Q. Whose record
of 410 career complete games is the most by left-handed pitcher?
Hint: His career
shutout total is also a record for port-siders.
Hint: He went
directly from college to the majors, skipping the minors altogether.
- Next most CG by a
lefty is Warren Spahn w/382
- Has 69 shutouts, 5th
all-time
FCR - Jesse Asbury,
Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect guesses: Christy
Mathewson, Warren Spahn, Lefty Grove, Hal Woodeshick, Tom Glavine, Pete
Alexander, Herb Pennock
TUESDAY
Q. What
300-game winner was once drafted by the National Hockey League?
Hint: He has been
the Roberto Clemente Award honoree by every team he played for.
Hint: His brother
is the baseball coach at a university where he sets records as a player.
- Drafted in the 4th round in 1984
by the L.A. Kings, but in the 2nd
round by ATL, 16 spots behind Greg Maddux
- Roberto Clemente Award honoree by ATL in 1997
and NYM in 2005
- Mike Glavine was Tom’s teammate on the Mets. He was a star
and, after a long stint in the minors, is Northeastern University’s coach.
FCR - J.P. Wanamaker, Binghamton, New York
Incorrect guesses: John Smoltz, Greg Maddux
WEDNESDAY
Q. Whose record for consecutive shutouts
pitched did Don Drysdale break?
Hint: He had the highest WAR on the first
Chicago-based major league team to win a World Series.
Hint: The next season, he was second only to an
all-time Hall of Famer.
Hint: As a hitter he had a string of seven
consecutive seasons where he hit exactly one double each season. The 7th of these was the last
double he ever hit in the majors.
Hint: He was one of the original Stonewalls
before the team nickname ‘Hoyas’ was adopted.
- Drysdale pitched 6 straight shutouts in
May-June 1968 on his way to breaking Walter Johnson’s consecutive scoreless
innings streak (since broken by Orel Hershiser).
- Was the leader of the 1906 Chicago
White Sox.w/a WAR of 6.6, according to baseball-reference. George Davis is listed 2nd @ 6.3,
followed by Ed Walsh @ 44. Walsh
led on the 1907
team.
- One 2b per season 1906-1912.
- The Georgetown University baseball team played
on a field at the time that was surrounded, literally, by stone walls. The term Hoya came into use shortly
thereafter.
FCR - Art Mugalian, Minneapolis
Incorrect
guesses: Walter Johnson, Ed Walsh, Mordecai
‘three fingers’ Brown, George Davis, Orval Overall, Frank Smith
THANKSGIVING EVE BONUS
Q. What outfielder had such a good
offensive season in the mid-1990’s that his stat totals would have won the
Triple Crown in his league in 5 of the 10 prior seasons?
Hint: However, he didn’t win a single Triple
Crown category that year.
Hint: He did, however, lead the league in slugging
and led the majors in runs, total bases
and extra-base hits that year.
Hint: Back in his rookie season in 600+ plates
appearances, he grounded into a double play only once, setting a record for his
franchise.
Hint: He played for five team in 18 seasons in
the majors and played his last year with the same team he broke in with.
- In 1996, Burks’s HR/RBI/Avg line of
40/128/.344. would have won the NL’s TC in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991 & 1992.
NL
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AL
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H R
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R B I
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A V G
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H R
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R B I
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A V G
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Burks
in 1996
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40
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128
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.344
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1995
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40
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128
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.368
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50
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126
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.356
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1994
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43
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116
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.394
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40
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112
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.359
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1993
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46
|
123
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.370
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46
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129
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.363
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1992
|
35
|
109
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.330
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43
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124
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.343
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1991
|
38
|
117
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.319
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44
|
133
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.341
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1990
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40
|
122
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.335
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51
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132
|
.329
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1989
|
47
|
125
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.336
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36
|
119
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.339
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1988
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39
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109
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.313
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42
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124
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.366
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1987
|
49
|
137
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.370
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49
|
134
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.363
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1986
|
37
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119
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.334
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40
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121
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.357
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MLB
leader
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- In 1996, he slugged at .639, scored 142 R, had
392 TB and 93 XBH.
- 606 PA in 1987, GIDP 24-May-1987.
- Played for BOS 1987-92 & 2004.
FCR - John Rickert, Terre Haute
Incorrect guesses: Albert Belle, Harold Baines, Eric Davis,
Magglio Ordonez, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey, Jr., Bernard Gilkey, Ichiro
Suzuki, Tony Gwynn
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the first player to lead a major
league in stolen bases five straight seasons?
Hint: He had the most at-bats for his team for an
entire decade even though he retired well before the end of that decade.
Hint: His son became the Executive Director of
the Society for American Baseball Research.
- Led the AL in SB 1939-43.
- For the Washington Senators, he had 3,479 AB
during the 1940’s. 1947 was his final
season.
- George Case III was Executive Director of SABR
2000-2002.
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Incorrect
guesses: Pete Rose, Luis Aparicio
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first American League player
to hit three triples in a nine-inning game since the advent of the designated
hitter?
Hint: He had already been decorated by his
country by the time he was decorated by the major leagues.
Hint: He racked up more than 250 stolen bases in
his career, but the final two were for an expansion team.
- Three 3b = 22-Sep-1973,
1 off Skip
Lockwood, 2 off Jim
Colborn
- Was honored for his valor as a platoon leader
in Viet Nam 1969-71 with a Bronze Star.
In 1973 he was named Rookie
of the Year in the AL.
- Had 252 steals as a Baltimore Oriole, but had
his last two as a San Diego Padres in 1985.
FCR - Bill Carle, Lee’s Summit, Missouri
Incorrect
guesses: Willie Wilson, Tim Raines,
Hideki Matsui, Denard Span, Ken Landreaux, Omar Moreno
BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL
Q. What former Reds outfielder set a
still-standing record of more than 230 collegiate victories at West Point as
baseball coach?
Hint: As captain of the football team in college
he led his team to an unbelievably successful season. They finished the regular season 9-0 without
surrendering a single point!
Hint: He was second on his Reds team in WAR the
season they finished behind only the Cardinals in the pennant race.
Hint: He was a saint to more than the college
players on his teams.
- Coached for Army 1958-77
- The star punter, he was also a good passer and
runner. As co-captain of Duke football,
he led the 1938 team to this hard-to-grasp record. They lost 7-3 to USC and finished 3rd
in the national
standings behind TCU & Tennessee. (USC was 7th.)
- His WAR of 4.3 barely trailed Lonnie Frey’s
4.5 on CIN
in 1943.
- Played for the AAA Saint
Paul Saints 1946-51
with such teammates as Herman Franks, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Dan
Bankhead, Clem Labine and Joe Black.
FCR - Joseph Cosgriff, New York City
Incorrect
guesses: Jim O’Toole, Vada Pinson, Ethan
Allen, Greasy Neale
SATURDAY
Q. Which Dodger third baseman had to leave
the game on when he hurt his hand throwing the ball around prior to the 3rd
inning?
Hint: He also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Hint: He managed an interesting team called the College
Hill Chix, but not quite well enough to be named to the Central Pennsylvania
Chapter Sports Hall of Fame.
- Hand injury 18-Jul-1935
- Played for AA
Toronto in 1942.
- Managed the College
Hill Chix 1947-50. The
Central Pennsylvania Chapter Sports Hall of Fame.
FCR - Kevin Barwin, Erie, Pennsylvania
Incorrect
guesses: Billy Cox, Joey Amalfitano, Ken
Boyer, Ed Stevens,
WEEKEND
BONUS
Q. Who managed the Red Sox for the most
games without taking them to the postseason, even though his record was over
.500 for that time?
Hint: It’s the only major league team he ever
managed
Hint: As a player, he hit for the cycle, but had
to share the glory as two Hall of Fame teammates cycled in the same calendar
month.
Hint: He was the first player with 12 hits in 12
straight plate appearances.
- 1,119 BOS G w/no postseason (560-556 = .502)
- Higgins cycled for the A’s
on 06-Aug-1933
just 4 days after Micky
Cochrane and a mere week before Jimmie Foxx did the trick on 14-Aug-1933.
- He had a hit in his last at-bat on 19-Jun-1938
(1) then proceeded to go 3-for-3 in the second
game, then 8-for-8 in a double header two days later, G1
& G2.
FCR - Thomas Howell, Reno
Incorrect
guesses: Johnny Pesky, Eddie Collins,
Eddie Kasko, Joe Cronin, Dick Williams, Walt Dropo, Don Zimmer
SUNDAY
Q. What Boston College football coach had
played for the Boston Braves?
Hint: Because the Braves used him mostly as a
pinch-runner, due to his speed, his career ratio of runs to hits was 5 to 1.
Hint: He is included in this week’s theme only
because of his place of birth.
- BC coach for 1st 4 G of 1935; Career
collegiate coaching record = 3-1
- Had played for BSN 1927-28 in a career total
of 20 G, but on the now celebrated afternoon of 26-Apr-1928,
he singled past 3rd base off Brooklyn’s Hall of Fame righty Dazzy
Vance. Attempting to steal
with 2 out, McNamara was thrown out to end the inning. That lone career hit is juxtaposed with his 5
runs scored.
- Theme to be revealed in just a little while.
FCR - George Curcio, DeLand, Florida
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEKLY THEME – Players
born where famous armed conflicts occurred on U.S. soil (Please, no letters
about the chronology of the beginning of the U.S.)
Player City_________________________ Battle
Bumbry............ Fredericksburg,
Virginia................. Civil War
- 1862
Higgins............ San Antonio,
Texas (Alamo).......... War w/Mexico - 1836
Plank............... Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania.............. Civil
War - 1863
Tipton............... Petersburg,
Virginia........................ Civil
War – 1864-65
White............... Washington,
DC............................. War
of 1812 - 1814
*Also known as the
Battle of Bull Run
1st
Correct Respondent to with Theme – Rick
Tharp, Gaithersburg, Maryland (after Bumbry)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Left handed starters who attended college
- Left
handed pitchers in the Hall of Fame
- A
week of LHP’s
Friday - Members
of a hall of fame other than baseball
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