Q. Who had the most hits of any MLB player
1950-59?
Hint: He was purchased from the Cubs to help
start a new franchise.
Hint: He was the first player ever to come to bat
for the new team.
Hint: He is one of six Hall of Famers born in his
native state.
- 1,875 H in that 10-yr span. Nellie Fox led the AL w/1,837
- 19-Mar-1927 in Tilden, Nebraska. Also born in the Cornhusker State were
Pete Alexander, Sam Crawford, Billy Southworth, Bob Gibson and
Wade Boggs.
FCR
- Patrick
Roth, Chicago
Incorrect
guesses: Billy Williams, Ernie Banks,
Nellie Fox, Mark Grace, Stan Musial
TUESDAY
Q. Who is second all-time for double plays
turned by a first baseman in a single season?
Hint: He’s also the first!
Hint: He won American League batting titles in
consecutive seasons.
Hint: His father was a jockey and rode a horse
that placed second in the Kentucky Derby.
- 192
DP in 1950, but 194 in 1949. No one else is within 10.
- Hit
.344 in 1951; .327 in 1952
- Oscar Fain, a construction worker and part-time
boxer, rode a horse named Duval to a 2nd-place finish in the 1912 Kentucky Derby.
FCR - Larry Hayes, “The City”
Incorrect guesses: Don Mattingly, Donn Clendenon, Mickey Vernon
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who
gave the Topps photographer an offspring census count?
Hint: He surrendered Joe DiMaggio’s last career hit.
Hint: He surrendered the first of Johnny Sain’s three career home
runs.
Hint: He was later a coach on a World Series winner.
- Topps 1952 card #5. With his fingers, Jansen is answering the
question, “How many children to you have?”
The majority are on his non-throwing hand.
- Sain
HR 23-Sep-1950.
- Coach
for NYG in the 1954 WS.
FCR - Michael Green, Las Vegas
Incorrect guesses: Harley Hisner, Ryne Duren, Harry Taylor,
Chuck Stobbs
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who
is the only player not named Ted Williams to win an American League batting
title in the 1940s or 1950s?
Hint: A well-rounded defender, he played more than 300 games at each
base in the infield.
Hint: His first major league home run was a grand slam off Virgil
Trucks.
Hint: He was famously painted by Norman Rockwell.
- Batted
.354 in 1950 to lead the AL and in fact, to lead the majors. Boston’s Pete Runnels won batting titles in 1960 &
62. Williams won in 1941, 42, 47, 48, 57
& 58.
- 624
G @ 2b; 406 G @ 1b; 330 @ 3b
- He
is one of the Red Sox depicted in the Rockwell painting “The Rookie” [Far right, hand over his mouth]
FCR - Robert Osman, Great Neck, New York
Incorrect guesses: Pete Runnels*, Bob Aspromonte, Bobby Doerr,
Nellie Fox, Gene Stephens
*More people guessed Runnels than
Goodman
THURSDAY
Q. Who
was the Tribe’s phenomenal rookie moundsman the most recent time they won the
World Series Championship?
Hint: He made history when he was the pitcher of record in the victory
that was the American League’s first ever playoff game.
Hint: The circumstance of his birth was in a city that straddles two
U.S. stats, foreshadowing perhaps how he straddled the loyalty several times
during his seven-season major league career.
- 20-G
winner in 1948 for CLE.
- In
the playoff game on 04-Oct-1948 (considered an extension of the regular
season for stat purposes) that decided that AL pennant, he threw a 5-hit
complete game 8-3 victory at BOS.) Not
only was it his 20th win that year, it was the only time he would
even reach double-digits in wins in a season in his 7 years in the Bigs. [T. Williams went 1-for-4 w/1 R.]
- Born
05-Sep-1920 in Lexa, Arkansas, located very close to the borders of both
Mississippi and Tennessee. Twice in
Bearden’s career, his season (1950 & 1951) was split between 2 teams.
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Incorrect guesses: Herb Score, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller
FRIDAY
Q. Who
led his college team to the national collegiate basketball championship game just
before World War II?
Hint: He was named the tournament's most valuable player and his
jersey hangs from the rafters of his school’s arena.
Hint: His speed in center field distinguished him from his two
corner-field teammates who just assumed he would get every fly ball possible,
sometimes with comical results.
Hint: In his best season in the majors, the only player to beat him
for the batting title was Stan Musial. He twice was in the league’s top five in
triples.
- 1941 University
of Ohio lost the championship G to Long
Island University, but Baumholtz
was the tournament’s MVP.
- He
was flanked regularly by Hal Jeffcoat, Hank Sauer, Gene Hermanski & even
Ralph Kiner. None was a track star. Kiner and Sauer used to yell “Plenty of room,
Frankie”.
- 10
triples in 1947, 9 in 1951
FCR - Jan Finkel, Swanton, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Johnny Hopp, Pete Reiser, Terry Moore, Ival
Goodman, Richie Ashburn, Dick Groat
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was the only survivor of his WWII infantry unit, suffering a shattered leg
which caused him to wear a brace throughout his career?
Hint: In his first full season in the majors, he led all pitchers in
most strikeouts per nine innings.
Hint: He turned down an offer from Brooklyn in hopes of playing for a
more famous manager.
Hint: When asked if he was a hero, his stock response was, “I don’t
think I am. I knew some.”
- Field
surgeons wanted to amputate, but Brissie
wouldn’t have it. “I’m a ballplayer!
You’ve got to find another way.”
- 5.9
K/9 (Wouldn’t even chart in today’s
game.)
- BRO
offered $25K to sign, but Brissie’s father admired PHA’s Connie
Mack. Mack in turn wrote Lou
encouraging letters while he was in the service.
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Monty Stratton, Monte Pearson, Warren Spahn
SUNDAY
Q. Who
was the first rookie pitcher to “win” the All-Star game?
Hint: He is the ‘Baseball Throwing Instructor’ for the movie The
Natural.
Hint: His nickname came from what Rusty Staub might have called “taches
de rousseur”.
- Got
pitching credit for the AL W by pitching the 3rd, 4th
& 5th innings of the 1947 ASG.
- His
work on the movie seems to have had a positive effect. Consensus among baseball cognoscenti is that
it’s a movie worth seeing.
- Translation
from French: “Freckles”
FCR - Pat Ray, Paradise Valley, Arizona
Incorrect guesses: Vida Blue
WEEKLY THEME – Non-winners receiving
Rookie-of-the-Year votes the two years where the award was for MLB and not each
league separately.
|
1947 ROY
|
||||
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Player
|
Team
|
Votes
|
Pct
|
|
|
1
|
J. Robinson
|
BRO
|
129
|
78%
|
|
2
|
105
|
64%
|
||
|
3
|
67
|
41%
|
||
|
4
|
43
|
26%
|
||
|
5
|
42
|
25%
|
||
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1948 ROY
|
||||
|
Player
|
Team
|
Votes
|
Pct
|
|
|
1
|
A. Dark
|
BSN
|
27
|
56%
|
|
2
|
8
|
17%
|
||
|
3
|
7
|
15%
|
||
|
4
|
3
|
6%
|
||
|
5
|
3
|
5%
|
||
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Joe Merrill,
Montpelier, VT (after Jansen)
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