Q. Who was the
first National League player in the modern era to hit four home runs in one
game?
Hint: He was the
first outfielder voted Most Valuable Player by the BBWAA, as it is done today.
Hint: No other outfielder
in any league in the modern era had more outfield assists than he did in the
season where he also led the majors in total bases. Both were personal bests.
- NL MVP 1932, by
the Baseball Writers'
Association of America. No other player received even 1 1st-place vote
and all for 4th-place PHI.
- 44 OF A in 1930 w/445
TB (4th best all-time)
FCR - Mike Eisenbath,
St. Charles, Missouri
Incorrect guesses: Willie
Mays, Ed Delahanty, Roberto Clemente, Joe Medwick, Joe Adcock, Mel Ott,
May’s
TUESDAY
Q. Who was the
first player to hit thirty home runs for each of six consecutive seasons for
the Cleveland Indians?
Hint: He once hit a
home run in each of seven consecutive games.
Hint: Ryan Howard
broke his franchise record for most RBI by a Phillie in an expansion‑era
season.
Hint: He retired as
an Oriole before catching up to Reggie.
- 30+ HR 1996-2001 for CLE
- 7 straight G w/HR 25-Jun through 03-Jul-2002.
FCR - Frank Prusik, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Jim Gentile, Albert Belle, Cola Vito, Rocky
Colavito, All Rosen (sic), Greg Luzinski, Manny Ramirez
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who is the youngest position player ever
to make a major league All-Star team?
Hint: It wasn’t until his fourth season in the
Bigs that he faced a pitcher younger than he was.
Hint: He is one of only seven 22-year-olds to hit
40 home runs in a season.
- Faced Jacob Lindgren on 10-Jun-2015. It was Lindgren’s 6th &
penultimate G in MLB. He is 5 months
younger than Harper 12-Mar-1993 to Harper’s 16‑Oct‑1992.
- The other 6 are Johnny Bench, Joe DiMaggio,
Juan Gonzalez, Eddie Mathews, Mel Ott & Alex Rodriguez.
FCR - Dan Silverberg, Aventura, Florida
Incorrect
guesses: Al Kaline, Andrew Jones, Tony
Conigliaro, Alex Rodriguez, Mel Ott, Ken Griffey, Jr., Eddie
Mathews, Robin Yount
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What one-time Detroit Tiger twice led
the National League in home runs?
Hint: He was the first player to hit two home
runs in each of two different opening day games.
Hint: He was over .500 as a manager only in his
final season.
FCR - R. D. Lerner, Silver Spring, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Rusty Staub, Jim Thome, Norm Cash, Kirk
Gibson, Darrell Evans, Frank Howard, Hank Greenberg
THURSDAY
Q. Who once set a record of 92 RBI, then
the fewest recorded in a 40-home-run season?
Hint: He was the first player to hit his 400th
career home run playing for the Mets.
Hint: He once blurted out, live over the air on a
radio broadcast, boasting of his own slugging prowess at the plate, on a Ford
Motor Company Broadcast no less, that “The Cadillacs are down at the end of the
bat.”
Hint: No National Leaguer has more World Series
home runs.
- 1957 = 40 HR, 92 RBI (Fewer RBI had now been
hit in a 40-HR season by Ken Griffey, Jr. in 1994, Barry Bonds in 2003; Mike
Trout in 2015 and Joey Gallo in 2017 with a remarkable 41 HR and only 80
RBI!)
- 11 WS HR
FCR - Jerry Miller, Liberty Hill, Texas
Incorrect
guesses: Dave Kingman, Gil Hodges, Al
Kaline, Willie Mays, Mike Piazza, George Foster, Ralph Kiner, Carlos Beltran
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first National League left-handed
batter to slug fifty home runs in a season?
Hint: He homered three times for the Yankees in
the same World Series when he was almost 40 years old.
Hint: He was runner-up in the MVP balloting in
consecutive seasons.
Hint: He would receive MVP votes a total of nine additional times in his career without ever winning the award.
- 51 HR in 1947
- Consecutive MVP runner-up seasons (1939-1940)
FCR - Charlie Fouche, Dalton, Georgia
Incorrect
guesses: Jim Thome, Ralph Kiner, Mel Ott
SATURDAY
Q. Who had a thirty/thirty season at thirty?
Hint: He was the first player from his country to
win an MVP.
Hint: He was the first National Leaguer to have
an extra-base hit in six consecutive plate appearances.
- Was 30/30 @ 30. At 30 yrs old in 1997 hit 49 HR and stole 33
bases.
FCR - Duncan Crowl, San Juan Capistrano, California
Incorrect
guesses: Sammy Sosa, Roberto Clemente,
Alfonso Soriano, Cedeno, Vlad Guerrero, Shawn Green, Andre Dawson, Barry
Bonds, Orlando Cepeda,
SUNDAY
Q. Who was the youngest player in major
league history to hit 50 home runs in a season?
Hint: Though an Ontario native, he attended high
school in Melbourne.
Hint: His nickname was “Uncle Phil”.
- Hit 50 HR at age 23 in 2007.
- Born in the city of Ontario, California; Went to HS in Melbourne, Florida.
- Teammate Delino DeShields (fils) nicknamed
Fielder “Uncle Phil” based on the alleged resemblance with the avuncular character of the same name on
the television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, played by actor James Avery.
FCR - J.P. Wanamaker, Binghamton, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Phil
Nevin, Phil Cavarretta
WEEKLY THEME – National
League BLTR season home run leaders (Minimum 40)
Fielder........ 50...... 2007
Harper........ 42...... 2015
Klein.......... 43...... 1929
Mathews.... 47...... 1953
................... 46...... 1959
Mize........... 43...... 1940
51...... 1947
40...... 1948
Snider........ 43...... 1956
Thome....... 47...... 2003
Walker....... 49...... 1997
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Sam Bass, Decatur, Georgia
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Prayer
that won the betting triple crown (sic)
Friday - Hit grand slams for two or more National League teams
Sat - Players
who hit 300 HRs.
- Players who hit
HRs for two or more NL teams.
- Player who hit
WS home runs.
Sunday - Left
handed batters
- Pretty good lefthanded
hitters with over 40 in year
- They all were
first basemen
- Kings of the
three great outcomes
- Players who
led league in OBP and Slugging in same year
- Bats L Throws
R players who led league in Slugging.
- BL TR
- They all
batted left handed but threw right handed
- They were all
right-handers who taught themselves how to bat left-handed.
- Players with
200+ home runs and 500+ strike outs
- players who
Bat left, throw right and hit 40 or more Home runs.
- How about left
handed hitter who led the league in HR and RBI in the same season
- All bat left,
throw right power hitters
- They were all
left handed hitters
- They're all
players who hit lefty but threw righthanded and hit at least 40 hr in a season
for an NL team. They also all were named All Stars at least twice.
- All wired
backwards and hit left-handed while throwing properly right handed
- All hit at
least 400 home runs batting lefty, but throwing righty
- Left handed
homerun champions and strikeout leaders
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