Q. What pitcher
was the fifth to win a Cy Young Award in both leagues?
Hint: At the time
of his retirement, he was the active leader in complete games pitched in the
majors and still would be today.
Hint: At some
point during his career, he had a season (not all the same one) where led each
league in wins, complete games, inning pitched, walks per nine innings and strikeouts
per 9-innings-pitched ratio.
Hint: His widow
spoke at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
- CYA w/TOR in 2003. CYA w/PHI in 2010, unanimously. Preceding him with thus double honor were
Gaylord Perry, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens. Max Scherzer has accomplished it since.
- Career CG = 67. Retired after the 2013 season.
FCR - Frank
Stephenson, Mount Berry, Georgia
Incorrect guesses: Nolan
Ryan, Steve Lyons, Vern Law, Cy Young, Justin Verlander, Roger Clemens
TUESDAY
Q. What first-ballot
Hall of Famer’s postseason home run surrendered to Roberto Alomar was
considered by some to signal the end of the brief dynasty of the “Bash Brothers”?
Hint: Four years
earlier. he had surrendered an even better-known postseason home run toward the
front end of his and his teammates’ short-lived “dynasty”.
Hint: Former
All-Star and World Series champion Ron Darling said of him, “He's the most
amazing pitcher I’ve ever seen. He has
the ability to throw a strike any time he wants. Nobody else can do that. Nobody!”
- Eckersley’s walk-off HR to Kirk Gibson in G 1 of the 1988 WS
is replayed regularly and known to even casual baseball fans.
- Ron Darling pitched for the Mets on their 1986
WS Championship team and now does color broadcasting for them and for the MLB
channel.
FCR - Lincoln Mitchell, New York City
Incorrect guesses: Dave Stewart, Rob Dibble, Pedro
Martinez, Jack Morris, Orel Hershiser
WEDNESDAY
Q. What BLTR MVP once walked six times in a
game and reached base a seventh time by being hit by a pitch?
Hint: He shares one of his middle names with
Elvis.
Hint: He is the youngest position player to play
in an All-Star game.
- Aron
- Played in the 2012 ASG. Struck out, walked, pinch-hit & played LF
FCR - Bob Flynn, Chandler, Arizona
Incorrect
guesses: Ted Williams, Rickey Henderson,
Mel Ott, Ken Griffey, Jr., Al Kaline, Robin Yount, Joe Morgan, Rod Carew
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who leads all second basemen in career
home runs?
Hint: No player with 85% of his games at second
base, has more career runs batted in.
Hint: Add four Silver Slugger awards, five
All-Star appearances and four times in the top 10 in MVP voting.
Hint: Got a World Series ring even though he
never played in a World Series that his team won.
- 351 HR while playing 2nd base.
- 1,518 RBI
- Won the NL MVP in 2000.
- First MLB team was 1992 TOR, but he was traded
to NYM for David Cone 65 G into the season.
The Jays won that year and did give him a ring for the part he played
during that season.
FCR - Brett Moore, Studio City, California
Incorrect guesses: Bobby Grich, Ryne Sandberg, Robinson
Cano, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Morgan, Dan Uggla, Ernie Banks
THURSDAY
Q. Who owns the highest American League single-season
stolen base total since Rickey Henderson was active?
Hint: He went to high school in Madras, his
mother being Indian.
Hint: The year he led the majors in total bases he
garnered his only Gold Glove Award, his only Silver Slugger Award, made his
only All-Star team, but finished second in the MVP voting behind a pitcher.
- 70 SB in 2009 for BOS
- Ellsbury's mother, Margie, is full-blooded
Navajo, making him the first Native American of Navajo descent to reach the
major leagues. Attended Madras High
School in Madras, Oregon.
- Season w/awards = 2011. AL MVP went to Justin Verlander.
FCR - Nels Johnston, St. Thomas, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Carl Crawford, Juan Pierre, Kenny
Lofton, Jose Reyes
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the first pitcher since Don
Drysdale to pinch-hit in a World Series game?
Hint: Two of his collegiate teammates became
stars in the majors.
Hint: Never known for his speed afoot, he
remembered one of his college coaches saying he “ran like a tombstone,”
resulting in his being moved from third base to the pitching mound.
- PH for Mark Guthrie in the top of the 12th
inning of G 3 of the 1991 WS, 22‑Oct‑1991.
He lined out to deep center off Braves’ Jim Clancy in the penultimate G
of Clancy’s career. Aguilera then pitched
the bottom of that inning and gave up the winning run. Drysdale had PH in the 1965 WS.
- Was a teammate of Wally Joyner and Cory Snyder
on the BYU baseball team.
- Moved from 3b to P in his freshman year by BYU
head coach Gary Pullins.
FCR - John Wills, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses: Madison Bumgardner, Pat Dobson, Jack
Billingham, Ken Holtzman, Mickey Lolich, Clayton Kershaw, Joe Blanton
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the first rookie voted by the
fans to start an All-Star Game?
Hint: He later admitted steroid use but replaced
a legend at first base.
Hint: He claims he never met Clark Griswold.
- In a Nov 2005 interview with ESPN The Magazine, Joyner revealed that
he had briefly used steroids during the 1998 season. Started at 1st for CAL the year after Rod Carew retired.
- The 1983 film National Lampoon’s Vacation introduced Wally World
(a fictitious version of Disneyland). The film depicts Clark Griswold, played
by Chevy Chase, leading his family on a cross-country journey from the suburbs
of Chicago to Wally World. When Joyner
became a fan favorite in Anaheim, a section of the stadium was nicknamed “Wally
World” as was Joyner himself.
FCR - Jim Spaulding, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect
guesses: Mark McGwire, Willard
Marshall, Steve Garvey, Kent Hrbek, Jose Abreu, Jason Giambi, Wally
Bunker
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Which San Francisco Giant starting
pitcher posted the most wins in a single season among BRTL players?
Hint: He hammered four home runs in his career.
Hint: He was named High School Player of the Year
and hailed from the same state as one of this week’s earlier-named theme
members — who also garnered this same honor.
- His 19 victory total in 1997 is one higher
than fellow BRTL ace Madison Bumgarner’s single-season high. Fellow SF southpaws Mike McCormick (22 W in 1967)
and Ron Bryant (24 W in 1973) had
more wins in a season but were a lefty and a switch-hitter.
- He can count Roger Clemens among his
victims. The Rocket never homered during
his 24-year MLB career.
- Estes was named NV HS POY In 1991, an honor
that fellow Nevadan Bryce Harper earned in 2009.
FCR - Rick Tharp, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Madison Bumgarner, Ron Bryant, Fernando
Valenzuela, Vida Blue, Carl Hubbell
SUNDAY
Q. Who has hit more home runs than any
other player born in the state that was the first to grant unlimited voting
rights to both sexes?
Hint: He is also tops in RBI, bases-on-balls and…
alas, strikeouts.
Hint: No player native to that state played in
more All-Star games than he did.
Hint: He is tied with Johnny Bench for most homers
hit in the month of April by a catcher.
- 134 career HR.
When Wyoming was still a territory, legislators passed the Wyoming Suffrage Act of 1869 which gave
women in the territory the right to vote.
- 491 RBI, 307 BB & 959 K
- Buck, Bench, Charles Johnson & Ivan Rodriguez
have all hit 9 HR in the month of April: 2013, 1971, 2001 & 2000 respectively.
FCR - Jeffrey Yeo, Antelope, California
Incorrect
guesses: Harmon Killebrew, Tom Browning,
Carlton Fisk, Craig Biggio, Gabby Hartnett
WEEKLY THEME – LDS All-Stars who
played in an LDS.
[Latter-day Saints
[Mormons) MLB All-Stars who played in a League Division Series.]
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Technically, no one. However, Providence’s Alex Poterack
from came very close—close enough to qualify for FCR.
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tues - Chain
of play? Halladay pitched his first game
on September 20, 1998. Six days later,
Eckersley pitched his last game. All games involved AL East teams.
Both men had an immense body of work, including no hitters etc.
Wed - Mormon
MVP/Cy Young Award winners
- Best
Mormon players of all-time
- All
-- Stars who are also members of the Jesus Christ Church of Latter Day Saints
(Mormons)
- Latter-Day
Saints
- Prominent
Mormon players
- Leading
Mormon baseball players
Thurs - Mormon
All-Stars
Sunday - Mormon
converts
- LDS LDS
MVPs
- All
Star game participants never on a winning team
- Their
scrabble score equals their uniform number
- Mormons
who played after Russ Morman retired
- Players
from low population states
- Players
with Mormon or Utah ties
- Players
whose initials are airport codes
- Notable
Mormon players from the last 30 years
This week’s quiz archived
here: http://horsehidetriviA. blogspot.com/ (includes all incorrect guesses. I believe this week set a record in that
department.)
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