Q. What durable pitcher passed
away in 1955 prompting baseball to create an award honoring his legacy?
Hint: His gold career totals
indicating an all-time career record in Baseball-Reference are almost comically
numerous.
Hint: He
threw the
first pitch ever thrown in a World Series game in the modern era.
- The Cy Young Award for
excellence in pitching was first awarded in 1956. Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe was the first winner.
- He is the all-time leader in Wins
(511), Losses (315), Games Started (815), Compete Games (749), Innings Pitched
(7,356), Hits surrendered (7,092), Earned Runs (2,147) and
Batters Faced (29,565).
FCR - Mark Manuel, Kenai, Alaska
Incorrect guesses: Joe McGinnity
TUESDAY
Q. Who is still the only pitcher
to strike out ten consecutive batters in a major league game?
Hint: He was the first Baseball
Digest “Player of the Year” winner.
Hint: His condition of green thumb
was never investigated as a possible pitching advantage.
FCR - Dan Greder, Ames,
Iowa
Incorrect guesses: Catfish Hunter
TUESDAY BONUS
Q. What legendary
pitcher holds the rookie record for wins in a season in the modern era?
Hint: He won the
pitching triple crown for three consecutive seasons.
Hint: His wife was once
portrayed by Doris Day in a major motion picture.
- He led the majors
with 28 wins in his debut year 1911.
(Modern era = 1901- )
- Pitching TC 1915,
16 & 17 (also won it in 1920)
- Alexander’s wife
Aimee was played in the fictionalized 1952 movie about his life, The Winning Team, by Doris Day. His
part was played by a young actor named Ronald Reagan.
FCR - Leonard Levin, Providence
Incorrect guesses: Don Drysdale, Steve Carlton, Babe Ruth, Walter
Johnson, Dizzy Dean, Sandy Koufax, Bob Feller, Carl Hubbell
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was the first
National League pitcher to win an MVP?
Hint: Who was the first
pitcher to win his league’s ERA title by >1.00 run?
Hint: His teammates
called him “Dead Shot” because he backed up his boasts about his prowess with a
revolver by slicing a card in 2 edgewise & shooting through the bottom of a
bottle w/o breaking the neck.
- 1924 MVP for BRO. He
could hardly be denied. He led the
majors, not just the NL in wins, ERA, complete games, Ks, ERA+, FIP, WHIP, H9, SO9
& SO/W.
- His ERA of 2.61 was
1.26 runs better than runner-up Carl Hubbell n 1930.
FCR - John Burbridge,
Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania
Incorrect guesses: Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Don Newcombe, Jim Konstanty,
Bob Gibson, Clayton Kershaw
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. What multiple-Cy-Young-Award
winner had a season with more than ten starts but ended that season with an ERA
over 10.0?
Hint: His ERA when he
won his first Cy Young Award was the highest of winner in the past eighteen
seasons.
Hint: His tibia was broken
by a line drive, ending his season before the All-Star break.
Hint: He was certainly
on pace to make the All-Star team when it happened.
- Had a record of 12-5
w/ERA of 2.41 & 108 K at the time of the accident. Halladay got hurt on a Friday and the '05
All-Star Game was played the following Tuesday.
He's listed as a reserve by baseball-reference.
FCR - Michael
Caragliano, Flushing, New York
Incorrect guesses: Dizzy
Dean, Corey Kluber, Johan Santana, Bob Gibson, Bartolo Colon, David Cone,
Roger Clemens
THURSDAY
Q. What one-time
Phillies pitcher had the largest margin between first and second place for his
league’s ERA title?
Hint: He was the first Dodger
rookie to pitch in sixty games.
Hint: His cousin
pitched for six teams in seven years in the majors.
Hint: On year for an
expansion team he began the season with eight win and no losses (although not
in their expansion year).
- In 2000, Pedro’s
ERA for BOS was 1.74 and Clemens’ was 3.70 was in second
place in the AL for a delta of nearly 2 full runs.
- Appeared in 65 G for the 1993 LAD.
Threw 107 innings for a 10-5 record.
- 8-0 start for MON
in 1997.
FCR - Humbert
Kilanowski, Providence
Incorrect guesses: Burt Hooton, John Denny, Mike Marshall, Pedro Astacio
FRIDAY
Q. Who was the third
native of Louisiana to be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Hint: He once pitched a
no-hitter against the Red Sox where he walked the first batter then was
otherwise perfect through 6⅓ innings. An
error by his shortstop allowed the only other runner.
Hint: Although he never
won the award, he received MVP votes nine times.
Hint: Playing his
entire major league career for just one team, he won more than 250 games.
- HOF in 1955 after
Mel Ott (1951) and Bill Dickey (1954)
- Entire 21-year
career spent w/CHW. 260-230 record.
FCR - Steve Berman, Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Vida Blue, Bob Gibson, Ron Guidry,
Andy Pettitte
SATURDAY
Q. Who was the winning pitcher in Cal Ripken's 2,131st
consecutive game?
Hint: He was the surprise reliever who held off
the Red Sox in the game where Aaron Boone hit his triumphant ninth-inning home
run to win the ALCS.
Hint: He played baseball for a university that
has no mascot.
Hint: A persistent rumor in his hometown holds
that he purposely lowered his high school GPA to avoid being valedictorian so
he would not have to give a graduation speech.
- Mussina came in to replace Roger Clemens in
the 4th inning then completed the 5th & 6th
in G 7 16-Oct-2003.
- After several tortured changes, Stanford
University has had no official mascot since 1981. Cardinal red is the school’s official color.
FCR - John Romps, Dover New Hampshire
Incorrect guesses: David Cone, Tim Wakefield, Andy Pettitte, Mike Boddicker
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. What BBTL hurler surrendered Babe Ruth’s
first Yankee home run?
Hint: He got the first win and last win in the
Yankees first World Series Championship.
Hint: His delivery was so smooth that Grantland
Rice said, “He pitched each game with the ease and coolness of a practice
session.”
FCR - Bobby Salerno, Seminole, Florida
Incorrect guesses: Bob Shawkey, Carl
Mays, Waite Hoyt
SUNDAY
Q. Which Ivy League pitching coach alone
amassed more career complete games than the entire total of complete games
accumulated by all pitchers in both leagues over MLB’s six most recent
seasons combined?
Hint: His windup was such that he faced second
base then whirled around and threw with excellent accuracy, often startling the
batter.
Hint: Although born in a family of comfortable
circumstance, his last years on earth were spent in misery.
- Coached at Dartmouth, Harvard & Yale. Had 485 CG compared to 451 CG in MLB 2014-19.
- Billy Sunday said, “Clarkson could put more
turns and twists into a ball than any pitcher I ever saw.” Hall of Famer Sam Thompson, famed outfielder
with Detroit and Philadelphia, said, “I faced him in scores of games and I can
truthfully say that never in all that time did I get a pitch that came where I
expected it or in the way in which I guessed it was coming.”
- He spent much of the last four years of his
life in mental hospitals and was accused of the brutal murder of his wife.
FCR - David Gordon, Chevy
Chase, Maryland
Incorrect guesses: Christy Mathewson, Tim Keefe, Smoky
Joe Wood, Ewell Blackwell, Jack Taylor, Ed Walsh, Cy Young, George
Earnshaw
WEEKLY THEME – Hall of Fame pitchers who lost no-hit bids with two out
in the ninth inning or later.
Pitcher Date Hit Notes
Clarkson......... 26-May-1892...... 1B by Hugh Jennings
Young............. 23-Jul-1896 ....... 1B by Ed
Delahanty
Martinez......... 05-Jun-1995....... 1B Bip
Roberts.................. 9 perfect
innings, pulled after hit in 10th
First Correct Respondent to Identify
Theme – Sarah Grynpas, Toronto (After
Halladay)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Tuesday - 300 game winners with career era under 3.00
- Hall
of Famers with the highest career winning percentage
- World
Series starting pitchers
- Pitchers
with over 60 shutouts
- 25+ game winners who lost a world series game
the same season
Wed - Pitchers who lost
no-hit bids in the bottom of the ninth
- Pitchers
who lost no-hit bids in the bottom of the ninth in the bottom of the ninth with
2 outs
- Hall
of Fame pitchers (or maybe just Hall of Famers depending on how the week plays
out) who went by names other than their given first names (i.e. George Thomas
Seaver, Denton True Young, Harry Leroy Halladay, etc.)
Sunday - Players with the best World Series WHIP's
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