MONDAY
Q. Who is the only player to win the Rawlings/SABR Platinum Glove Award more than once in the American League?
Hint: He is the only National League player to collect 200 hits in a season without even one of them being a triple.
Hint: After winning a home run title in his 7th year in the majors, he was traded and took over the locker of a recently retired two-time batting champion.
- 48 HR for LAD in 2004
FCR - Scott Mattson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect answers: Yoenis Cespedes, Rafael Palmeiro
TUESDAY
Q. What pennant-winning manager averaged more than 99 wins a season for the Dodgers?
Hint: The season immediately after he was the Dodgers’ manager, he managed an American League team to more than 100 losses.
Hint: Of his 16 years managing in the majors, 7 of them were partial years.
FCR - Gary Sarnoff, Alexandria, Virginia
Incorrect answers:
WEDNESDAY
Q. What young speedster never had fewer than 10 triples in a season until his 11th year?
Hint: He was the first to lead the American League in triples for 3 consecutive seasons.
Hint: A famous teammate once took a famous swing at him, missed, broke his hand and drew a 5-week suspension for his efforts. Swinger and swingee are now enshrined in Cooperstown.
Hint: A player listed by baseball-reference as the first major leaguer ever, prevented this guy from being a double-unique.
- 10+ 3b 1898-1907
FCR - Fred Worth, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Incorrect answers: Sam Crawford, Rod Carew, Burt Shotton, Don Mattingly, Joe Torre, Mike Scioscia, Tris Speaker, Hank Aaron, Luis Aparicio
THURSDAY
Q. Who is the all-time major league leader for sacrifice flies in a single season?
Hint: He hit the last grand slam for his team before they move cities and the first one for them in their new home.
Hint: A year later he won one of the first Lou Gehrig Memorial Awards.
- 19 SF in 1954
FCR - Richard Marston, Newport Beach, California
Incorrect answers: Alvin Dark, Eddie Murray, Harmon Killebrew
THURSDAY BONUS
Q. What former Wildcat was the first batter with a career entirely in the modern era to retire with more than 100 career hits without ever hitting a triple?
Hint: He never played on a team that finished the season higher than 7th in the standings.
Hint: He was teammates with 4 Hall of Famers and the son of another one.
Hint: He is buried in a humble unmarked grave in Louisville.
- 1930 CHW 7th, 1931 CHW 8th, 1934 PHI 7th
FCR - Scott Mattson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect answers: Earl Averill, Dave Sisler
FRIDAY
Q. Which Hall of Famer earned fame as an Indiana fairgrounds bicycle racer?
Hint: He also operated a roller skating rink before his career got started.
Hint: He scouted out a famous hidden Indian.
Hint: He attended the same law school as did Miller Huggins.
- Before his career in law
- He ruled that Tommy Henrich be a free agent in 1937 because of having been hidden illegally in the CLE farm system. Henrich won 4 rings w/NYY.
FCR - Adam Foldes, New York City
Incorrect answers: Hughie Jennings
SATURDAY
Q. What burly Hollywood native marks the initials of three people in the outfield dirt prior to every game: Mike Adenhart, Lacey Warner and his mother?
Hint: In his locker, he proudly displayed a photo of himself as a toddler being held by his mother.
Hint: He is now in his third stint with his team, enjoying the leadership status of a veteran.
Hint: During his first stint, he was an All-Star team starter.
Hint: He became only the sixth catcher ever to have more than one home run in a postseason game.
- B. in Hollywood, Florida. Nick Adenhart, a young pitcher when Napoli was with the LAA, was killed in a car accident at age 22. Lacey Warner was an 8-year-old who died of a complication during open heart surgery. Napoli befriended her during his time w/BOS.
FCR - Fred Worth, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Incorrect answers:
SUNDAY
Q. Whose string of 7 straight bloop hits helped coin the phrase “Texas Leaguer”?
Hint: They were accomplished in the first 7 at -bats of his professional career based on a verbal contract entered into that very morning.
Hint: Playing in the outfield for Connie Mack’s A’s one season he led the majors in strikeouts with a total that has already been reached this year and would not place him in the top 5,000 all-time.
Hint: In the winter before his last season, he invested in a traveling vaudeville show, but disbanded the troupe, embarrassed when his own parents refused to come to see it.
Hint: A BLTR, he played for 6 teams in the majors over the span of 8 seasons.
- Read the story of Pickering’s debut here: Texas Leaguer
- 75 k in 1903
- One newspaper writer called it, “Pickering’s Polluted Pollywogs – Picturesque, Pestilential Posers, the Perihelion Pinks of Piccadilly”.
FCR - Mike McCroskey, Sugar Land, Texas
Incorrect answers:
IN MEMORIAM
Q. What ballplayer was played by Anthony Perkins in the movie Fear Strikes Out?
Hint: He was also portrayed therein by
Hint: He made a name for himself several ways, but perhaps the most notable was when he hit his career 100th home run, he ran the bases backwards to celebrate.
Hint: He hit it off a future World-Series-winning manager.
Hint: He was the first (and so far only) only Red Sox player to collect six hits in a 9-inning game.
Hint: He won Gold Gove Awards with two different American League teams.
- Fear Strikes Out, IMDB
- 100th HR 23-Jun-1963 off Dallas Green
- 6 H 10-Jun-1953 (He went hitless in the 2nd G.) Pete Runnels (30-Aug-1960, 15 innings), Jerry Remy (3,4-Aug-1981, 20 innings)
- GG with BOS and CLE
FCR - Ken Auerbach Bonita Spring, Florida
Incorrect answers:
WEEKLY THEME – Alphabetical Continuation
We decided not to extend the string with …
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Bill Hickman, Rockville, Maryland
Incorrect theme guesses:
Thur - Players who died exactly 2 days before their birthdays
- All were members of teams with cats as mascots, i.e. Wildcats, Bearcats, Tigers, etc.
Sat - Branch Rickey association
Sun - Players who were known for professional entertainment activities outside baseball.
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