Q. Whom did Ivan
Rodriguez pass on the all-time board for most career major league games played at
catcher?
Hint: He
is the oldest player in history to collect a hit in a major league
All-Star Game.
Hint: It is
believed that he used too much bleach while laundering his hosiery one day in
Spring Training 1981.
Hint: His brother
was an All-Star Yankee.
- Pudge passed Pudge when he caught his 2,278th
G on 17-Jun-2009. Fisk had held that title for 16 of his 24
seasons in the majors.
- Granted free agency
by the Red Sox in Feb. 1981. Signed by
the White Sox a month later.
- Fisk’s older
brother, Calvin, was captain of the soccer team and an All-Yankee Conference
sweeper at the University of New Hampshire.
FCR - Patrick Roth, Chicago
Incorrect guesses: Smokey
Burgess, Bob Boone, Al Lopez Gabby Hartnett, Ray Schalk, Luke Sewell
SPRINGTIME SPECIAL
Q. Which
American-born player has appeared in more games at shortstop than any other;
more even than Cal Ripken, Alan Trammell, Pee Wee Reese or Ozzie Smith?
Hint: He was the
first player in the post-expansion era to lead his team in hits for each of his
first six full seasons.
Hint: No shortstop
in history has more major league hits.
Hint: His father
played at Fisk.
- Jeter spent 2,674 G at SS, bested only by
Venezuelan native Omar Vizquel at 2,709.
Ripken (2,302), Trammell (2,139), Reese (2,014) & Smith (2,511) are 5th,
11th, 19th and 4th on the list of Players with Most G @ SS.
- Led NYY in H in 1996 (183),
1997 (190),
1998 (203),
1999 (219*),
2000 (201) &
2001 (191).
*Led majors
FCR - John Haeussler, Hancock, Michigan
Incorrect guesses: Omar Vizquel, Lou Brock, Gary Templeton, Nomar
Garciaparra, Jimmy Rollins, Barry Larkin, Don Kessinger, Rico Petrocelli,
Honus Wagner, Robin Yount
TUESDAY – 12-May
Q. Who is the Angels career leader in home
runs?
Hint: His franchise lead in many other categories
never, however, landed him a spot on an All-Star team, not even as a
replacement.
Hint: After he was signed by Joe Maddon, he won the
Minor League Player of the Year honors playing for a Canadian team.
- Salmon’s franchise-leading HR total is 299. Mike Trout w/285, has averaged 35 HR during
his 8 full seasons w/LAA. It seems
inevitable that Trout will swim upstream to catch Salmon.
- His was one of the more accomplished careers,
never to have had (IMHO) an appearance on the Midsummer Classic.
- Maddon worked for the Angels then. Salmon was the 1992 The Sporting News & Baseball America Minor
League Player of the Year, Edmonton Trappers, Pacific Coast
League.
FCR – Frank Ittner, Atlanta
Incorrect
guesses: Wally Joyner, Garret Anderson,
Albert Pujols
WEDNESDAY – 13-May
Q. Who was the last player in the twentieth
century with 10 RBI in a single game?
Hint: He won the Silver Slugger Award at his
position in his rookie season.
Hint: He finished second in MVP voting after he’d
played only two full seasons.
FCR - Chuck McGill, Westford, Vermont
Incorrect
guesses: Alex Rodriguez, Mike Trout,
Ryan Howard, Anthony Rendon, Mark Whiten, Danny Tartabull, Nate Colbert, Carlos
Baerga, Mike Greenwell, Juan Gonzalez
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Who holds the record for hitting the most
home run in Yankee Stadium in a single season?
Hint: He was born the same day the last time the
Rangers swept a double header from the Red Sox in Boston.
Hint: He was adopted the very next day.
Hint: He received MVP votes in his first two
seasons in the majors.
- 33 HR in Yankee Stadium in 2017. Lou Gehrig (1934) and Roger Maris (1961)
previously co-held the record with 30.
- 2nd in MVP voting in 2017 and 12th in 2018. In
2018, he finished one place ahead of the player who was #1 in ’17.
FCR - Frank Stephenson, Rome, Georgia
Incorrect
guesses: Babe Ruth, Dave Winfield, Alex
Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira
THURSDAY – 14-May
Q. Who is the youngest player to join the
thirty-thirty club?
Hint: He is already the career WAR leader on his sixty-year
old franchise.
Hint: He proposed to his now wife by having a
sky-writer write the question across a clear blue sky.
- Hit 30 HR and stole 49 bases in 2012 at age 20.
- After 11 years of courtship, Jessica Tara Cox said yes to this
question from her high-school sweetheart.
FCR - Jeff Kallman, Las Vegas
Incorrect
guesses: Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey,
Jr., Albert Pujols, Bryce Harper, Howard Johnson, David Wright, Vlad
Guerrero, Jr., Ronald Acuna,
FRIDAY – 15-May
Q. What BLTR Cuban’s first taste of
professional baseball was orange?
Hint: Twenty years before he was born there, his
hometown had it named shortened from something quite elegant to something
considerably more prosaic.
Hint: He was called up to the majors late because
of the strength of his franchise. They struggled
to find a place for him even though it was evident that he was MLB-ready.
Hint: In his first few weeks in the majors he
broke an eighty-year-old record held by a Cooperstown icon.
- His first experience in organized baseball
came in 2016 with the DSL Astros Orange of the Dominican Summer
League where
he hit .341 in 16 games.
- Las
Tunas
is a city and municipality in central-eastern Cuba. It is the capital of the
Las Tunas Province and was named Victoria de las Tunas from 1869 to
1976, after which Cuba reorganized its provinces from 6 to 15. Las Tunas does not refer to the fish, but to
the prickly pear cactus abundant in the
region. Alvarez was born there in 1997.
- Not promoted to the big club until the second
week of June, Alvarez quickly made up for lost time. By At the end of his 45th game, he
had accumulated 51 RBI, beating the previous record of 47 set by Ted Williams
in 1939.
FCR - Ryan Palencer, Clayton, Indiana
Incorrect
guesses: Ichiro Suzuki, Barry Bonds,
Yasiel Puig, Alex Rodriguez
T.G.I.F. BONUS – 15-May
Q. Who broke Wally Berger’s major league
record for home runs by a rookie, set in 1930?
Hint: The Montreal Expos drafted him to pitch for
them.
Hint: For twenty years he held the record for
home runs in his Little League.
- True Frank Robinson tied Berger’s 38 in 1956, but McGwire shattered it in 1987
w/49 playing for OAK.
- Drafted in 1981 by MON out of Damien High School in Los Angeles County because of his pitching. He was
only an 8th round pick so he accepted a baseball scholarship to USC.
- Claremont (Calif.) Little League 1974 – 13 HR
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Brady Anderson, Pete Alonso,
Darryl Strawberry, Fred Lynn, Frank Robinson, Alvin Davis
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Who was the first black general manager
in major league history?
Hint: He was the first player in history to hit
for the cycle in both leagues.
Hint: He replaced Frank Robinson as Vice-President
of Baseball Operations for Major League Baseball.
Hint: Milt May drove him in for one of the most
celebrated runs in MLB history.
Hint: He was nicknamed “The Bull” during his
playing days.
Hint: He played for Boston and attended the same
high school as a Red Sox Hall of Famer.
Hint: Playing for the Yankees, he homered in his
first World Series at bat, the first player over the age of 35 to do so.
- He was the GM of NYY when they won it all in 1996. Left
the job because of the pressure applied by owner George Steinbrenner of being fired at any
time.
- Cycles 24-Jun-1977, for HOU vs. SFG in The Astrodome; 15-Sep-1979, for BOS vs. BAL in Memorial Stadium.
- Got the Bull nickname during his days with the
Astros.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Bill White, Leon Durham
SATURDAY – 16-May
Q. Which rookie led his team in hits,
doubles, home runs, runs-batted-in, slugging, on-base percentage, OPS and total
bases in spite of Adam Dunn being on the same team?
Hint: He did not, however, lead that team in WAR.
Hint: A Heineken helped him secure his contract.
- Led CHW H (176), 2B (35), HR (36), RBI (107),
OBP (.383) , SLG (.581), OPS (.964) & TB (323) in 2014. Dunn did lead them in BB w/65.
FCR - Rich Wolfe, Scottsdale
Incorrect
guesses: Austin Kearns, Joey Votto
SUNDAY – 17-May
Q. Who is the only American Leaguer who has
hit a home run in the regular-season, the All-Star game, the League Division
Series, the League Championship Series and the World Series in the same year?
Hint: The only MVP votes he ever received in his two-decade-long
MLB career were that same season where he tied with a future Hall of Famer.
Hint: He was the first player to compile a
thirty-game hitting streak in more than ninety years for his franchise.
- During regular 1997 season hit 21 HR; HR in 1997
ASG;
homered in G 1 & G 4 of LDS vs. NYY; homered in G 4 of ALCS vs. BAL; and homered in G 2 & G 5 of WS vs. FLA. (Barry Bonds
accomplished the same HR string during 2002.)
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Jose Altuve, Chipper Jones,
Keith Hernandez, Paul Molitor, Willie Stargell
WEEK’S FINALE
Q. What former Dirtbag led his MLB
franchise in career Home Runs, WAR, Offensive WAR, Defensive WAR, RBI, Doubles,
Total Bases, Walks, Extra-Base Hits and was easily considered the face of the
franchise only to be traded with multiple years left on his long-term contract.
Hint: The team of the city he was traded to had at
one time considered relocating to the city of the team he was the “face” of.
Hint: The highlight game of his career began with
a dramatic late-inning, pinch-hit performance.
- He had attended Long Beach State University in
California and although all their athletic teams are known as the 49ers, the
baseball team is affectionately called the Dirtbags. From 2010 to present day, more active MLB
ballplayers are alumni of Long Beach State than of any other
school. On 20-Dec-2017, after 10 year of
service with them, was traded by the Tampa Bay Rays with cash to SFG for Christian Arroyo, Denard Span and 2 minor leaguers. To see how he still dominates the Rays’ offensive
career records, click here: Longo (NOTE: Since Longoria’s trade to SFG, Kevin Kiermaier has
taken over the franchise lead in the Rays’ career Defensive WAR.)
- In 1992, the San Francisco Giants actually were
sold by owner Bob Lurie to a group from Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida for $115
million. However, NL owners disapproved
the relocation, found a new local SF buyer and gave Lurie ten days to accept
its $110 million offer. Lurie accepted
the lower offer from an investment group headed by Peter Magowan. What’s 5 mil among friends?
- On the last day of the regular season in 2011, after Longoria had
earlier homered to pull them within 1 run, Rays’ PH Dan
Johnson completed the erasure of the 7-run deficit with his dramatic 2-out,
9th inning HR vs. NYY.
Longo later hit the game winner with a
walk-off HR in the 12th. That
swing ended the Rays’ regular season and their win and BAL’s defeat of BOS left the Sawks out of the postseason.
FCR - Josh Flowerman, Flanders, New Jersey
Incorrect
guesses: Troy Tulowitzki, Kirk Gibson,
Pete Rose, Larry Walker, Willie Mays
WEEKLY THEME – American
League Rookie of the Year Award winners elected unanimously, meaning they
received 100% of the 1st-place votes for the award that year.
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Ken Kirk, Corning, New York (after
Jeter)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Players
who collected 1000+ hits and 100+ HRs for each of two or more teams
- Major
leaguer with two generations of major league family
- Hall of Famers who won Rookie of
the Year, but never won an MVP
- Players
who made an All-Star team after the age of 40
Tuesday - Rookies
of the year. Who have the most of something
- All
3 won the Rookie of the Year unanimously. None won the MVP, but there are
probably too many of those. Jeter and Fisk’s numbers were retired.
Salmon’s number has not been retired, but he was the last one to wear it,
so unofficially it is retired.
Wed - Players
to win Silver Slugger and Rookie of the Year awards
- Players
who won Rookie of the Year in the AL, but also won some other award in their
rookie years like Judge winning the Home Run Derby.
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