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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Well, well, if it isn’t our old friend Keith “Johnny” Law challenging his fellow Primates…
Editor’s Note: This summer, we’ll be inviting a handful of special guests to contribute a week’s worth of quizzes in the 5pm time slot. Our first such guest has been baseball expert/food critic/bookworm Keith Law of ESPN, whose fifth quiz is below. Give him a round of applause for a job well done.
I do write about baseball for a living, so I suppose I’d be remiss if I didn’t throw one baseball-related quiz into the mix. I generally don’t like “small ball” tactics because they don’t work as well as many baseball people (including many current managers) seem to think. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy watching some aspects of small ball, such as the stolen base. Tampa Bay left fielder Carl Crawford is currently on pace to become the first player to steal 90 bases in one season in over two decades, and he’d become just the ninth player to break that barrier since 1901. Can you name the other eight?
Post yer scores inside, and make sure to visit, because this is one of the few times you can read Keith without having to risk Buster Olney’s mug appearing on your screen.
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1. Chris Needham Posted: June 02, 2009 at 12:23 AM (#3202577)I'm only upset about missing one of the names on the list. The other three I missed I never would've guessed.
(SPOILER, though really you should know better)
trying to remember Ron LeFlore's name. I could *not* get Gates Brown out of my freaking head. That's the most anyone's thought about Gates Brown, including Gates himself, in a long time. I never would have gotten the last. I was surprised when Willie Wilson (my only guess other than typing in random Tiger outfielders to try and jog my memory) didn't make it, but he topped at 83 and 79.
I kept typing in wilsons name thinking I must have spelled it wrong. I imagine the six I got were the six everyone should have gotten.
I was sure about 7 names going in - 6 of which were right and one of which was Willie Wilson. The last two that I got by just guessing the names of really fast guys from the right era were the guys referred to in #5 and #6.
Yeah, it helps to be in your 40s for this quiz. (there's damn little that it helps to be in your 40s)
Milan? Am I spacing on someone here?
Clyde Milan. Deadballer. I think he was a Senator. I guessed him before either of the last two I got.
EDIT: Yes, he was a Senator and probably has the most steals in a season for anybody not on the list - he stole 88 in 1912 (and 75 in 1913).
I don't think so. Leflore rang a bell when the answer came up, I knew he had played for the Tigers when I saw his name. I had nothing for Moreno, I had no idea who played for, what position he played, or when he played.
I remember him well, just didn't even think of him. Besides Hamilton I also got locked in on Willie Wilson.
Thanks for the history lesson! It'll certainly make it easier for me to remember LeFlore from here on out. Cool stuff.
Good luck.
I am just terrible at these, even though I've heard of all the players. I forgot Wills's name ("That fast guy that old-timers want in the hall") and somehow I managed to space on Cobb as well. Jesus.
Edit: I didn't actually know Rock had done it, but guessed him quickly.
even more amazinglier, The Outmaker didn't have the worst OPS+ of all the guys that stole >90
(I woulda bet a nickel that he did)
Someone mentioned upthread that it helps to be in your 40's for this quiz, and it's true. Moreno and LeFlore were easy ones for me. Add in the six obvious ones and I thought this was a trick question.
Aside from Wills, Davy Lopes stole 77, Jose Reyes 78, and Frank Taveras 70.
I guess instead of having a space in my brain for Maury Wills, I just had two Lou Brocks.
I deserve some kind of idiot prize for blanking on Cobb, but trying Hans Lobert.
Omar Moreno was the last one — I suspect that's typical. (I grew up in Michigan, so I got LeFlore easily.) Other names I tried before Moreno were Willie Wilson and Frank Taveras. I think I tried Willie Wilson two or three times. :-)
It was better than that. It was apparently bumped by Ron's current boss at the cab company, if the poster was to be believed.
As a kid, I watched the Ron LeFlore story when it was a CBS Movie of the Week. The best part was when Ron knocked one out of the prison yard and one of his fellow inmates said, "I'll go get it." That one just killed the 9-year-old SoSH U.
You got Moreno and missed Cobb? Jesus, that's like...I don't know.
Well Vlad's a Pirate fan, so knowing the members of the Family is understandable. He can probably reel off great stuff on Don Robinson and Tim Foli for you.
I did too, I was about to post a comment that I didn't know Omar or Leflore because I was not quite a teenager and focused almost exclusively on the national league. I checked Omars stats to make sure I wasn't going to make a fool of myself with that comment and realized--only one year with the Royals? Really?
Otherwise, it went quick--no wrong guesses in the first seven and then wasted a bunch of time trying to remember "Brian Hunter". I also tried "Chico Walker" for inside jokish reasons.
that's probably possible. Growing up being from St Louis the Royals were my american league team (along with the Red Sox and the A's)
of course now that I think about it more, I'm pretty sure I have Omar Morenos 77, and 80 baseball card.
Hitting enter is the same as clicking the "I give up" button. You don't have to enter for correct answers, it just accepts them as soon as you've completed typing their names.
I got six in about five seconds, then stewed for quite a while guessing names like Max Carey, then went to baseball-reference and found LeFlore and Moreno, who I'd never have remembered (and I'm (barely) in my 40s). Still had about four minutes to go.
I got 7 and missed Brock. Top THAT.
I typed in Collins, but I was going with Eddie. That actually wasn't a bad guess, he stole 81 one season.
Sub quiz: Who had the most CAUGHT Stealing in a season (post 1901) who is NOT in the above 8 burners.
Hint:
It's a 3 way tie
All within 1 year of each other.
Uh...
1 of the three had more CS than SB1
The other has the same name as a present-day comedian
The third.. uh... played with a HOF 1B who was also a relief pitcher that year?
Oh, and I had no idea, I just looked at the list, curious.
Lonnie Smith?
Edit: Nope, though he did have 26 one year.
I missed 3.
Darrell Evans.
How about managed the Dodgers?
I got LeFlore on a WAG after a couple of minutes. I knew he stole a ton of bases every year, never knew it was that many, though. Ricky, Rock, Vince, Cobb, Wills, and Brock came easy.
Oh, absolutely.
I missed 2. I'm really surprised Jeff Kent doesn't have 400.
I never would have gotten Evans on the 400-HR quiz. I was shocked to see that Vlad hasn't reached 400 yet. I am proud to report, however, that I missed Canseco.
Vince Coleman, Rickey Henderson, Maury Wills, Lou Brock. Ty Cobb.. Tim Raines.....Ron LeFlore............ Wow. Someone like Omar Moreno?
Also missed pretty much all the active guys like A-Rod, Manny, Thomas, etc. Should have read the rules more carefully.
should have gotten 8, can't believe I dind't get Wills
was never ever going to get LeFlore-and I saw him play, I even saw the movie about him...
Never heard of Omar the Outmaker?????
seriously, he had that nickname only because it was before the MSM decided that only basement dwelling stat geeks ragged on players for having a low OBP
I also missed Sheffield, Delgado, and Canseco. And I typed "Gonzalez" not know if it would be Juan, Luis, or both.
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