MONDAY
Q. Who
is the only major leaguer to be featured on three separate issues of U.S.
postage stamps?
Hint: Yes,
Yogi. He was safe.
Hint: To
cap his collegiate career, he won swimming championships and reached the
semifinals of a national tennis tournament.
Twint: He
was the first ever BWAA Rookie of the Year.
FCR - Paul
Hirsch, Danville, CA
TUESDAY
Q. What
Yankee holds the major league record for the most hits in a ten-year period?
Hint: He
had seven hitting streaks of 20 or more games.
Twint: He
scored three runs in the final game of the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
A. Ichiro Suzuki (2,244 H 2001-2010)
FCR - Richard
Nicholson, Richmond, VA
WEDNESDAY
Q. What
three-time All-Star is known as “Laser Show”?
Hint: Various
sources disagree about his height, but none argue that he’s not under 5’10”.
Twint: Ian Kinsler
& Andre
Ethier were two of his teammates at Arizona State.
A. Dustin Pedroia (Is listed by MLB at 5'
8". USA Today gave his height as
5' 7". The NCAA gave his height as
5' 8".
FCR - Jerry Mora, Prescott, AZ
EQUINOX EXTRA
Q. Who
is the only player to win the ALCS MVP award while playing for the losing team?
Hint: He
played football and baseball in college, in both cases for coaches enshrined in
their respective Halls of Fame.
Twint: To
this day, he feels a certain fondness for Giants pitcher Atlee Hammaker.
A. Fred Lynn (Hit .611 in the 1982 ALCS;
Played at USC for John McKay
and Rod Dedeaux. McKay was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a
coach in 1988. Dedeaux was inducted into
the American Baseball Coaches
Association's Hall of Fame in 1970; Hit the only GS in ASG history off Hammaker
in 1983.)
FCR - Bob Wilber, Spokane, WA
THURSDAY
Q. Who
begs Kate Upton to allow him into the Perfect Club?
Hint: The
Panda would probably have let him in.
Hint: In
eight seasons in the majors, he has yet to be on the Disabled List.
Twint: His
union rep father negotiated his first contract with the Tigers.
A. Justin Verlander (Club scene; Pablo “Panda”
Sandoval tripled off him in the All-Star
Game and homered off him in the World Series
in 2012.)
FCR - Paul
Hirsch, Danville, CA
FRIDAY
Q. Who
has amassed four of the top seven season home run totals for his team in his
brief nine seasons with the team?
Hint: One
season, only he an Albert Pujols received MVP votes in the National League.
Twint: His
namesake (but no doppelganger) is a character with questionable character on The Office.
A. Ryan Howard (2006 NL
MVP voting; The Office’s Ryan Howard)
FCR - David Krassin, New York, New York
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was responsible, according to a well-publicized fan vote, for the "Most
Memorable Moment" in MLB history?
Hint: Alex
Rodriguez shows no interest in breaking one of this guy’s biggest records.
Twint: He
owns and runs, with his brother Billy, a highly successful baseball academy.
A. Cal Ripken (Moment: 2,321st
consecutive game played, a record at one time held by Lou Gehrig
and universally considered unbreakable; A-Rod is only 1 HR short of Ripken’s
record for HRs hit by a SS, but has expressed that he’s now happy at 3rd;
Ripken Baseball)
FCR - Matthew
Repplinger, Denver, CO
SUNDAY
Q. Whose
explosive entrance into organized baseball likely kept Hall of Famer Ray
Dandridge from ever reaching the majors?
Hint: He
helped keep a teammate’s drinking problem under control by giving him a bottle
of Old Crow every Monday.
Twint: He
never led the league in runs-batted-in, but ranks eleventh on the all-time
list.
A. Willie Mays (Dandridge would likely
have been called up to the Giants, but management feared having “too many
blacks” and chose Mays; w/1,903 RBI, his 11th-place position seems
secure for years to come; Jim Ray Hart’s
alcohol situation was cleverly regulated as Mays tried a modified version of
the method he has witnessed Leo Durocher
use on Dusty
Rhodes.)
FCR - Fred Brillhart, Mechanicsburg, PA
EX-POST FACTO BONUS
Q. The
Dodgers have had sixteen players win the Rookie of the Year Award. Who was the second ever?
Hint: Although
a pitcher in the U.S. he had a successful season in Japan as a first baseman
and outfielder.
Hint: Maury
Wills credits him with his turnaround when Wills was fighting drug addiction.
Twint: His
career winning percentage is better than those of Addie Joss, Carl Hubbell, Bob
Feller and Cy Young.
A. Don Newcombe (ROY
1949; 1962 for the Chunichi
Dragons; W/L % .623)
FCR - Chuck Durante, Dover, DE
APRÈS-SKI
Q. Who
continued a strong school tradition begun by Mike Fuentes and Mike Loynd?
Hint: His
call-up accelerated the trade of the league’s best catcher.
Hint: His
injury was one of the most devastating that a World Series champion team that any
team suffered this century.
Twint: He
has two World Series rings and has yet to appear on a team that has lost a
post-season series.
A. Buster Posey (Fuentes
and Loynd
won the Golden
Spikes Award for Florida
State University as did Posey in 2008 [as also did J.D. Drew
in 1997]; The Giants traded Bengie
Molina to Texas on 01‑Jul‑2010 for Chris Ray and
a minor leaguer named Michael
Main—none of the three played in the majors last year; Posey’s leg was
broken 25‑May‑2011
in a collision at the plate with Scott
Cousins.)
FCR - Stephen Klatsky, Washington, DC
WEEKLY THEME
– Rookies of the Year who won league MVPs before their 500th MLB
game
Player ROY MVP G
Howard 2005 2006 266
Lynn 1975 1975 160
Mays 1951 1954 306
Newcombe 1949 1956 219
Pedroia 2007 2008 327
Posey 2010 2012 308
Ripken 1982 1983 354
Robinson 1947 1949 454
Suzuki 2001 2001 157
Verlander 2006 2011 232
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – Gregg
Gaylord, Chicago, IL (after the Pedroia Q.)
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