Q. What Hall of
Famer pitcher holds the record for the most home runs surrendered in a single
season?
Hint: Even with
that, he’s barely in he Top Ten on the career list.
Hint: Though his
age-28 season, he had tossed more innings than anyone since Pete Alexander.
Hint: No Hall of
Famer ever started with less of a chance of being elected.
A. BERT BLYLEVEN [SABR
Bio]
- He’s 9th
on the career HR
surrendered list with 430. Jamie Moyer leads the pack w/522.
- Threw 2,624 innings
1970-79
- His first 3 years
on the HOF ballot, he didn’t even receive 20% of the votes.
FCR - Ken Auerbach, Bonita
Springs, Florida
Incorrect guesses: Robin
Roberts, Jack Morris
MONDAY-B
Q. Which Hall
of Famer was born on a train?
Hint: He was named
for the doctor who delivered him.
Hint: He holds the
record for most triples hit in a single All-Star game.
Hint: He stole
home seven (7!) times one season.
- Born 01-Oct-1945 on
a train near Gatun, Panama.
- Dr. Rodney
Cline and nurse Margaret Allen assisted in delivering Olga Carew’s
baby. Carew’s full name is Rodney Cline
Carew and his godmother is Margaret Allen.
- 7 steals of home =
1969
FCR - Vince Granieri,
Cincinnati
Incorrect guesses: Jackie
Robinson
MONDAY-C
Q. What Hall of
Famer’s former son-in-law was once the World Series MVP?
Hint: He claimed
to have mastered the curve by age 10 and the screwball by 15.
Hint: He took a
no-hitter into the 8th inning in his major league debut.
A. JUAN MARICHAL [SABR
Bio]
- Jose Rijo 1990 WS
MVP
- Debut 19-Jul-1960. Pinch-hitter Clay
Dalrymple spoiled the fun.
FCR - Mike Mattsey,
Robinson, Illinois
Incorrect guesses: Denny
McLain, Lou Boudreau, Vernon Law, Joe Cronin, Clark Griffith, Mario Soto
TUESDAY-A
Q. What future former St. Louis Cardinals
holds the record for leading the American League the most seasons being hit‑by‑pitch?
Hint: He also holds the record being the oldest
DH to come to bat in the majors.
Hint: He played in a professional baseball game
at age 77 and managed a walk.
A. MINNIE
MINOSO [SABR Bio]
- Led the AL ten times in HPB. Had he led in 1955, his record would have
been 11 straights seasons. This is also
the MLB record. Minoso was a Card in ‘62.
- Came to bat for CHW 12-Sep-1976 @ 50 years old. He singled off Sid Monge in the 2nd.for
the last of his 1,963 career major league hits.
- Had a single at-bat in 2003 for the St.
Paul Saints.
FCR - Dan Schoenholz, Walnut Creek, California
Incorrect guesses: Lou Brock
TUESDAY-B
Q. What future Atlanta Brave was the third
pitcher to throw a perfect game against the Dodgers?
Hint: He led the majors in pitching victories in
a strike-shortened season.
Hint: He was born ten years after his next oldest
sibling and grew up a lonely child.
A. DENNIS
MARTINEZ [SABR Bio]
- Perfecto 28-Jul-1991. Don Larsen and Tom Browning were the first
two. Martinez played for ATL in 1998.
- He had 14 W in 1981.
FCR - Rick Gross, Davie Florida
Incorrect guesses: Len Barker, Pedro Martinez, Phil Niekro, Tom
Browning
TUESDAY-C
Q. What future Baltimore Oriole was
replaced by Willie Mays and Hank Aaron?
Hint: He hit the first pitch thrown to him in
organized baseball for a home run.
Hint: He paid to be tested to help determine what
type of post-baseball career would suit him best. At the top of the list was
industrial sales.
A. BOBBY
THOMSON [SABR Bio]
- Thomson played 153 G in CF for NYG in 1953, but was
traded after 26 G in ’54, none of which he
played in CF. With Bill Bruton in CF and
Aaron in RF, he played mostly LF in his time with MLN.
- HR for the 1942
Rocky Mount Rocks of the D-level Bi-State
League.
- Paid $150 to be tested at Stevens Tech in
Hoboken. He had several offers and
accepted one from West Virginia Pulp and Paper (Westvaco) where he
was employed for the next 30+ years.
FCR - Preston Salisbury, Starkville, Mississippi
Incorrect guesses: Frank Robinson, Hoyt Wilhelm
TUESDAY-D
Q. Which World Series MVP winner played fewer
than 100 more games in the majors after winning the award?
Hint: It was his third World Series, each with a
separate team.
Hint: He was the first shortstop to knock in 100
runs for his 130+-year-old franchise…
Hint: …which helped him win his third Silver
Slugger Award.
A. EDGAR
RENTERIA [SABR Bio]
- SS winner in 2000, 2002 & 2003.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Brian Doyle, Juan Uribe
IN MEMORIAM
Q. For whom is the famous cove named
outside the right field wall of San Francisco’s AT&T Park?
Hint: He might be better known for an out he made
than anything else in his career.
Hint: No National Leaguer has ever hit more grand
slam home runs.
Hint: No player in the National League hit at
least one grand slam in more consecutive seasons.
Hint: In his debut season, he only played 52
games, yet no one else even received a single vote for National League Rookie
of the Year Award.
Hint: He was the NL MVP the same year he was
voted All-Star Game MVP.
Hint: The Sporting News publication made him the
Player of the Year, a category that includes both leagues and includes pitchers.
Hint: The most coveted award a Giants player can
win is named in his honor. It will be
presented next season with considerable melancholy.
Hint: He is one of a very small handful of
players who have hit 2 home runs in a single inning TWICE. He was also the first
one to do it.
A. WILLIE
McCOVEY [SABR Bio] Fellow Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, an Oakland native,
one of McCovey's baseball contemporaries and a close friend, was at McCovey's
bedside for his final hours Wednesday. Morgan marked the time of death at 4 minutes
past 4 in the afternoon.
- Lined out to NYY’s Bobby Richardson to end the
1962
World Series. In January 1986, after McCovey had been voted
into Cooperstown, he was asked how he’d like to be remembered. “I’d like to be remembered as the guy who hit
the ball over Bobby Richardson’s head in the seventh game!”
- 18 GS HR
- At least 1 GS every year 1964 through 1972 = 9
years in a row
- The
Willie Mac Award has been presented annually since 1980 to the most
inspirational player on the San Francisco Giants, voted on by Giants players, coaches,
training staff and, more recently, Giants fans.
Closer Will
Smith
was this season’s winner.
- 2 HR in one inning = 12-Apr-1973, 4th inning;
27-Jun-1977, 6th inning.
FCR - David Johnson, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
P.S. “If
you pitch to him,” Reds
manager Sparky Anderson argued in the early ‘70s, “he’ll ruin
baseball. He’d hit 80 home runs. There’s no comparison between McCovey and anybody
else in the league.” So mostly, they just
walked him instead.
WEDNESDAY-AY?
Q. Who was the last Cleveland Indian to win
a batting title?
Hint: He was the WAR leader for a team that won
more than 110 games that season.
Hint: He was elected mayor of the city he grew up
in after his playing days.
A. BOBBY
AVILA [SABR Bio]
- He hit .341 in 1954, including 19 sacrifice
hits, which also led the AL.
- The 1954 Indians were world-beaters until they
met Willie Mays.
- Elected Mayor of Veracruz, Mexico.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Harvey Kuenn, Kenny Lofton,
Dale Mitchell, Al Rosen
THURSDAY-EH?
Q. Who was the first New York Yankee to hit
a home run in his first World Series at‑bat?
Hint: Twice he had at lest 8 RBI in a game.
Hint: His nickname derives from his gait.
A. GEORGE
SELKIRK [SABR Bio]
- 1st WS HR 30-Sep-1936, 3rd
inning, off Carl
Hubbell
no less. It was the Yankees’ first and
only run of the game.
- 8 RBI/G = 10-Aug-1935
&
12-Aug-1938, 1st &
2nd Gs of double-headers respectively.
- Nicknamed ‘Twinkletoes’ for his distinctive walk.
FCR - Phillip Ross, Denver
Incorrect
guesses: Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Tony
Lazzeri, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Mize
THURSDAY-BEE
Q. Who set the record for consecutive
errorless chances accepted by a shortstop with 297?
Hint: His uncle preceded him to the majors and helped
him adjust to life in the big leagues.
Hint: He and a teammate turned a triple play
against the Senators on Opening Day.
A. CHICO
CARRASQUEL [SABR Bio]
- Record set in 1951. The record streak is now held by Orioles
shortstop Mike Bordick at 543.
- Uncle Alex
Carrasquel
was especially helpful with learning English.
- TP = 09-Apr-1959 w/Bob
Boyd
FCR - Joe Merrill, Montpelier, Vermont
Incorrect
guesses: Kevin Elster, Mel Hoderlein,
Ken Hubbs, Cal Ripken,
THURSDAY-SEE?
Q. Who is the only player to switch-hit home
runs in one game for 4 different teams?
Clue: He was the first Minnesota Twin switch-hitter to appear in a World
Series game as DH.
Clue: He once hit into a double play and a triple
play , calling it a “bad biorythm day”.
A. CHILI
DAVIS [SABR Bio]
- He switch-hit home runs for SFG, CAL, MIN
& NYY
- 1991 WS, G 1 = 19-Oct
- Bad day = 17-Jun-1999
FCR - R. D. Lerner, Silver Spring, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Gene Larkin, Mickey Tettleton, Steve
Lombardozzi, Roy Smalley, Barry Bonilla
THURS-DUH!
Q. Who is the only hurler to give up two
grand slams to the same batter in the same inning?
Clue He also surrendered Barry Bonds’s 71st
and 72nd home runs in that watermark season.
Clue: No other player born in Asia has more career
pitching victories.
A. CHAN
HO PARK
- That million-to-one chance of an occurrence
came off the bat of Fernando Tatis on 23‑Apr‑1999, 3rd inning
in Dodger Stadium. I can only surmise
that it was early enough in the game that manager Davey
Johnson
didn’t want to go to the bullpen even with 7 runs already on the board. (Check out the ironic advertising banner behind
home plate.)
- HRs = 05-Oct-2001 at Pacific
Bell Park. (Somebody should learn to pull this guy after
the first dinger surrendered, no?)
- 124 W, just passing Hideo Nomo
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles
Incorrect
guesses: Hideo Nomo
THURSD-EE
Q. Before the Mets ever had a pitcher throw
a no-hitter for them (Johan Santana), they had a pitcher on staff who already
had thrown a no-hitter and would throw another
one, but only after he left the Mets. Who is he?
Hint: He set a record for getting to 500 career
strikeouts with fewer innings than anyone ever had.
Hint: When he was elected to the Japanese Hall of
Fame, he was the youngest enshrinee ever selected.
Hint: His name has a negative connotation in
Spanish.
A. HIDEO
NOMO
[SABR Bio]
- Nomo’s no-no’s = 17-Sep-1996 for LAD in COL then
again in debut game with his new team BOS against BAL 04-Apr-2001v in Camden Yards. His year w/NYM was 1998.
- 500K in 444⅔ innings.
- Japanese League Hall of Fame = 2014. (His record for youngest was later broken by
Hideki Matsui.
- “Hideo” is a slang translation of “hideous”, told
to me by colleagues who spent time in Mexico.
FCR - Scott Schleifer, Suffern, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Tom Seaver
FRIDAY-A
Q. What shortstop hit three grand slams in
2018?
Hint: He has two Silver Slugger awards and two
World Series rings and an international championship.
Hint: His entry into professional baseball was
delayed by a bout of the chickenpox.
- GS = 07-Apr-, 30-Apr- and 14-Jul-2018.
- SS in 2015 & 2016, WS in 2013 & 2018. Bogaerts played for the Dutch national team
in the 2011 Baseball
World Cup
(which they won),
- Mike Lord, a scout for the Boston Red Sox,
discovered Bogaerts at the age of 16, in 2009. After not playing baseball for
two weeks due to the chicken pox, Bogaerts played for Lord, who recommended him
to Craig Shipley, the Red Sox' vice president of international scouting.
Shipley flew to Aruba to watch Bogaerts play. The Red Sox signed him to a
contract with a $410,000 signing bonus.
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Trevor Story, Francisco Lindor,
, Brandon Crawford
FRIDAY-B
Q. What player’s father-in-law surrendered
the only grand slam ever hit in All-Star play?
Hint: Unlike his father-in-law, he plays behind
the plate and finally made the All-Star team four years after he won a Silver
Slugger.
Hint: He volunteered to play as a buccaneer.
A.
YAN
GOMES
- 1983
ASG
Atlee Hammaker threw the pitch that Fred Lynn put over the fence with the bases
loaded. It was Hammaker’s only ASG.
- 2018
ASG;
2014 SS
- Alum for both Barry University Buccaneers and
the University of Tennessee Volunteers.
FCR - Preston Salisbury, Starkville, Mississippi
Incorrect
guesses: Lee Mazzilli, Yu Darvish, Kurt
Suzuki
FRIDAY-C
Q. Who hit the first home run at the
soon-to-be-abandoned Ballpark at Arlington?
Hint: He later managed the Bandits.
Hint: He was David Wells's 1,000th career
strikeout victim.
Hint: His last playing appearances came for his
home team in the World Baseball Classic where he went 0 for 5 with a strikeout.
A.
DAVID
NILSSON [SABR Bio]
- HR in Arlington 11-Apr-1994
- Manager for Australia’s Brisbane Bandits
- His last playing appearances came for
Australia in the 2006 World Baseball Classic (he went 0 for 5 with a
strikeout).
FCR - Abbey Garber, Dallas
Incorrect
guesses: Juan Gonzalez, Jose Canseco,
Julio Franco
SATURDAY-AY
Q. Whose no-hitter was the first thrown outside
the United States by a pitcher not born in the United States?
Hint: Chicks in his home town were most of his
focus when he was in the minors.
Hint: He went to a team in the majors the year
after they won the World Series and actually helped them achieve a better
record.
Hint: Some of his education he got in the cradle
of U.S. southern literature.
A. CHARLIE
LEA
- As asked, the correct answer in Hugh Daily who did it 13-Sep-1883. The question meant to specify that the game too must have been outside the
U.S. At Stade
Olympique
in Montreal on 10-May-1981, Lea no-hit the Giants,
the first no-hitter not thrown on U.S. soil by a pitcher who was not born on
U.S soil.
- Played for the Memphis
Chicks
1978-80. He was raised in Memphis.
- Signed as a free agent with MIN 04-Feb-1988. Their record jumped from 85-77 (and a WS
championship) to 90-72, but missed the play-offs.
- He attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, home of William
Faulkner, John Grisham, et al.
FCR
- ~
Incorrect guesses: Dick Fowler, Tony Mullane
SATURDOOBIE
Q. Since the save became an official state,
who is the only pitcher to lead the Cincinnati Reds in saves for five seasons?
Clue: He surrendered Jeff Bagwell’s 400th
career home run.
Clue: He represented the U.S. in the Olympic Games
and the very next year, pitched for Team USA in the Intercontinental cup.
Clue: He’s been given the nickname “The Baby-Face
Assassin”.
A. DANNY GRAVES
- Led the Reds in saves each year from
1999–2004, minus 2003.
- Bagwell’s HR 20-Jul-2003
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Randy Meyers, John Franco, Francisco
Cordero
SUNDAY-A
Q. What pitcher holds
the record for the fewest career wins at the time of a postseason start?
Hint: He is the first player from his native
country to homer in a major league game.
Hint: In his next-to-last season saw him amass an
amazing ERA in 16 appearances.
- He had one exactly one (1!) major league victory
08‑Sep‑2006, less than a
month before his postseason start, NLDS G 2 05-Oct-2006. He went 6 innings and took the loss.
- HR 12-Jun-- HR
12-Jun-2007. In doing so, he actually tied the Rays' Matt Moore who won G 1 of the 2011 ALDS following only the first of his 54 career wins.
- Posted 1.20 ERA in 2010.
FCR - ~
Incorrect
guesses: Dolf Luque, Livan Hernandez
SUNDAY-B
Q. What pitcher was the saves leader on the
team that Mickey Mantle believed was the best one he ever played on?
Hint: He was the first native of Puerto Rico to
be named to both the National League and American League All-Star teams.
Hint: He has been inducted to the Dominican
Republic’s Latino Baseball Hall of Fame.
A. LUIS ARROYO [SABR Bio]
- 29 saves for the 1961 Yankees. The entire rest of the bullpen staff totaled
10.
- Inducted alone in the 5th class
2002 of the Pabellón de la Fama del Caribe.
FCR - Naftali Greenwood, Kiryat, Arba, Israel
Incorrect
guesses: Juan Pizzaro, Pedro Romo
WEEKLY THEME – Natives
of countries outside the U.S. who were the first to make an All-Star team,
listed here in descending order of career WAR.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – John
Ford, Greenwich, CT (after Martinez)
Career
PLAYER NATIVE LAND 1st ASG WAR
Carrasquel............. Venezuela........................ 1951............ 21.2
NOTES: In case of a tie, it’s the first to play in a game.
Cuban Connie Marrero also made
the 1951 team.
Dominican Felipe Alou also played in the 1962 game.
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Players
born in Europe
- Minnesota
Twins who never played in WS
- Hall
of Famers who played for the California/Los Angeles Angels
- Hall
of Famers born outside the United States
- Minnesota
Twins born in foreign countries
- Minnesota
Twin Hall of Famers
- Twins
retired numbers
- Hall
of Famers in the 1973 All-Star game
- Hall
of Famers who played for the Senators/Twins franchise.
Tuesday - Foreign-born
All Stars
- Foreign-born
players with most ASG appearances.
- Replacements
in All Star games.
- Multiple-time
All stars who were born in foreign countries
- Players
born outside the USA
- Players
who were born outside the USA and were MLB All-stars and received votes for MVP
Wed - WAR leaders from various countries
- Foreign
born All-Stars who never won a World Series
-
Sunday - Asian
Pitchers
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