MONDAY
Q. Who appeared on the television show The Real Housewives of Orange County in
2015 with his 3rd wife Meghan O'Toole King?
Hint: No highlight film of tremendous outfield
catches is complete without at least two of his in it.
Hint: His latest work in baseball is for the St.
Louis Cardinals with a microphone in his hand.
Hint: ESPN's (and SABR’s) Rob
Neyer lists him as high in the top 100 players of the first decade of the
21st century due to his productivity at the plate and gold-glove skills
in center field.
- Watch a raunchy episode here.
- For a fuller appreciation of Edmond’s fielding
prowess, click here. (The catch at 1:10 took place in Cincinnati
on 16-Jul-2004
directly in front of me and my fellow SABR convention-goers.)
- As a broadcaster.
FCR - Rick Tharp, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Incorrect answers: Dave Kingman
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the Cardinals' player
representative during the 1994-95 players' strike and then the Rockies' player
representative during the 2002 union negotiations?
Hint: His birthday is 09-Sep-1965 when, 20 miles
away on the same day, Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game.
Hint: He can trace his ancestry to Presidents
John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Hint: His top offensive performances were against
the best pitchers of the day.
- Perfect
game.
- Zeile hit 4 home runs off Hall of Famer Tom
Glavine and 3 each off All-Stars: John Smiley
and Hideo
Nomo.
FCR - Josh Murphy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Incorrect
answers: Matt Holliday, Albert Pujols,
Matt Adams, Gabe Kapler
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who, with Mark McGwire, became the first
pair of National League teammates to total 100 home runs in a single season?
Hint: He hit more home runs at Busch Stadium than
any other player.
Hint: He was the first running back to rush for
1,000 yards in a season for the Modesto Junior College football team.
Hint: Had 5 20/20 seasons, but 11 seasons of 100+
strikeouts.
Hint: Led the National League in triples in his
rookie season.
- 123 HR at Busch Stadium
II (Jim Edmonds’ 111 was 2nd)
- 15 3b in 1991
FCR - Morris Buenemann,
Florissant, Missouri
Incorrect
answers: Jose Canseco, Brian Jordan, Ron
Gant
THURSDAY
Q. Who had possibly one of his worst days
ever when he committed 3 errors and hit into a double play—and it was in an
All-Star Game?
Hint: His hit and RBI did help his league
dominate the scoring.
Hint: One of the reasons he was an All-Star that
year was because he led the league in bases-on-balls.
Hint: After Joe Gordon in 1938, he was the next
rookie second baseman to hit 20 home runs in his debut season.
Hint: He spent even fewer games with the San
Francisco Giants at the end of his career than Randy Johnson did.
- 2012
ASG, NL 8 AL 0
- 94 BB in 2012
- 4 g
w/SFG in 2014, his penultimate (but played with WSN in his final
season.) Johnson
finished with 22 g with SFG at the
end in 2009.
FCR - Steven Coleman, Belleville, Illinois
Incorrect
answers: Joe Morgan, Jeff Kent, Ron Hunt
FRIDAY
Q. What All-Star backstop was a battery
mate of 42 different All-Star pitchers during his 15-year major league career?
Hint: He hit his first professional career cycle
in his team's opening game of the 2006 Caribbean Series.
Hint: MVP and Al-Star Miguel Tejada, a teammate
of his on 2 different teams, is godfather to his children, as is he to
Tejada’s.
Hint: 2017 marks the first ever time that he will
not have represented his country in the World Baseball Classic.
- Caught the following (not necessarily in the
same years they were All-Stars)…
- w/OAK: Tim
Hudson, Kenny
Rogers, Mark
Mulder, Barry
Zito, Kevin
Apier, Jason
Isringhausen, Doug
Jones, Ted
Lilly, Keith
Foulke, Justin Duchscherer; [10]
- w/AL All-Stars: Brendan Donnelly (Sole career AS
appearance for both.)
- w/SDP: Jake Peavy,
David
Wells, Rod
Beck, Andy
Ashby, Chan Ho Park,
Paul Quantrill;
[6]
- w/BAL: Russ
Ortiz, Jim
Johnson, Steve Trachsel,
Danys
Baez, Scott Williamson,
George
Sherrill, Alfredo Simon;
[7]
- w/CIN: Bronson
Arroyo, Johnny
Cueto, Francisco
Cordero, Arthur
Rhodes, Edinson
Volquez, Aroldis
Chapman, Dontrelle
Willis; [7]
- w/COL: Drew
Pomeranz, Jamie
Moyer; [2]
- w/LAD: Clayton
Kershaw, Zack
Greinke, Chris
Capuano, Kenley
Jansen, Brandon
League, Josh
Beckett, Edinson Volquez
(again!), Ted Lilly
(again), Carlos
Marmol, Brian
Wilson, Chad
Billingsley. [9 (net)]
- Cycle game: 02-Feb-2006, playing for Venezuela.
- Played with Tejada
in Oakland and Baltimore.
FCR - Scott Matteson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect
answers: Jorge Posada, Ivan Rodriguez,
Javy Lopez, Bengie Molina
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the starting left fielder for the
Venezuelan team in the inaugural World Baseball Classic?
Hint: Baseball America had named him the #1 prospect
in the Yankees organization. But they traded him to a team outside the U.S.,
not his first stop there.
Hint: In his 12-year career, he played for 5
teams and was released or traded 6 times.
Hint: He is not related to the world’s greatest
reliever.
- Mariano
Rivera not related. Rivera is the 12th-most
common Hispanic name.
FCR - Rich
Lerner, Silver Spring, Maryland
Incorrect
answers: Ruben Rivera, Bobby Abreu
SUNDAY
Q. Whose fly ball resulted in Carlos
Beltran and Mike Cameron of the Mets crashing into each other in the outfield,
sending both to the hospital with concussions?
Hint: The box score calls it a triple.
Hint: His pitching record, though brief, is
without blemish.
Hint: It’s unlikely that he’ll ever have to pay
for a drink anywhere in northeastern Illinois.
- Pitched 09-May-2015
& 26-Jul-2015;
One perfect inning each appearance.
- Played a key role in the Cubs 2016 WS
championship
FCR - Michael McCroskey, Sugar Land, Texas
Incorrect
answers:
WEEKLY THEME – National
Leaguers who hit a home run in their last at-bat, but who had accumulated 100
career home runs prior to that.
Batter HR # When Playing for
Ross 106 2-Nov-2016* Chicago Cubs
*World
Series
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Rick Fink vilefile@optonline.net (After Zeile)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Thurs - Rookie
of the Year runners up
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