Baseball game

I’ll start by giving a brief series of MLB players’ names, and your job (initially) is to guess the thing they have in common that I’m thinking of. They make have other things in common, perhaps many other things, but you must supply the one I’m thinking of. If you guess right, you win that round, and you get to suggest the next series of names. If you guess wrong, then I have to add another name to my list. When I’ve reached the fullest listing I can think of (not necessarily the fullest listing possible), then you get to guess until you get it right. The right answer might be statistical, it might be biographical, it might be any common link these men have in common with each other.

For example, say I pick Henry Aaron and Willie McCovey. You might guess, “powerful hitters in the 1960s” and I’ll answer “Wrong” (although they certainly fit your answer, but that’s not what I was thinking of) and I’ll add “Reggie Jackson” and someone else then guesses “sluggers who wore the number 44,” and I’ll go “right,” and then that person gets to start another series of names. Okay?

Stan Musial and Carl Yastrzemski.

Each had four letters in his first name.

Played 22 seasons in MLB all with the same team.

Neither has been in my kitchen.

All correct, all not what I’m thinking of. For the two guesses (I’m not counting Cliff Clavin’s as a serious guess), I’ll add Al Simmons and Greg Luzinski.

Ballplayers of Polish descent.

Correct. Your go, RickJay

Joe Mauer and Pete Rose.

Ballplayers born in April

Both won three league batting titles.

Good guesses but no. Let me add two more (this isn’t an easy one to find so I hope someone gets it soon):

Alex Rodriguez
Fred McGriff

They all last played (or currently play) in the city they were born?

Very good, Jas09! All those players played for their hometown team. (Mauer was born in St. Paul, close enough.)

Your turn.

Will Clark
Jay Bell

Each hit a homer in his first MLB at-bat.

Yup, 'fraid it was too easy. :mad:

You’re up!

Harmon Killebrew
Jack Morris

Both played for the Twins.

Both played in one World Series for the Twins.

Correct, but not what I’m going for.

Vern Law
Cory Snyder