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TRIVIA: Pinch hitting for Hall of Famers
The previous trivia question asked:
“What future Hall of Fame player was given a tryout for the Red Sox at Fenway Park but never received a call-back despite performing exceptionally well in front of Red Sox management?”
BONUS POINT if you can name the other Hall of Famer who also did not receive a callback and what this player always lamented about having missed out on the Red Sox. If you can name this, you get a free pass on not using the honor code for the next trivia question.
Chops nailed it with the answer, Jackie Robinson. He also nailed the bonus point, which means he can ignore the honor code for the trivia question below. Chops can e-mail me the date of the game he would like to write the game notes for by next Tuesday. The answer to the bonus point was Willie Mays, and Mays always lamented about not playing with Ted Williams. He told Ted that he felt they were “destined” to play together, and he is convinced the Red Sox would have won a World Series, if not multiple World Series, had the Sox signed him.
The next trivia question:
Carroll Hardy, a former Boston Red Sox backup outfielder, pinch-hit for two current/future Hall of Famers while with the Boston Red Sox, and for one of the Hall of Famers, it is/was the only time this player has/d been pinch-hit for. Who are/were they?
HONOR CODE: You may look up Hardy’s statistics and the players on the years he played for the Red Sox, but you cannot find the answer via a search term.
Winner gets to choose the Ceremonial First Pitch where Fireside Chats tackles a topic of your choosing to kick off the show.
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10 Responses to “TRIVIA: Pinch hitting for Hall of Famers”
May 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Williams and Yaz? Its a total shot in the dark, but knowing the years those are the only two close I can think of…
May 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Darn! I knew that one, but Tom A, you beat me to it by - what - six minutes?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Correct. He also pinch hit for Roger Maris.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
This is the second one I’ve randomly stumbled on at lunch break soon after Evan’s posted…guess I’m just getting a little lucky (I swear I only check the site once or twice a day)
May 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Great outing for Colon today:
6 IP, 1 hit, 4 K, 0 BB, 11 ground outs, 3 fly outs, 64 pitches, 45 for strikes.
due to the low pitch count on this one, it seems that he will make at least one more start for the Pawsox.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hey tom - check more often! ;)
May 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Williams and Foxx.
Sure, why not.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Haha, I try Evan!
Jc, thanks for the update. I think we’re all excited to possibly get Colon up and further strengthening our starting corps. I bet NY and many other teams with depth issues and struggling young pitchers are wishing they made an investment like Bartolo a few months ago.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
The teams with small budgets envied the Sox, because we had the money and talent to bring Santana, Bedard, Haren aboard. Yet we passed on them.
During that tme frame, the same teams with small budgets, and pitching-hungry teams with big budgets, passed on Bartolo Colon (28 of them?), and the Sox took a chance, played the lottery.
Seeing his recent successes, Is it possible we have replaced the impact of Santana/Bedard/Haren/Blanton at low cost, while keeping all of the proposed trade chips intact: Lester, Buchholz, Masterson, Bowden, Ellsbury, Lowrie, Moss?
This could be your reputation-maker, Theo, and we will know in a couple of weeks.
Nevertheless, some gratuitous advice: keep Aardsma, bring up Lowrie for you-know-who, try Zinc in the Pen, find out who is giving hitting lessons to Cash and hire him/her for the team.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Definitely another encouraging performance from Colon, but it stinks that he’s not stretched out yet. Guess that means David Pauley will be back up to start on Tuesday.
In worse news, Masterson got knocked around again yesterday, which is four straight rough outings since the big league callup.
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