MONDAY — 31-Aug-2026
Q. Who
has more career hits than any other National Leaguer?
Hint: #1
He led the majors in hits one season at age forty. No one else has ever done that.
Hint: #2
Since Rogers Hornsby did 1920-1929, he is the only National League player
to exceed 2,000 in a decade.
-
Ans. Rose’s MLB career was an NL
career. He holds multiple records due,
in part, to length of his playing career, but his hits total of 4,256 really
stands out. Symmetrically, his 4,000th
hit came exactly 21 years after his 1st MLB hit, 13-Apr-1963 off Bob
Friend & 13-Apr-1984, off Jerry Koosman.
- #1 In
the strike-shortened season of 1981, Rose hit safely 140 times to
lead MLB. He turned 40 on 14-Apr earlier
that year.
-
#2 Rose had 2,045 hits
1970-1979. Hornsby’s number was 2,085.
FCR - Shaun
Montana, Medway, Massachusetts
Incorrect guesses: Stan Musial, Paul Molitor, Julio Franco,
Henry Aaron
TUESDAY — 01-Sep-2026
Q. Whose record for career World Series doubles
did Yogi Berra tie with his tenth and final one in 1958?
Hint:
#1 He was the captain of the baseball,
football and basketball teams at his D-1 university.
Hint:
#2 As a manager, he was known to walk
onto the field under an umbrella to protest a game he thought should be called
for rain.
A. FRANKIE FRISCH [SABR Bio]
- Ans. In
the 7th game of the 1958 WS, Yogi doubled off the Braves’ Lew
Burdette in the 8th inning then scored on Elston Howard’s single
with what would prove to be the game’s go-ahead and eventual-WS winning
run. It was Yogi’s 10 career WS double.
- #1 Frisch
attended Fordham University in the Bronx before playing for the Giants in 1919.
- #2 I’m
supposing it worked the same number of
times that it would have been without the thespian prop.
FCR - Michael Green, Las Vegas
Incorrect
guesses: Goose Goslin, Miller Huggins, Marty
Marion, Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Jackie Robinson
WEDNESDAY — 02-Sep-2026
Q. Who accumulated more career bases-on-balls
than anyone else in the 150-year history of the franchise that is now known as
the Atlanta Braves?
Hint:
#1 He is the career record holder for
home runs hit under a single National League manager.
Hint:
#2 He received the same early fatherly
advice and training that his Hall of Fame hero had.
A. CHIPPER JONES [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Jones’s
1,512 career walks total is well ahead of those of Eddie Mathews at 1,376 or of
Hank Aaron at 1,297.
- #1 All
but 32 of Jones’s 468 career home runs—436—were hit while playing for Braves’
manager Bobby Cox: 1993, 1995-2010.
{N.B. Further research reveals that
Albert Pujols passed Jones’s NL record by hitting 445 in Saint Louis playing
for manager Tony LaRussa 2001-2010.}
- #2 Larry
Wayne Jones Sr., also a devoted fan of Mickey Mantle, taught Chipper to hit
from both sides from the start. Mantle
himself had been schooled at a tender age by his father, Elvin Charles “Mutt” Mantle,
to grow up as a switch-hitter.
FCR - Jim Cochran, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Incorrect
guesses: Henry Aaron, Eddie Mathews
THURSDAY
— 03-Sep-2026
Q. Whose season batting average record for the
Giants’ franchise did Bill Terry break?
Hint: #1 No National League player ever won a game on a
grand slam, with two out, down by three in the bottom of a nineth inning
before he did it.
Hint:
#2 In fact, there is no proof anyone had
ever even hit a grand slam before.
A. ROGER CONNOR [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Connor
had hit .371 for the 1885 Giants to set a standard that would
stand until Terry hit .372 in 1929.
- #1 Playing
for the Troy (NY) Trojans on 10-Sep-1881, Connor brought
everybody home in the 9th.
Read here.
- #2 See
#1 above
FCR - Andrew Jett, Waxahachie, Texas
Incorrect
guesses: Mike Donlin, ,Mel Ott, Lefty
O’Doul
FRIDAY — 04-Sep-2026
Q. Who is the only Hall of Famer who played together
with his son on the same major league team?
Hint:
#1 He (Dad) was the first player in the Live
Ball Era (1920- ) to have at least seventy
stolen bases and seventy RBI in the same season.
Hint:
#2 He was history’s first postseason batter
to have the next two batters homer in succession following his home
run.
A. TIM RAINES [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Raines & his son Tim Jr. were both on the Baltimore Orioles’
roster in 2001. However, they played in only four games together: 03-, 04-, 05(2)- & 06-Oct. If we were to extend beyond what’s call
“Organized Baseball”, Willie Wells Sr. & Willie Jr. were teammates in 1948
(though they don’t satisfy the hints.) Reader
Mark Pattison has furnished us with the following nugget: In that game on Oct. 6, 2001, not only was
Tim Raines Jr. in the lineup, but so was Cal Ripken Jr. (his last game) and
Jerry Hairston Jr.” Further, he adds., “This
is why the American League has been called the Junior Circuit.”
- #1 In
1983 with MON, Raines had 90
SB & 71 RBI, both career highs. Four others have followed.
- #2 Yankees
Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul
O'Neill
homered back-to-back-to-back in the 6th inning off CLE’s Eric Plunk
in game 1 of the 1997 ALDS.
FCR - Bill Deane, Cooperstown
Incorrect
guesses: Ken Griffey, Sr., Bobby Bonds,
Craig Biggio
SATURDAY
— 05-Sep-2026
Q. Who hit more triples in one season than any
other switch hitter?
Hint:
#1 He once helped his team win a World
Series Championship but contributed exactly zero (0) home runs.
Hint:
#2 His record for the longest hitting
streak in the history of his franchise has lasted more than one hundred thirty
years.
A. GEORGE DAVIS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Davis
hit 27 triples for in 133 in games in his 1st year with the Giants, 1893.
- #1 Davis
was the starting SS on the 1906 “Hitless Wonders”
White Sox in 133 of the team’s 154 games.
He was only 2 off the team lead with his 0 HR total. Somehow, they beat the Cubs in the WS, 4 games to 2.
- #2 Davis’
hitting streak of 33 games set in1893 is still the Giants’ standard.
FCR - Terry Walters, Wabasha, Minnesota
Incorrect
guesses: Mark Koenig, Pete Rose, Owen “Chief”
Wilson, Max Carey, Willie Keeler, Roger Connor
SUNDAY — 06-Sep-2026
Q. The last name of which Seattle Mariners
player means “Glass: in Portuguese?
Hint:
#1 As an infielder playing for a franchise
domiciled outside the United Stats, he twice had seasons with more than 95 RBI.
Hint:
#2 Those were two of his All-Star
seasons.
A. JOSE
VIDRO [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Vidro
is Portuguese for “glass.”
- #1 As
a Montreal Expo in 2000 & 2002, Vidro had 97 & 96 RBI respectively. In his 12-year career in the majors, his RBI
total never exceeded 65 in any other season.
- #2 Vidro
was an NL AS in 2000,
2002
& 2003.
FCR - Randall Chandler, Germantown, Tennessee
Incorrect
guesses:
THEME: Switch-hitting National Leaguers with .300+
career batting averages (min. 1,000 games)*
Player BA Games Career NL Teams WAR
Connor ... .314...... 1875..... 1880.. 1897... TRO,
NYG, PHI, STL.......... 84.2
Davis....... .313...... 1516..... 1890.. 1903... CLV,
NYG........ 84.4
Frisch...... .316...... 2311..... 1919.. 1937... STL,
NYG......... 71.7
Jones....... .303...... 2499..... 1993.. 2012... ATL................... 85.3
Raines..... .300...... 1550..... 1979.. 2002... MON,
FLA........ 69.5
Rose........ .303...... 3562..... 1963.. 1986... CIN,
MON, PHI. 79.6
Vidro........ .301...... 1186..... 1997.. 2006... MON/WSN....... 17.4
https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/F9I5o
*Averages
& games include all major leagues games.
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – [Many came close. However... ]
Incorrect
theme guesses:
Tues - Player-manager
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Player-managers
that won an MVP
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Player-managers
who a World Series
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Managers
whose managerial record is over .500 that had at least 2,000 hits as players
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Most
hits in a career by a switch hitter
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Switch
hitters who had career batting averages over .300 from both sides of the plate
Wed - HOF
switch hitters with highest career batting average
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Players
who won one MVP award and had 2,700 or more hits
-
Players
who won one MVP award and had a career .300 batting average
Thur - Switch-hitters
with 2,400 or more hits
-
Highest
career WAR for switch-hitters
Fri - Highest
career WAR for Hall of Fame switch-hitters
Sat - Highest
single season BA for a switch hitter
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