Q. Who is the
only rookie to lead the majors in All-Star votes?
Hint: He broke
Lloyd Waner’s decades-old record for most hits in a rookie season.
Hint: The pitcher
who surrendered his first professional home run is the same one who first hit
him with a pitch in a major league game.
- Received 3,373,035
AS votes in 2001
- Had 242 H in
2001. Waner had 223 in 1927. Ichiro led the AL, Waner’s total was behind
that of his MVP brother Paul, who had 237.
- Hideo Nomo gave up
Ichiro’s 1st HR on 12-Jun-1993.
Nomo was in his 4th season pitching for the Osaka Kinetsu Buffaloes and Ichiro was a playing for the Kobe Orix Blue Wave. Nomo, pitching for
BOS plunked the Mariners’ rookie 02-May-2001 in
the 5th inning.
FCR - Dan Greder,
Ames, Iowa
Incorrect guesses: Bryce
Harper, Hideki Matsui, Masanori Murakami, Mike Trout, Fred Lynn,
Ken Griffey, Jr., Jeff Zimmerman, Jackie Robinson, Albert Pujols, Aaron
Judge, Benito Santiago, Tony Oliva, Frank Robinson, Harvey Kuenn
TUESDAY
Q. What
altitudinally-challenged Most Valuable Player is his 130+ year-old franchise’s
leader in career hits and doubles?
Hint: His high
school boasts an additional five alumni who played in the majors. All told, these 6 have accumulated two MVP
Awards, a Rookie of the Year Award, a Cy Young Award runner-up finish, a total
of sixteen All-Star game nods and a first-ballot enshrinement in Cooperstown.
Hint: He became
the first player in major league history to hit the first inside-the-park home
run in two different parks in the same year
Hint: He soared to
the top of the Senior Circuit in swiped sacks in his second season.
- For PHI, he accumulated 2,306 H of which 479
were doubles. The dynamic J-Roll was
listed at 5’7” in a sport whose players’ heights now average 6’2”.
- Attended Encinal High School in Alameda, California. The other 5 MLB alums are Curt Motton, Tommy
Harper, Chris Speier, Dontrelle Willis and Willie Stargell.
- Had 46 SB in 2001 to lead the NL.
FCR - Ken Kirk, Corning, New York
Incorrect guesses: Joe Morgan, Zack Wheat, Jose Altuve, Richie
Ashburn, Willie Keeler, Jackie Jensen, Honus Wagner, Eric Davis, Eddie Gaedel
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Whose record for the most pitching wins
before turning age 23 did Dwight Gooden break in 1986? [Sorry. Oops!
What I really meant to ask was… “Whose record for the most pitching wins before turning age 23 by
pitchers who started their careers as teenagers for a New York team did Dwight
Gooden break in 1986?”]
Hint: He is widely believed to have hit the 500th
home run ever hit by a pitcher in the National League. Certain, however, is that he surrendered Hank
Aaron’s 500th career homer.
Can thus be forgiven his personalized license plated “MR 500”.
Hint: He was the first Giant (New York or San
Francisco) to win the Cy Young Award.
Hint: It was the only year of his sixteen
year career in the majors that he received even a single CYA vote.
Hint: The year he led the National League in ERA,
he was on two All-Star teams. In fact in
merely two seasons, he was on four All-Star teams.
Hint: He made the All-Star team in two
consecutive seasons, but was on the National League All-Star team four times.
Hint: Even though not a Hall of Famer himself, he
was a teammate with ten who were later inducted to the Hall.
Hint: He completely skipped the minors and went
straight to the majors to start his professional career.
- Had 50 W before age 23. Gooden topped that w/ his 51st on 29-Jun-1986 at the tender age of 21
yrs, 200 days.
- 500th HR by a NL P was most likely the
one he hit in Candlestick off the Mets’ Cal Koonce 11-Aug-1968; Aaron’s 500th
= 14-Jul-1968
- ERA Crown won in 1960 w/2.70. In MLB seasons 1959-62, 2 ASGs were held each
year. McCormick was an AS in 1960 &
1961.
- HOF teammates:
Willie Mays, Red Schoendienst, Hoyt Wilhelm, Orlando Cepeda,
Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry, Robin Roberts, Brooks
Robinson, Luis Aparicio
- He came to the Giants under the Bonus Baby Rule which obligated the
team to keep the player on the team’s major league roster for two years. He did play in the minors well after his debut
in the majors.
FCR - Jeff Freedman, Westwood, California
Incorrect guesses: Jack Sanford, Johnny Antonelli, Stu Miller
WEDNESDAY
Q. Who was nicknamed “The Perfect Storm”?
Hint: While still in high school, he was offered
a basketball scholarship at UCLA and football scholarships at Nebraska, Florida,
Oklahoma and USC.
Hint: He was so fast that he once changed teams
without changing franchises.
- He performed so well on the diamond and in so
many disparate ways that hurt opponents that it was like a storm, yea a perfect
one. The movie “The Perfect Storm” had been released in
2000 and the saying was familiar to most Americans.
- He chose baseball over other sports because he
felt there was a better chance for a longer career.
- Since debuting in 2002, he had played for the
“Tampa Bay Devil Rays” which changed its name to the Tampa Bay Rays” following
the 2007 season.
FCR - Frank Ittner, Atlanta
Incorrect
guesses: Storm Davis
THURSDAY
Q. What one-time Dodger and Brewer is the only
man to receive the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award more than twice?
Hint: He is the only player to have more than 20
home runs, 20 stolen bases, 20 triples and 20 doubles in one season since the
Deadball Era.
Hint: He has one of the best smiles in baseball.
- Had 23 HR, 26 SB, 23 3B & 38
2B in 2007 w/DET. In 1911, Frank
“Wildfire” Schulte ,
the NL’s first-ever MVP, amassed 21 HR, 23 SB, 21 3B & 30 2B with CHC. Willie Mays and Jimmy Rollins each came
within 1 triple of being included in this list.
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Incorrect
guesses: Willie Mays, George Brett, Jimmy
Rollins, Gary Sheffield, Shawn Green
FRIDAY
Q. Who is the only player to lead off a
World Series Game Seven with a home run?
Hint: He played baseball in China.
Hint: In one sense, his abilities exceed the ambit
of his name.
- Dexter means “right-handed” in Latin. Our Dexter is a switch-hitter. Dextera utebatur means
“right-handed” in Latin. But our Dexter is a switch-hitter. The nearest
Latin translation for that would be something like: aequimanus pulso (ambidextrous
hitter)
FCR - Frank Ittner, Atlanta
Incorrect
guesses: Dane Iorg, George Springer, Johnny
Damon, Pee Wee Reese, Mo Berg
SATURDAY
Q. Which outfielder who played for both the
Cubs and White Sox has led his league in caught stealing seven times since
2000?
Hint: In three of those years, however, he also
led the league in stolen bases.
Hint: He did not pass Rickey Henderson, but he
did steal the 1,000th base in his franchise’s history.
Hint: He stopped Bonds from catching Ruth by, um…
catching.
Hint: He credits Japanese surgeon with helping
his defensive game stay among the best.
- In 5 of those years, he also led the majors.
- Pierre made a leaping, over-the-wall catch of Barry Bonds's drive
on 09-May-2006, preventing Bonds from
claiming his 714th career HR.
- Mizuno craftsman Nori Ito (glove “surgeon” to
Pierre) reworked and refurbished Pierre’s same glove every year for over a
decade to keep it in tip-top major-league playing shape. Watch here.
FCR - Patrick Roth, Chicago
Incorrect
guesses: Jason Kendall, Lance Johnson,
Al Smith
SUNDAY
Q. Which one-time Isotope and Cyclone was
the first player to thrice lead the National League in stolen bases this
century?
Hint: Amazingly, he is the only player in his
franchise’s history to lead the NL in stolen bases.
Hint: He replaced one of the most popular players
in the history of a certain team. It
didn’t go well.
- He led in SB 3 consecutive seasons 2005-07. Played for the 2011 Brooklyn Cyclones of the NY-Penn League. Played on the 2016 Albuquerque
Isotopes
of the PCL.
- No other Met has even led once.
- Replaced Troy Tulowitzki when TOR traded Reyes
to COL. His on-field and off-the-field performances limited
his sojourn with the Rockies to a mere 47 G.
They had a different story to tell.
FCR - Mike Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect
guesses: Dee Gordon, Carl Crawford, Billy
Bruton
WEEKLY THEME – Player
who have hit at least 75 triples in the 21st century.
Player Triples since 2000
Reyes....................... 131
Crawford................... 123
Rollins....................... 115
Ichiro........................... 96
Granderson................ 95
Pierre.......................... 94
Fowler......................... 82
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Sarah Grynpas, Toronto (after
Granderson)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - NPB
and MLB all stars
- 21st
century batting champs with no E in their first or last names
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