MONDAY — Dec 14
Q. Who
surrendered Babe Ruth’s 400th career home run?
Hint: It was also
the 44th of the sixty Ruth hit in 1927.
Hint: Along with
teammates Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw, he won twenty games in 1931.
Hint: Twenty-four
years after his death, he was inducted into the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of
Fame.
A. RUBE WALBERG [SABR
Bio]
- HR #400/44 = 02-Sep-1927
- Grove (31),
Earnshaw (21), Walberg (20) for PHA. It’s interesting to
note that a year after the majors, cumulatively, hit .300, 1931 was the only
season in A’s franchise history that they had three 20-game winners until the 1973
team in Oakland.
- Passed away in
1978. Inducted into the Philly BWOF in 2002.
FCR - Bob Heckman, Alexandria,
Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Ernie Nevers, Rube Waddell, George Earnshaw, Ed Rommel, Herb Pennock
TUESDAY — Dec 15
Q. Which righty
holds the American League record for fewest hits surrendered in back-to-back
starts?
Hint: It was his
record for most strikeouts in a single World Series game that Carl Erskine
broke when he struck out fourteen Yankees in game three of the 1953 Fall Classic.
Hint: For each of the
three full seasons he was employed by the Red Sox, he received MVP
consideration. Those were his only
complete years with them and the only years of his fifteen-year career when MVP
voters acknowledged his contribution.
Hint: His gem of a
1-0 shutout lasted one hour and thirteen minutes and is the quickest game ever
pitched against a team with Babe Ruth in the lineup.
A. HOWARD EHMKE [SABR
Bio]
- On Friday, 07-Sep-1923 Ehmke no-hit his
future team, PHA in Shibe Park, their home stadium. 4 days later, Tuesday, 11-Sep, he allowed a single
to Whitey Witt, NYY’s first batter,
then threw 9 scoreless, hitless innings for his 18th W of the year.
- Erskine’s 14 Ks trumped the 13 that
Ehmke racked up vs. CHC in G 1 of the 1929 WS.
- Ehmke received MVP votes in 1923, 1924 & 1925.
- On 08-Aug-1920, Ehmke struck out 8 NYY batters,
allowed 3 H, but no R, for DET. Ty Cobb scored the G’s lone R. BTW, during the second game of a 26-Sept-1926 doubleheader, NYY was
also involved in the shortest G by time ever played in the AL (55 minutes). However, with the Yankees having already clinched
the pennant, Ruth did not play in the record-quickest nightcap.
FCR - Andy McCue, Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses: Johnny Vander Meer, Carl Mays, Allie Reynolds,
Wes Farrell
WEDNESDAY — Dec 16
Q. Who holds the career pitching Won-Loss
mark for most games under .500?
Hint: He’s the only pitcher to finish his career
with nine straight losing seasons of 100+ IP.
Hint: His first major league roommate was Lou
Gehrig.
Hint: He once tossed a fourteen-hit shutout.
A. MILT GASTON [SABR Bio]
- Over his 11-year career, Gaston compiled a
97-164 record, a whopping 67 G under .500. Next worst at -64 was Si Johnson (101-165).
- Career-ending losing streak set from 1926-1934.
- Roommates w/Gehrig in Gaston’s rookie season
of 1924. (Lou’s 2nd season.)
- His 10-July-1928 whitewash of CLE is
the MLB record for most H allowed in a SHO.
FCR - Joe O’Neill, London, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Lefty Grove, Bobo Newsom, Herb
Pennock
MIDWEEK BONUS — Dec 16
Q. Which pitcher faced the most batters in
the history of the Detroit Tigers franchise?
Hint: He was the pitcher who stopped George
Sisler’s streak of ten hits in ten straight plate appearances.
Hint: He and Hall of Famer Chuck Klein are from
the same hometown.
A. HOOKS DAUSS [SABR Bio]
- Faced 14,192 batters. Mickey Lolich is the career runner-up with
13,980.
- On 15-Aug-1921, after giving up a
single to Sisler in the 1st inning, Dauss induced him to ground out
in the 4th, breaking the streak.
Sisler then homered off him in the 6th. Sisler had gone 5-for-5 and 4-for-4 in his
two previous games.
- Dauss & Klein are from Indianapolis, but
never met in a game in the majors because Dauss pitched only for DET in his
15-year career and Klein never left the NL.
FCR - Jeff Kallman, Las Vegas
Incorrect
guesses: Wild Bill Donovan, Dizzy Trout,
George Mullin, Tommy Bridges, George Uhle, Hal Newhouser, Schoolboy Rowe,
Elmer Brown, Early Wynn
THURSDAY — Dec 17
Q. Which Modern Era pitcher has the highest
lifetime batting average?
(minimum 1,000 AB)
Hint: Some credit him with the invention of the
slider.
Hint: No other pitcher hit more batters in major
league games for his primary franchise.
A. GEORGE UHLE [SABR Bio]
- .289 with 1,513 PA in 722 G in 17 seasons
- With DET in 1930, he began experimenting with
a new pitch released off his middle finger. When asked about his new curveball by teammate
Harry Heilmann, Uhle responded, “That’s not a curve. That ball was sliding!”
- Plunked a franchise career-most 95 during his 11
years with CLE.
FCR - Bill Deane, Cooperstown
Incorrect
guesses: Don Drysdale, Chief Bender, Bob
Gibson, Walter Johnson, Waite Hoyt, Red Ruffing, Bob Lemon
FRIDAY — Dec 18
Q. Who surrendered Hank Greenberg's first
career home run?
Hint: He also gave up Earl Averill’s first career
home run.
Hint: He is the only left-handed pitcher to win
twenty games in a seasons for the American League’s Washington Senators. (And he only did it once.)
Hint: He hit Lou Gehrig in the head and nearly knocked
him out in the 1,217th game of Gehrig’s record-setting
consecutive-games-played streak.
A. EARL WHITEHILL [SABR Bio]
- Greenberg HR 06-May-1933. Greenberg went on to hit 330 more in his
career.
- Averill’s 1st HR
came on his 1st at-bat in the majors: It was the 1st
inning of Opening Day 1929. Averill would hit another 237 4-baggers
during his 13 big league seasons. Averill
was only the 2nd AL batter to go deep in his 1st AB. Luke Stuart was the first on 08-Aug-1921 when he hit an
inside-the-park job for the only hit of his three game major league career.
- Whitehill’s finest season was 1933, his 1st
year w/WSH after 10 years w/DET. His record that year was 22-8 and he led the
majors in G started w/37.
- Gehrig actually finished the game on 23-Apr-1933.
FCR - Elliott Frankfother, Rock Falls, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Lefty Grove, Tom Zachary, General
Crowder, Urban Shocker, Lefty Stewart, Dutch Leonard, Garland Braxton
SATURDAY — Dec 19
Q. Who was the only left-handed pitcher to win
twenty games in a season for the St. Louis Browns?
Hint: A burst appendix had nearly taken his life
in the offseason following his first full year in the majors.
Hint: His fifteen-year career ended with him
playing for a team whose city matched his middle name.
Hint: Seven times he gave up the second home run
to a player who had already homered off him earlier that afternoon.
A. LEFTY STEWART [B-R Bio]
- 20-12 in 1930 for SLB. Note: Toad
Ramsey won 23 for the American Association
Browns in
1890.
- Appendix rupture in the winter of 1927.
- Born Walter Cleveland Stewart. Went 6-6 with a
5.44 ERA in 1935 for CLE.
-. 2 X HR: Babe
Ruth.................. 25-Aug-1929
Urbane Pickering....... 20-May-1931*
Billy Rogell................. 23-May-1932
Earl Averill.................. 05-Sept-1932
Jimmie Foxx............... 20-April-1933
2X Lou Gehrig............ 22-June-1932 & 05-July-1934
*2 of Pickering’s 11
career HR, but 33% of his homers that month!
FCR - Steven Wright, Naperville, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses: Lefty Gomez, Ned Garver, Urban
Shocker, Pete Alexander, Bobo Newsom
SUNDAY — Dec 20
Q. Which Baltimore native was part of The Wrecking Crew?
Hint: He was the last White Sox pitcher to
complete 24 games in three consecutive seasons.
Hint: He and a fellow “Castle” alumni “dialed”
411.
A. TOMMY
THOMAS [SABR Bio]
- Born in Baltimore in 1899, Thomas was on the 1933 WSH team
that won the AL pennant by 7 G over NYY.
Washington
Post sportswriter Shirley
Povich called the team the “Wrecking
Crew” by the way their lineup, featuring 4 Hall of Famers, dominated AL
pitching that summer. Early Whitehill
and Lefty Stewart were also on that staff.
It was the 3rd
and final pennant the Senators would win.
- Thomas had exactly 24 CGs in each season from
1927-1929.
- Tommy Byrne is the only other major leaguer to attend Baltimore’s City College High School, known as the “Castle
on the Hill”. Although separated by 20
years, both he and Thomas enjoyed 10 seasons in the majors and each finished
with identical career ERAs of… 4.11.
FCR - Tom Lee, Nashville
Incorrect
guesses: Pete Vuckovich, Lefty Stewart,
Wilber Wood, Maurice Mc Dermott, Ted Lyons, Ed Walsh
WEEKLY THEME – Pitchers
who surrendered more than ten home runs each to Babe Ruth.
Pitcher HRs by #3
Dauss 14
Ehmke 13
Gaston 13
Stewart 13
Thomas 11
Uhle 12
Walberg 17
Whitehill 11
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Bob Charkovsky, Ashton, Maryland
(after Gaston.)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Pitchers
who won 20 games in a season while walking more than they struck out in that
season
- Pitchers
who surrendered the most career home runs to all time MLB HR leaders
- Pitchers
who surrendered the most career home runs to batters who hit 60+ home runs in a
season
Tuesday - Players
who played for four different managers who made it to the Hall of Fame
- Pitchers
with Swedish ancestry
- 20
game losers for the Red Sox
- Last
pitchers to start a WS game for Connie Mack
Wed - Pitchers
who gave up notable homers by Babe Ruth
- Pitchers
who surrendered multiple home runs to Babe Ruth in his 60-HR season of 1927
- Pitchers
who gave up the first eight home runs to Babe Ruth in his record breaking 1927
season
- Pitchers
who had no-hitters broken up with 2 out in the ninth
- At
least 20 losses in a season
- Faced
Babe Ruth in key at bats
Sunday - AL
pitchers of the 1920s who pitched the most innings with losing records
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