MONDAY — 31-Aug
Q. In what
position do we find Stan Musial on the list of Cardinals career hits, doubles,
triples and home runs?
Hint: The answer
rhymes with the last name of the winningest major league pitcher ever born in
the state of Utah.
Hint: Or the favorite
sausage served at Miller Park.
- Bruce Hurst [145-113],
b. 24-M ar-1958, St. George, UT
- Wurst
FCR - John Haeussler,
Hancock, Michigan
Incorrect guesses: Bruce
Hurst, One, Third, Premiere, Initio, Brat
TUESDAY — 01-Sep
Q. In what
position in their standings did the Cardinals finish in 1927, 1935, 1936, 1939,
1941, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1957, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1991, 2001, 2010,
2011, 2012 and 2016?
Hint: It’s what
you would do in support of a proposal in a formal meeting.
Hint: It’s how
long people say they want you to wait, but it’s almost always more.
- “Second”
- “Just a second… “
FCR - Abbey Garber, Dallas
Incorrect guesses: 2
WEDNESDAY — 02-Sep
Q. When Tony La Russa’s team won the
National League Pennant in 2011, it was Tony La Russa’s ________ flag for the
Cardinals.
Hint: Rhymes with the generic term for the team’s
mascot.
- Bird
FCR - David Johnson, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
MIDWEEK BONUS —
02-Sep
Q. When Cardinal third baseman Joe Torre
won the National League MVP in 1971, he batted ______ or “clean up” in every
one of the 161 games he played in that year.
Hint: Temperance is this quantity of the cardinal
virtues.
- In a landslide vote, Torre captured the MVP that season.
Consistent play was certainly part of the reason, but leading the
majors in hit, RBI, BA and TB couldn’t have hurt.
- Temperance is one fourth of the four cardinal
virtues, as defined by Plato and Aristotle and adopted by the Church Fathers. The others are justice, prudence and
fortitude.
FCR - Len Levin, Providence
Incorrect
guesses: Fifth, .345, .361, Third, .363
IN MEMORIAM — 02-Sep
Q. What player was so important to his
expansion franchise that his nickname literally was, “The Franchise”
Hint: He struck out at least 200 batters a season
for a record nine consecutive seasons.
Hint: He is still the only pitcher to strike out
ten consecutive batters in a game.
Hint: He was the first player to win the
Rookie-of-the-Year Award and multiple Cy Young awards.
Hint: He was the first National League pitcher to
win the Cy Young Award before his 25th birthday.
Hint: He was also the first to win the Cy Young
Award in a season without 20 pitching wins.
Hint: Although he never pitched for manager Casey
Stengel, he did pitch for one of college baseball’s most renowned coaches. .
Hint: At one time and for many years, he had the
highest percentage of votes when he was elected to the Hall of Fame and is
still 4th all-time.
Hint: In his later years, he was a successful
vintner.
A. TOM SEAVER [SABR Bio]
- 200 K/season = 1968-76 (and had 196 K in 1977)
- On 22-Apr-1970, Seaver threw a 2-hitter against SDP and won
2-1. He fanned 19 of the 31 batters he
faced, including the last 10 in a row. Among
those 10 consecutive victims was
All-Star Cito Gaston, who was having his career year. Gaston struck out 3X that
afternoon..
- ROY 1967; CYA 1969, 1973 & 1975.
- 1969 CYA at age 24.
- 1973 CYA at 19-10
- Played at USC for legendary manager Rod Dedeaux.
- Elected to the HOF in 1992 w/98.84% of the votes.
- Owned Seaver Vineyards in Calistoga, California.
FCR - David Skelton, Woodway, Texas
THURSDAY — 03-Sep
Q. Bob Forsch’s impressive total of 1,079 strikeouts
for the Cardinals only ranks _______ on the franchise’s all-time strikeout list
for pitchers.
Hint: By the time Bob Gibson won his second World
Series MVP in October 1967, The ______ Dimension was one of America’s most
popular recording groups.
Hint: Many of today’s Cardinals are members of
the ______ Estate, as it is known.
- Gibson, Daffy’s brother, Wainwright and
Carpenter occupy the 1st 4 places on that list
- The 5th Dimension had
multiple hits that reached the Top Ten on the Billboard charts.
- The 5th estate are media outside of
the mainstream, such as social media or small-town newspapers.
FCR - Fred Soland, Richmond, Texas
FRIDAY — 04-Sep
Q. Manager Eddie Dyer guided the Cardinals
to their __________ World Series Championship in 1946.
Hint: Tim McCarver sometimes used a ____________
sense to communicate with Cardinals pitchers during games.
- 1st 6 WS rings earned by STL in 1926, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944 & 1946.
- The five evident sense are sight, touch,
hearing, taste and smell. Something
seemingly communicated that uses none of these is often referred to as a sixth
sense, but otherwise undefined. McCarver’s game-calling skills, innate rapport with his
pitching staffs and all-around baseball intelligence gave him the aura of
somehow knowing exactly what was needed to win.
FCR - Joe O’Neill, London, Ontario
Incorrect guesses:
END-OF-THE-WEEK BONUS — 04-Sep
Q. Busch Stadium III is the _______
different facility that the St. Louis Cardinals have called home.
Hint: When David Freese was putting together his
legendary romp through the 2011 postseason, he often batted in this position in
the lineup.
Hint: Winning the awards, he appeared to be in
__________ heaven.
- 1882 - 1892 - Sportsman's Park I
1892 - Association Park
1893 -1920 - Robison
Field
1920 -1952 - Sportsman's
Park III
1953 - 1966 - Busch
Stadium I
1966 - 2005 - Busch
Stadium II
2006 - Present - Busch Stadium
III
- With late-inning HRs and more, Freese copped MVP honors in both the NLCS ad WS.
FCR - Elliott Frankfother, Rock Falls, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: 4th, Third
SATURDAY — 05-Sep
Q. When Stan Musial won the 1943 National
League Most Valuable Player Award, he was the _____________ St. Louis Cardinals
to do so.
Hint: The next Cardinal to win the MVP was Marty
Marion who hails from South Carolina, the ___________ state to enter the
union.
Hint: The hat size of the manager whose team beat
the Cardinals 4 g to 1 in the 2014 NLCS is 8 & ____________. Upon Bochy’s 2019 retirement,
the classy Cards gifted him with three bottles
of top-rated California wine.
- Preceding Musial as the NL’s MVP were
1.) 1925
– Roger Hornsby
2.) 1926
– Bob O’Farrell
3.) 1928
– Jim Bottomley
4.) 1931
– Frankie Frisch
5.) 1934
– Dizzy Dean
6.) 1937
– Joe Medwick
7.) 1942
– Mort Cooper
Musial would win the award twice again, becoming the first in the
senior circuit to do so thrice.
- Bruce Bochy’s MLB-leading hat size is 8⅛. Wine.
FCR - Warren Kent, Whitehall, Michigan
Incorrect
guesses: Third, Seven and Eight
SUNDAY — 05-Sep
Q. Ten members of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise
have won National League batting titles a total of twenty-two times. Albert Pujols is the most recent, but
Willie McGee was the ______ to do so in that long line.
Hint: Kolton Wong iced the Cardinals’ victory in
the bottom of the _________ inning of the second game of the 2014 NLCS with a
dramatic home run.
- Cardinal NL batting champs”:
1st... 1901..... Jesse
Burkett......... .376
2nd.. 1920..... Rogers
Hornsby.... .384
1921..... Rogers Hornsby.... .403
1922..... Rogers Hornsby.... .424
1923..... Rogers Hornsby.... .370
1924..... Rogers Hornsby.... .397
1925..... Rogers Hornsby.... .401
3rd.. 1931..... Chick
Hafey........... .349
4th... 1937..... Joe
Medwick.......... .374
5th... 1939..... Johnny
Mize.......... .349
6th... 1943..... Stan
Musial............ .351
1946..... Stan Musial............ .346
1948..... Stan Musial............ .355
1950..... Stan Musial............ .336
1951..... Stan Musial............ .376
1952..... Stan Musial............ .365
1957..... Stan Musial............ .357
7th... 1971..... Joe
Torre............... .363
8th... 1979..... Keith
Hernandez.... .344
9th... 1985..... Willie
McGee......... .353
1990..... Willie McGee......... .335
10th. 2003..... Albert
Pujols.......... .359
NOTE: Harry Walker won the 1947 NL batting title and had been, for 10 G that season, a Cardinal, but by the time he ended the year with the best average in the league, he had been a Phillie for 130 G.
- Wong’s HR secured the W which kept STL from being winless in that series.
FCR - John Rickert, Terre Haute
Incorrect
guesses:
IN MEMORIAM II — 06-Sep
Q. Which Hall of Famer, who is also an
ordained minister, delivered the invocation at the 2006 Hall of Fame induction
ceremony?
Hint: He was the first player to come to bat in a
major league game in Canada.
Hint: He broke the career stolen base record that
had stood for more than seventy years.
Hint: He graciously relinquished that crown in
1991.
Hint: In the modern era, he is the only player
older than thirty to steal 100 bases in a season.
Hint: He is the second Hall of Famer to pass away
this week whose nickname was “The Franchise.
Hint: He is the only player to hit a double,
triple and home run in a single World Series game.
Hint: He made his major league debut in the same
game as future Rookie of the Year Ken Hubbs. In that game, he got his first
major league hit off of Hall of Famer Robin Roberts.
Hint: His statue likeness sits outside a
university athletic complex named for him.
Hint: He is the only player to collect seven
stolen bases in a single World Series, accomplishing the feat in consecutive
years.
Hint: He was named the National League Comeback Player
of the Year in his final season.
Hint: He was the first Cardinal to hit for the
cycle at Busch Stadium.
Hint: He, Hank Aaron and Joe Adcock are the only
major leaguers to hit home runs to dead center in the Polo Grounds.
- Ceremony prayer 30-Jul-2006. Brock
Ministry.
- 1st AB at Jarry Park (Parc Jarry if you prefer) Montreal 14-Apr-1969
- When Brock stole his 915th base on 04-Aug-1978, he broke the career record that Slidin’ Billy Hamilton, then of the Boston
Beaneaters (Braves) took over at 789 in 1897 and increased to 914 when he
retired. On his way to the MLB record,
Brock became (and still is) the NL SB record holder
- Brock was on hand when Rickey Henderson set
the new MLB career record at 939 on 01-May-1991. When Henderson took the trouble to declare
himself to then be the “greatest of all time”, it was evident that that was
what Brock had been the whole time without declaring it.
- Stole 118 SB in 1974 at age 35.
- We lost Tom Seaver earlier this week. Seaver was also “the Franchise”.
- 2B, 3B & HR = 1968 WS G4.
- Debut 10-Sep-1961. He and
Hubbs were the first two batters for CHC that day. Both got hits.
- Linwood University is in the St. Louis suburb of St.
Charles. The statue, unveiled on 18-Apr-2011, is a bronze sculpture, slightly larger-than
life version of Brock sliding into second base. It was crafted by artist Harry Weber, and sits on a pedestal at the entrance to the
home of the Lindenwood baseball and softball programs. The Lou Brock Sports Complex was built
in 2005 and has hosted NAIA regional baseball tournaments along with the 2009
NAIA National Championship Opening Round.
- Brock won The Sporting News NL
Comeback Player of the Year award in 1979.
- Polo Grounds CF HR by , Brock, Aaron & Adcock hit ML PG CF HR
(483 ft.) , Luke Easter hit one playing in the Negro Leagues. Brock clouted his prodigious blast on 17-June-1962 just one day before Aaron
hammered his.
FCR - Jeff Kallman, Las Vegas
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEKLY THEME – The Ordinals of St.
Louis, i.e., the St. Louis Ordinals.
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – John Rickert,
Terre Haute (After the week’s very “First” question.) The very next email after John’s was Sarah
Grynpas, also correctly identifying the theme.
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Trip
around the diamond
Tuesday - Teams
that finished in each place maybe in the 50s or 60s
- Ordinal
numbers
- Positions
held by Babe Ruth on the top single season WAR list
- Positions
on the ball field
- Name
all of the positions
- All
the positions on a baseball team.
- Austin Romine, Bert Campaneris,
Cesar Tovar, Scott Sheldon and Shane Halter who played all nine defensive
positions in a single game.
- And
because there are 7 days in a week, it’ll be 1st, 2nd, 3rd, SS, C, P, OF.
- The
9 innings of what used to be a regular game
Wed - Cardinal
finishes in standings throughout baseball history
- The
9 defensive positions on the baseball field
- Cardinal
finishes in the 60s
- Cardinal
numbers for events, or whatever, by St. Louis Cardinals (team and/or individual
players)
- I
have figured out this week's theme! If I ranked my favorite sports, where would
baseball be? It would be first, second, third, fourth, fifth, heck it'd also be
my sixth favorite.
- St.
Louis Cardinals season ending finishes in standings since 2000. 1st, 2nd. 3rd.
- The
number Of innings a start must go Complete to be credited with a win. 5 innings
Friday- Innings, ranked from most to fewest, in
terms of total number of home runs hit in those innings in MLB history
- Theme
pertains to the innings in a baseball game
- Innings
- The
place finishes of the Cardinals in their history
Sunday - # of
World Championships the Cardinals won
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