If you aren’t playing this game every day, do you even like baseball? Many people are asking. I learned today that Zack Wheat was an exceptional player who played for Brooklyn. One of a handful of Dodger players who ever had 200 hits in a season (yeah, we get it Steve Garvey. Grow up already) Also I hate the Dodgers so much but growing up playing 2B from 8 years old and into high school while also being a history nerd…damn I was and still am in love with Jackie Robinson. Holy smokes what a ballplayer with a huge burden to bear. @Buck Turgidson do you play Immaculate Grid? You’d love it.
I played that almost every day when it came out and kinda then forgot about it...will have to put it back in the morning rotation
I've learned (or moreso reminded) that my knowledge of American League players prior to 2013 is very limited to the very best players and that my knowledge of NL players after 2012 is limted to the best teams and the good players. Any grid box between a mediocre NL team and a mediocre AL team (not AL West) is pretty much an addiitonal 100 points. I also am amazed at how little I remember reliever names (e.g., Joakim Soria). Just a memo, some how, Soria did not play for Cleveland. Detroit, Pit, Chi WS, Kansas City, Milwaukie, Toronto, yep, but not Cleveland. He's got that region pretty much covered for the teams I don't know as well (Cubs and Cardinals are pretty easy).
Just looked at today's, and got probably the easiest 0.1% rarity score I've ever had: 30+ HRs and minimum 1 game in the OF The answer is of course Jeff Bagwell
I forgot about it. 98 today. Hilarious that Stroman was most popular for Toronto/Cubs when I was trying to think of him for Jays/NY. Couldn't think of his name and then remembered Donaldson. Berkman was not a common choice for 30HR OF. I'll try to go more obscure next time as only Berkman and Shawn Dunston were less than 1% for me.
I learned that Octavio Dotel is more often than not a right answer. And LaTroy Hawkins (now that I’m looking at today’s puzzle).
I watched that game. It was against the cubs. They wanted to get Sid Bream some at bats but didn’t want to bench Bagwell. So, they put Bagwell in RF. I am pretty sure Bream went 0 for 4 that day.
Bags started the game so I’m surprised he got just one at bat. Him getting pulled early is something I must have forgot.
IF you want to have a lot of fun, try to convince your friends that it was Sid Bream and not Bill Buckner that was the first baseman in 86 for the Red Sox in the World Series.... you can get a lot of heated responses and lots of mileage after it... if you do it well enough you can even get them to start to be open to the idea that it was Bream who let the ball go between his gimpy knees after about 15 minutes of debate.
