MONDAY — 13-Nov
Q. Who was the first player to go directly to
the majors from the Negro leagues following the signing of Jackie Robinson by
the Dodgers?
Hint: #1
He was the first native of South Carolina to be inducted into the Hall
of Fame.
Hint: #2
He played basketball at the highest levels.
- Ans. Doby,
the AL’s first Black player, was on the Newark Eagles when he signed with Bill
Veeck to play for CLE.
- #1 Inducted
into the Hall in 1998. Ben Taylor & Jim Rice are the other SC natives in the Hall.
- #2 A
4-sport athlete in high school, Doby signed a letter of intent to play
basketball at Long Island University. He
was the first African-American player to play
professional basketball in the ABL, a precursor to the NBA.
FCR - David
Murphy, Marietta, Georgia
Incorrect guesses: George Crowe, Dan Bankhead, Bob Gibson, Ernie
Banks, Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson
TUESDAY —— 14-Nov
Q. Who was the first
post-World War-II player to hit three triples in a nine-inning game and do it
in his MVP season?
Hint: #1 That was
the season of his lowest home run total in any year during the sixteen full
seasons of his nineteen-year career in the majors.
Hint: #2 Initially
more interested in softball than baseball, he was signed to his first
professional contract by another eventual Hall of Famer.
A. ERNIE BANKS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. On 11-Jun-1966, Banks tripled
thrice, in the 4th, 5th & 9th
innings, each time off a different pitcher (Bob Bruce, Gary Kroll & Aurelio
Monteagudo) & each time driving in Ron Santo.
- #1 He had 15 HR in 1966. He exceeded that total three more seasons
before retiring.
- #2 Banks was signed by Cool Papa Bell to play
for the Kansas City Monarchs 1950-53, which was by then an independent team as
most of the previous Black franchises/leagues had effectively ceased operating
after about 1950.
FCR - Ken Kirk,
Corning, New York
Incorrect guesses: Wille
McCovey, Bert Campaneris, Jim Wynn
TUESDAY TUE-ICE
— 14-Nov
Q. Who
was the next American League batter to win a Triple Crown after Nap Lajoie did
it in 1901?
Hint: #1
He retired from the majors for fear of dropping below .300.
Hint: #2
He hit at least one home run every year for twenty-four consecutive
seasons.
-
Ans. Cobb led the AL in RBI 4 X&
in batting avg. 12 X, including 9 a row, but he only led the league in HR 1
X. In 1909 his 9 HR were enough to top
the leader board & when added to his 107 RBI & .377 BA, he won his only
T.C.
-
#1 Cobb worried that his season
BA wouldn’t stay above .300 and he knew he was slowing down after 24 years. He needn’t have worried. He hit .323 in his final season.
-
#2 Hit a HR in every year of his
MLB career, 1905-1928. His record was
tied by none other than Rickey Henderson who then added a 25th.
FCR - Adrian
Fung Toronto
Incorrect guesses: Sam Crawford, Carl Yastrzemski, Lou Gehrig,
Frank Robinson, Jimmie Foxx
WEDNESDAY —— 15-Nov
Q. Who was the first
person to get twenty five hundred hits in the American League?
Hint: #1 He started
and ended his career in the same city, but in separate leagues.
Hint: #2 The batting
average in his best season has been raised twice as thorough researchers found multiple
transcription errors. The final,
verified result is very impressive.
A. NAP LAJOIE [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Lajoie finished with 2,522 H in the AL. Add to that his 721 in the AL & he had 3,243
H total. That total was 2nd
all-time when he retired in 1916 & is now 15th. Only Cap Anson & Honus Wagner had 3,000+
H at that time.
- #1 He broke in with the Philadelphia Phillies & finished his 21-year
career with the Philadelphia Athletics.
- #2 His original hit total was 220 instead of
229,which put his BA at .405. It was
later changed to .422, before finally being revised again to .426, the best
single-season BA in the Modern Era.
FCR - Barry Nelson,
Guilderland, New York
Incorrect guesses: Tris
Speaker, Eddie Collins, Al Simmons, Sam Crawford, Babe Ruth, George Sisler,
Cap Anson, Jimmie Foxx
THURSDAY — 16-Nov
Q. Who was the
manager of the Indians for their first pennant?
Hint: #1 So dominant
is his record for career outfield assists that the player who is 2nd
on that list (also a 1st-ballot Hall of Famer) would have had to
increase his output by 63% just to tie for 1st.
Hint: #2 His
fielding glove was known as the place “where triples go to die”.
A. TRIS SPEAKER [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Also their 1st WS championship = 1920.
- #1 Speaker’s OF assists = 448, towering over Ty
Cobb’s already impressive 275.
-
#2 Speaker also holds career
records for double plays & unassisted
double plays (6) by an OF. The quote has
been said of many fleet ball hawks, but old timers and baseball researchers
agree that there has never been another like Speaker.
FCR - Dan
Lee, Pickerington, Ohio
Incorrect guesses: Larry
Doby, Roger Peckinpaugh
FRIDAY — 17-Nov
Q. Who
was the first player to lead his league in home runs for four consecutive
seasons?
Hint: #1 He played on a team that won the pennant five
times and the World Series thrice while he was on the team.
Hint: #2
He had fifteen teammates who are now in the Hall of Fame.
A. HARRY DAVIS [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Led the AL on HR in 1904 (10),
1905 (8), 1906 (12) & 1907 (8) for PHA. Others to do this have been Home Run Baker (1911-1914);
Babe Ruth (1918-21, 26-30); Josh Gibson (1933-1939 & 1943-1946); & Ralph
Kiner (1946-52).
-
#1 Was on PHA when they won the
AL pennant in 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913 & 1914. They won the WS in 1910, 11 & 13.
-
#2 Davis’ teammates who went to
the HOF: Home Run Baker, Jake Beckley,
Charles Bender, Fred Clarke, Eddie Collins, Jimmy Collins, George Davis,
Elmer Flick, Nap Lajoie, Connie Mack, Herb Pennock, Eddie Plank, Amos
Rusie, Rube Waddell & Honus Wagner.
FCR - Dave
Serota, Kalamazoo
Incorrect guesses: Home Run Baker, Babe Ruth, Sam Crawford, Lou
Gehrig, Ralph Kiner
SATURDAY— 18-Nov
Q. Who
was the first player in the Modern Era to hit two bases-loaded, bases-clearing doubles
in a game?
Hint: #1
He was the first player to lead the majors in home runs for three
consecutive seasons in the Modern Era.
Hint: #2
Babe Ruth broke his MLB career record for most home runs by an active
player.
A. GAVVY CRAVATH [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. On 08-Aug-1915, Cravath had 4 doubles,
2 of them with the bases loaded.
-
#1 Cravath led the Bigs in Big
Flies 1913, 1914 & 1915 (19,19, 24). He only missed having a 5-year run by
trailing the 1916 leaders by a single HR because he led again in 1917 (In a tie
w/12).
-
#2 By the end of 1920, Cravath
had hung onto his lead among those still playing at 119 HR. Ruth left that & many other records in
his rearview mirror beginning with the 1921 season.
FCR - Kevin
Epstein, San Antonio
Incorrect guesses: Home Run Baker, Jimmie Foxx, Roger Connor,
Andre Dawson
SUNDAY— 18-Nov
Q. Who
led his league's first basemen in errors seven times, but was considered by
contemporary observers to be the best-fielding first baseman ever?
Hint: #1
He was the first player in Yankees history to hit three triples in one
game.
Hint: #2
Of the over one hundred candidates who received votes in the first ever
Hall of Fame election, he was one of only three California natives to receive
votes.
-
Ans. A contradiction in many
ways, Chase’s fielding at first base was, “as slick as oil” according to one correspondent, a hyperbole he was not
afraid to use, because describing Chase’s flair with the glove was well known
and well publicized. Knowing this, Chase
often went too far and missed the main purpose of the play. Among
all MLB first basemen, only Mo Vaughn and Dick (“Dr. Strangeglove”) Stuart
led their leagues in errors as many times as did Chase.
-
#1 On 30-Aug-1906(2), playing for the then Highlanders,
Chase tripled thrice off Washington pitching.
Earle Combs and Joe DiMaggio
are the only others to match Chase’s deed.
-
#2 CA natives receiving votes in
1936 Hall voting were: Frank Chance* (Fresno,
5); Hal Chase (Los Gatos, 11); & Bill Lange (San
Francisco, 6).
*HOF in 1946
FCR - Max
Weder, Vancouver
Incorrect guesses: Lu Gehrig, Piano Legs Hickman, Wally Pipp,
Zeke Bonura, Keith Hernandez, Dick Sisler, Frank Chance
SUNDAY BONUS — 18-Nov
Q. Who
was the first American League home run champion to later manage a team to a World Series
title?
Hint: #1
The year before his Word Series win, he had retired from baseball in
favor of a career in banking.
Hint: #2
He was the first American League player to be hit by pitch 20 times in a
season.
A. JAKE STAHL [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Stahl was the AL HR champ with
a symmetrical 10 in 1910 for BOS. Then, as their manager, he led them to a WS
victory over the powerful NYG in 1912, the last WS win (their
2nd)for BOS before Ruth
arrived.
-
#1 He missed 1911 but was
persuaded to return to the game n 1912.
-
#2 He was HBP 23 X
in 1908 for BOS.
FCR - Barry
Nelson, Guilderland, New York
Incorrect guesses: Bill Carrigan, Lou Boudreau
WEEK’S FINALE — 19-Nov
Q. Before
Ralph Kiner, who was the last player to lead his league in home runs in his
first year in the majors?
Hint: #1
He led the league in triples that same year.
Hint: #2
He is the only person left in this week’s theme (which no one has
identified).
A. HARRY LUMLEY [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In 1904, Lumley hit 9
HR for BRO to lead the NL.
-
#1 His 18 3B did likewise.
-
#2 See below
FCR -
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Incorrect guesses: Sam Crawford, Tim Jordan, Mark McGwire, Josh
Gibson, Wally Berger
WEEK’S
THEME –
League home run champions who later managed in the majors in the Modern Era—REDUX
!
Player HR Titles Yr Managed Career WAR
Banks........... 1958, 60 (47, 41)............. CHC (1973**)....... 67.7
Chase.................. 1915 (17)................... NYY (1910-11)...... 23.0
Cobb.................... 1909 (9).................... DET (1921-26)..... 151.5
Cravath........ 1913-15,17-19***............. PHA (1919-20)...... 33.0
Davis......... 1904-07 (10, 8,
12, 8)............ CLE
(1912)......... 38.3
Doby............. 1952, 54 (32, 32).............. CHW (1978)........ 56.8
Lajoie................. 1901 (14)................... CLE (1905-09)..... 106.9
Lumley................ 1904 (9)...................... BRO (1909)......... 14.7
Speaker.............. 1912 (10)................... CLE (1919-26)..... 134.9
Stahl.................. 1910 (10*).................. WSH (1905-06)...... 16.6
.............................................................. BOS
(1912-13)
*Tied
** 08-May-1973 (Managed 1 G)
***(19,
19, 24, 12*, 8, 12)
For
complete list (Modern Era) add this week to the week of October 30-November, 2023.
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tue - Future Hall of Famers who barnstormed as
the Jackie Robinson All Stars
- Players who
hit for over 300 in the Negro leagues & in the major leagues
- First black players to play MLB who also made
the HOF
- From Negro Leagues to MLB without stopping in the
minors
- Players
that have a stateroom on the USS Cooperstown named after them
Thur - Top
players in Cleveland history by WAR
-
First Hall Of Fame Induction
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