Monthly Archives: October 2014

COG 1911 Results: Voters Fill Hankering for Greenberg

There may be no Hall of Famer who lost a higher percentage of his potential career value as a result of World War II than Hank Greenberg. But COG voters did not let Greenberg’s lost baseball years stand in the way of making him a quick, clear choice as the 76th player inducted into the High Heat Stats Circle of Greats. More on Hank, and the voting, after the jump. Continue reading

World Series Game 7

Tonight, the Royals and Giants take the field for game 7, the 37th time the Fall Classic has had a winner-take-all final game. Home teams are riding a 9 game winning streak in game 7 that goes back to 1982. But, before that, it was a very different trend with the visitors posting a 13-3 game 7 record from 1952 to 1979. Overall, it’s a narrow 19-17 edge for home team in game 7.

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Quiz – what’s old is new again (solved)

What do a few modern pitchers have in common with several old-time hurlers? That’s for you to consider in Quiz #1 on this World Series off day.

Quiz #2 is entirely frivolous and inspired by the Fox network when they made mention that Game #4 was the first ever in a World Series with both starters having a surname starting with the letter V. Thus, your job in Quiz #2 is to determine the starting pitchers in a World Series game whose first and last initials can combine to form the words shown. Bolded and underlined words have more than one solution. How many other words can you come up with?

Rk Quiz #1 Quiz #2
1 Tim Lincecum JABS DARK DEAD
2 Clay Buchholz SEAS CARE PEAS
3 Dwight Gooden CRAB HEMP BASE
4 Dutch Leonard CLAN CREW DREW
5 Rube Foster CADS COPS DARN
6 Iron Davis REEK SECT LEND
7 Weldon Henley SHOD JELL ARMS
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 10/27/2014.

Congratulations to John Autin on solving Quiz #1 and to several of our readers (particularly Luis Gomez, Steve, Scary Tuna and Richard Chester) on having some fun with Quiz #2. The answer to Quiz #1 was that only the quiz players authored a no-hit game for a pennant-winning team but failed to start a game in that year’s World Series. More after the jump.

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Quiz – Sluggers (stumped, sort of)

There have been many prolific power hitters in baseball history, but only these eight have a particular career accomplishment. What is it?

Hint: the active players shown here are not in danger of dropping off this list by the time they retire.

This one stumped everyone but Sir Richard who elected to let others have a go. The answer is that only these players have multiple seasons of 40 doubles and 40 home runs. Those seasons are after the jump.

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