12-Mar-2018
Q. Four
American League players have strung together 4 or more batting titles. It’s been done by Nap Lajoie, Ty Cobb and
Wade Boggs. Who is the 4th?
Hint: He retired 4
days after he turned 40.
Hint: Since World
War II only Tony Gwynn, George Brett and Ted Williams have had higher
single-season batting averages than he did in his MVP year.
Hint: He, however,
had 50+ hits more that year than any of those three had in their big seasons.
Hint: He is the
only player to triple twice in a single All-Star Game.
- Won batting titles
1972-75 (Also won in 1969, 77 & 78)
Lajoie 1901-04; Ty
Cobb 1911-15; & Boggs 1985-88
- Hit .387987 in1977. Gwynn hit .394 in 1994; Brett hit .390 in
1980; and Williams hit .3885 in 1957
- Carew had 239 hits,
Gwynn 165, Brett 175 & Williams 163
FCR - Jeff Cohen,
Wantagh, New York
Incorrect guesses: Tony
Oliva, Ted Williams, Harry Heilman, Alex Rodriguez, Paul Molitor, Wade
Boggs, George Brett, Ichiro Suzuki, George Sisler
TUESDAY
Q. Whose
Spanish nickname was “The Horse”?
Hint: He was the
only 20th century player to homer in his first major league at-bat
for the Chicago White Sox?
Hint: In his
second season in the majors, he and four teammate each scored 100 runs.
Hint: Two years
later, he and four teammates each hit 25 home runs one season.
Hint: His home
town in English makes it seem like he’s from Oklahoma.
Hint: He won his
first Silver Slugger Award the same season he made his first All-Star team.
- “El Caballo”
- 100+ R for CHW in 2000 = Ray Durham 121, Frank
Thomas 115, Lee 107, Jose Valentin 107, Magglio Ordonez 102
- Magglio Ordonez (38), Frank Thomas (28), Paul
Konerko (27), Carlos Lee (26), Jose Valentin (25) (2002 Chicago White Sox)
- 25+ HR for CHW in
- From Aguadulce = Sweetwater
- SS & AS 2005
FCR - Doug Wilkins, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Miguel Cabrera, Jose Abreu, Magglio
Ordonez
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who played more games at catcher for the
Pirates of Pittsburgh than anyone else in history?
Hint: He was the catcher in the historic line-up
where every position was manned by a player of African heritage.
Hint: He was unable to stop Bob Moose's wild
pitch allowing George Foster to score the pennant-clinching run in the bottom
of the 9th of game 5 in the 1972 NLCS.
Hint: He swung a 40-ounce bat compared to the 35-ounce
bat of Frank Howard.
- Reader Richard
Giovanoni gives us this additional insight on this otherwise simple answer: Sanguillen did play more games for the
Pirates than either Jason Kendall or George Gibson, but according to my
calculations off Baseball-Reference.com, played fewer innings as a catcher than
either one.
Kendall: G at C for PIT
= 1,205; Innings at C for PIT = 10,283.2
Gibson: G at C for PIT
= 1,055; Innings at C for PIT = 9,733.0
Sanguillen G at C for PIT
= 1,038*; Innings at C for PIT = 8,912.0
* 1972 shows a one game
discrepancy in appearances & fielding games at catcher, included above.
- All-Black line-up game 01-Sep-1971
Gene Clines CF
Dave Cash 3b
Al Oliver 1b
- Most major leaguers today use a 32-ounce bat.
FCR - Jerry Mora, Prescott, Arizona
Incorrect
guesses: Tony Pena, Benito Santiago,
Jason Kendall
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the first foreign-born player to
lead the American League in home runs for a season?
Hint: His Hall of Fame manager opined that he
could, “…does all five things. He can
hit, run, field, throw and hit for power.”
Hint: Showing great baseball insight, he once
said, “And, personally, I think the author of the platoon system was a guy who
couldn’t hit lefthanders.”
Hint: Some of his nicknames were Spiderman,
Banana Man and Philosopher-Home Run King.
Hint: Some think his swing was the sweetest, most
liquid in all of baseball.
- 41 HR in 1980, tied w/Reggie Jackson; Born in
Colon, Panama
- Larry Doby managed Ben in the Venezuelan
league during the winter of 1972.
- His lack of playing time early in his career
was very frustrating to him.
- Check him out at the 2:00 minute mark on this video. (If
you find a good video of Oglivie’s swing, please share it.)
FCR - Daniel Wilson, St. Paul
Incorrect
guesses: Vic Power, Jose Canseco, Tony Armas, Duke Snider, Miguel Cabrera,
Albert Pujols, Harry Davis, John Olerud, Juan Gonzalez
FRIDAY
Q. What pitcher holds the all-time career
record for games finished?
Hint: His first pitching coach was Hall of Famer
Hoyt Wilhelm.
Hint: He is the only player be named the most
valuable player of a World Series, a League Championship Series and an All-Star
Game.
Hint: An opposing team once gave him a gift of a
chair made from the bats he’d broken.
Hint: He was the last active major leaguer born
in the 1960’s.
- GF = 952 (Trevor Hoffman next with 856)
- Wilhelm coached him
- B. 29-Nov-1969. Oldest player in the majors in 2013 at 43.
FCR - Jack Fahey, Oak Forest, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Bartolo Colon, Dennis Eckersley,
John Smoltz, John Wetteland
SATURDAY
Q. Whose 9th-inning, two-out
double ruined Dave Stieb’s perfect game?
Hint: He set an unusual record when he had the most
times reaching base via interference in a single season.
Hint: He was once caught stealing twice in an
inning.
- Reached 1st on interference 8 times
in 1992. Jacoby Ellsbury is now the single-season leader, with 12 in 2016.
FCR - Victor Piacentile, Yorktown Heights, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Julio Franco, Carlos Baerga,
Bob Watson, Don Baylor, Wade Boggs
SUNDAY
Q. Who is the only player
in history to catch four National League no-hitters?
Hint: Hearing his nickname might elicit a
“Gesundheit”.
Hint: He’s the last player to qualify for this
week’s theme.
- Catcher for no-hitters:
3.) On 01-Sep-2014, he was the catcher when Cole Hamels, Jake Diekman, Ken Giles & Jonathan Papelbon combined to no-hit
ATL.
- Nickname = “Chooch”
FCR
-
Incorrect guesses: Ernie Lombardi,
Choo Choo Coleman, Alan Ashby, John Roseboro
WEEKLY THEME – Natives
of Panama who became All-Stars
Player City All-Star
years
Carew............. Gatun.............. [18] 1967-84
Rivera............. Panama City... [13]
1997, 1999-2002, 2004-06, 2008-11, 2013
Lee................. Aguadulce......... [3] 2005-07
Oglivie............ Colon................ [3]
1980, 1982-83
Sanguillen...... Colon................ [3]
1971-72, 1975
Kelly............... Panama City..... [2] 1992-93
Ruiz................ David................. [1] 2012
First Correct
Respondent to Identify Theme – John Michael
Pierobon, Fort Lauderdale (after Lee)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Panamanian
players with multiple All-Star game appearances
- Players
with major coronary problems
- Players
who wore 29 playing for LA-based teams
Tuesday - Most
career hits—Panamanian born
- Players
born in Panama
- Players
from Panama and multiple all stars
- Panamanian-born
players with the most games played in the majors
- Players
born in Panama, with Multiple All Stars & have over 2,000 hits
Friday - Panamanians
named to the all Panamanian all-time team.
- Career
WAR leaders born in Panama
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