NOTE: This week’s theme is based on an idea sent to
us by reader Tom Cuggino of Wheaton, Illinois.
Q. Whose record
for career stolen bases is the greatest of all time?
Hint: Perhaps he
is too?
Hint: He broke a
record that Arlie Latham had held for more than a century.
Hint: Harry
Hooper, Brady Anderson and he have all hit lead-off home run in both games of a
double-header.
A. RICKEY HENDERSON [SABR
Bio]
- Career SB = 1,406 (939th
SB and self-assessment 01-May-1991)
- Increased his own
career record for stolen bases 12 straight years. Latham had done it 9 times, the last in 1896.
- Hooper’s = 30-May-1913 off Bob Groom & 30-May-1913 off Walter Johnson;
Anderson’s = 21-Aug-1999 off John Snyder & 21‑Aug‑1999 off Mike Sirotka;
Henderson’s = 05-Jul-1993 off Paul Abbott & 05-Jul-1993 off Mark Clark
Ronal Acuna joined this elite club in 2018
FCR - Eugene
Schwartz, Weston, Connecticut
Incorrect guesses:
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the first post-war player to
lead the majors in doubles, triples and stolen bases in the same season?
Hint: That same year, he became the first player
to hit a double, triple and home run in a single World Series game.
Hint: While still playing baseball, he opened a
flower shop.
- In 1968 he had 46 2b, 14
3b & 62 SB.
- 2b, 3b & HR in 1968 WS, G 4, 06-Oct-1968
- Florist located in Clayton,
Missouri. It was simply called “The
Flower Shop”.
FCR - Robert Osman, Great Neck, New York
Incorrect guesses: Jackie Robinson, Amos Otis, Curt Flood,
Willie Mays
TWO-ZDAY
Q. Who is likely to be the top vote-getter
in next year’s Hall of Fame election?
Hint: He played a season in the postseason.
Hint: He evinces a wry smile at the mention of Jorge
Julio.
A. DEREK
JETER [SABR Bio]
- His 72.4 WAR is highest among those who will
be eligible for the first time for 2020 induction.
- His record of 158 postseason games is the
equivalent of an entire additional season.
His average was just under 150 G, for his full seasons.
- Was 1 for 14 vs. the otherwise unremarkable Julio.
FCR - Ronn Tarter, Cary, North Carolina
Incorrect guesses: Mariano Rivera, Curt Schilling
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who, according to writer Katherine LaGrave,
owns more major league records than anyone else in the history of the game?
Hint: He led the majors in games played in a
season four times, once after he had turned forty.
Hint: Although he was thrown out stealing a
career 43%, he still said, “You don’t think you’re going to get caught.”
- LaGrave, quoted in CheatSheet names a few: Rose is still the all-time major league leader
in H (4,256), G (3,562), AB (14,053) & outs (10,328).
- Played in 162 G in 1982 @ age 41.
- Quote refers to his gambling.
FCR - Jim Turner, Tallahassee
Incorrect
guesses: Ty Cobb, Ichiro Suzuki, Babe
Ruth, Stan Musial, Henry Aaron, Cal Ripken
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who holds the 20th century
record for most plate appearances in a season?
Hint: He broke Albert Hall’s Carolina League
record of 100 SB in a season.
Hint: He and Bruce Hurst share an uncomfortable
distinction.
A. LENNY
DYKSTRA [SABR Bio]
- 773 in 1993, since broken by Jimmy Rollins
w/778 in 2007
- Stole 105 Carolina League bases in 1983. Hall had 100 SB for Durham
in 1980.
- Dykstra (1993) and Hurst (1986) had already been
selected as World Series MVPs until the fortunes of their respective teams
turned.
FCR - John Michael Pierobon, Fort Lauderdale
Incorrect
guesses: Jimmy Rollins, Rickey Henderson,
Vince Coleman, Juan Samuel, Willie Wilson, Andruw Jones, Pete Rose
THURSDAY
Q. Who was the last player to collect five
hits in a game twice in the same season in the 20th century?
Hint: One year in the following century, he was a
cowboy, an idiot and a champion.
Hint: He became the last 20th century
American Leaguer to collect 10 doubles, 10 triples and 10 home runs in a
season.
A. JOHNNY
DAMON
- 5-H Gs = 18-Jul-2000 & 11-Sep-2000. 6 of those 10 H were 2b.
- 2004 WS Champs
BOS
called themselves ‘idiots’ and told each other to ‘cowboy up!’, meaning to stay
steady and endure the hardships.
- In 2000, he had 42 2b, 10 3b & 16 HR.
FCR - Robert Osman, Great Neck, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Kevin Millar, Bill Mueller, Chuck
Knoblauch
THEHCONT THURTHDAY
Q. Who is a right-handed ornithologist?
Hint: His real name is a bit of a misnomer
concerning his batting.
Hint: He was the main center fielder on the USA
Olympic team.
Hint: He channeled Jimmy Piersall in a moment of
glory.
Hint: To celebrate a recent team success, he
ordered bottles of $200 scotch for all teammates, coaches and team staff… 108
bottles in all.
- “Dexter” refers to the right side in Latin,
but Fowler is an ambidextrous batter.
- Played for the 2008
Olympic
team.
- On a World Series home run, he ran with his
body turned backwards as he went from first base to second.
- He bought Johnnie
Walker Blue Label for everyone in the Cubs major league organization.
FCR - Humbert Kilanowski, Providence
Incorrect
guesses: Mookie Betts, Adrian Beltre,
FRIDAY
Q. Whose diving catch in right-center field
to start the top of the seventh inning helped preserve his teammate’s perfect
game?
Hint: He also helped the cause from his leadoff
spot, going 2 for 5 with 3 RBI and a run scored.
Hint: He returned to play for this the past
season.
Hint: His piscine nickname plays off his family
name and a team he has been on for six seasons.
- SFG’s Matt
Cain’s
perfecto 13-Jun-2012
- His was clearly the catch of the game.
- Nickname is “White Shark” for ‘tiburon blanco’, his former
team La Guaira Tiburones, in the Venezuelan Winter League. Coincidentally, Tiburon is a residential
community a few miles from AT&T Park (as the shark swims) northwest across
the San Francisco Bay.
FCR - Kenneth Auerbach, Bonita Springs, Florida
Incorrect
guesses: Ichiro Suzuki, Mike Trout, Marlon
Byrd
SATURDAY
Q. Which player had a fan's beer dump on
his head while watching a home run sail over the fence in a World Series game?
Hint: It was his second World Series in a decade,
on different teams and against different opponents, but under the same manager.
Hint: He did not throw out the first pitch of the
first game at Yankee Stadium.
- Beer
dump
02-Oct-1959, G 2, when
Charley Neal of the Dodgers homered, possibly influenced by his home run hit in the previous game.
- Ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium was
thrown out by New York governor Al Smith on 18‑Apr‑1923. Five years later ran unsuccessfully for president.
FCR - David Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect
guesses: Charlie Silvera, Lonnie Smith
WEEKEND
BONUS
Q. Who homered in both of a teammate’s no-hitters
one year?
Hint: He was an original member of an expansion
team.
Hint: Teammates recalled him screaming at his manager when his name was left
off the lineup card, implying he was a “twin”.
A. GENE WOODLING [SABR Bio]
- HRs in Allie Reynolds’ No-nos 12-Jul-1951 [off Bob
Feller]; 28-Sep-1951 off Harry
Taylor
- Played on the 1962 NYM.
- He and teammate Hank Bauer were
teasingly called the “Gold Dust Twins” and were platooned by Yankee manager Casey Stengel. Stengel later confirmed in front of the team
that the one guy who didn’t go behind his back was Woodling.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Carl Everett, Yogi Berra,
Harmon Killebrew
SUNDAY
Q. What veteran of three consecutive World
Series had a law degree while he played but became a pharmacist after retirement?
Hint: His rookie year was also his franchise’s
first season.
Hint: During his fifteen year career, he had
fourteen Hall of Fame teammates.
Hint: Experienced ensigns, admirals and even raw
recruit sailors learned that it was best to avoid his locker.
A. DAVY JONES [SABR Bio]
- Played in the WS with DET 1907, 08 & 09. After retiring from baseball he himself
qualified as a pharmacist at the USC. He
had his law degree from Dixon College in Illinois.
- Broke in with the 1901 Milwaukee Brewers,
their first year of existence, an expansion team in the brand-new American
League. That same franchise today is the
Baltimore Orioles.
- Played with Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy, Bobby
Wallace, Jesse Burkett, Joe Tinker, Frank Chance, Johnny Evers, Mordecai
Brown, Sam Crawford, Ty Cobb, Hughie Jennings, Ray Schalk, Ed Walsh. Edd
Roush and Harry H
the
bottom of the sea, especially regarded as the grave of those drowned at sea.
FCR - Tom Lee, Nashville
Incorrect
guesses: Moe Berg, Hughie Jennings
WEEKLY THEME – Batters
who led off a World Series game with a home run.
Jones............ DET @ PIT..... G 5,... 13-Oct-1909..... off
Babe
Adams
Woodling...... NYY @ BRO... G 5,... 04-Oct-1953..... off
Johnny
Podres
Smith........... CLE @ NYG... G 1,... 30-Sep-1954 ... off Johnny
Antonelli
Brock........... STL @ DET.... G 4,.. 06-Oct-1968... off Denny
McLain
Rose............. CIN @ OAK.... G 5,.. 20-Oct-1972... off Catfish
Hunter
Dykstra........ NYM @ BOS... G 3,.. 21-Oct-1986... off Dennis
“Oil Can” Boyd
Henderson..... OAK @ SFG... G 4,.. 28-Oct-1989... off Don
Robinson
Jeter............. NYY @ NYM... G 4,.. 25-Oct-2000... off Bobby Jones
Damon......... BOS @ STL.... G 4,.. 27-Oct-2004... off Jason
Marquis
Blanco......... SFG @ KCR... G 2,.. 22-Oct-2014.... off
Yordano
Ventura
Fowler.......... CHC @ CLE.... G 7,... 02-Nov-2016 ... off Corey
Kluber
Tom
Cuggino clarifies, “There are 11 others who led off the bottom of
the 1st in a World Series game as well.”
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Steve
Klitzner, N. Miami Beach (after
Dykstra)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - HOF players
with 6 letters in first name, “son” in the last name
- Players
who are fan favorite
- Players
with more than 3000 hits and more than 350 stolen bases.
- First
ballot HOF electee’s
Wed - Something
to do with 3,000 hits
- Players
in the last 55 years who had 3000 hits, 500 doubles, and 300 stolen base
attempts.
Sun - Isn’t
Monkees-related. [technically not incorrect]
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