MONDAY FUN DAY (Not in any way
connected with this week’s theme.)
Q. What historical event is called to mind
by the combination of these colors:
White, Brown, Gray and black?
Hint: Based on the contents of an article
appearing in today’s New York Times.
Hint: He was the youngest player in the majors
when he debuted.
A. Brown University alum William Edward
“Bill” White’s single game in the majors on 21‑Jun‑1879
at first base for the NL’s Providence
Grays. White
is believed to be the first black
man ever to play in a game at the major league level. The article was about Moses Fleetwood Walker.
- Born in 1860.
FCR - ~
Incorrect answers: Bob
Friend, Joe Nuxhall, Tommy Brown, Pete Grey’s debut, Brett and pine tar
incident (Frank White was a teammate + Pine tar was black + Two guys named Grey
and Brown involved)
MONDAY
Q. With whom did Hank Aaron finish his
career with exactly the same number of runs scored?
Hint: Nonetheless, he led the majors eight times
in the category. Aaron did it twice.
Hint: Each season he took the runs scored title,
his total bested the NL leader, all of whom are now in the Hall of Fame.
Hint: He still holds the record for most runs
scored in a season in the modern era.
- Each with 2,174 R,
tied for 4th all-time
- Ruth led 1919-21, 1923-4, 1926-28. Aaron 1963 & ’67. (Aaron also led the NL in his MVP year.)
- In each of those seasons, he topped NL leaders
George Burns, Rogers Hornsby, Ross Youngs, Frankie Frisch, Kiki Cuyler,
Lloyd Waner & Paul Waner.
FCR - Gene Baccaglini, Columbia, Maryland
Incorrect
answers: Stan Musial, Milwaukee Brewers,
Ty Cobb, Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, Earl Combs, Willie Mays, Rickey Henderson,
Mickey Mantle, Jeff Bagwell
TUESDAY
Q. Who hit the more homers off Hall of
Famer Early Wynn than anyone else?
Hint: He also had the most against Pedro Ramos,
Camilo Pascual, Frank Lary, Dick Donovan and Chuck Stobbs.
Hint: He was the youngest player in the majors
when he made his debut.
Hint: He was the first American League
switch-hitter to win a batting title.
- 13
HR, Yogi is second with 11
- Debut was on 17-Apr-1951. He was 19.
- Hit .353 in 1956.
FCR - Lincoln Mitchell, New York City
Incorrect
answers: Willie Wilson, Mookie Wilson,
Ted Williams, Hank Aaron
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who holds the record for the most time
between 50-home-run seasons?
Hint: He held until recently the record for the
most time between MVP seasons.
Amazingly, one of those was not even one of his 50-home-run years.
Hint: He finished in the Top 5 of MVP voting
seven more times, twice barely
losing.
Hint: He finished in the Top 20 of MVP voting an amazing
six additional times.
Hint: He was one of the nicest, most
accommodating autograph signers I have ever dealt with.
- 51 HR in 1955 + 52 in 1965. He also led the majors another season w/49
(1962) & led the NL w/47 (1964).
- NL MVP in 1954 & 1965 a stretch only his god-son
eclipses with his 1990‑2004 span.
- He was perhaps so nice in September of 1998 in
Baltimore because I showed him a photo of us together from 1964.
FCR - Tristan DeCoster, Seattle
Incorrect
answers: Johnny Mize, Jimmie Foxx,
Mickey Mantle, Alex Rodriguez, Jim Thome, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron
THURSDAY
Q. Who is the youngest player in the
live-ball era every to play catcher in a major league game?
Hint: He hit 30 home runs for 12 consecutive
seasons.
Hint: He, Doc Cramer and Kirby Puckett are the
only American League players to have two 6-hit games in a career.
- Played C 26-May-1925
at age 17 years 216 days. (Live ball era
began in 1920.)
- 30+ HR 1929 thru 1940
- Six-H Gs = 30-May-1930
& 10-Jul-1932. Cramer did it in 1932 & 35. Puckett did it in 1987 & 91.
FCR - Bill Deane, Cooperstown
Incorrect
answers: Johnny Bench, Carlos Delgado,
Carlton Fisk, Yogi Berra, Mickey Cochrane Ivan Rodriguez, Rennie Stennett
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who was the first player to hit All-Star
game home runs for both leagues?
Hint: He was the first player to appear in both
the All-Star game the World Series for teams in both leagues.
Hint: He was the first player to win the Rookie
of the Year Award unanimously.
Hint: He was the first player to win both the
Rookie of the Year AND the Most Valuable Player Award unanimously.
Hint: He is still the only player to win the MVP
in each league.
Hint: He was the first player for his franchise
to win the Rookie of the Year Award.
Hint: He was the first player to collect 120 RBI
in a season in each leagues.
Hint: He was the first post-expansion
player-manager.
Hint: He was the first modern era Hall of Famer
to get hit by 150 pitches.
Hint: He was the first Manager of the Year to
have won an MVP OR Rookie of the Year as a player.
Hint: He has the most career home runs, having
only hit 40 or more once during his career.
Hint: When he retired, he stood 4th
all time on the career home run list.
Hint: For 4 straight seasons during the apexes of
the career of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, Orlando Cepeda,
Willie McCovey and Mickey Mantle, HE led the majors in intentional walks.
Hint: His number 20
has been retired by three franchises.
Hint: Those same three each have a statue of him
in front of their stadiums.
Hint: He is the only manager to manage the same
franchise in two countries.
Hint: He was a high school basketball teammate with
all-time NBA great Bill Russell.
Hint: A Hall of Fame teammate describes him as
“the best player I ever saw.”
Hint: He achieved what many still think
impossible: He is both a giant of the
game and underappreciated.
Hint: He dominated the first MLB game I ever saw
in person.
- NL ASG HR = 1959
(2); AL ASG HR = 1971
[Nobody remembers Robinson’s because of Reggie Jackson’s towering blast.]
- NL AS in 1956,
57,
59
(1), 59
(2), 61
(1), 61
(2), 62
(2) & 65. AL AS in 1966,
67,
69,
70,
71
& 74.
- NL ROY 1956
(1st MVP for a Cincinnati
player); AL MVP 1966
- 1961
NL MVP *+ 1966
AL MVP [*Teammate Joey
Jay got a single first-place MVP vote, the only thing keep his 1961
vote from being unanimous as well.)
- NL RBI = 4 X w/120+; In AL = 122 in 1966
- HBP = 198.
Since passed by HOF Craig Biggio.
- MOY = 1989
- HR over 40 = 49 in 1966 for BAL
- Retired after 1976 season w/586 HR. Only players with more then were Ruth, Aaron
& Mays.
- Managed the Montreal Expos in Canada 2002,
2003
& 2004
then stayed with the team as it moved to Washington, DC and became the
Nationals 2005
& 2006.
- Quote is from Jim
Palmer.
- My 1st G = 18-May-1961.
Seems SFG
had no chance against the eventual NL pennant-winners.
FCR - Larry Hayes, San Francisco
FRIDAY
Q. What future former Chicago Cub was the first
rookie to lead the National League in home runs for a season?
Hint: He was the was the first right-handed
batter to hit 40 homers for five straight years.
Hint: He and Jackie Robinson attended the same college
in California.
- Hit 23 HR in 1956. (He would have finished 6th in the
AL.)
- 40+ HR = 1947 thru 1951
- Both went to Pasadena
City College although Kiner went on to USC. Dick Williams attended PCC as well. It might be the only junior college with 3
HOF alumni.
FCR - John Ford, Greenwich, Connecticut
Incorrect
answers: Ernie Banks, Hack Wilson, Phil Cavarretta, Chuck Klein, Ron Santo, Dave
Kingman, Hank Sauer, Jimmie Foxx, Sammy Sosa
END-OF-THE-WEEK BONUS
Q. Who is the only player to have a 50+
home run season and them follow it with an identical number the next year?
Hint: He didn’t lead the majors either year.
Hint: Four players from his high school each played
at least 10 years in the majors.
- 56 HR in each of 1996 & 1997. Junior did lead the AL both years, but Mark
McGwire topped him with his 58 HR in 97 and of course, McGwire and Sosa had
their season to remember in 1998.
- Moeller
High School, Cincinnati = Griffey 22 yrs, Barry Larkin 19 yrs, Buddy
Bell 18 Yrs & David Bell 12 yrs.
FCR - Dennis Bartel, La Verne, California
Incorrect
answers: Sammy Sosa
SATURDAY
Q. Who is history’s only major leaguer to
amass 2,000 runs, 2,000 RBI, 3,000 hits and 300 stolen bases?
Hint: No one else got his 500th home
run at a younger age.
Hint: He made a Cashmere woman $1,000,000 richer.
- R = 2,021; RBI = 2,086; H= 3,115; SB = 329
- 500th HR 04-Aug-2007
off KCR’s Kyle
Davies @ age 32 yrs 8 days old.
- Hit for the cycle for SEA on 05-Jun-1997,
winning the $1M prize for Mrs. Pamela Altazan from the city of Cashmere,
Washington. She
had entered a locally-sponsored contest.
FCR - Robert Osman, Great Neck, New York
Incorrect
answers: Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron,
Willie Mays, Mel Ott
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. What slugger once had a season with more
RBI than hits that year?
Hint: He attended the same college in California
as Ralph Kiner.
Hint: He hit the other walk-off home run in the 1988 World Series.
- His RBI exceeded his H total 4 times, most
notably in 1999, when his 147 RBI led the AL, accomplished with only 145 H.
- He & Kiner attended USC.
- G 3 walk-off HR 18-Oct-1988
FCR - Michael Caragliano, Flushing, New York
Incorrect
answers: Jose Canseco, Kirk Gibson,
Mickey Hatcher
SUNDAY
Q. After Shawn Green in May 2002, who was
the next player to hit ten home runs in a ten-game span?
Hint: He was first called up to the majors to
replace the holder of the single-season NCAA home run record when that player
developed a sore neck.
Hint: He was once traded for a recent Hall of
Famer inductee.
- Sosa’s 10 came in August, later the same year.
- Brought up to TEX 16-Jun-1989
when Pete
Incaviglia’s trip to the DL created a roster space. [Inky hit 48 HR for OK State in 1984. His 100 career college HR is also the
standard.]
- Traded 29-Jul-1989 for Harold
Baines. Other players were
involved.
FCR - Lincoln Mitchell, New York City
Incorrect
answers: Cody Bellinger, Troy Tulowitzki,
Mike Cameron, Ryan Howard, Frank Howard
WEEKLY THEME – Sluggers
with two or more 50-home run seasons.
Player Year HRs
Ruth........... 1920 54
1921 59
1927 60
1928 54
Foxx........... 1932 58
1938 50
Kiner.......... 1947 51
1949 54
Mays.......... 1955 51
1965 52
Mantle........ 1956 52
1961 54
McGwire.... 1996 52
1997 58
1998 70
1999 65
Griffey........ 1997 56
1998 56
Sosa.......... 1998 66
1999 63
2001 64
Rodriguez.. 2001 52
2002 57
2007 54
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Sarah
Grynpas, Toronto (after Kiner)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Subjects
of biographies that won Seymour Prize
Tuesday - Yankees
who led the league in runs but never in hits
- Famous Yankees.
- Yankees record holders.
- Yankees MVPs.
- Yankees with
drinking problems.
- Yankees with womanizing
problems.
- Yankees who led the league
in something.
- People who did the most or
best of something in the World Series.
- Longest
home runs
Wed - Players
who were at some point in their career the leader in home runs by an active
player.
- Career
HR leaders who spent most of careers with NY based team
- Members
of 500 HR club who played for NY based teams
Thurs - Hall
of Famers under 5’8”
- Player
with 500 home runs
Friday - First
10 players with 500 home runs.
- Players
who hit 50 hr in a season before expansion
- Hall
of Famers with at least 500 home runs
- Hall
of Famers with at least 2 home-run seasons
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