[If on mobile, scroll to bottom and click "view web version" for the classic yellow-style look, with all the sidebar stuff like photo galleries!] Red Sox blogger from 2004-2014 & 2025-, Sox fan/anti-Yanks fan womb to now. In Rhode Island now but CT 1975-2005, NYC 2005-2007, Somerville 2007-2008. (U of Nebraska 1993-1995.) This blog is intended for the reading/viewing pleasure of female, male, and all other humans. And cats and sharks.
DiMaggio?
ReplyDeleteI'm only guessing that because it rhymes and he is in several songs that I know of.
No on DiMaggio. And no on Newi's guess of Jackie Robinson, which showed up only in my email for some reason.
ReplyDeleteSatchel Paige
ReplyDeleteNo on Paige.
ReplyDeleteRich Gedman?
ReplyDeleteWillie Mays
ReplyDeleteSandy Koufax
ReplyDeleteNo on all these. (Nice try on the Gedman, Quinn.)
ReplyDeleteHere's a clue: He wasn't a player. But was in major league baseball in one capacity or another...
Tommy Lasorda?
ReplyDeleteNo on Tommy L.
ReplyDeleteStupid guess, I know! Ben's still making fun of me.
ReplyDeleteHow is it stupid? Anyway, again, I've found something not verifiable, it would appear, by the web. So I don't know how I'm gonna prove the song even exists. Maybe my dad will remember it.
ReplyDeleteThis may be way out there but - Branch Rickey?
ReplyDeleteOne of my all time favorites.
Nope. Gettin' there, though
ReplyDeleteI was actually going to guess Branch Rickey, until Jere gave his clue. Its not very well-known, but Rickey was in fact a player for the St Louis Browns, as well as for the Dunbars, early in the 20th Century. I just read his biography in Deadball Era Stars of the American League.
ReplyDeleteAnd with that, I'll say:
ReplyDeleteKenesaw Mountain Landis
Nope. But now we're on the right plain!
ReplyDeleteHow about the Yawkeys? Either Tom or Jean (?)
ReplyDeleteNope. We're on the wrong plain again.
ReplyDeletehmmm...Peter Ueberroth?
ReplyDeleteSomebody doesn't know the rule about guessing twice in a row, heh heh. You gotta wait for two more people to guess now. No on P.U.
ReplyDeleteOops! Sorry! I didn't know.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay. The "rules" aren't exactly clearly stated. You have to go to the quiz page, and click the link about rules & info. I think it's there.
ReplyDeleteHow about A. B. "Happy" Chandler?
ReplyDeleteNope. That'd be a really long line in a song!
ReplyDeleteHappy Chandler!
ReplyDeleteoh wait...Kara just guessed that..it just popped up our of the blue.
ReplyDeleteMel Allen!
Nope, and now AJM has taken us off the right plain, which, ironically, he got us on to. So I'm just gonna say it: It's a commissioner! And anyone can guess now.
ReplyDeleteFord Frick?
ReplyDeleteNo on F-squared.
ReplyDeleteBart Giamatti (sorry if this is double posted...not sure if my first attempt took)
ReplyDeleteNo on the other A.B.
ReplyDeleteI was going to go with the San Diego Chicken, but I'll go with Bowie Kuhn.
ReplyDeleteBowie Kuhn?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of former commissioners, Bowie Kuhn died today:
ReplyDeletehttp://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2799887
Incredible. I found out about Kuhn dying before, and now I just get back, pretty much expecting that SOMEone would hear that and say it. And three people did. And that's correct.
ReplyDeleteAJM didn't actually guess it, but since I just published all three guesses, for all he knew, he couldn't guess because he'd made the last guess. I trust he would've guessed it, so all 3 will get equal credit.
I like how the news gave the clue.
Wow, it is tough to gain any ground on AJM and Kara C. Good job you too.
ReplyDeleteReid Nichols appreciates STJ's follow-up and sportspersonship and politeness towards his opponents. This combined with the fact that he was the first to answer correctly, in a quiz system that got messed up thanks to me having to put on comment moderation because of one douchebag, will give him the extra tenths of points when the five is divided three ways.
ReplyDeletejfSTJ: thank you for your sportspersonship!
ReplyDeletejfAmy: "My boy's wicked smaht!"
jfAmy&Kara: Nice job advancing the 'jf' convention.
ReplyDeleteAnd a big thank you to Jere for his generous scoring on this one. FWIW, Bowie would have been my next guess once I thought I was queued up again. Why did I throw that Mel Allen guess out there?
jfPeople who care about the standings: Points--stj 2.0, kara 1.5, AJM 1.5. I was gonna go 1.8 and two 1.6s, but stj shouldn't be penalized that much because of the system change with moderation.
ReplyDeleteAlso note: I never look at the standings until after I award the points. So, for example, I'm about to go over there and add these on, and it's been so long since I looked, I have no idea if this is gonna move anybody up a place or whatever.