MONDAY
Q. Who holds
the Baltimore Orioles (AL) record for most RBI in a season?
Hint: Only Brian
Roberts and Manny Machado have hit more doubles in a season for them.
Hint: He stuck out
against Mark Whiten in Whiten’s sole career pitching appearance.
- 150 RBI in 2004
- 50 doubles in 2005
- K’d vs. Whiten on 31-Jul-1998 (All
3 outs Whiten got in his lone inning of work were by strikeout.)
FCR - Adam Balutis, Alexandria,
Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Eddie
Murray, Rafael Palmeiro, Brady Anderson, Ken Williams, Cal Ripken, Frank
Robinson, Boog Powell, Chris Davis, Albert Belle
MONDAY BONUS
Q. Who
testifies of the succulence of his wares by his very presence at OPACY?
Hint: No left
fielder in Orioles history ever hit more homers in one season.
Hint: Irrespective
of his natural coloring, most sensible people agree that orange suits him
better than does red.
- Of the 39
HR he hit in 1964, 0 were hit in the 5 G he played 1b.
- After 14
seasons with the black & orange Orioles, he spent 2 years as a Cleveland
Indian. You be the judge: O’s vs. Tribe
FCR - J.P. Wanamaker,
Binghamton, New York
Incorrect guesses: Brady
Anderson, Frank Robinson, B.J. Surhoff
TUESDAY
Q. Who recently admitted on screen that the
most famous home run he ever hit was perhaps due to luck as much as anything
else?
Hint: His name adorns the Ring of Honor at his
university’s football stadium.
Hint: He was voted Manager of the Year in his
second season managing in the majors.
FCR - Mike Tamada, Portland, Oregon
Incorrect guesses: Davey Johnson, Bucky Dent, Buck Showalter
TUESDAY
BONUS
Q. Who homered from both sides of the plate
in each of three consecutive team victories?
Hint: The next year, he did it a still-unmatched
four times, just not in a row.
Hint: His throwing arm at third base ranks as one
the best ever.
FCR - Rich Ottone, Sykesville, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Brooks Robinson, Chipper Jones, Tom Tresh,
Mike Schmidt, Mickey Mantle, Frankie Frisch
WEDNESDAY
Q. What rookie led his league in home runs
and didn’t get a single vote for Rookie of the Year (although three other
players did!)?
Hint: He did, however, garner a few votes for MVP
the same year.
Hint: He once homered twice in an All-Star game.
- 37 HR in 1950 led AL [Although record-keepers long listed
Rosen the holder of the AL rookie home run record (finally topped by Mark
McGwire in 1987), Al was not considered a first-year player in 1950, nor would
he be under modern rules. Though he had accumulated just 58 at bats
in 1947-49, he had spent all of May and June, 1949 on the Indians’
squad. Current Rookie of the Year voting rules say that, if someone
has spent more than 45 days on a roster before September 1 of any previous
season, he is no longer eligible. There was no formal definition of
“rookie” until 1957, but Rosen failed to get a vote in 1950 ROY voting, the
consensus being that his previous experience was “tantamount to veteran
status.”[i] ]
[i] Deane, Bill. Award Voting. Kansas
City, MO: Society for American Baseball Research, 1988, p. 58.
FCR - Leland Hall, Lansing, Michigan
Incorrect guesses: Bo Jackson, Ted Williams, Gary Carter, Rob Deer,
Ralph Kiner
WEDNESDAY BONUS
Q. Who once led not just his league, but
the majors, in home runs, runs batted in, slugging, on-base percentage, OPS,
OPS+ and intentional walks in the same year and yet never led even his league in
ANY offensive category in any other season of his 13-year career?
Hint: He played for eight team in the majors
during that span.
Hint: He did play in two World Series, taking
home a ring one time.
- Played for NYM, SDP, SFG, SEA, CIN, BOS, CLE and
OAK.
FCR - Glenn Guzzo, Ponte Verde Beach, Florida
Incorrect guesses: Brady Anderson, Jim Gentile, Hack Wilson,
Gary Sheffield, Joe Carter, Frank Howard
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who was the first switch-hitter to win a
Gold Glove at third base?
Hint: He twice led his league in hits.
Hint: He joined a team that had finished last in
its division, but with him, they then went to the World Series twice in a row.
- GG for STL in 1987, 98 & 92.
- 187 H in 1991, 199 H in 1992
- In 1990, ATL finished 6th in a
6-team division. Pendleton joined them
in 1991 and they won the NL pennant. For
the next 14 full seasons ATL won its division.
He as with them for 4½ of those.
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles
Incorrect
guesses: Chipper Jones, Tony Perez,
Eddie Mathews, Pete Rose, Ron Cey
THURSDAY ONCE
Q. What former Pirate led his league in RBI
with more than 120 in a year where he only played 140 games?
Hint: He was the last National League player to
wear number 42.
Hint: In one of the seven seasons where he led
the league in errors at his position, he followed up the next two season by
leading the league in double plays.
- He led the AL in E @ 1b w/BOS in 1992, 93, 94,
96, 97 & 2000. He led he the NL in in
2002 w/NYM. Led in AL in DP in 1994-95.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect guesses: Ralph Kiner, Honus Wagner, Wilton Guerrero,
Barry Bonds, Willie Stargell, Jason Schmidt, Dick Stuart, Bob Robertson,
Andrew McCutchen, Hank Greenberg, Bobby Bonilla, Richie Hebner
THURSDAY TWICE
Q. Who hit 30 home runs in a season 6 times
yet failed to total 300 for his career?
Hint: This former Cardinal hit the first home run
ever in a major league game in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Hint: He once told his manager, after missing a
fly ball in a night game, “I lost it in the moon.”
- He also had years of 26 & 27 HR, but the
career total was 288.
- Told to Mgr. Frankie Frisch
FCR - Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Wally Moon, Marv Throneberry, Bob Horner, Pedro
Guerrero, Jim Davenport, Roger Maris, Dick Allen
THURSDAY THRICE
Q. What two-time league home run leader
went to the World Series four times with the same franchise?
Hint: In the 20th century, only he and
Willie Mays hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs and stole 20 bases in a single
season.
Hint: Mays led the majors in three of the four
stats that year, but the player in this question led the majors in homers.
Hint: He had three hits in his debut game in the “Show”
including a triple.
Hint: He had Hall of Fame teammates at every stop
in the majors.
- In 1911, he had 30 2b, 21 3b, 21 HR and 23 SB. Mays did it in 1957. Jimmy Rollins & Curtis Granderson
have done it in this century.
- Led the NL w/21 HR in 1911. It was the 5th
highest season HR total in the history of the NL to that time. (Really the 2nd highest if you
strike the 1884 CHC season from the books.)
- Debut 21-Sep-1904.
- During his 15-season career on Cubs, Pirates,
Phillies and Senators, he played side-by-side with the following Hall of Fame teammates:
Pete Alexander,
Dave Bancroft,
Max Carey,
Chief Bender,
Roger Bresnahan,
Mordecai Brown,
Max Carey,
Frank Chance,
Johnny Evers,
Burleigh Grimes,
Walter Johnson
Sam Rice
Eppa Rixey,
Joe Tinker and
Honus Wagner.
FCR
- Mike Rainey, South Jordan, Utah
Incorrect guesses: Duke Snider, George Kelly, Curtis Granderson,
Babe Ruth, Frank Robinson, Pete Rose, George Brett, Reggie Jackson, Hank
Aaron
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first Dominican to win an MVP?
Hint: He once hit a grand slam in the 13th
inning.
Hint: On another occasion, he levitated his
dissent when the revered spheroid yawed in flight and struck him in the deltoid.
FCR - Kevin Wachs, Mountain View, CA
Incorrect guesses: Sammy Sosa, David Ortiz, Vladimir Guerrero
FRIDAY BONUS
Q. Who hit three grand slams in a 10-day
period, one during a teammate's no-hitter?
Hint: One season, he was the only player with a
three-home-run game.
Hint: He was picked ahead of a multiple-time
strikeout king and ahead of a multiple-time home run king and ahead of a former
Indian and multiple-time Gold Glove winner.
- GS X 3 = 26-Jul-, 30-Jul- and 04-Aug-1973.
Bibby’s no-no also on 30-Jul. [Kevin Wachs noticed that Lou Gehrig
(the only player to homer 3 times in a game in 1929) hit 3 grand slams: 29‑Aug‑, 31‑Aug‑ & 01‑Sep‑1931 (2) an amazing 4-day span.
For good measure he also homered 30-Aug and in the 1st G 01-Sep. (Why
in the world would anyone continue to throw him strikes?!)]
- Chosen 1st overall in the 1969 June Amateur Draft. J.R. Richard went next; Gorman Thomas went 21st overall and Bob
Boone was taken 126th, the 6th pick of the 6th round. Richard led the NL in K in 1978 79; Thomas
led the AL in HR in 1979 & 82; and Boone won GG @ C in 1978, 79, 82 & 1986-89. Boone also had played for Stanford when they were the Indians.
FCR - Kevin Wachs, Mountain View, CA
Incorrect guesses: Carlos Delgado, Jim Northrup
SATURDAY
Q. Who won the Cy Young Award and the Most
Valuable Player Award in the only year of his 10+ year career that he ever
received even one vote for either
award?
Hint: He relieved Fergie Jenkins in the game
Jenkins got his 3,000th career strikeout.
Hint: One year he earned the saves in each game
that clinched the division, pennant and World Series.
FCR - Samuel Gazdziak, Johns Greek, Georgia
Incorrect guesses: Don Newcombe, Dennis Eckersley, Denny McLain,
Lee Smith
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who was the first pitcher in the modern
era to have more than 70 appearances in a season?
Hint: His record in All-Star competition was
flawless.
Hint: He captained three sports in high school
and lettered in four (4!) at Syracuse, including soccer and boxing.
- 74 G in 1950
- In the 1950 ASG, he struck out Hoot Evers and
Jim Hegan. Bobby Doerr then grounded
out. It was Konstanty’s only ASG
appearance.
- Graduated from Arcade High School in Arcade,
New York. Lettered in baseball, basketball,
soccer and boxing.
FCR - Michael Ageno, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Mike Marshall, Dave Giusti, Hoy
Wilhelm, Dick Radatz,
SUNDAY
Q. Who was the first shortstop on an
recently moved team in the first year of its new name, city and uniforms to lead the league in total bases?
Hint: He was the first ever batter in his team’s
history.
Hint: He’s the last qualifier, for now, for this
week’s theme.
- Led the AL w/303 TB in 1965
- Lead-off batter in Twins’ inaugural game 11-Apr-1961 in Yankee Stadium. The year before they had been the Washington Senators.
FCR
- Mike Anderson, Maumelle, Arkansas
Incorrect
guesses: Troy Tulowitzki, Jim
Fregosi, Bud Harrelson, Robin Yount, Edgar Renteria, Hanley Ramirez,
Richie Ashburn
WEEKLY THEME – Players
who won an MVP but were on the Hall of Fame ballot fewer than two times.
Player WAR Votes % HoF Year MVP Year
Tejada.............. 47.3............ 5............ 1.2............... 2019..................... 2002 AL
Powell.............. 39.0............ 5............ 1.3............... 1983..................... 1970 AL
Gibson............. 38.4.......... 13............ 2.5............... 2001..................... 1988 NL
Caminiti............ 33.5............ 2............ 0.4............... 2007..................... 1996 NL
Rosen............... 32.6............ ~............ ~........................ ~..................... 1953 AL
Mitchell............. 29.1............ 2............ 0.4............... 2004..................... 1989 NL
Pendleton......... 28.5............ 1............ 0.2............... 2004..................... 1991 NL
Vaughn............ 27.2............ 6............ 1.1............... 2009..................... 1995 AL
Sauer............... 25.5............ 4............ 1.3............... 1966..................... 1952 NL
Schulte............. 23.8............ 1............ 0.5............... 1937..................... 2011 NL
Bell................... 20.0............ 6............ 1.2............... 1999..................... 1987 AL
Burroughs........ 17.8............ 1............ 0.2............... 1991..................... 1974 AL
Hernandez....... 16.6............ 2............ 0.4............... 1994..................... 1984 AL
Konstanty......... 11.8............ ~............ ~........................ ~..................... 1950 NL
Versalles........... -1.7............ ~............ ~........................ ~..................... 1965 AL
Note: Rosen, Konstanty & Versalles never even
made it to the ballot!
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Joe
Merrill, Montpelier, Vermont (after Mitchell)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Something
to do with MVPs.
-
Wed - Players
who just missed winning a Triple Crown
- MVP
players who received MVP votes in only one year
- VP
outliers
Thurs - AL
MVPs with the lowest career WAR
-
Sat - MVP
winners that never finished in top 10 in MVP voting in any other years.
- One
time MVP winners
- Players
who won MVPs, but never finished in the top ten in any other season
Sunday - MVPs that
are not in the Hall of Fame
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