MONDAY
Q. Which
Hall of Famer drew his nickname from his exclamation whenever his pitcher threw
a particularly admirable pitch?
Hint: He
set the record for the most chances accepted in a season by a shortstop.
Hint: Only
Rabbit Maranville and Bill Dahlen had more shortstop putouts in a career.
Twint: At
his Hall of Fame induction, he admitted, "I was more surprised by my
election than anything that ever happened to me. But my wife wasn't. She thought it should have come a little
sooner."
Twint: He
once played a game with pneumonia and a blazing fever, collapsed in the
clubhouse and was rushed to the hospital after the game.
- 4,623
putouts (Maranville 5,139; Dahlen 4,856)
- Fever
game 28-Jun-1923
FCR - Barry
Nelson, Guilderland, NY
Incorrect answers: Hughie Jennings, Donie Bush, Happy Felsch,
Arky Vaughan, Luis Aparicio, Sam Crawford, Ernie Banks, Ozzie Smith, Jack
Glasscock
IN MEMORIAM
Q. Before
Gerald Ford was president, who was the only American League third baseman to
win a Gold Glove Award who wasn’t named Brooks Robinson?
Hint: He
won three in a row.
Hint: Only
Carl Yastrzemski had more at-bats for the Red Sox during the 1960’s.
Hint: In
his first full season, he became the first player to lead the league at his
position in all of the following: games
played, putouts, errors, assists, double plays and fielding percentage.
Hint: He
was a scout for the Red Sox for more than three decades.
Twint: Through 1961, he tied a record by leading AL third basemen in
double plays for five straight seasons.
Twint: Although his
heart was with the Red Sox, he took advantage of free agency and played his
last season as an Angel.
- AL
3b GG 1957-59
- 3,285
AB’s 1960-65 (Yaz
had 5,175 1960-69)
- Stat
line from 1957
- Played
for CAL in
1966
FCR - Joe
LeBritton, Dripping Springs, TX
Incorrect answers: Butch Hobson, Wade Boggs, Rico Petrocelli,
Clete Boyer
TUESDAY
Q. Who
trails only Ty Cobb in career steals of home?
Hint: He
was the first player to collect two hits in an inning twice in one game.
Hint: He
is the only Pittsburgh Pirate to lead the league in stolen bases four straight
seasons.
Hint: He
did it twice, in two separate stretches.
Twint: No
other Pirate had more career stolen bases.
- 33
to Cobb’s
54
- NL
SB lead 1915-18 then 1922-25
- 688
SB (Wagner is 2nd
w/639)
FCR - Steve
Schwartz, Chico, CA
Incorrect answers: Honus Wager, Fred Clarke, Sam Crawford, Kiki
Cuyler, Paul Waner
WEDNESDAY
Q. What
Hall of Famer holds the record for the longest hitting streak in the history of
the Giants’ franchise?
Hint: He
had over 2,600 hits in his 20-year career, but vanished from public life after
coaching at Amherst a decade after his retirement.
Hint: Hall
of Fame historian Lee Allen discovered his death certificate in a Philadelphia
hospital, signed by his wife.
Twint: He
was elected to the Hall 30 years after that discovery.
Twint: His
mysterious later life is discussed in his SABR Bio.
- 33
straight G in1893
- 2,665
H 1890-1909
FCR - Dave
Serota, Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: Mel Ott, Jack Clark, Kid Nichols, Joe Kelly
THURSDAY
Q. Who
managed the darkening of the hosiery?
Hint: His
first manager was THE first manager.
Twint: He
was the last National League player to score more runs in a season than he
allowed as a pitcher (minimum 50 R allowed).
- Managed
the Chicago White Sox 1919-23. The 1919 World
Series scandal saw (and still sees) the baseball media refer to that team
as “The Black Sox”.
- Gleason
first played under Harry
Wright who managed the first professional baseball team beginning in 1869,
the Cincinnati
Red Stockings. He was the manager of the Philadelphia
Quakers in 1888, Gleason's rookie year.
- In
1895, he surrendered 51 runs, but scored 90.
FCR - Tim
Doherty, Los Angeles, CA
Incorrect answers: Kid Nichols, George Wright, Harry Wright, Cap
Anson, Pants Rowland
FRIDAY
Q. Who
compiled the most at-bats for the Detroit Tigers during the 1910's?
Hint: No
player at his position has ever had more putouts in a season.
Hint: He
was Ted Williams’ minor league manager.
Twint: He
received MVP votes in three of the first four seasons that such an award
existed.
Twint: A
savvy lead-off batter, he led the AL in bases-on-balls five times and was in
the leagues top ten another seven times.
- 5,462
1910-1919 (Ty Cobb had 5,034)
- 425
PO in 1914. His manager, Hughie
Jennings, set the mark 9 years earlier while playing with the Baltimore Orioles. They now share it and no one has come close
for over a century.
FCR - Dave
Serota, Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: Bobby Veach, Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann, Ty
Cobb
BOWL GAMES BONUS
Q. Who
was the first pinch-hitter to collect an RBI in the modern World Series?
Hint: He
got an RBI on a sacrifice fly.
Hint: He
was the last catcher to have at least ten doubles, ten triples, ten doubles AND
ten stolen bases in a single season.
Twint: He
caught Jesse Tannehill’s no-hitter 17-Aug-1904, and even helped by making a
very good catch on a twisting foul fly.
Twint: James
C. O’Leary of the Boston Globe wrote in his obituary, “It is
doubtful if a more lovable character ever has been, or ever will be, connected
with baseball.”
Twint: O’Leary
continued, “Clean spoken, clean living, __________ was a character worthy of
emulation by all connected with baseball today.”
- 1903
WS, G
4, 9th inning 1 out, PH for Lou
Criger, SF drove in Freddy Parent)
- 1891
= 19 2b, 13 3b, 12 HR & 21 SB
- Tannehill’s
no-no box score not available
FCR - Bruce
Didriksen, Park Ridge, NJ
Incorrect answers: Yogi Berra, Johnny Kling, Roger Bresnahan
SATURDAY
Q. Who
was the only man to play for all of Brooklyn's 19th-century pennant
winners?
Hint: He
shared the catcher duties with Connie Mack on the 1889 Washington Senators.
Twint: Sporting
Life reporting him as the highest-paid catcher in history (to that point).
- Sporting
Life 01-Nov-1890
FCR - Dave
Serota, Kalamazoo, MI
Incorrect answers: John McGraw, Wilbert Robinson
SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL
Q. Who
was the first native of Norway to make it to the majors?
Hint: He
was the 27th out of Addie Joss’s perfect game.
Hint: A
few years earlier, he was traded in a season when he led the league in triples
and slugging.
Twint: He
led the original Milwaukee Brewers
in plate appearances, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, home runs, RBI, stolen
bases, batting average, slugging, OBP, OPS, OPS+, WAR and several other even
more arcane stats.
Twint: Season
AND career!
- B.
14-Dec-1873 Sarpsborg, Norway
- Joss’s perfecto 02-Oct-1908. It was the last at-bat of Anderson’s career.
- 1901 Milwaukee
Brewers, 48-89, Finished 8th
in the freshly-minted American League; re-purposed in 1902 at the St. Louis
Browns (Finished 35½ G behind pennant-winning CHW & 5½ back of 7th
pace CLE.)
- The
1902 season found them relocated and re-packaged as the St. Louis Browns.
.
Milwaukee wouldn’t have another major league team until 1953.
FCR - Dave
Goss, Wind Gap, PA
Incorrect answers: Jack
Ryan, Deacon McGuire
WEEKEND BONUS
Q. Who
was compelled to abandon his career as a shortstop since his teammate and
longtime friend was, according to some, the best shortstop of all-time?
Hint: He
was born, died and is buried about an hour from where he played most of his
major league baseball.
Twint: He
was a pawn in one of the most famous and influential trades of all time.
Twint: His
better-known friend was one of the kingpins of that trade.
- He
and Honus
Wagner were born less than six months apart in NW Pennsylvania.
- They
played one year in the minors together for a very mobile team, the Steubenville Stubs; Akron Akrons; and the Lima
Farmers. They then met up again in the majors in1898
playing for the Louisville
Colonels and played there the next year as well.
- They were both part of the trade
that imploded Louisville and solidified Pirates’ nickname. The 2 players spent from 1900 to 1906 on the Bucs
for a total of 10 professional seasons as teammates.
- Following
the 1899 season, the National League shrank itself from 12 teams down to 8,
dropping Louisville,
Baltimore,
Cleveland
and Washington
and stayed that size until 1962.
FCR - No
one
Incorrect answers: Pie Traynor, Fred Clarke, Bones Ely, Deacon
McGuire
SUNDAY
Q. Who
trails only Craig Biggio and Hughie Jennings in number of times hit by pitch in
a major league career?
Hint: He
was nicknamed "Foghorn" for his loud-mouthed style as a base coach.
Hint: He
made routine plays at first exciting flashy, one-handed scoops with his small
glove.
Hint: He
ended his major league playing career with one of the worst teams in the
history of ANY professional sport. They
didn’t lose them all, but…
Twint: He
was once assaulted by Philadelphia fans for leading his team's stalling tactics
in the hopes of a rainout.
Twint: An
on-field fistfight he once had with John McGraw became historic.
- 1899 Cleveland
Spiders, 84 (not a typo) games out of first place
- Date
of rainout attempt not available
- McGraw
fight as reported in a Sporting News
article from August 1, 1994:
“John
McGraw waits at third base for a hell-bent baserunner named Tommy Tucker
who plays for the Boston Beaneaters. Tucker slides hard, and McGraw, who's been
feuding with Tucker (McGraw feuds with everyone.), kicks Tucker in the head as
he lays on the tag. Tucker jumps to his feet and the two start punching. The
crowd rises to egg on the pair, eating up the action. Midway through the fight,
someone notices that the right-field stands are on fire. But McGraw and Tucker keep fighting as the
fire spreads through Boston's
old South End Grounds and destroys the grandstand behind home plate.”
FCR - Corey
Seward, Phoenix, AZ
Incorrect answers: Don Baylor, Ron Hunt, Kid Elberfeld, Don
Zimmer, Hans Lobert, George Myatt, Jimmie Foxx, George Miller
WEEKLY
THEME – First
10 switch-hitters to get 1,500 hits
Name Debut Final Years 1,500th H Final H Total
1. Tucker 1887 1899 13 1896 1,882
2. Davis* 1890 1909 20 1899 2,665
3. Farrell 1888 1905 18 1902 1,572
4. Gleason 1888 1912 22 1903 1,946
5. Daly 1884 1903 17 1903 1,583
6. Anderson 1894 1908 14 1906 1,843
7. Ritchey 1897 1909 13 1908 1,619
8. Bush 1908 1923 16 17-Apr-1920 1,804
9. Carey* 1910 1929 20 18-Jun-1921 2,665
10. Bancroft* 1915 1930 16 28-May-1925 2,004
*Hall of Fame
First Correct Respondent
to Identify Theme – No
one
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - Infielders who hit
.400 in a season
- Worst players
in the Hall of Fame
Tuesday - Switch-hitting
Hall of Famers
- Hall of famers
that led the league in errors in the same season they led the league in
fielding range
- Hall of famers
that led the league in errors multiple times
- HOFers who
managed in the AAGPBL
- HOS shortstops
- 10-year big
leaguers who managed in the AAGPBL
Wed. - Hall
of Fame switch hitters
- Switch-hitting
position players in the HOF
- HOF
switch-hitters not elected by the BBWA
Thursday - Pre-1900
HOF’ers named George
- Actors, have
been on tv, or have the same name of Hollywood actors
Sunday - Players
from the 1800s who were career leaders in a category for the American
Association
- Switch-hitters
who, at least once in their careers, led their league in assists and errors at
their respective positions
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