ANSWERS

1. Rickey Henderson. He stole bases in major league games in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Japan.

2. In a rare leadoff appearance, it was Mickey Mantle.

3. Hugh ‘Losing Pitcher’ Mulcahy. He enlisted the day before Hank Greenberg.

4. Frank Robinson, San Francisco Giants, 1966 Baltimore Orioles
Dave Garcia, Cleveland Indians, 1951 Oshkosh Giants

5. Chris Hammond. He pitched for the Marlins in 1993 (64-98), 1994 (51-64), 1995
(67-76), and 1996 (80-82), went to the Red Sox in 1997, the year the Marlins won the World Series (92-70), and returned in 1998 (54-108). Alex Arias and Jeff Conine played for the Marlins in their first five seasons, but were both gone in 1998.

6. Mike Cuellar. The co-winner of the AL Cy Young Award in 1969, he hit the grand slam in the 1970 ALCS. Strangely, he did not stick around for the win, and the decision went to Dick Hall.

7. Jack Hamilton. He beaned Tony Conigliaro on August 24, 1967.

8. Dave Lemanczyk, who lost on April 8, 1977. He made the All-Star team in 1979.

9. Roberto Clemente, Bill Virdon, and Bob Skinner, teammates on the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956 to 1963.

10. Known as "Goofy" and "The Gay Castilian," Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez won the first All-Star Game.

11. Elmer Valo, born in Ribnik, Czechoslovakia.

12. Mike Morgan, a Blue Jay in 1983, and a Diamondback 18 years later..

13. Muriel Kauffman. Born in Toronto, Mrs. K. owned the Royals from the time her husband, Ewing, died on July 31, 1993, until the team was sold to David Glass that winter. She died in 1995.

14. Rod Carew, homerless in 1972.

15. Phil Niekro, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1997. He shut out the Blue Jays, 8-0, to win his 300th on October 6, 1985.

16. Sharing the same initials with Joe Morgan was Jim Merritt, who won 20 games for the Reds in 1970. No other Reds pitcher would win as many as 20 games until Tom Browning won 20 in 1985.

17. Whitey Ford. He was filling in for Kubek who was broadcasting for NBC in Milwaukee.

18. Ron Hassey. He caught Len Barker’s perfect game in 1981, and a second, thrown by Dennis Martinez, in 1991.

19. Louisville, Kentucky. As the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, the Colonels lasted from 1968 to 1972 before moving to Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

20. Fernando Valenzuela, who batted 14 times against Big Tex without any strikeouts.

21. George "Papa Bear" Halas.

22. An Expo in 1972, Hector Torres hit the Blue Jays’ first grand slam in 1977, and later coached the Blue Jays in 1990 and 1991.

23. Cecil Cooper batted .352 for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1980. He was a member of both the 1975 Boston Red Sox and the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.
24. One. Speaker won his only batting title in 1916, when he hit .386 for the Indians.