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[BigFin]

Walter Johnson?

 

[Pure Steel]

Cy Young

 

[Cedrique]

Cy Young

Got it! My next question - who was the first player to die of Lou Gehrig's disease?

 

[Cedrique]

Walter Johnson?

Good guess, I think he was second

 

[msgkings322]

yes

it was, of course, Cy Young

 

[Cedrique]

it was, of course, Cy Young

yeah when you crank out 511 Wins, you're gonna have some 20+ win seasons. He did it 16 times.

 

[Cedrique]

Name the all time stolen base leaders at each position. Free square-Left Field was Rickey Henderson. Hint: All retired within the last 50 years. 3 of them started their career in the 60's and retired in the 80's. The pitcher went from late 50's to mid 70's. The rest are more recent.

 

[calsnowskier]

All WAGs…

C- Biggio
1B - Joyner (almost certainly wrong)
2B - White
SS - Larkin
3B - Concepcion
RF - Coleman
CF - Raines
P - Marichel

 

[Cedrique]

All WAGs…

C- Biggio
1B - Joyner (almost certainly wrong)
2B - White
SS - Larkin
3B - Concepcion
RF - Coleman
CF - Raines
P - Marichel

All reasonable guesses, except I always considered Concepcion a shortstop (although he may have played 3rd too) but none correct. I guess this is a pretty tough question. But they are all players whose names you would recognize and 5 are hall of famers (including Henderson).

 

[wood20ks]

Kenny Lofton CF......??
Acuna SS......??

 

[Cedrique]

Kenny Lofton CF......??
Acuna SS......??

No, good guess though. Lofton was close.

 

[calsnowskier]

All reasonable guesses, except I always considered Concepcion a shortstop (although he may have played 3rd too) but none correct. I guess this is a pretty tough question. But they are all players whose names you would recognize and 5 are hall of famers (including Henderson).

I avoided looking them up, so some of the positions are likely off…

 

[calsnowskier]

Mays for CF?

 

[BigFin]

JT Realmuto?

 

[Pure Steel]

Ty Cobb has to be on there…..

 

[Pure Steel]

I assume Rickey knocks Brock out of LF, although he played other OF positions

 

[Cedrique]

Mays for CF?

not Mays

 

[Cedrique]

JT Realmuto?

Nope, not yet anyway

 

[Cedrique]

Ty Cobb has to be on there…..

No sorry I should have said this is for the live ball era, after 1920. And as it turns out all of them Played at least until the mid 70's most of them more recent. But if we included dead ball players there was also a guy named Billy Hamilton who beat out Cobb with 914 in the 1800s or something.

 

[Cedrique]

This clue probably doesn't help many people but the Centerfielder is well known to old time Phillies fans for an At Bat against Tug McGraw.