likely having pitched just prior to the ASG.”]
Incorrect answers: Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Kevin Brown, Roger Clemens, Kenny Rogers, Roy Oswald
THEME FOR THE WEEK - Players who represented 4 or more franchises on All-Star teams
Padres
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Blue Jays
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Orioles
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Indians
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1990
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1992-95
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1996-98
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1999-2001
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Expos
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Marlins
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Astros
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Cubs
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Giants
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1994
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1997
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1998, 2001
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2004
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2005
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Rangers
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Marlins
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Padres
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Dodgers
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1992
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1996-97
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1998
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1998, 2000, 03
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Red Sox
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Blue Jays
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Yankees
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Astros
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1986, 88, 90-92
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1997-98
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2001, 03
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2004-05
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Cardinals
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Giants
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Reds
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Braves
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1942-44
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1946-48
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1949
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1950
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Indians
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Angels
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A’s
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Mets
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White Sox
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Pirates
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Yankees
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Padres
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1975-76
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1977
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1978, 80-82
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1984-85
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Tigers
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Red Sox
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White Sox
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Orioles
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1946-52
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1953-54
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1956
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1957
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Padres
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Marlins
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Dodgers
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Braves
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Yankees
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1992-93
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1996, 98
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1999-2000
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2003
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2004-05
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Cubs
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Cardinals
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Orioles
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Angels
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1983, 87
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1991-93
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19994
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1995
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Yankees
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Rangers
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Nationals
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Cubs
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2002-03
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2004-05
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2006
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2007-08
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First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Randall Chandler, Germantown, TN (After Gossage)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - Hall of Fame players who played at least 200 games with four different franchises
Wed - Players who had a reputation as intimidating
Questions archived here: http://horsehidetriviA. blogspot.com/
Horsehide Trivia home page: https://sites.google.com/site/tnfotobbpics/home/horsehide-trivia
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