MONDAY
Q. Who was the first player to homer from
both sides of the plate in a game more than 10 times?
Hint: He is only the second switch-hitter to join
the 500-Home-Run Club.
Hint: He is very thankful to Felipe Lira.
Hint: He famously said, after getting glasses 10
years into his major league career, “I found out there are a lot of ugly people
out there.”
FCR - Kevin Warren, Briarcliff Manor, New York
Incorrect
answers: Chipper Jones, Mickey Mantle
TUESDAY
Q. Which player hit the most home runs
while Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the U.S.?
Hint: Nobody else played more games for the
Milwaukee Braves.
Hint: He was the first backwards K Nolan Ryan
ever achieved in the majors.
FCR - Michael Green, Las Vegas
Incorrect
answers: Henry Aaron, Mickey Mantle,
Harmon Killebrew
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who led his league in home runs a
colossal twelve (12!) times?
Hint: Mike Schmidt is second on that list with 8.
Hint: The player he admired the most and tried to
style his batting stance after, was Joe Jackson.
- 1st HR title in 1918 w/11; Last one
1931 w/46
- 2nd place no shame on this list!
FCR - Jake Hopper, Houston
Incorrect
answers: Honus Wagner, Ty Cobbs, Ralph
Kiner, Frank Baker
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who is history’s all-time leader in
on-base percentage?
Hint: More than five years before his actual
retirement, he announced his retirement in an article in a national magazine.
Hint: He turned down an honorary degree from
Harvard.
- .482 OBP.
If you saw him at the plate, you were going to see him on base
essentially ½ the time. Astounding.
- When Ted was told that Fred Astaire and Katherine Hepburn also turned down Harvard he replied he was in
pretty good company.
FCR - Chuck Durante, Dover, Delaware
Incorrect
answers: John McGraw, Alex Rodriguez, Ty
Cobb, Barry Bonds, Rickey Henderson
THURSDAY
Q. Whose career included 500+ home runs and 500+ stolen bases?
Hint: He and his Hall of Fame cousin attended and
played for the same university.
Hint: He had a famous fight with an MVP teammate.
- No one else in in that club: 762 HR/514 SB
FCR - Kellen Nielson, Blanding, Utah
Incorrect
answers: Ken Griffey, Jr., Mickey Mantle,
Reggie Jackson, Willie Mays
FRIDAY
Q. Who attended a D-1 college on a football
scholarship, but was invited to Cooperstown with a 90+% vote on his first year
eligible?
Hint: He owns the first steal of home in a
postseason game that wasn’t a World Series game.
Hint: He regrets not having insured his cars that
one time, but admits to regretting little else.
- Played football and baseball at Arizona State
University. His name appeared on a robust 93.6% of the
ballots cast by the writers in 1993. He was the only one they elected that year.
- Car collection destroyed in warehouse
fire 05-Aug-1988. He later admitted that
they were all uninsured.
FCR - Joe Merrill, Montpelier, Vermont
Incorrect
answers: Jackie Robinson, Frank Thomas,
Joe Morgan, Ken Griffey, Jr., Ty Cobb, Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield, Deion
Sanders, Rod Carew
SATURDAY
Q. What three-time MVP received not a
single vote for Rookie of the Year?
Hint: He finished in the top 5 in MVP voting an additional six (6!) times.
Hint: His career stats are impressive: OPS is over .970; OPS+ is over 170.
Hint: He was an All-Star every season but two in
his lengthy career.
Hint: He committed 55 errors at shortstop during
his last year in the minors.
Hint: Martha Stewart (Yes, THAT Martha Stewart!)
sometimes babysat his kids.
- MVP’s in 1956, 57 & 62; Additional top 5 finishes in 1952 (3rd), 55 (5th), 58 (5th),
60 (2nd), 61 (2nd) and 64 (2nd).
- Missed being an AS only in 1951 & 66.
FCR - Jim Lovelace, Kent, Ohio
Incorrect
answers: Stan Musial, Mike Schmidt,
Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, Yogi Berra, Ernie Banks, Cal Ripken
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who is the only player to have a single
season slugging percentage over .700 in each league?
Hint: It led the league both times.
Hint: Five times in his career he had more than
100 bases-on-balls.
Hint: He waxed lugubriously lachrymose at an
inauspicious moment.
- .730, OAK, 1996; .752, STL, 1998
- Gave Congress a tearful testimony
FCR - Saul Wisnia, Newton Center, Massachusetts
Incorrect
answers: Frank Robinson, Jim Thome, Tim
Raines, Barry Bonds
SUNDAY
Q. Who was the last 20th century
American League player to go an entire season (min 20 AB) without collecting a
hit?
Hint: He did draw five walks in his 25 plate
appearances that year.
Hint: Not since Maris and Mantle had done it in
their magical season of 1961 had a player racked up 40 home runs and 110 RBI in
his team’s first 100 games of the season.
Hint: He was the only player to compete in the
All-Star Home Run Derby in both 2004 and 2005.
He improved considerably, but still didn’t win.
- 0-20 in 1999
FCR - Mark Hayne, Dumfries, Virginia
Incorrect
answers: Josh Hamilton, Jose Canseco,
Mark McGwire, Manny Ramirez, Juan Gonzalez, Sammy Sosa
WEEKLY THEME – Retired
500-HR Club members who hit more on the road.
Slugger Home Away Total
Bonds 379 < 383 = 762
Jackson 280 < 283 = 563
Mantle 266 < 270 = 536
Mathews 238 < 274 = 512
McGwire 285 < 298 = 583
Murray 242 < 262 = 504
Ortiz 241 < 300 = 541
Ruth 347 < 367 = 714
Williams 248 < 273 = 521
Among
active players, Albert Pujols would also qualify:
Pujols 277 < 314 = 591
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