02-Jul-2018
Q. Who played for
the Pistons and was once traded with Bob Uecker?
Hint: After
returning from military service and for the next 12 straight seasons, he had
fewer than 20 doubles only once, including leading the majors the first year after
being traded.
Hint: He’s now a
professional broadcaster.
A. DICK GROAT [SABR
Bio]
- After a successful
college basketball career, including winning the Helms College Basketball
Player of the Year in 1951, spent a year in the NBA w/FTW. Traded 27-Oct-1965 by STL w/ Bob Uecker & Bill White to the PHI for Pat Corrales, Alex Johnson & Art Mahaffey.
- Traded 19-Nov-1962 by PIT w/ Diomedes Olivo to STL for Don Cardwell & Julio Gotay. Hit 43 2b in 1963 for STL. 20+ 2b 1955-66 (19 in
1956).
- Is the color commentator
for Pittsburgh Panthers
men's basketball radio broadcasts.
FCR - Tim Phares,
Laurel, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Dave DeBusschere, Bill White, Gene Conley,
Ron Reed, Bill White,
MONDAY DOUBLE-HEADER
Q. Who hit more
home runs from 1950 to 1959 inclusive than Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? (…or, FWIW, anyone else?)
Hint: He and NBA
All-Star DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors were athletes at the same high
school.
Hint: For three
straight seasons, he was in the Top 5 of league MVP voting, twice losing to a
teammate.
A. DUKE SNIDER [SABR
Bio]
- MLB HR leaders 1950-59:
Snider 326
Hodges 310
Mathews 299
Mantle 280
Musial 266
Berra 256
Mays 250
NOTE: He falls to 3rd
place in the properly measured decade 1951-60.
- Both attended Compton High School in
Los Angeles, as did NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle.
- Finished 3rd, 4th &
2nd in 1953, 54 & 55 respectively. Roy Campanella
was NL MVP in 1953 & 55, beating Snider by a mere 1% in 55.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect guesses: Harmon Killebrew, Eddie Mathews, Ralph Kiner
TUESDAY
Q. Who holds the Baltimore Orioles (1954-2018)
record for RBI in a single season?
Hint: Among Orioles, only Brian Roberts and Manny
Machado have hit more doubles in a season.
Hint: Eight times he has received MVP votes,
twice finishing in the top 5.
Hint: His 12 grand slams were distributed among 4
of the 6 teams he played for.
- 150 RBI in 2004
- 50 2b in 2005, Robert has 56 in ’04 and
Machado hit 51 in 2013.
- MVP in 2002; Finished
5th in 2004.
- GS for BAL, HOU, OAK & SFG.
FCR - Lawrence Creeden, Boulder City, Nevada
Incorrect
guesses: Jim Gentile, Eddie Murray,
Rafael Palmeiro, Frank Robinson, Adam Jones
TUESDAY
TWICE
Q. Who is the only position player to win
the National League’s Rookie of the Year Award for the Mets?
Hint: In his 6th season, he won a
league home run title, even though he had hit the same number of homers the
prior year and only finished 3rd in that category.
Hint: He had 8 All-Star appearances and twice won
the Silver Slugger Award, but never got voted a Gold Glove.
Hint: He and a teammate were the first 30/30
“Club” members for their franchise in the same year. That teammate, however did it again twice.
- ROY 1983
- 1988 = 39 HR; 1987 = Andre Dawson had 49 &
Dale Murphy had 44
- 1987 = 39 HR, 36 SB; Howard Johnson had 36/32
and did it again in 1989 & 91.
FCR - Madison McEntire, Bryant, Arkansas
Incorrect
guesses: Howard Johnson, David Wright,
Kevin Mitchell, Ron Hunt
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who holds the record for most National
League games played at catcher?
Hint: I kid you not.
Hint: He once threw out Lenny Randle three times
in the same game.
Hint: As a senior in high school, he had scores
of scholarships to play football in college.
A. GARY CARTER [SABR Bio]
- 2,056 G @ C for MON, NYM, SFG, LAD
- Nicknamed “The Kid”
- CS X 3 for Randle = 15-Apr-1978
- Turned down football offers to sign with the
Expos
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Johnny Bench, Bob Boone, Ted
Simmons, Tim McCarver
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Which player hit into a triple play on
8/8/88? (Wouldn’t it be great if the
center fielder made all three outs?!)
Hint: Before becoming a pro, he was the Sporting News College Player of the Year.
Hint: He was the first player for his franchise
to homer twice in an inning.
A. JOE CARTER [SABR Bio]
- TP 08-Aug-1988 (Dan Gladden-> Steve Lombardozzi-> Gene Larkin)
- CPOY 1981
- HR X 2 for TOR = 03-Oct-1993, the
last G of the regular season. (You might
remember, he also homered in the last G of the postseason
that year!)
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Tim Wallach, Billy Beane, Robin
Ventura, Pete Incaviglia, Ken Griffey, Will Clark
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the first pitcher to win a Cy
Young Award for a team not based in New York?
Hint: His quote about baseball management is one
of the greatest of all time.
Hint: One of his best career performances
inspired the young opposing pitcher to blatantly defy that pitcher’s manager, a
manager who was seldom overridden.
A. WARREN SPAHN [SABR Bio]
- CYA 1957, the 2nd
year of the award. Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe was the 1st winner, the
Yankees’ Bob Turley was the 3rd.
- Spahn pitched for the Casey Stengel-led 1942 Boston
Braves. They finished 7th in
an 8-team league, 30 G under .500 and 44 G out of first. Spahn came back a hero from WWII and had his
Hall of Fame career for the Braves, including 3 pennants and a World Series
championship while Stengel was winning 10 pennants and 7 WS titles w/NYY. As his career began to wind down, Spahn again
found himself on a Casey Stengel-managed team, the 1965 Mets. They finished 10th in a 10-team
league, 62 G under .500 and 47 G out of first.
Spahn’s quote? “I'm probably the only guy who worked for
Stengel before and after he was a genius.”
- On 02-Jul-1963, SFG’s
Juan Marichal matched Spahn scoreless inning for scoreless inning. Giants’ manager, Al Dark wanted to pull
Marichal to rest his arm. The
25-year-old Marichal implied he’d come out of the game when that 42-year-old out
on the mound did the same. Willie Mays
hit his 383rd career home run to end the game in the
16th and give Marichal his 13th W of the year.
FCR - Tim Phares, Laurel, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Dean Chance, Vern Law, Bobby
Shantz
THURSDAY TWICE
Q. Who was the most recent pitcher to tie
Steve Carlton’s total of four National League Cy Young Awards?
Hint: And that’s a tall order!
Hint: Since
retiring from baseball, he has pursued a second career as a photographer.
Hint: He led his league in strikeouts nine (9!)
times.
A. RANDY JOHNSON [SABR Bio]
- Johnson is 2.08 meters tall (6'10")—2nd-tallest
player ever.
- Randy
Johnson Photography (Check out the logo.)
- K-king 5 X for ARI & 4 X for SEA. (Walter Johnson
led the AL in K an amazing 12 times.)
FCR - Adrian Fung, Toronto
Well-meaning
guesses: Greg Maddux
THURSDAY THRICE
Q. Who was the last player to steal 75
American League bases in a season?
Hint: He played for nine major league teams this
century alone.
Hint: For three of them he played for more than
100 games each.
Hint: He once score from second base on a postseason-game
passed-ball.
Hint: He set the PAC-12 record for steals in a college
career.
A. KENNY LOFTON
- 75 SB for CLE in 1996.
- 2001-2007 played for 9 teams: 2001 CLE*, 2002 CHW, 2002 SFG, 2003 PIT, 2003 CHC, 2004 NYY, 2005 PHI*, 2006 LAD* & 2007 TEX. * = 100+ G
- Scored on a passed-ball 6th G
of 1995 LCS.
- Made 200 steals for
the University of Arizona basketball team.
FCR - Dr. Lewis Freedman, Fordham University
Well-meaning
guesses: Rickey Henderson, Tom Goodwin,
Jay Payton
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first player since expansion
to represent four different teams in the All-Star Game? [Not the same game—that would be a record!]
Hint: His nickname was bestowed by a teammate and
he tolerated it for a while, not imagining it would stick forever.
Hint: His 308th career save earned
Nolan Ryan his 308th career victory.
Hint: He is not a fan of bat flips.
A. RICH
GOSSAGE [SABR Bio]
- AS for CHW, PIT, NYY & SDP
- was given his nickname by Chicago White Sox roommate [and Horsehide Trivia
subscriber] Tom
Bradley, who carefully explained to him that he looked like a goose when he
leaned in for the catcher’s sign. Gossage
now asks that we call him “Rich” in spite of continuing to use Goose in all his
promotional material, including his website.
- 308 X 2 = 23-Jul-1991
- Famously criticized
Jose Bautista for his 2016 play-off bat flip.
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Francisco Cordero, Lee Smith, Mitch
Williams, Billy Wagner, Dennis Eckersley
SATURDAY
Q. Who balked more than any other pitcher
in major league history?
Hint: He also holds the single-season balk record
for the National League.
Hint: He earned his 100th and 300th
career wins against the team that traded him away.
Hint: He was heavily influenced by the teaching
of a yogi.
A. STEVE
CARLTON [SABR Bio]
- 90 balks = 8 in the AL + 92 in the NL (also
the NL record)
- 11 balks in 1979 for PHI (Dave Stewart balked
16 times for OAK in 1988)
- From Carlton’s SABR Bio: “During his teenage years, Carlton became
a big believer of the teachings of Eastern philosophy, in particular the
writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, who believed that greatness in life can be
achieved through meditation. The teachings of the Yogananda and other
philosophers played a crucial role in Carlton’s maturation process as a
big-league pitcher.”
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles
Incorrect
guesses: Charlie Hough, Gaylord Perry,
Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver
SATURDAY SPECIAL
Q. What original Expo was a major league
coach for nearly a third of a century, seeing his team in the playoffs 10
times?
Hint: His coaching career followed his 20-year career as a player, including an appearance in
the All-Star Game.
Hint: Two of his sons made it to the majors.
Hint: His cousin was one of the original Seattle
Mariners.
Hint: Most people expected him to pass former
teammate Smokey Burgess.
A. MANNY MOTA [SABR Bio]
- C w/LAD 1980-2012
- Played in NL 1962-1980, 82
- Passed Burgess
for most career pinch-hits, 150 to 145.
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Chris Speier, Felipe
Alou, Jose Cruz
SATURDAY NIGHT SURPRISE
Q. Whose 37 home runs are the most in a
season by a player who also stole 50 bases that year?
Hint: In his best season of stolen bases, only Vince
Coleman and Rickey Henderson finished ahead of him.
Hint: He was the first National League player to
hit three grand slams in one calendar month.
Hint: It was actually HIS bat that Fernando Tatis
used to hit two gran slam in one inning.
A. ERIC
DAVIS
- 1987 = 50 SB, 37 HR
- 80 SB in 1986.
Coleman had 107, Henderson 87.
- 3 GS 01-,
03-
& 30-May-1987,
all on the road
- Tatis GSs = 23-Apr-1999
FCR - Dave Goss, Wind Gap, Pennsylvania
Incorrect guesses: Gus Bell, Maury
Wills, Bob Boone, Willie McGee, Jeff Bagwell, Jim Edmonds
WEEKEND
BONUS
Q. Who was the first 21st-century
player to play every inning of an All-Star Game?
Hint: He dominated the voting when he won the
Rookie of the Year Award.
Hint: He is the recent winner of the Hope Award.
- 2006
ASG = Only he had 4 ABs
- He got a 95% share of the 1999
ROY voting.
- Sports
Illustrated awarded him their Hope
Award for his work helping spearhead efforts to restore Puerto Rico, his
homeland, after Hurricane Maria.
FCR - David Ramsden, Barcelona
Incorrect
guesses: Mike Trout, Ichiro Suzuki,
Manny Machado, Bryce Harper, Cody Bellinger, Cal Ripken
SUNDAY
Q. After Joe Gordon in 1938, what future former
Washington National was the next rookie second baseman to homer twenty times in
his debut season?
Hint: He is the only second baseman in MLB history to hit at least 30
home runs in four consecutive seasons.
Hint: Toward the end of his rookie year, he and
two additional teammate rookies touched up opposing pitchers for a total of 5
home runs.
A. DAN
UGGLA
- 27 HR in his rookie season, the lowest total
he would have for the next 5 seasons. Gordon
hit 25 as a rookie.
- 2007-2011 30+ HR each year
- 5-R G 11-Sep-2006. Cody Ross
had 3; Josh
Willingham and Uggla had 1 each.
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles
Incorrect
guesses: Davey Johnson, Alfonso Soriano,
Danny Espinosa, Daniel Murphy
SUNDAY’S
COOL
Q. What Ontario native attended the same high
school where two Hall of Famers had played?
Hint: In his own words, “I was a pudgy little kid
and not a very good athlete, but I was enthusiastic.”
Hint: The biggest influence in his development
was former minor leaguer Pep Lemon.
Hint: He developed his major league swing by
playing pepper.
A. DEL
CRANDALL [SABR Bio]
- Born in Ontario, California. Went to Fullerton Union High School, the alma
matter of both Walter Johnson and Arky Vaughn.
- Managed MIL 1972-75. Aaron played there in 1975 and also in ’76 under
Alex Grammas.)
FCR - Dave Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect
guesses: Joey Votto, Larry Walker,
Russell Martin
WEEKLY THEME – Fifteen
major league All-Stars you probably don’t first think of as San Francisco Giants,
and yet they all played there.
Player MLB Y MLB G SFG Y SFG G
Carter, G............ 19........ 2,296.......... 1990......... 92
Carter, J............. 16........ 2,189.......... 1998......... 41
Strawberry......... 17......... 1,583.......... 1994......... 29
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Barry
Nelson, Guilderland, New York (after Gary Carter)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - All
Stars from 50 years ago: 1968 game.
- All-Stars
from 35 years ago, 1964
- List
of gold glove winners, multiple years by position.
Questions archived here: http://horsehidetriviA. blogspot.com/
Horsehide Trivia home
page: https://sites.google.com/site/tnfotobbpics/home/horsehide-trivia
No comments:
Post a Comment