Q. What
diminutive slugger, who was at one time 3rd on the career home run
list, has the most notoriously lop-sided home/away split of his round-trippers?
Hint: He set the National
League record for most 100-plus bases-on-balls seasons.
Hint: No sports
figure’s name, of ANY sport, appears more often in the New York Times daily crossword puzzle.
- Retired in 1947
w/511 HR, behind only Ruth and Foxx.
Currently 25th on that list.
(Ruth is now 3rd & Foxx 19th)
- 323 of that total
were hit in the Polo Grounds
- Several readers
pointed out correctly that hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr may indeed be tied with Ott for crossword frequency. He, ‘Ro’'
& ‘Ali’ also pop up a lot, but not always as the athlete. ‘Alou’ is also a favorite, but it’s seldom
for the same brother.
FCR - J.P. Wanamaker,
Binghamton, New York
Incorrect guesses: Hack
Wilson, John McGraw, Joe Gordon, Willie Mays, Rogers Hornsby
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the first
North Carolina native to be inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame?
Hint: When he
retired, he was his franchise’s career leader in runs, singles, doubles, triples,
total bases, walks RBI and extra-base hits.
Hint: He still
leads in career WAR, games played and hits.
Hint: Once, as a
major league manager, he left the dugout during a game, went up in the stands,
a beer & hot dog and returned to the dugout after he’d finished.
- HOF 1964
- Snack jaunt came while managing the 1967 KC A’s. His contract was not renewed and the team
decamped for the west coast.
FCR - Scott Matteson, Shawnee, Kansas
Incorrect guesses: Jim Hunter, Honus Wagner
WEDNESDAY
Q. What All-Star once confessed in an
article in Collier’s magazine that he
played baseball in New York only for the money, that he would rather be in
California on his farm?
Hint: That magazine article would haunt him years
later when he pleaded guilty to tax-fraud charges. He did not receive jail time.
Hint: The judge and most of us still consider him
royalty.
- He successfully farmed avocados not far from
Los Angeles.
- Tried in 1995 when he pleaded guilty to
tax-fraud charges for not reporting thousands of dollars to the Internal
Revenue Service for income from baseball memorabilia shows from 1984 to 1993
- Nickname “Duke” was given to Edwin him by his
father and never seemed inappropriate.
FCR - Howie Burgess, Wallington New Jersey
Incorrect
guesses: Barry Bonds, Joe DiMaggio, Tom
Seaver, John Montefusco, Hal Chase, Jackie Jensen, Charlie Finley, Bob
Feller, Lenny Dykstra
THURSDAY
Q. Who turned down an offer from the Browns
even though he had been laundering their uniforms?
Hint: He finished with a career managing winning
percentage better than those of Hall of Famer managers Mickey Cochrane, Bobby
Cox, Walter Alston or Miller Huggins.
Hint: In addition to the majors, he managed teams
at A, B, C, D, AA and AAA levels, beginning in the St. Louis Cardinals’ system. He not only managed quite a few games he also
managed some game.
Hint: Only at AA was his winning percentage
better than what he achieved in the majors.
Hint: His
first wife left him with these parting words, “The only thing worse than you
being gone is you being home!”
- Weaver drove a delivery truck for his father’s
laundry in St. Louis. Two of their
customers were the Browns & Cards. Both
offered young earl offers to play professional baseball, but the Browns’ offer
had more upside.
- With a % of .583 (1,460/1,060), Weaver is 11th
all-time
- Minor League Managing Record (where he managed
Pheasants,
Foxes
& Red Wing Blackbirds)
|
Year
|
Team
|
League
|
Level
|
W
|
L
|
%
|
|
1956
|
A
|
53
|
87
|
0.379
|
||
|
1957
|
D
|
65
|
74
|
0.468
|
||
|
1958
|
D
|
72
|
56
|
0.563
|
||
|
1959
|
C
|
69
|
55
|
0.556
|
||
|
1961
|
B
|
67
|
62
|
0.519
|
||
|
1962
|
A
|
72
|
68
|
0.514
|
||
|
1963
|
AA
|
76
|
64
|
0.543
|
||
|
1964
|
AA
|
82
|
58
|
0.586
|
||
|
1965
|
AA
|
83
|
55
|
0.601
|
||
|
1966
|
AAA
|
83
|
64
|
0.565
|
||
|
1967
|
AAA
|
80
|
61
|
0.567
|
- Click here
for Weaver’s complete career managing record.
- He married Jane Johnston at 18 and the
travel nature of a baseball life too its toll.
FCR - Stephen Klatsky, Washington, DC
Incorrect
guesses: Branch Rickey, Lee Fohl, Billy
Southworth, Bill Veeck, Leo Durocher, Rogers Hornsby
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first player to become an
All-Star with two different American League teams?
Hint: Water-going mammals improved his academic
performance.
Hint: He hit for the cycle twice—with a ten-year
interval between events.
Hint: An opposing Hall of Fame manager once
commented, “With a man on third and one out, I'd rather have (him) hitting for
me than anybody I’ve ever seen, and that includes Cobb, Simmons and the rest of
them.”
- As a youth in San Francisco, he was not
greatly interested in school. His grades
improved only when the Seals of the PCL began giving away tickets to students with
good conduct and attendance.
- Cycle for WSH = 02-Sep-1929;
BOS = 02-Aug-1940;
- Quote is from Connie Mack
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Rod Carew, Paul Molitor, Jimmy
Foxx, Ben Chapman, Mickey Cochrane, Eddie Collins, Joe Gordon, Tris Speaker, Goose Goslin
SATURDAY
Q. Which former Chicago Cub of Jewish
descent did not mind being cornered after Mets games?
Hint: He is rumored to have dated Elizabeth
Taylor, Ava Gardner and Janet Leigh.
Hint: He was the last player elected to the Hall
of Fame by the BBWAA with fewer than 300 votes.
- Kiner’s
Korner was a regular post-game broadcast feature of Mets games by Kiner 1963-2013. His maternal grandmother was Jewish.
- When Kiner was with the Pirates, one of their
owners was Bing
Crosby who introduced Kiner to many Hollywood
types.
- 273 HOF votes in 1975.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Ken Holtzman, Steve Stone, Lou
Boudreau, Leo Durocher, Jimmie Foxx, Bo Belinsky
SUNDAY
Q. Whose World Series MVP honor do most people
get wrong?
Hint: No once has ever eclipsed his record of 5
hits in a single World Series game and that wasn’t even in the same World
Series.
Hint: Only Reggie Jackson has scored as many runs
as he did in any World Series as he did in one Fall Classic.
- 1993 WS MVP—Not Joe Carter. Molitor was on 2nd and scored just
ahead of him, scoring the winning run. (Really,
even serious baseball people miss this one half the time.)
- Five (5!) hits in G 1 12-Oct-1982
FCR - Michael Ageno, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Bobby Richardson, Lou Brock,
Billy Martin, Joe Rudi, Albert Pujols, Ryne Sandberg
WEEKLY THEME – Retired
#4 jerseys (After people realized that other teams could do it too.)
Ott........................ NYG.............. 17-Jul-1948
Appling................. CHW............. 07-Jun-1975
Snider................... LAD.............. 06-Jul-1980
Weaver................. BAL............... 19-Sep-1982
Cronin.................. BOS.............. 29-May-1984
Kiner..................... PIT................ 19-Sep-1987
Molitor.................. MIL................ 11-Jun-1999
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Kevin
Barwin, Erie, PA (after Snider)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Hall of
Famers with double letters in their names
Wed - Hall
of Famers who never won an MVP
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