Sunday, January 31, 2010

A Kwiz

Frank Welch is the only player in MLB history to do what?

Comments:
Have the nickname "Bugger?" Honestly, you've got me...
 
The only player in history to be named Frank Welch?
 
Ha--you may both be "right," but as per Kwiz rules, it's gotta be "what I was thinking of"...
 
Play in "A" ball and in the majors in the same season.
 
Interesting....

but not what I'm looking for.
 
He hit an ITPHR vs Babe Ruth, but I doubt he was the only one to do that. ... Maybe the ITPHR *and* he got buggered by the Babe?

(Google tells me he was the 1,000th HBP in Philadelphia Athletics history.)
 
Ruth did give up more than one ITPHR--but you're totally on the right track!
 
Welch homered in his MLB debut -- which was also on the day Ruth set a new season HR mark -- but they were not playing against each other that day.

No clue.
 
Okay, I'm givin' it up:

Welch was the only person to hit a home run off of Babe Ruth while Ruth was a Yankee.

Looking at Ruth's pitching HR log, I'm also curious about Sam Rice's dong off Ruth. He's the only guy to homer off Ruth in the first inning of a game anyway, but I want to know if it was a leadoff homer. Rice was a leadoff-type guy so I'd say it was. But I can't find any news accounts or a boxscore to confirm.
 

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