27-Nov-2017
Q. Who is the
only New York Yankee pitcher with 4 consecutive twenty-win seasons?
Hint: No pitcher
has collected more career RBI as a batter.
Hint: He once led
the majors in games lost and led the league in complete games in the same
season with 25 each.
Hint: The nickname
came from his hair color, but his family called him Charley and his wife called
him Charles.
- Won 20, 20, 21, 21
in 1936-39. His NYY team won the WS each
year.
- 273 career RBI
- Full given
name: Charles Herbert Ruffing. He signed some autographs “Chas. ‘Red’ Ruffing.”
FCR - Kellen Nielson,
Blanding, Utah
Incorrect guesses: Carl
Mays, Red Barber, Bob Shawkey, Red Rolfe, Ted Ruffing, Reed Ruffing, Red Ruffin,
Jim Thorpe
TUESDAY
Q. Who took
Christy Mathewson's place on the Giants-White Sox world tour following the 1913
season only to discover that he had forgot his passport after the teams were
already at sea?
Hint: In his only
World Series, his outstanding performance on the mound was overshadowed by his
attempting to steal 3rd base in game 2 then finding a teammate
already there. And no, he never played
for Brooklyn,
Hint: He and a
teammate each pitched for same franchise for 20 seasons, 11 of which
overlapped.
- Bottom of the 5th of G 2 of the 1917 WS , Faber tried for 3rd
base and was thrown out. He was the
winning pitcher in 3 G in that WS with a 2.33 ERA. It was the last WS championship for the city
of Chicago until the Sox won the 2005 WS. The Dodgers come to mind here because of Babe Herman.
- Hall of Fame teammate Ted Lyons pitched for Pale Hose 1923-42 &1946. Faber’s years were 1914-33. They were teammates 1923-33.
FCR - Michael McCroskey, Sugar Land, Texas
Incorrect guesses: Jim Thorpe
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who is the only pitcher to win the
National League Most Valuable Player Award more than once?
Hint: He finished in top 10 in MVP voting an
additional three times.
Hint: His 45 consecutive scoreless innings
pitched is a record for leftys.
Hint: He was the first to no-hit the Pirates
after the Deadball Era.
FCR - Thomas Ostertag, New York City
Incorrect
guesses: Walter Huntsinger, Sandy Koufax, Warren Spahn, Hal Newhouser,
Bob Gibson, Dazzy Vance
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the only pitcher to win 300
games between WWI and WWII?
Hint: He was the first American League pitcher to
collect a strikeout in an All-Star game.
Hint: As a minor league player, he was once sold
for an outfield fence.
- Won exactly 300
- Correction:
Grove’s K was the 2nd as Lefty Gomez has stuck out Dick
Bartell in the 2nd inning of the same game. Grove WAS the first to strikeout a player who
would become a Hall of Famer, though.
Grove K’ed Gabby Hartnett in the 7th. All this activity was in the first-ever
All-Star game, held in Chicago in 1933.
- In 1920, Jack Dunn, owner of the AA Baltimore Orioles arranged to buy
Grove’s services from D-league Martinsburg for an amount that secured
the building of the outfield fence for Martinsburg since they had begun the
season playing all their games on the road, lacking, you know… a fence.
FCR - Kellen Nielson, Blanding, Utah
Incorrect
guesses: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Lefty
Gomez
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first Hall of Famer born in
Kansas?
Hint: He won more games in a ten-year span that
any other pitcher in the modern era.
Hint: His career total of 159 extra-base hits is
the most ever by a pitcher.
- According to Bill James, Johnson won 265 G
1910-1919.
- 159 EBH = 24 HR, 41 3B, 94 2B
FCR - Charley Riordan, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses:
END-OF-THE-WEEK BONUS
Q. Which Hall of Famer appeared in
vaudeville plays and was a mortician during the off season?
Hint: His grades suffered so much from his other
extracurriculars that he was not allowed to play baseball for his high school.
Hint: He stopped Ken Williams’ hitting streak at
28, but allowed George Sisler to extend his streak to 24 in the same game.
Hint: In a game at the end of his sophomore year,
he pitched 9 perfect innings on before losing the game in the 10th.
FCR - Scott Matteson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect
guesses: Rube Marquard, Bobo Newsome,
Ernie Shore, Cap Anson, Smoky Joe Wood
SATURDAY
Q. What pitcher had his starts exactly on
exactly six days rest the “golden years” of his career?
Hint: World War II ended his career, or so
everyone thought. He made a post-war
attempt at a comeback, and actually did start 5 games for his old team with an
ERA under 4.00, but with a less-than-stellar 1-4 winning record.
Hint: In his last full season, after 10 years of being in the running, he final led
the league in ERA and would have led the majors had Mort Cooper not posted a
fantastic 1.78 for the Cards.
Hint: He never stuck out more than 75 batters in
a season, in spite of a Hall of Famer career winning over 250 games.
- Lyons was started every Sunday for the last 5
years of his career, going 52-34 in those games.
- Career wins 260-230. Highest K year was 1933 when he struck out 74
while leading the league in losses.
FCR - Madison MacEntire, Bryant, Arkansas
Incorrect guesses: Johnny Beazley
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Which Hall of Fame hurler tried to heal
his arm trouble by using bee-sting therapy?
Hint: In a game near to the beginning of his
major league career, Connie Mack chose him as the Opening Day starter. He responded by pitching a 1-hitter where exactly
2 runners reached first. Both would become
Hall of Famers.
Hint: He raised thoroughbreds and hosted fox
hunts in his hometown. I guess that
chivalrous enough.
- In 1928 he developed a sore arm, which he
attempted to cure through "bee sting therapy" meaning he would expose
his arm to a swarm of bees. His arm
swelled painfully, showing no improvement. He later told reporters, "All I can say
is that nature intended self-respecting bees to spend their time getting honey
out of flowers and not go drilling into a pitcher's arm."
- Baserunners on 14-Apr-1915 were Tris Speaker w/a 1st inning
2-out BB & Harry Hooper who had the only hit
in the 9th inning: a 2-out single
on a slow roller to second.
- Born and raised in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, less
than an hour from Shibe Park, he built
chrysanthemum greenhouses on his Kennett Square property, and collected antique
furniture. He also he never swore nor drank,
all of which gave him an aura of royalty. His nickname, The Squire of Kennett Square,
summed up his persona. Posthumously, he
was more often referred to as The Knight of Kennett Square.
FCR - Save Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect
guesses: Chief Bender
SUNDAY
Q. What Hall of Fame pitcher claimed he
once had pitched seven innings without throwing a ball; every pitch was either
hit, missed, or called a strike.
Hint: Hey,
*I* am in no position to contradict him!
Hint: After George Sisler had broken Ty Cobb’s
record for the most hits in a season, this pitcher gave up Sisler’s next hit,
his 250th.
Hint: He played on the first ever major league team
with 9 eventual Hall of Famers he among them.
Hint: His brother was nicknamed “The Giant Killer”.
- He never said when this fantastic stretch of
innings was.
- Brother Harry was Nicknamed "The Giant Killer" for his prowess
against NYG during the final few games of 1908.
FCR - David Reed, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Harry Coveleski, Dizzy Dean,
Herb Pennock
WEEKLY THEME – Hall of
Fame pitchers who gave up career home runs to Babe Ruth.
Faber
Grove
Hoyt
Hubbell
Johnson
Lyons
Pennock
Ruffing
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme –
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Yankee
pitchers who won the opening game of a World Series that the Yankees eventually
won
Tuesday - Players
nicknamed Red
- Players
with Christmas colors in nickname
- HOF
pitchers that were/are red-heads
- Hall
of Famers who played for franchises in Chicago and Boston
- Players
with Red or any color in their nickname.
- Players
nicknamed Red
Wed - Pitchers
that pitched & won two games the opening game & the clinching game
- 250-Game
winners who played their entire career with one team
- 200
plus game winners who lived to be in their 80’s
Thu - 200
plus game winners who led their leagues in ERA
Sun - HOF
pitchers whose careers who won all their Gs between WWI & WWII
- Top
7 pitchers of shutouts from the beginning of the ‘live’ ball era to WW II
- Is
it Hall of Fame starters with the lowest winning percentages
- HOF
pitchers who were the first from their respective states inducted into Hall.
- Hall
of Fame pitchers between the world wars.
- Hall
of Fame pitchers from the 1920s who won at least 200 games
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