MONDAY — 02-Oct
Q. Who
did Craig Counsel pass to become the winningest manager in Milwaukee Brewers
history?
Hint: #1
He was the last twentieth-century player to appear in one hundred twenty
games in consecutive seasons for the same manager, but on different teams.
Hint: #2
He was an All-Star as a player, a coach and as a manager.
- Ans. Garner
had finished with 563 wins. Counsel now
has 707.
- #1 1976
OAK; 1977 PIT. Manager both times was Chuck Tanner.
- #2 AS =
1976 for OAK; 1980 for PIT; 1981 for MIL. Also had ASG appearances
as a coach in 2007 gamed managed by T0ny
La Russa, then by Tony LaRussa & as a manager 2006.
FCR - Tom
Nealis, Baltimore
Incorrect guesses: Ned Yost, Harvey Kuenn, Davey Lopes
TUESDAY — 03-Oct
Q. Which one-time
Phillies infielder was the first player to have his jersey number retired by
his college basketball team?
Hint: #1 The year he
led the majors in doubles, only Sandy Koufax finished ahead of him in the Most Valuable
Player voting.
Hint: #2 He ranks
just behind Pee Wee Reese in number of career double plays turned.
A. DICK GROAT [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Groat was 2-time Southern Conference Athlete
of the Year playing
basketball for Duke University.
His no. 10 was the first of the 13 jersey
numbers that Duke basketball has frozen in
time. Groat played for
PHI in 1966-67.
- #1 1963 NL MVP voting., w/43
2B. Groat had won the NL MVP in 1960.
- #2 Ranked 4th when he retired in 1967. He is now # 14.
FCR - David Skelton,
Woodway, Texas,
Incorrect guesses: Don Hoak, Larry Bowa, Granny Hamner,
Johnny Callison
WEDNESDAY — 04-Oct
Q. Which Orioles
rookie pitcher led the majors in bases-on-balls surrendered and didn’t get a single vote for Rookie of the Year, but
did get votes for American League MVP?
Hint: #1 The very
next season he led the majors in shutouts.
Hint: #2 He once walked ten (10!) batters in eight and
two-thirds innings of no-hit baseball.
A. STEVE BARBER [Wiki Bio]
- Ans. In Barber’s first season, 1960, he walked 113
batters & was 20th among those receiving AL MVP votes. The
1960 AL ROY voting was swept by three of Barber’s teammates.
- #1 Barber threw 8 ShO in 1961, tied
with the Twins’ Camilo Pascual. Barber
moved up the AL MVP voting ladder to 14th overall, his highest
finish and final mention of his entire 15-year career.
- #2 Teammate Stu Miller finished the no-no
without walking anyone 30-Apr-1967(2).
FCR - John Rickert,
Terre Haute, Indiana
Incorrect guesses: Wally
Bunker, Mike Boddicker, Dave McNally, Jim Palmer, Steve Dalkowski
IN MEMORIAM - 04-Oct (Thanks to Sarah Grynpas for putting this together.)
Q. Who trails only
Roger Clemens and Cy Young for most wins in a Red Sox uniform?
Hint #1: He’s behind only the Niekro brothers, Early Wynn and
Charlie Hough for most wins by a knuckleballer (post-integration).
Hint #2: No one pitched more innings in a Red Sox uniform.
Hint #3: He’s by far the most successful baseball player
out of the Florida Institute of Technology.
Hint #4: He still holds the record there for single-season
and career home runs.
Hint #5: He gave up the most notorious homerun in Red Sox
history (after maybe Torrez/Dent).
Hint #6: But the next year, he was the winning pitcher in
game 5 of the ALCS.
Hint #7: After losing four straight in the only series loss
from a 3-0 start in baseball, the opposing manager, the Yankees’ Joe Torre,
called him in the visitor’s dugout and congratulated him.
Hint #8: He was nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award
eight times, winning the award in 2010.
Hint #9: Late-night television host Seth Meyers posted a
tribute to him, saying ,“I was lucky
enough to cross paths with him a few times over the years and, unlike his
knuckleball, you always knew what you were going to get—a kind and big-hearted
man.”
Hint #10: David Ortiz said, “My heart is broken right now
because l will never be able to replace a brother and a friend like you.”
A. TIM WAKEFIELD [SABR Bio] (Not part of the week's theme.)
-
Ans. His 186 is only 6 behind
their 192 each.
- #1 Phil Niekro (318), Early Wynn (253), Joe
Niekro (221) & Charlie Hough (216). Tim Wakefield has exactly 200.
-
#2 3,006 innings over 17 years
playing for BOS.
- #3 He
played baseball for the Florida Tech Panthers & they retired his number, 3.
(Wakefield’s favorite player growing up
was Dale Murphy).
- #4 22
in a season, 40 in a career. He was originally going to be a 1B, but when that
didn’t work out he gave it a shot with the one pitch he learned from his dad as
a joke.
- #5 The
Aaron Boone homer in the 2003 ALCS. Boone
hit it off Wakefield and he worried he would be this century’s Bill Buckner.
- #6 He picked up the win in Game 5, going 3
innings in extras, long enough for David Ortiz to drive in the winning runs.
- #7
Torre called him and said ,“‘Wake, this is Joe Torre. I just wanted to congratulate you. You’re one of the guys over there that I
respect. Just remember to have fun. You guys deserve it.” Wakefield was touched and later
wrote Torre a note thanking him.
- #8 He
was also the first Team Captain of the Jimmy Fund & performed extensive
charity work in Boston & Florida. In
addition to visiting sick children Wakefield worked with veteran’s charities
and Franciscan Children’s.
- #9
Meyers, a lifelong Red Sox fan, posted the tribute to his Instagram.
- #10
They were teammates for 2 World Series.
N.B.
Reader Sarah Grynpas convinced me that Wakefield deserved to be honored
this way. She then was polite &
efficient enough to limn the questions & answers for us.
FCR - Joe
O’Neill, London, Ontario
Incorrect guesses: Curt Schilling
MIDWEEK BONUS — 04-Oct
Q. Who
did Tim Wakefield join when the pitched his third season of thirty or more home
runs allowed?
Hint: #1
He was the first Red Sox pitcher to play consecutive seasons without
committing an error (minimum 50 chances per season).
Hint: #2
The list of major league teammates he had during his eleven-year career
in the Bigs were Ted Williams, Al Kaline, Whitey Ford and Juan
Marichal, among other notables.
A. BILL MONBOUQUETTE [SABR
Bio]
-
Ans. In 1963-65 Monbouquette was
taken deep 31, 34 & 32 X, respectively.
Wakefield had 4 such years, although not consecutive, like
Monbouquette’s. This is a record for the
BOS franchise.
-
#1 Monbouquette’s fielding record
was spotless in 1963 & ’64 (Maybe because he didn’t have to field any of
those home runs?). Only once, 1965, did
he even more than one error in an entire season. He finished his career in the majors having recorded
a .984 fielding percentage with only 7 E in 428 total chances over 1,961⅓
innings of work.
-
#2 Played for BOS with Williams 1958-1960;
Played for DET with Kaline 1966-67; played for NYY with Ford 1967; played with
Marichal 1968.
FCR - Mark
Pattison, Washington, DC
Incorrect guesses: Bobby
Schantz, Fergie Jenkins
THURSDAY — 05-Oct
Q. Who
is the only San Diego Padre to drive in at least forty runs in a calendar
month?
Hint: #1
The game where NYM’s Steve Trachsel surrendered four home runs in a
single inning, this guy was the third of those.
Hint: #2
When he was young and began to show promise as a pitcher, his widowed
mother used to put on catcher's gear herself to catch him three times a week.
Hint: #3
He homered in three consecutive games in the only World Series his
franchise would win in the twentieth century while based in that city.
A. RYAN KLESKO [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In May 2001, Klesko had 40
RBI, including 9 G where he had none & 1 G where he was not even in the
lineup. He had an OPS of 1.252 & was a perfect 10-for-10 stealing
bases that month. The Padres finished
May 17-11, on their way to a 4th place finish in the NL West.
-
#1 G w/4 HR = 17-May-2001, 3rd inning. No 2 of the HR were consecutive. HRs by Alex Arias, Rickey Henderson, Klesko
& Bubba Trammell.
-
#2 Klesko attended sports dominant Westminster High School, where, though he hit a lot of HR, he starred as a pitcher, his
fastball reaching 92 MPH. He was a
pitcher on the 1998 US Junior
Olympic Team.
- #3 Hit a HR in each of the 3rd, 4th & 5th Gs of the 1995 World
Series.
FCR - Mike McCroskey, Sugar Land, Texas
Incorrect guesses: Kurt
Bevacqua, Fred McGriff
FRIDAY — 06-Oct
Q. Who
was the first National League player to hit twenty home runs the same year he
also had eighty stolen bases?
Hint: #1
He was the first National League player to hit three grand slams in a calendar
month.
Hint: #2
He made his major league debut as a pinch hitter wearing no number,
since the team’s only available road uniform didn't yet have a number sewn on.
A. ERIC DAVIS [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In 1986, for CIN, Davis hit
27 HR in between stealing 80 bases. He
also had seasons of 37/50 (1987); 26/35 (1988); 34/21 (1989); 34/21 (1990); 24/21
(1993); & 26/23 (1996).
-
#1 GS in 01-, 03-, 30-May-1987. Mike Piazza matched that feat 11 years later. 3
GS in a month was also done by Devon White (2001 with the then NL MIL) & Carlos
Beltran (2006 Mets)
-
#2 MLB debut for CIN on 19-May-1984. He grounded out in his only AB.
FCR - Lincoln
Mitchell, New York City
Incorrect guesses: Tim Raines, Ed Delahanty, Gary Sheffield,
George Foster, Lou Brock
SATURDAY — 07-Oct
Q. Which
one-time Cleveland hurler was the first twenty-first century pitcher to strike
out ten batters in in the first five innings of a game and not surrender a
single run?
Hint: #1
The year before, he had led the majors in bases on balls surrendered.
Hint: #2
As a Houston high schooler, he tossed three consecutive no-hitters,
barely missing a forth, averaging more than two strikeouts per inning, earning
him a first-round draft pick and a $2M+ signing bonus.
A. SCOTT KAZMIR [B-R
Bio]
-
Ans. On 17-Aug-2006 Kazmir K’d 10, gave up
2 H but 0 R. Played for CLE in 2013.
-
#1 Walked exactly 100
in 2005.
-
#2 NYM took Kazmir 15th
overall and signed him with a $2,150,000 bonus.
FCR - Scott
Hermansen, Rancho Cordova, California
Incorrect guesses: David Clyde, Trevor Bauer, Kerry Wood, Bob
Feller, ,CC Sabathia
WEEKEND BONUS — 07-Oct
Q. Which
player gave baseball’s undisputed best postgame quotes in the 1980s?
Hint: #1
Five times he led his league in saves and won the Rolaids Relief Man of
the Year A/K/A the Fireman of the Year Award A/K/A also five times.
Hint: #2
He was a key contributor in helping his franchise win their first World
Series Championship.
A. DAN QUISENBERRY [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Joe Magrane, Dan Plesac
& Ozzie Smith notwithstanding, nobody drew more eager Royals’ microphones
than Quiz, win or lose. Sample them here.
-
#1 L=AL lead in saves = 1980,
82-85. FOY = same years.
FCR - Jaime Aron, Dallas
Incorrect guesses: Tug McGraw, Al Hrabosky
SUNDAY — 08-Oct
Q. Which
one-time San Diego Padre was the first 30/30 batter for the Cleveland Indians?
Hint: #1
He was the Number Two overall pick the year he was drafted.
Hint: #2
Carlos Delgado tied his record for most American League three-home-run games
in a career.
A. JOE CARTER [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In 1987, Carter had 32 HR
& 31 SB for CLE. Grady Sizemore
(2008) & Jose Ramirez (2018) have added 30/30 seasons to CLE’s
history. Carter played for SDP in 1990.
-
#1 Carter was drafted behind only
Mike Moore in the 1981 MLB June Amateur Draft.
-
#2 For a long time, Carter was
the only player with 5 3-HR Gs by an AL player.
Delgado joined him 2003. Alex Rodriguez (2015) & Mookie Betts (2019)are
the remaining members of that AL group.
FCR - Mark
Camps, Albany, California
Incorrect guesses:
WEEK’S THEME – Some All-Star
players whose career ended with a single season on the SF Giants
Player................. Yr w/SFG..........Career WAR
Barber......................... 1974........................ 17.4
Carter.......................... 1998........................ 19.5
Davis.......................... 2001........................ 36.1
Garner......................... 1988........................ 29.7
Groat........................... 1967........................ 36.8
Kazmir........................ 2021........................ 22.4
Klesko......................... 2007........................ 26.7
Monbouquette.............. 1968........................ 20.7
Quisenberry................. 1990........................ 24.6
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Joe Cohen, Holden, Massachusetts
(After Barber)
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