Q. What pitcher
still holds the record for most complete-game shutouts thrown in a single
season?
Hint: There’s a
simple mnemonic for the number.
Hint: He once
started a season at age 36 with a record 52 innings without walking a batter.
Hint: His modern
era rookie record of 28 pitching wins is probably not in danger any time soon.
- 16 ShO in 1916. (Reader Ken Auerbach also pointed out that
“Grover C. Alexander” has exactly 16 letters!)
- 28 W in 1911,
leading the majors. (Joe McGinnity had
won 28 G in each of his first two
seasons in 1899 & 1900, leading the majors both times.)
FCR - Craig McGraw
Incorrect guesses: Cy
Young, Walter Johnson, Tom Seaver, Dazzy Vance, Christy Mathewson, Greg
Maddux, Robin Roberts
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the
youngest manager to reach 1,000 career victories?
Hint: He was
joined by Joe Torre as the only major leaguers with 2,000 hits as players and 1,500 wins as managers.
Hint: His parents
took him by covered wagon to settle in Winfield, KS, then later to Des Moines,
Iowa.
Hint: He took part
in the Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma land dash on 16-Sep-1893, but was unable to
stake a suitable claim.
- 1,000th W in 1908 @ his age 35
- Clarke = 2,678 H + 1,602 W as mgr (Torre = 2,342
H + 2,326 W as mgr)
- He grew up and attended school in the Des
Moines area
- Had he succeeded in acquiring land in
Oklahoma, it is likely he would not have pursued his baseball career.
FCR - Thomas Nester, Dix Hills, New York
Incorrect guesses: Cap Anson, John McGraw, Frank Chance
WEDNESDAY
Q. The centenary of the birth of which Hall
of Famer Alabamian was last month?
Hint: The hamlet he was born in had circa 300
people living there at that time. It had
barely 100 in the 2010 census.
Hint: His nickname is felonious.
Hint: Roy Campanella said he, “…was the best
all-round player I have ever seen.”
- B. 25-Feb-2019
- Nickname = “Mr. Murder”
- Campy further explained, “As great as he was
in 1951, he was twice that good 10 years earlier in the Negro Leagues.”
FCR - Jeff Kabacinski, Wilmington, Delaware
Incorrect
guesses: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson,
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who is the only player to played more
than 500 consecutive games while competing for more than two teams?
Hint: He was the first over-all position player
taking the year he was drafted.
Hint: He made his major league debut as a
pinch-runner for Ron Cey.
Hint: He had five hits in a game three times one
season.
- Chosen #2 out of Wichita State University (behind
only pitcher Mike Moore) in the 1981 MLB June Amateur
Draft.
FCR - John Ford, Greenwich, Connecticut
Incorrect
guesses: Steve Garvey, Everett Scott,
Lee Lacy, Bill Buckner, Miguel Tejada, Steve Sax, Davey Lopes
THURSDAY
Q. Which Indians batter, after becoming the
third batter hit by a pitch in the inning, threw the ball back at the Yankees pitcher?
Hint: SABR calls him “…he was arguably the best
all-around backstop in the game” during his career
Hint: He managed an American League team to their
second World Series title.
Hint: Three of his brothers made it to the
majors, but their careers combined didn’t add up to half of his.
- In the 8th inning of a game 25-Aug-1922, Yankee starter Bob
Shawkey hit Cleveland’s Larry Gardner. Harry Harper replaced him and
plunked Joe Sewell. O’Neill was the
3rd HBP in the inning and decided to reciprocate.
- (See SABR bio for “best” reference.)
- Brothers Jack, Jim & Mike played in 5, 2 & 3
seasons respectively, but their career WARs came to -0.1; 0.9; & 4.1
compared to his 24.2.
FCR - Dave Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect
guesses: Jim Hegan, Mike Scioscia, Ozzie
Guillen, Lou Boudreau, Al Lopez, Cito Gaston, Sandy Alomar, Kid Gleason,
Sandy Alomar, Jr., Luke Sewell, Bucky Harris
FRIDAY
Q. Which former Blue Jay's apparent 300th
career home run bounced off a speaker of his team’s ballpark, resulting instead
in a single?
Hint: A statue was erected in his honor, however
at a different major league park.
Hint: He hit 26 more home runs with that team.
Hint: His first round-tripper in the majors was
at age 20 off a future Hall of Famer.
- Career HRs = 325, the final 137 w/SEA
FCR - Adam Balutis, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Dave Winfield, Jose Bautista,
Carlos Delgado, Edwin Encarnacion, Joe Carter, Wade Boggs, Harold Baines
SATURDAY
Q. What former Atlanta Brave was the first
player to end a League Championship Series game by stealing home?
Hint: No major leaguer had more at-bats from 1991
through 2000.
Hint: He won Gold Gloves for teams in two
different countries.
- Ten years of AB = 5,836, leading the NL in
1992.
- GG for MON 1993-94 (Led the team in WAR
both seasons.) then for ATL in 1995-96 (Finished behind only
HOFers in WAR in 1996.)
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Jose Bautista, Kenny Lofton,
Otis Nixon, Sid Bream, Fred McGriff, Terry Pendleton, Marcus Giles, Devon White
SUNDAY
Q. Who struck out 15 in a classic college
game where the opposing (losing) pitcher was future Cubs star was Ed Reulbach?
Hint: In the majors, he once suffered a 20-loss
season, but not until three other teammates had hit that mark in the same year.
Hint: He played on a college football team that
had six future major league baseball players on the roster.
- College G: Reulbach’s Notre
Dame vs Pfeffer’s Illinois
ended 1-0.
- On the 1906 rotation of the NL’s Boston
Beaneaters (now Braves), all 4 starters lost at least 20: Irv Young 15-25; Vive Lindaman 12-23; Gus Dorner 8‑25; and Pfeffer
13-22. They accounted for 95 of the
team’s 102 losses.
- Teammates on the University of Illinois
football team included Carl Lundgren (halfback), Jake Stahl (tackle), Fred Beebe (punter/end), Claude Rothgeb (fullback), Jim Cook (end), and Ray Demmitt (guard).
FCR - Kevin Wachs, Mountain View, California
Incorrect
guesses: Harry McIntyre, Eddie Plank, Vic
Willis, Anthony Young, Jeff Pfeffer a/k/a Edward Joseph Pfeffer
WEEKLY THEME – Players
with 10 or more siblings
Alexander 6th of 13
Carter 8th of 11
Clarke 9th of 12
Grissom 15th of 16
Horton 14th of 14
Irvin 8th of 13
O’Neill 10th of 13
Pfeffer 8th of 12
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Larry
Hayes, San Francisco (after O’Neill)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Wed - Played
on exactly one World Series winner.
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