Friday, April 17, 2009

Kwiz Twenty Twenty, Fun Tie

Lou Criger hit one home run in 1905. What was the date?

Comments:
September 27th
 
October 7th.
I'm glad I'm not counting on this Kwiz for anything.
 
9/27 is it!
 
Mike gets 6 points to vault over three people into second to capture the second place prize!!!!!

What a finish!

(And Pweezil, who had held second, had won prizes on this blog before so I don't feel too bad about him coming close and falling out of the money on the last kwiz.)
 
Oh, and about the answer--this wasn't my usual kwiz. In this case, I was looking up old articles last night, and saw a boxscore where the Sox lost 15-1. I noticed Criger homered for our only run, so for some reason I checked to see how many he had that season. It was one. I noticed a "HR log" on B-R, and it said one wasn't available (but that HR info for ALL players in history would come out this summer!!!!). Anyway, I didn't go back and check to see how easy this info--when Criger hit his only 1905 HR--was to find, I just threw it out there. Since I found it without looking for it, I wondered if anyone could find it at all. Mike did....
 
I found Criger's 1905 homer in a list of inside-the-park home runs by catchers.
 
Whoa! Nice.
 
Very interesting; I was wondering how he figured that one out so quickly, given that BBRef and Retrosheet weren't going to be of much help. I thought he might have found some microfiche of old boxscores.
 

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