Q. What third
baseman owns more Silver Slugger awards than any other?
Hint: His
proclivity for a certain pre-game meal and routine became well-known.
Hint: He had the
historic first home run for an expansion franchise.
- Always ate chicken
on game days.
FCR - Patrick Roth,
Chicago
Incorrect guesses: Harmon
Killebrew, Eddie Mathews, George Brett, Miguel Cabrera
TUESDAY
Q. Who is the
only Texas Ranger to be an American League All-Star at three different
positions?
Hint: His Gold
Glove season came three seasons after his batting championship.
Hint: In college,
he attended a traditional “party school”.
Hint: He was twice
drafted by avian teams.
- GG in 2008.
His .331 led the Junior Circuit in 2005.
- Attended the University of
California at Santa Barbara and was drafted by The Orioles and Blue Jays.
FCR - David Krassin, Los Angeles (Not Michael)
Incorrect guesses: Tom Grieve, Adrian Beltre
WEDNESDAY
Q. What BLTR uniteam* Hall of Famer won his
only MVP award the year he hit over .370 and led the league in that category?
Hint: He received MVP votes 11 times in his
career 6 times in the Top Ten.
Hint: He was the first player in the modern era
to hit an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam in the same game.
Hint: In fourteen straight seasons, the only time
he didn’t bat over .300, he hit .298.
- He batted from the left side
- 2 HR = 04-Aug-1930, both off Hall of Fame
pitcher Ted Lyons. Only 3 of Gehringer’s
184 career HR were ITP.
- 1927-1940 he hit .300+ save 1932, where he was
2 hits shy.
*Hey—neologisms happen! This one has been needed for a long time. Cal, Lou, Sandy, Brooks and Yaz, et al
compelled me to coin this one. (“Monoteam”
didn’t seem to have the same flow.)
FCR - Andrew
Milner, Bryn Mawr, PA
Incorrect
guesses: George Brett, Carl Yastrzemski,
Larry Walker, Tony Gwynn, Nomar Garciaparra, Rod Carew, Paul Waner
THURSDAY
Q. Who is the only player to win the Rookie
of the Year Award and be named Most Valuable Player in the same season this century?
Hint: One would have to say he had a very good
year as he won his first Gold Glove ad Silver Slugger and was a starter in the
All-Star Game.
Hint: The same pitcher who surrendered his first
professional home run was the same guy who first hit him with a pitch in the
majors.
- ROY & MVP 2001. He received MVP votes in 9 of his 1st
10 seasons. He did not, however, receive
any more ROY votes.
- GG was the first of 10 straight; the SS was
the first of 3; and the ASG appearances was the first of 10 straight.
- Hideo Nomo hit him with a pitch 02-May-2001 but it may have been
in retaliation for the HR Ichiro hit off him 12-Jun-1993 when the Orix Blue Wave played the Kinetsu Buffaloes in Japan
FCR - Mike Mattsey, Robinson, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Fred Lynn, Mike Trout, Albert
Pujols, Kris Bryant, Cal Ripken, Arky Vaughn, I chirp, I hurl, I hurt, Jackie
Robinson, Mike Trout
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first native of Brooklyn
inducted to the Hall of Fame?
Hint: He played for three teams in the Tri-State
area, but had his best years for a team elsewhere.
Hint: In fact, his first three seasons away from
New York, his team won the championship. (A century later to be referred to as
a “three-peat.”)
Hint: In his five years “elsewhere” he had five Hall
of Fame teammates who all played for a Hall of Fame manager.
- B. 03-Mar-1872 in Brooklyn, New York.
- Won the NL championship with the Baltimore
Orioles 1894, 95, 96, taking the silver in 1897 & 98 before returning to
New York. In those five seasons, he
amassed well over 1,000 hits and hit .388, including his world-leading .424
in 1897.
Dan Brouthers, Hughie
Jennings, Joe Kelley, John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson, and played for manager
Ned Hanlon.
FCR - Sarah Grynpas, Toronto
Incorrect
guesses: Waite Hoyt, Frankie Frisch, Tony
Lazzeri
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the first American League player
to score twice in a single inning of World
Series?
Hint: Sports Illustrated once suggested in a
cover story that the team he was on at the time, could possibly be the best of
all time.
Hint: His team’s professional level of play in
that World Series, particularly—his—were
believed by many to be the provenance of a future widely-held conviction that caprine
forces on and beyond the field of play, were going to block future postseason
success until lifted.
- The Billy Goat Curse
FCR - Nels Johnston, St. Thomas, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Jimmy Dykes, Bobby Richardson, Babe
Ruth, Johnny Damon, Joe Jackson, Brooks Robinson, Lou Gehrig, Earl Combs,
Tris Speaker
SUNDAY
Q. Whose record of 44 outfield assists in
one season, is the MLB standard for the modern era?
Hint: Only two other players even had more than
35 and they were in 1903 and 1907.
Hint: That same year, he had two hitting streaks
of 26 games and set the National League record for runs scored in a modern era season.
Hint: He did all this for a last-place team.
- 1930 was the big year. Jimmy Sheckard had 36 in 1903 and Mike
Mitchell had 39 in 1907.
- His Phillies finished 8th out of 8
NL teams at 52-102, 40 G behind 1st-place STL.
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Tris Speaker, Andre Dawson, Richie
Ashburn
WEEKLY THEME – Players
who amassed 200 hits a season for five or more consecutive years. Number of hits bolded indicates led league; bolded & italicized indicate led majors.
*Won division
**Won pennant
***Won World Series
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey (After
Young!)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Players
with at least 6 200 hit seasons
- Players
with 4 or more consecutive seasons with 200+ hits since 1901
- Players
with All-Star Game-winning hits
Thurs - 2,000+
hits, >200 home runs, 5+ All-Star games, and a batting title
- AL
batting champs with at least six 200 hit seasons.
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