MONDAY —03-Oct
Q. Who is the only player to be intentionally
walked more than one hundred times in a season?
Hint:
#1 While he just missed the 3,000-hit
club, almost half of his hits were extra-base hits.
Hint:
#2 He trails only Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb
in career offensive WAR.
- Ans. IBB 120 in 2004. Highest total for a played not named Bonds
is Willie McCovey’s 45 in his MVP year of 1969.
- #1 49.1% of his 2,935 H were XBH. Others with 1,400 career XBH: Henry Aaron (1,477, 39.2 XBH% ) & Albert
Pujols (1,405 et seq., 41.5 XBH%). The 2
players with a career EXH% higher than Bonds’s are Mark McGwire (51.7%) &
Adam Dunn (49.4%).
- #2 His 143.6 is behind Ruth’s 155.0 & Cobb’s
151.7.
FCR - Dr. Vanessa
Ruth Swenson, Athens, Georgia
Incorrect
guesses: Ted Williams, Napoleon Lajoie,
Lou Gehrig
TUESDAY —04-0Oct
Q. Who scored more than 100 runs and recorded at
least 100 RBI for thirteen straight seasons?
Hint:
#1 Growing up close to Hilltop Park
influenced his career choice.
Hint:
#2 No American League player has ever
had more RBI in one season than he did in his ninth year in the majors.
- Ans. 100
R + 100 RBI = 1926-1938
- #1 Hilltop Park, in the Washington Heights neighborhood, was the original New York City home of the Yankee’s franchise, beginning in 1903. The team was called The Highlanders then but sometimes they were referred to as The H
- #2 Gehrig
had 185 RBI in 1931. Of the six highest single-season
RBI totals in history, Gehrig owns
three of them—the AL record of 185* in 1931, 173 and 1927 &1930 (5th(T)). National Leaguer Hack Wilson’s 191 RBI in
1930 is the all-Time record, a record, BTW, that Babe Ruth said would never be
broken.
FCR
- Joe LeBritton, Dripping Springs, Texas
Incorrect
guesses: Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson, Hank
Greenberg
WEDNESDAY —05-Oct
Q. Who was the first professional athlete to be
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Hint:
#1 He is the only right-handed Yankee
batter to hit more than forty home runs in a season in the twentieth century.
Hint:
#2 Six times he was in the top three in
MVP voting.
A. JOE
DiMAGGIO [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Received
the honor
in 1977.
- #1 He
hit 46 his 2nd year in MLB and never reached 40 again.
- #2 Won
the AL MVP in 1939,
1941
& 1947. He finished 2nd in 1937
& 1948
then 3rd in 1940.
FCR
- Tom Cleary, Macungie, Pennsylvania
Incorrect
guesses: Alex Rodriguez, Jackie Robinson,
Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Dave‑Winfield, Lou Gehrig, Jim Thorpe, Mickey Mantle
THURSDAY
—06-Oct
Q. Who was the first manager ejected from each
game of a double-header by different umpires?
Hint:
#1 He was the first native of his state
to be elected to the Hall of Fame.
Hint:
#2 He has the highest qualifying batting
average for any teenager in the modern era in organized baseball.
- Ans. Ejections
= 09-Jun-1946(1) (Heaved by Tom
Dunn on appeal of call at 2B.) &
09‑Jun‑1946(2) (Tossed by George
Magerkurth for disputing a catcher's
interference call.) Player/manager Fred Tenney
of the NL 1911 Boston Rustlers was also ejected from both G on 04-Sept-1911,
HOF umpire Bill
Klem doing the honors both times.
- #1 HOF
in 1951, first of 5 HOFers from Louisiana.
- #2 He
hit .322 in 1928 at age 19 for NYG.
FCR
- Jerry Kahn, New York City
Incorrect
guesses: Earl Weaver, John McGraw, Billy
Martin, Casey Stengel, Ty Cobb, Frank Robinson
FRIDAY —07-Oct
Q. Who was the first player with a fifty home run
season for a National League team based in New York?
Hint:
#1 He was the first National League
position player to be runner-up in the MVP balloting in consecutive seasons.
Hint:
#2 No one has more three-home run games
in a major league career.
A. JOHNNY MIZE [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Mize
hit 51 HR in 1947 for NYG.
- #1 2nd
in MVP voting 1939
& 1940. Pitcher Dizzy Dean (1935, 1936) was the first
NLer to finish MVP runner-up in back-to-back seasons.
- #2 Mize
hit 3 HR in 1 G 6 X = 13-Jul-1938;
20-Jul-1938(2), 13-May-1940;
08-Sep-1940(1); 24‑Apr‑1927;
& 15-Sep-950. Sammy Sosa & Mookie Betts have also had
six 3‑HR G.
FCR
- Jeff Fink, Howell, New Jersey
Incorrect
guesses: Willie Mays, Mel Ott, Ralph
Kiner, Hack Wilson, George Foster
SATURDAY
—08-Oct
Q. Journeyman pitcher Max Surkont was the last
pre-expansion pitcher to surrender six home runs to one player in a season. Who was that slugger?
Hint:
#1 He (not Surkont) starred on an undefeated
D-1 football team one year.
Hint:
#2 He could have used the skill that Babe
Ruth was taught as a young man.
A. TED
KLUSZEWSKI [SABR Bio]
- Ans. PIT’s
Surkont
served up 6 of Big Klu’s MLB-leading 49 HR in 1954.
- #1 Kluszewski
was a freshman on the Indiana Hoosiers football team that had a record of 9‑0‑1
in 1945, winning the Big Ten Championship.
- #2 Famously
sleeveless, Klu might have relied on Ruth, who was being trained for the
profession of shirt maker at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys for any
sartorial adjustments.
FCR
- Terry Walters, Wabasha, Minnesota
Incorrect
guesses: Ralph Kiner, Jackie Jensen
SUNDAY —10-Oct [Not included in this week’s theme.]
Q. What baseball trivia question am I most often
asked by people who meet me in person for the first time?
Hint:
#1 It has historical value.
Hint:
#2 It is a Tuesday-Wednesday question at
best.
A. “Who was on
deck when Thomson homered?” [Answer:
Willie Mays]
- Ans. Mays
admitted that he really did not wish to come to bat in that pressure situation
- #1 He
would very soon be voted the NL Rookie of the Year.
- #2 Any
question to which Willie Mays is the answer is always, IMHO, a good question.
FCR
- Ken Rosenblum, Rockville Centre, New
York
Other
guesses:
1. Who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base in the first game he didn't
play after his streak ended? [Babe
Dahlgren]
2. Who did Don Larsen strike out to complete his
perfect game? [Dale Mitchell]
3. Who gave up the first home run in the history
of major league baseball? []
4. Who gave up Roger Maris’s 61st home
run? [Tracy Stallard]
5. Whose record did Madison Bumgarner break for
lower career postseason ERA? []
6. When did the first baseball game take place?
7. When Tinkers, Evers and Chance were turning
double plays, who was the Cubs’ third baseman? [Harry Steinfeldt]
8. What’s the name of the LF in the “Who’s on
First?” sketch? [Why]
9. Where did Ty Cobb play his last game in
organized baseball? [Yankee Stadium]
10. Who was the first African American baseball
player? [Jackie Robinson being the expected answer.]
11. Who was the last switch hitter to win the AL
MVP? [Vida Blue 1971]
12. Which NBA HOF player was on the Dodger
bench when Thomson hit the homer? [Bill Sharman]
WEEKLY THEME – As of the end
of the 2022 season, there have been 357 40-HR seasons in MLB history. The cost of hitting 40 is often a high number
of strikeouts. For example, the NL’s
HR-leading batter this year, with 46, led the majors in Ks, w/200.
These players, however, struck
out fewer times than they homered in a 40 HR season.
Ott.............................. 1929............... 42 HR............. 38 K
Gehrig........................ 1934............... 49 HR............. 31 K
Gehrig........................ 1936............... 49 HR............. 46 K
Mize........................... 1947............... 51 HR............. 42 K
Mize........................... 1948............... 40 HR............. 37 K
Kluszewski................. 1953............... 40 HR............. 34 K
Kluszewski................. 1954............... 49 HR............. 35 K
Kluszewski................. 1955............... 47 HR............. 40 K
DiMaggio.................... 1937............... 46 HR............. 37 K
Bonds......................... 2004............... 45 HR............. 41 K
The
list for fewest Ks in a:
70-HR
Season; Barry Bonds in 2001.............. 73
HR............. 93 K
60-HR
Season: Roger Maris in 1961.............. 61
HR............. 67 K
50-HR
Season: Johnny Mize in 1947............. 51
HR............. 42 K
40-HR
Season: Lou Gehrig in 1934................ 49
HR............. 31 K
30-HR
Season: Joe DiMaggio in 1941............ 30
HR............. 13 K
20-HR
Season: Yogi Berra in 1950................. 28
HR............. 12 K
10-HR
Season: Joe Sewell in 1932................ 11
HR............... 3 K
First Correct
Respondent identifying theme – Warren Kent, Whitehall, Michigan (after Ott)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Mon - Members
of the 300-300 club
- Players with Mexican ancestry
Tues - Sluggers who hold many all-time records at their
alma mater (universities)
- Players who led
their league in all three Triple Crown categories during their careers but
didn't win the Triple Crown
Thurs - Players (since 1901) with highest ops in road
games (minimum 900 plate appearances)
- Players who led
league in home runs in a season when they had more home runs than strike outs
- Best hr/k ratio
in a season for a batter with 39 home runs or more
Fri - Players in the top five single season RBIs for
the Giants or Yankees
Sat - Players with seasons of at least 40 home runs
and less than 40 strikeouts
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