MONDAY — 11-Mar
Q. Which Modern Era righty
is the only pitcher to hit more than two hundred batters in his career on a
major league mound?
Hint: #1 He had thirty-eight
pitching victories where the final score was one to zero.
Hint: #2 Of his twelve
season strikeout crowns, eight were in consecutive seasons.
A. WALTER JOHNSON [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Johnson is the owner of 205 HBP. Eddie Plank & Randy Johnson are tied for
2nd at 190.
- #1 He also lost 27 G by a score of 1-0.
- #2 Won the AL K crown 1912-1919.
FCR - Matt Dicker, Chicago
Incorrect guesses: Don
Drysdale, Lefty Grove, Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, Bob Gibson, Bob Feller,
Pedro Martinez
TUESDAY — 12-Mar
Q. Who is the most recent
pitcher to rack up forty wins in a single season?
Hint: #1 His career
earned run average would have won a season ERA crown one hundred eight
times since the beginning of the Expansion Era.
Hint: #2 He is the
only American Leaguer to pitch two complete-game victories in one day and then repeat
that performance three years later.
- Ans. Walsh won 40 G playing for CHW
in 1908. Hard to imagine what the team’s
88-64-4 record that year might have been without him. Only 1 other P won 40+ in the Modern
Era—Jack Chesbro won 41 in 1904 for NYY.
- #1 Walsh’s ERA of 1.84 is the best all-time.
- #2 In the G on 26-Sep-1905(1), Walsh came in to relieve Doc White after White had
surrendered a hit and pitched 9 complete
innings. Next G, same place, same teams 26-Sep-2905(2), Walsh started and pitched the whole G. On 29-Sep-1908(1) & 29-Sep-1908(2), he started and finished both games.
FCR - Steve Berman,
Bergenfield, New Jersey
Incorrect guesses: Jack
Chesbro, Hoss Radbourne
WEDNESDAY — 13-Mar
Q. Which Hall of
Famer pitcher is the only one ever to throw a perfect game against a team whose
starter won forty or more games that season?
Hint: #1 Statistics
show his WHIP to be the best of all-time.
Hint: #2 He was a
sports writer in the off-season.
Hint: #3 His Double-Unique
status remains intact still, more than one hundred twenty years later.
A. ADDIE JOSS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. On 02-Oct-1908,
in his penultimate start of a watershed season, Joss kept Ed Walsh from celebrating
his 40th W of the year by throwing a perfect game against the White
Sox. It was a G emblematic of the Deadball Era, lasting just 1:40 as 2 of the finest moundsmen of any era
faced off against each other. Joss threw
a total of 74 pitches.
- #1 WHIP (Walks+ Hits/Innings Pitched) is
naturally better when it’s low & now pitcher’s career number is lower than
Joss’s 0.968.
- #2 Off
the field, Joss worked as a newspaper sportswriter in Cleveland from 1906 until
his death.
- #3 No
other “Addie”; no other “Joss” ever in the majors, measured since his debut
in1902.
FCR - Andy McCue,
Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses: Cy
Young, Urban Shocker, Nolan Ryan
THURSDAY — 14-Mar
Q. Which
lantern-jawed pitcher’s record for strikeouts in an American League season did
Nolan Ryan break in 1973?
Hint: #1
He (not Ryan) was the first pitcher to lead his league in strikeouts for
six consecutive seasons.
Hint: #2
He threw the first Immaculate Inning ever recorded in the American
Leagued. It was also the first in the
Modern Era.
A. RUBE WADDELL [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Waddell’s record of 349 K in
1904 was the major league record until broken by Sandy Koufax’ 382 in 1965. It wasn’t until Ryan’s eye-popping 383 in
1973 that Waddell’s record fell.
-
#1 Wadell led the AL in K in 1902,
pitching for PHA, w/210. He then led
the majors for the next five straight years w/302, 349,
287, 196, 232.
-
#2 On 01-Jul-902 in the 3rd
inning, Waddell fanned Billy Gilbert, Harry Howell & Jim Cronin of the Baltimore Orioles. He threw only 9 pitches, all strikes, 3
apiece.
FCR - Lincoln
Mitchell, New York City
Incorrect guesses: Christy Matthewson, Bob Feller, Sam McDowell,
Walter Johnson, Amos Rusie, Lefty Grove, Eddie Plank
FRIDAY — 15-Mar
Q. Who
was the ace of their pitching staff when the Boston Red Sox won the first World
Series of the four they would win that decade?
Hint: #1
He also won the first, fourth, eighth and final game of that World
Series.
Hint: #2
His son later played for the Red Sox.
A. SMOKY JOE WOOD [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Wood had a pitching record
of 34-5 in 1912. No BOS
pitcher has ever won more in 1 season. Cy Young is 2nd (33), 3rd
(32), 4th (28) & 5th (26) on that list. BOS won the WS in 1912, 1915, 1916 & 1918.
-
#1 In a best-of-9 WS, Wood
quieted the bats of NYG in G 1, 4 & 8.
-
#2 His son, Joe Wood, had a brief 3-G career w/BOS during WWII.
FCR - Julian
Keifetz, New York City
Incorrect guesses: Dutch Leonard, Bill Dineen, Curt Schilling,
Herb Pennock
SATURDAY — 16-Mar
Q. Which
former major league pitcher owned extensive California vineyards?
Hint: #1
He became a hero to Japanese Americans.
Hint: #2
His pitching records are well-documented, but he collected records outside
of baseball too.
A. DUTCH LEONARD [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Raised in Fresno, California,
Leonard returned there after his playing days & ran a profitable enterprise
for many years. Fellow Fresno HS alum Tom Seaver was also a successful vintner.
-
#1 His humane approach to
previously interned Japanese American during and after WWII is a story worth reading.
- #2 Leonard collected vinyl records too, amassing as many as 150,000 at his home in Fresno. For his baseball records, it's hard to beat his all-time best ERA in 1914 of 0.96 (Not a typo.)
*Perfect game
FCR - Steve
Riach, Southlake, Texas
Incorrect guesses: Hideo Nomo, Tom Seaver, Lefty O’Doul, Joe
Blanton
SUNDAY — 17-Mar
Q. Which
young hurler had an unmatched start to his major league career, when, in the
first ten starts of at least seven innings, he surrendered two runs or fewer?
Hint: #1 He
is a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame.
Hint: #2
He is the last one qualifying for this week’s theme.
A. HARRY KRAUSE [Wiki Bio]
-
Ans. Krause’s 1909 for PHA feat
has not been matched since then, but CIN’s Johnny Cueto in 2014 started the
year with 9 such starts , putting Krause’s name prominent in the news for the
first time in a century.
-
#1 Krause won a total of 249
games in the PCL over 16 seasons.
-
#2 See below.
FCR - Steve
Riach, Southlake, Texas
Incorrect guesses: Fernando Venezuela, Steven Strasburg, Lefty
Gomez, Von McDaniel, Mike Mussina, Vean Gregg
WEEK’S THEME – AL Dead Ball ERA season
leaders under 1.50
Waddell.......... 1905............ 1.48.............. PHA............... 58.4
Joss............... 1908............ 1.16.............. CLE............... 45.3
Krause........... 1909............ 1.39.............. PHA................. 8.7
Walsh............. 1910............ 1.27.............. CHW............... 65.9
Johnson........ 1912............ 1.39.............. WSH............. 165.1
Johnson........ 1913............ 1.14.............. WSH............. 165.1
Leonard......... 1914............ 0.96.............. BOS............... 37.0
Wood............. 1915............ 1.49.............. BOS............... 40.1
Johnson........ 1918............ 1.27.............. WSH............. 165.1
Johnson........ 1919............ 1.49.............. WSH............. 165.1
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Ken Kirk, Corning, New York (after
Wood)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Tues - Pitchers with the most games won by the
score of 1-0
- Pitchers
on Strat-o-Matic’s original American League Hall of Fame A team
- Pitchers
whose career batting averages (times 10) were higher than their ERA's
- Pitchers
with more than 10 shutouts in a season
Thur - Hall
of fame pitchers with the lowest career ERA
-
Lowest career ERA for a pitcher, modern era
-
Pitchers with highest career percentage of Starts that were
Shutouts
Fri - Career franchise leaders in ERA for original American League teams
-
Deadball Era pitchers with sub 2 ERAs
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