MONDAY — 27-Nov
Q. Who is
the only player who pitched more than a thousand major league innings with a
lifetime qualifying batting average over .300?
Hint: #1
He received a hero’s welcome in Japan.
Hint: #2
His many endorsement deals contributed to his already substantial
baseball salary.
- Ans. Career
IP = 1,221⅓. BA = .342
- #1 Ruth
visited Japan in a 1934 exhibition tournament.
His career guaranteed his warm greeting in baseball-mad Japan.
- #2 In
6 separate seasons, his annual salary with NYY was $52,000 which he liked
because it meant that he was making $1,000 a week all year.
FCR - Bill
Henry, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Incorrect guesses: Walter Johnson, Bob Lemon, Shohei Ohtani,
Lefty O’Doul, Al Spalding, Christy Mathewson
TUESDAY —— 28-Nov
Q. Who is the only
player to receive a higher percentage of Hall of Fame induction votes than
Derek Jeter?
Hint: #1 He finished
more major league games than Cy Young himself.
Hint: #2 His ERA+ is
the best all-time.
A. MARIANO RIVERA [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Jeter’s 99.7% HOF vote in 2020 passed the
previous mark received by Ken Griffey, Jr. in 2016, but fell short of Rivera’s
100%.
- #1 Young’s 833 G finished include his 749
CG & 84 G he finished for someone else.
Rivera’s numbers come together a bit differently as he had 0 CG (He only
started 10 G.), but he finished an incredible 952 G.
- #2 Rivera’s 205 ERA+ might never be caught.
FCR - Phil Hertz, Kamuela,
Hawaii
Incorrect guesses: Tom
Seaver, Greg Maddux
WEDNESDAY —— 29-Nov
Q. Which BRTL
moundsman was the first to rack up fifteen strikeouts in each of nine games?
Hint: #1 No one else
has as many consecutive National League ERA titles as he has.
Hint: #2 Although he
didn’t play in the minors, he was briefly a Bearcat.
A. SANDY KOUFAX [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Koufax struck out at least 15 in a G 8 X in the regular season &, historically, once in a WS G. With
29 such games, Randy Johnson is now the all-time leader.
- #1 His season ERA was the best in the NL in each
of his last 5 seasons, 3 of those years also leading the majors: 1962-66 (2.54, 1.88, 1.74,
2.04, 1.73).
No AL pitcher has ever strung together five consecutive ERA crowns.
- #2 Koufax played basketball for the University
of Cincinnati Bearcats… and baseball.
FCR - Tom Galligan, Baton
Rouge
Incorrect guesses: Dazzy
Vance, Randy Johnson, Lefty Grove, Clayton Kershaw, Greg Maddux
THURSDAY — 30-Nov
Q. Which
former Cincinnati Reds player was the first person posthumously elected to the Hall
of Fame?
Hint: #1
Of him, it was said that, “(He) talks like a Harvard graduate, looks
like an actor, acts like a businessman and impresses you as an all-around
gentleman.”
Hint: #2
No National League pitcher had a season with more wins in the Modern
Era.
Hint: #3
Four times in seven seasons, he led the majors in shutouts.
A. CHRISTY MATHEWSON [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Mathewson was pitching for
NYG & finished his career in the majors with a complete G W w/CIN on 04-Sep-1916(2). While serving in
the U.S. Army in France in WWI, Mathewson was accidentally gassed during a
training exercise. He spent the next 7
years battling tuberculosis & died 07-Oct-1925. The 1st Hall of Fame ballot was in
1936 when he was elected as part of the inaugural class. A teenager at Bucknell University, he was
class president, played on the school's basketball & baseball teams &
as a drop-kicker on their football team, was selected as a Walter Camp
All-American in 1900.
-
#1 Quote is from Homer Croy, a Grantland Rice contemporary .
-
#2 He won 37 G & 1.43
ERA led the NL in 1908.
-
#3 He led MLB w/SHO in 1902, 05,
07 & 08 (8, 8, 8, 11)
FCR - Mark
Pattison, Washington, DC
Incorrect guesses: Amos Rusie, Jim Bottomley, Bucky Walters,
Addie Joss, Dolf Luque Ewell Blackwell, Morgan Bulkeley, Eppa Rixey, Randy
Johnson, Tom Seaver, Paul Derringer Dazzy Vance, Orlando Cepeda
FRIDAY — 01-Dec
Q. In the history of the San Francisco/New
York Giants, who accumulated the most career strikeouts for a left-handed
pitcher?
Hint: #1
He was the career home run leader among all active pitchers when the
designated hitter rule was fully adopted by the National League.
Hint: #2
This Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year developed an on-field,
once eponymous, procedure.
A. MADISON BUMGARNER [B-R Bio]
-
Ans. Bumgarner passed the
legendary two-time MVP Carl Hubbell (1,677 K), finishing with 1,794.
- #1 His 19 HR led all pitchers active at the end
of the 2021 season. His résumé includes a
notable grand slam—one hit in the same G where his battery mate, Buster Posey,
also hit a grand slam, Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park 13-Jul-2014.
-
#2 The action of clearing one’s
nostril by closing the other and
expelling excess mucus , known in the vulgate as a “snot rocket”, was for a
time in the 2010s called a “Bumgarner” for his mid‑game practice
of it on national television including during the World Series.
FCR - Michael
Schneider, Wilmington, Delaware
Incorrect guesses: Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Steve Carlton
Carl Hubbell, Warren Spahn
SATURDAY — 02-Dec
Q. Who
was the first left-handed pitcher to win three games in one World Series?
Hint: #1
Two years later, he led the league in ERA, shutouts and strikeouts.
Hint: #2
Of the qualifying pitchers active exclusively between World War I and
expansion in 1961, no one had a lower career ERA (minimum: More rhan 1,500
innings).
A. HARRY BRECHEEN [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Brecheen won G #2, 6 & 7 of the 1946 WS. Had
there been and WS MVP award, it certainly would have gone to him. Note that lefty Nip Winters won 3 G in the 1924 WS 22 years before Brecheen’s feat.
-
#1 Led NL in ERA (2.24),
shutouts (7) & strikeouts (149) in 1948. He also led in ERA+(182), FIP (2.47),
WHIP (1.037), HR9 (0.2), SO9 (5.7), SO/W (3.04)
& led MLB in WAR for pitchers (8.7)
!
-
#2 Brecheen’s career ERA is 2.92
for his 12 seasons. He edged Carl
Hubbell (2.98) for the honor.
FCR - Tony
Hughes, Woodbridge, Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Whitey Ford, Mickey Lolich, Lefty Grove,
Johnny Podres, Vida Blue, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax, Christ Mathewson, Hal
Newhouser, Carl Hubbell
SUNDAY — 03-Dec
Q. Who
was the losing pitcher in Babe Ruth’s first postseason game appearance?
Hint: #1
Four seasons later, he (not Ruth), pitching for the same team, won his 1st
postseason G, going the distance & giving up no earned runs.
Hint: #2
An above-average hitter, he pinch-hit five times in his fourteen-year
major league career.
A. SHERRY SMITH [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. In the 14-inning G #2 of the 1916 WS, no relief pitchers were
used. Ruth pitched all 14, giving up only
an IPHR in the 1st frame.
Brooklyn’s starter, Smith, matched him, surrendering only an RBI by Ruth
in the 3rd. However, with 1
out in B14, the Sawks cobbled together the winning R.
-
#1 In the 1916 Fall Classic, pitching for BRO, Smith got the assignment for G #3 & pitched 9 strong innings against CLE’s Hi Myers.
-
#2 Smith hit .233 w/6 HR, 10
triples, 24 doubles & 60 RBI as a batter during his career in the majors.
FCR - Jason
Winston, Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses:
WEEK’S THEME – Lifetime
World Series ERA under 1.00 with 30+ WS innings pitched
Name ERA WS IP
Bumgarner...... 0.25.......................... 2010, ‘12, ‘14............. 36
Brecheen......... 0.83.......................... 1943., ‘44, ‘46......... 32⅔
Ruth................. 0.87.............................. 1916, ‘18................. 31
Smith............... 0.89.............................. 1916, ‘20.............. 30⅓
Koufax............. 0.95....................... 1959, ’63, ’65, ‘66.......... 57
Mathewson...... 0.97....................... 1905, ’11, ’12, ‘13..... 101⅔
Rivera.............. 0.99............ 1996, ’98, ’99, ‘00, ’01, ’03, ‘09........................ 36⅓
Bold = Won
WS
Aqua = WS MVP
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Ronn Tarter, Cary, North Carolina (after
Koufax)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tues - First
Hallof Fame inductees
- Yankee
pitchers in the Hall of Fame
Wed - Pitchers
who had immaculate innings in the World Series
-
Youngest players to be elected to the HOF
Thurs - Pitchers
with post-season ERA under 1.00
Fri - Pitchers who pitched Game 7 of World
Series on two days rest or less
-
First-ballot Hall of Famers
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