Q. Whose record
for career home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger did Eric Karros break?
Hint: His avian
tendencies are not immediately obvious.
Hint: He was a
six-time All-Star, but the most important award he ever won, he had to share—twice!
FCR - Brian
Engelhardt, Reading, Pennsylvania
Incorrect guesses: Steve
Garvey, Duke Snider, Pedro Guerrero, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Reggie
Smith
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the
last position player to win the Rookie of the Year Award for the Cincinnati
Reds?
Hint: He finished
ahead of a Hall of Famer in the voting.
Hint: Many believe
he should have been the MVP of the only World Series he ever played in.
Hint: His nickname
was from a canine character appearing in commercials for an adult beverage at
the time.
FCR - Adrian Fung, Toronto
Incorrect guesses: Barry Larkin, Scott Williamson, Tony Perez
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the last player ever to bat
against Sandy Koufax in the majors?
Hint: He is of Basque extraction.
Hint: He and Nomar Garciaparra, Mark Kotsay and
Mike Gallego were born in the same city.
- Faced Koufax in the 6th inning of the 2nd
game of the 1966 World Series. He grounded into a double play. It was the last major league pitch Koufax
ever threw. He was replaced in the 7th
by Ron Perranoski.
- The Basques are a people inhabiting areas near
the Spanish-French Border and Andora.
They had long sought independence.
Unsuccessfully.
FCR - David Ramsden, Barcelona
Incorrect
guesses: Davey Johnson, Luis Aparicio,
Davey Lopes, Chico Salmon
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the third-base coach for all
three Oakland A’s World Series championship teams of the 1970s?
Hint: A former Lancer lancer, he heard his wife
declare on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary that they
should only get credit for 30 years because he was on the road half the time.
Hint: On his first professional team, he led his
league in batting at .363, in hits/188 hits, in doubles w/33, in triples
w/14 and in RBI w/129.
Hint: He played professional basketball as a
teammate of Jackie Robinson, George Mikan and George Crowe.
Hint: His fielding was so outstanding during his
2nd year in the majors, that Bill James said he would have won a
Gold Glove had the award existed at that time.
Hint: He was an American League All-Star the year
his team won 103 games.
Hint: He already had two World Series rings by
that time.
- Pitched for his home-town Pasadena City College where he was later
honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award.
- Played pro basketball in the Chicago American
Gears of the National Basketball League.
FCR - David Ramsden, Barcelona
Incorrect
guesses: Alvin Dark, Jerry Adair
FRIDAY
Q. Who broke his ankle early in the season,
then broke Ray Schalk‘s 1916 record for stolen bases in a season by a catcher
that same year?
Hint: A Hall of Famer-to-be hit an extra-inning,
walk-off home run in his major league managerial debut.
Hint: In college, he was named all-conference at
two different positions.
FCR - Samuel Bass, Decatur, Georgia
Incorrect
guesses: Jason Kendall, Johnny Kling,
Mickey Cochrane, Gabby Hartnet
FRIDAY BONUS
Q. What charismatic southerner won a Gold
Glove for his outfield play in only his third full year in the majors?
Hint: After finishing a respectable 3rd
in Rookie-of-the-Year voting behind a future MVP, he tied for the major league
lead in games played each of the next two seasons.
Hint: He is too often remembered, however, for a
dramatically egregious play he made one day against division rival Washington
Nationals.
Hint: In his 12 seasons, he managed to spread his
5,000+ at-bats over two American League teams and six (!) National League
teams.
- From 2005 to 2016, he
played for ATL, NYM, TEX, KCR, SFG, SDP, PHI & MIA.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Michael Morse
SATURDAY
Q. Who hit the first grand slam for the recently-moved
and renamed Baltimore Orioles?
Hint: He played for a team in their last season
in one city and managed another in their first season in a new city.
Hint: One of his best contributions to the game
was his progeny.
- GS 30-Jul-1954 off NYY’s Allie Reynolds, helping Don Larsen to his only shutout that year. (He only won 3 G, but his 21 losses that year
did lead the AL.)
- Played for the Dodgers during their last season in Brooklyn. (Also his last year as a player.) A decade later, he was the first to manage
the A’s after their move to Oakland in 1968.
- Son Terry had a 14-year major league career, including 4
All-Star appearances, a Silver Slugger Award and was on two pennant-winning
teams.
FCR - Dave Goss, Wind Gap, Pennsylvania
Incorrect
guesses: Gus Bell, Jim Gentile, Cal
Ripken, Sr., Ray Boone, Sam Mele, Clark Griffith
SATURDAY PLUS
Q. Who played with and was signed together
out of high school with Tim McCarver?
Hint: Citing the difference in their respective
signing bonuses, he liked to say, “We were the gold dust twins. He got the gold and I got the dust.”
Hint: His brother’s major league career consisted
of one 9th-inning pinch-running assignment which resulted in his
being force out at 2nd.
Hint: He received threatening letters from New
York Mets fans.
Hint: Teammate Carl Yastrzemski once mused, “He
gets a good piece of the ball every time he goes up there.”
- McCarver and he attended Christian Brothers High School
in Memphis by STL in 1959.
McCarver’s bonus was $75,000. His
was $10,000.
FCR - Rick Zucker, St. Louis
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEKEND BONUS
Hint: What rookie was a defensive replacement for
Ted Williams twice in the span of a week before entering the service?
Hint: He and Williams re-joined the Red Sox on
the same day after the war.
Hint: Major league shortstop Joe DeMaestri was a
high school teammate.
Hint: His nickname would be a cheer in some places.
- Pinch-ran and stayed in LF for Williams in the top of the 8th on 15-Jul-1951.
On 22-Jul-1951, he replace Williams in the 9th
inning of a 10-inning game.
- The brothers in arms returned to the Sawks on 04-Aug-1953,
but Olson saw playing time two days earlier than did The Kid.
- Nickname was “Ole”.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Carrol Hardy, Dom DiMaggio,
Jimmy Piersall, Joe Pignatano (Who was one inning early from joining this list
on 30-Sep-1962.),
M.C. Hammer
SUNDAY
Q. Which A's coach doubled as the traveling
secretary under the team's cost-conscious owner?
Hint: He had 9 Hall of Fame teammates and played
for a Hall of Fame manager.
Hint: He lined into a triple play that ended his
team’s season.
- Was teammates with Johnny Mize, Willie Mays,
Monte Irvin, Hoyt Wilhelm & Red Schoendienst in the majors; Ray
Dandridge, Billy Herman and Orlando Cepeda in the minors; and Earl Weaver
in high school. Played for Leo Durocher.
- For details on the TP, it will be revealed anon,
forsooth …and all will be clear.
FCR - John Wills, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEKLY THEME – Players
who hit into game-ending triple plays
Last Out Date Turned Out ahead Game result
Cey................. 21-Apr-1978...... 3-6-3....... B. Russell, R. Smith..................... HOU
8, LAD 6
Kennedy......... 10-Sep-1940..... 4-6-3....... M Tresh, T. Wright....................... WSH
5, CHW 2
Noren............. 22-May-1953..... 1-3-6....... A. Schult, A. Carey...................... NYY
4, WSH 12
Olson............. 29-Aug-1953..... 3-3-6....... F. Baker, A. Zarilla....................... BOS
1, CHW 5
Sabo.............. 08-Sep-1991..... 5-4-3....... E. Davis, H. Morris....................... CIN 2, MON 4
Wathan........... 03-Jun-1977..... 9-6-4-6.... F. Patek, D. Nelson.......................BAL 7, KCR 6
*Last inning of the
team’s final game of the season. The
team (NYG) finished 80-74, 18½ G behind the Brooklyn Dodgers, who would then win
their only World Series.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Randall
Chandler, Germantown, Tennessee (After Sabo)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Thursday - Players who look like Yogi Berra
Saturday - Sons of first generation Americans
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