I’ll post answers tomorrow, maybe. Looking up answers is not honorable.
1. Who hit the most career homers playing ONLY for one team?
2. Bobby Abreu currently shares a record with 2 other players, which he will own outright if he has a characteristic year in ’07. What is it?
3. Of all players at the 4 up-the-middle positions (C-2b-SS-CF), who had the highest single-season on-base pct at .512?
4. What pitcher won the most games in the 1890s?
5. What 19th-century hitter had the highest career on-base + slugging (OPS)?
6. Who was the first Brooklyn Dodger to lead the NL in OBP?
7. What was the last World Series played at one ballpark?
8. Who has the most career hits without playing in a World Series?
9. Who has the most career wins without pitching in a World Series?
10. Who has the most career plate appearances — over 11,000 — of ELIGIBLE players NOT in the Hall of Fame? (ie not Stinky Pete)
11. Who won 3 MVPs in a 10-year career?
12. What Negro Leagues HOFer played significant time at all 9 positions?
13. What HOF second baseman played barehanded in the field in the first 14 of his 18 seasons?
14. Who led the NL in OBP first with the Brooklyn Dodgers, then with the NY Giants?
15. Of the 4 superstars on Connie Mack’s 1929–31 Philadelphia A’s, who’s the only one with an A’s cap on his HOF plaque?
16. Who got the basehit that scored Enos Slaughter when Johnny Pesky ‘held the ball’ in the 1946 World Series?
(I’m doing this from memory)
17. What pitcher led his league in ERA the most times?
wow the answer to #11 is kinda surprising! (at least to me because i’m dumm)
I missed that one but it seemed obv in retrospect.
Do the Milwaukee Braves and Atlanta Braves count as the same team?
In a rush, but I’ll take a few guesses
1. Banks
2. Most consec. seasons with 100+ walks
3. Hornsby? Vaughn? (I’m gonna stray from Cobb)
4. Galvin
5. Delahanty
6. Babe Herman (total guess)
7. 1922 (or 1921, Yanks vs Giants)
11. Campanella
15. Grove (too obvious?)
16. I read Ted Williams’ autobiography a million times so I can’t believe I forgot this
3. Mickey Mantle (that and maybe the first one is the only one I know.)
Oh wait I forgot that Aaron got traded to the Brewers at the end. Ack.
wow the answer to #11 is kinda surprising! (at least to me because i’m dumm)
— Matt Cibula (expresso222...), February 14th, 2007. (Formerly, the Haikunym) (later) (link)
I missed that one but it seemed obv in retrospect.
— Dr Morbius (wjwe...), February 14th, 2007. (Dr Morbius) (later) (link)
Weird, that’s the only one I knew off the top of my head.
Alex, yes and yes, and yes on Mantle!
Barry, good job on Abreu and Campy, otherwise wrong.
answer #1 has been in the news this week with crazy quotes
Really? I haven’t been reading the news. I cheated and looked and I have to say I completely forgot that he played his entire career for the same team.
I forgot he was ahead of Mantle
#10: Harold Baines?
schmidt
(Ah, I just looked it up, and Baines has the second-most. Very interesting.)
I got #10 by thinking of a guy with 2800+ hits who wasn’t in, and he was the first guy who came to mind.
What database do you use that has PA, john?
baseball-reference.com
answer #1 has been in the news this week with crazy quotes
Can I still post here if the only guy I can think of is Mariano Rivera?
Haha good lord what the hell is he talking about it? Greg Luzinski!!?!?
I love love love the idea that Albert Pujols (who may end up being on the top five offensive players who’ve ever played) is someone who YOU CAN JUST DECIDE TO BE LIKE on a whim. The only thing separating Adam Dunn and Pat Burrell from Pujols is this wee wickle stwikeout problem. If they could just choke up a little with two stwikes then PUJOLS away for both of ’em.
Considering I read about baseball for hours a day, I find it amazing how incredibly bad I am at baseball trivia.
one more:
17. What Cy Young winner spent his career pitching only for the 3 (existing) teams named after birds?
btw, the quiz is ny Elliot Hines of SABR.
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I want answers (I am still missing 4, 7, 8, 9)!
soon!
1. Schmidt
2. 100+ walks in consec years
3. Mantle
4. Kid Nichols (I guessed right)
5. Dan Brouthers
6. Casey Stengel
7. Sportsmans Park, St Louis, 1944
8. Carew
9. Phil Niekro
10. Rusty Staub
11. Roy Campanella
12. Martin Dihigo
13. Bid McPhee
14. Eddie Stanky
15. Al Simmons
16. Harry (The Hat) Walker
17. Pat Hentgen
Ooh I thought 12 was Frank Grant!
Pat Hentgen lead the league in ERA the most times?
Haha and here I thought it was Lefty Grove!
sorry, 17 is Grove (with 9, Clemens has 7) and the 2nd “17” is Hentgen :p
I started watching a DVD of Game 6 a friend sent to me a while back. (If you’re my age, Game 6 does not mean 2011 or 1986—it means 1975.) Question I would never have gotten right had someone posed it to me: Who led off for the Red Sox?
don’t know, but I’m your age, and it means 1986 to me.
You’re a Mets fan, so I’d expect that. Don’t know where the majority of non-hometown fans our age would come down on that question. (I was rooting against the Red Sox in ’75, for them in ’86.)
Just left this hanging for 14+ years. Answer: Cecil Cooper.
was morbz your exact age? fun to revisit this thread
Who has the most career hits without playing in a World Series?
it was wild to read this and think “mike trout” (and no i don’t think that’s even close, just my first thought even though i don’t think trout has a ton of hits, anyway) and realize morbs posted that 3 years before his debut <3
6. Who was the first Brooklyn Dodger to lead the NL in OBP?
14. Who led the NL in OBP first with the Brooklyn Dodgers, then with the NY Giants?
is a fun pair of questions
Hiddencasey stengel, eddie stanky