MONDAY — 09-Nov
Q. Who once
framed a $1,000,000 check he got from his team before cashing it?
Hint: He passed Tris
Speaker and Pete Rose in number of career runs scored.
Hint: Among
players with 3,000 career hits, only Cap Anson, Eddie Collins and he played at
least twenty-five years in the majors.
A. RICKEY HENDERSON [SABR Bio]
- After the 1990
season, the A’s finance department tried to balance the books, only to find a
$1 million overage—they had too much money in the bank, given what they thought
they had paid out. An inquest showed the
likely culprit: for some reason, the
million-dollar check made out to Henderson had never cleared. The A’s called up Rickey and asked if he knew
what had happened, and luckily for the finance people, he
did.
- He also passed EVERYBODY. He is the undisputed all-time career leader
in runs scored with 2,295, 50 more than 2nd-place Ty Cobb.
- Anson played for 27
years. Eddie Collins and Henderson
played 25 years.
FCR - Jeffrey Fink,
Howell, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Ichiro
Suzuki, Hoyt Wilhelm, Carl Yastrzemski, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez
Q. Who is the
only multiple Cy Young Award winner with a brother who also won a Cy Young
Award?
Hint: The only
time in his 22-year MLB career that his team went to the World Series, he didn't
qualify for its postseason roster.
Hint: He hit at
least one home run in each of four consecutive seasons.
- He won CYAs in 1972 & 1978 for CLE &
SPD, the first ever to do it in each league.
In 1970, his older brother Jim, won in his 12th season in the
majors
- Pitched 43 innings for NL pennant winner 1962 SFG.
- Hit 1 HR in 1969-72, the first of which was historic.
FCR - J.P. Wanamaker, Binghamton, New York
Incorrect guesses: Jim Perry, Dizzy Dean
WEDNESDAY — 11-Nov
Q. Which Hall of Famer led the National
League in slugging percentage in each of his first six full seasons, five of
them leading the majors?
Hint: He played in three different major leagues
and had five batting titles. All but one
of them were in the National League.
Hint: For more than 65 years, he was the only
member of The Big Four elected to the Hall of Fame.
A. DAN BROUTHERS [B-R Bio]
- SLG = 1881-1886, .541, .547,
.572, .563, .543, .581. Only the .563 in ’84 didn’t lead the majors—just
the NL. Fred Dunlap of the UA’s St.
Louis Maroons rang up a nifty .621 that year.
- Played in the NL, the Players’ League and the American
Association. Batting titles came in the
NL in 1883, 1884 for BUF and in 1889 for BSN and in 1892 for BRO. in 1891 he had the best batting average in
the AA playing for the Boston Reds.
- “The Big Four” consisted of Brouthers, Hardy Richardson, Jack Rowe & Deacon White. Brouthers was elected to the Hall in
1945. White joined him in 2013. The Big Four played for the Buffalo
Bisons
from 1881 to 1885 and were then sold as
a group to the Detroit Wolverines, playing there from 1886 to 1888.
FCR - Victor Piacentile, Yorktown Heights, New York
Incorrect
guesses: Henry Aaron, Ed Delahanty, Honus
Wagner
VETERANS DAY BONUS — 11-Nov
Q. Which loquacious Hall of Famer played
his final game in the majors a third of a century after his first game?
Hint: A statue was erected in his honor adjacent
to the baseball field he laid out and built in his New England hometown.
Hint: He led the Middletown Mansfields in walks
during their only year of existence.
Hint: His team paid the tuition for him to attend
law school at an Ivy League university.
A. JIM O’ROURKE [SABR Bio]
- Debut G was in 1872. Final G was 22-Sep-1904. Earned his nickname because of his proclivity
for grandiloquence which amused and bewildered his contemporaries,
- Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent spoke at the
ceremonies dedicating the statue in Bridgeport, CT in 2010.
- Received 4 BB in 1872 for the NA’s MAN.
- Got his legal training at Yale
University. The New York Giants paid his
tuition.
FCR - Dan Silverberg, Aventura, Florida
Incorrect
guesses: Hughie Jennings, Nick Altrock, Leo
Durocher, Eddie Collins
THURSDAY — 12-Nov
Q. Whose record for the most career
appearances by a pitcher did Dennis Eckersley break?
Hint: He led the league in appearances in two of
his first three qualifying seasons in the majors but didn’t lead again in the
remaining nearly two decades of his career.
Hint: This one-time St. Louis Cardinal was decorated
for his heroics during the Battle of the Bulge.
A. HOYT WILHELM [SABR Bio]
- He passed Cy Young’s 906 in 1968, retired with
1,070 and was passed by Eckersley in 1998.
- He led the NL in games in 1952, 1953 with 71
and 68. He didn’t retire until
after the 1972 season and averaged 50 appearances a season, but
never led again.
- Wilhelm rose to the
rank of Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army and was placed in charge of his
regiment’s heavy machine guns at the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded a Purple Heart after sustaining
injuries when a shell exploded nearby. He
received shrapnel wounds in his back and his right hand but recovered and was
able to keep pitching although the piece of metal lodged in his back was never
removed. He received his nickname “Ol’
Sarge” from a combination of his military service and extended career.
FCR - Eric Chalek, York, Maine
Incorrect
guesses: Lindy McDaniel, Murray Dickson,
Al Brazle
FRIDAY — 13-Nov
Q. Who, according to Baseball-Reference,
was the “1st in MLB history”?
Hint: He made it to the Hall of Fame, but it was
a record 122 years after his last G in the majors and 70 years after his death,
also a record.
Hint: His batted over .300 twelve times, twice
leading the majors.
Hint: In the World Series one year he had 60
plate appearances and did not strike out once.
Hint: Few players have ever looked less like
their nickname than he did.
A. DEACON WHITE [SABR Bio]
- Baseball-Reference ranks all major leaguers’
MLB debut games chronologically. They
chose White to be #1. Actually, everybody who participated in MLB G#1
is listed as #1 since no detailed record of the game on 04-May-1871 exists. In 2020, Brailyn Marquez was the 19,902nd
and most recent to make his MLB debut.
- Played in the majors from 1871 to 1890. Passed away in 1939 at the age of 91. Elected to the Hall in 2012 by the Pre-Integration
Era Veteran’s Committee.*
- Playing for Boston of the NA, he led the
world in 1875 w/.367 and led Boston in the NL 2 years
later, hitting .387.
- In the 15-game 1887 WS, White helped his Detroit Wolverines defeat a St. Louis Browns team loaded with
stars. In fact, there were 5 HOF players
in that Series. (And 4 more who, IMHO,
should be in the Hall.)
- Take a look.
FCR - Jesse Asbury, Norman, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: George Wright, Buck Ewing, Candy
Cummings, Ed Delahanty
*No clue why they put
the apostrophe before the s since there’s more than one veteran.
SATURDAY — 14-Nov
Q. Which pitcher has more career wins than
any other who never threw a complete game shutout?
Hint: Of all the nearly one hundred players
native to his state, he was the first to be elected to the Hall of Fame.
Hint: He is the only relief pitcher to have ten
losses on his record the year he won the American League Rolaids Relief Pitcher
of the Year Award.
Hint: His son once soundly beat Ken Griffey, Jr.
in a video game of Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball before a game.
A. RICH GOSSAGE [SABR Bio]
- 124 career W; 0 SHO
- HOF in 2008. Joined in 2019 by Roy Halladay.
- Gossage won the 1978 AL Rolaids award for the
NYY compiling a 2.01 ERA with 27 saves, 10 relief wins and 11 losses while
finishing 5th in CYA balloting.
- Todd Gossage beat Junior in a video
game of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball in the
Mariners' clubhouse prior to a real MLB game in 1994, a year where Griffey, Jr.
was 2nd in the MVP voting at the end of the season.
FCR - Wayne McCombs, Claremore, Oklahoma
Incorrect
guesses: Goose Gossage
SUNDAY — 15-Nov
Q. Which fireballer trails only Mariano Rivera
and Trevor Hoffman in career games finished?
Hint: He was the first pitcher to save 400 games
and the first to finish 800 games.
Hint: He was drafted at age seventeen largely
based on the recommendation of Negro Leagues legend Buck O’Neill.
Hint: A Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter described
him as “the best one-inning pitcher the game ever saw” and “the best at
smuggling a game into the clubhouse in history.”
- Finished 802 G. Hoffman has 856 and Rivera has 952.
- Notched his 400th S in 1993;
his 800th GF on 04-Jun-1997.
- O’Neill discovered him playing at Castor
High School, 7 miles south of his hometown, Jamestown, Louisiana. Each town’s population was approximately 150
at the time.
- Quote is from sportswriter Jim Murray.
FCR - Rob Sheinkopf, Las Vegas
Incorrect
guesses: Rollie Fingers
WEEKLY THEME – Hall of
Famers who played on more than 7 major league teams.
Player No. of Teams WAR
Henderson............... 9................. 111.2
Perry........................ 8................... 93.0
Brouthers............... 11................... 79.8
O’Rourke.................. 8................... 52.1
Wilhelm.................... 9................... 49.7
White........................ 9................... 45.7
Gossage.................. 9................... 41.6
Smith........................ 8................... 29.3
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – John Sullivan, Louisville (On Monday !)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tuesday - Hall of
Famers who played with seven or more teams
Wed - Hall
of Famers who played past age 45.
- Hall
of Famers who played for seven or more teams
Thursday- HOFers who played until age 44
Friday - HOF'ers
who played past age 40
- All
players named played so far post-season baseball.
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