- Who is the only person to have played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (NL), the New York Rangers (NHL), and the New York Knicks (NBA)? (Hint-trick question)
- – I don’t recall her name, but it was the organist for all three teams.
- Which pitcher is credited with a victory for an All Star Game even though he didn’t throw a single pitch in the game?
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48a. Who got the first hit at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta?
48b. Who got the first hit at Fulton County for the Braves?
48c. Who got the last hit at Fulton County Stadium?
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F.P. Adams, no pseudonym.
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Nap Lajoie never played (or managed) in a World Series.
No, the poem was credited to his pen name, FPA.
That’s one. What the other (which only applies to the regular season).
The only person to hit .426 or better in a season?
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Rogers Hornsby.
What major-leaguer’s name consists of the names of four body parts?
Who threw the *first * pitch ever at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, and (ceremonially) the *last * one too?
As I said, all the others on the list did something that Lajoie did not. The World Series appearance is correct, but my original thought was something else entirely (I spotted the WS answer after it was too late to modify the question).
DeWolf Hopper, but, if I’m remembering correctly, Hedda and William (of Perry Mason) were his wife and son, not daughter and grandson.
Hugh Duffy hit .438 one season, but that was back when the rules were different. Hornsby holds the record for the modern era at ,424 in 1924.
Mel Harder.
You’re correct. My mistake.
The two left:
- Who holds the major league record for consecutive putouts? (Hint: he’s a catcher).
And what did Nap Lajoie not do on the field (other than play in a world series) that all other players (elected solely for their playing careers) in the first two Hall of Fame classes all did do?
But… aaargh… that’s my point. You’re NOT changing the nature of the game; lots of runs do not count because of the nature of the preceding out. You can’t score a run on a force play, or if the third out is a ball caught in the air. I’m just suggesting the same rule can be applied here.
It’s ludicrous to require a “fourth out.”
He used to. The answer to the question is actually Napoleon Lajoie, who batted .426 in 1901.
For quite some time LaJoie was credited as having hit .422, if I recall correctly. Recent research showed that this was incorrect, and that his hits had been miscounted. He actually went 232 for 544, which is .426 and change.
These sorts of things were quite common; the records of early baseball are not very trustworthy.
Dean Stone, who entered with two outs in an inning, picked off a runner, and subsequently saw his team (I believe it was the AL, when he was a member of the Senators) score the winning run in the next half-inning.
But you are. You’re taking a call that is only ever made on the basis of an appeal and turning it into an automatically generated call. It would be like allowing the first and third base umpires to automatically overrule the homeplate umpire on balls and strikes if they felt the batter “went around.”
FWIW, high school baseball is different: if a runner misses a base they’re called out immediately, without requiring an appeal. I’m not sure if that’s also true of leaving early on a fly. But the concept should please RickJay. 
Correct!
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Jerry Grote. He caught the game when Tom Seaver struck out 10 batters in a row, and putouts are credited to the catcher on a strikeout.