Manny Acta Trivia

[Guest Edgy DC]

Manny Acta Trivia Question: Manny Acta, Mets third base coach, recently interviewed for the job managing the Giants. Without freaking checking, how many of the 2006 Giants is he actually younger than?

Crazy stupid bonus question. Manny is alphabetically first among Met coaches, at least he is until Don Aase is retained.. How far can you name the Mets roster of coaches alphabetically? Again, please don't freaking check. On your freaking honor.

Actually, both these questions are only partially related to Manuel Elias Acta.

[HahnSolo]

Without freakin checking, I guess four on the first question
Bonds, Alou, Vizquel, Finley. Then again, I don't even know how old Acta is, so for me this is probably an exercise in futility.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Four is... incorrect.

[seawolf17]

Coaches alphabetically...

Acta
Alomar
Apodaca
Baylor
Benedict
Berra
Brantley? (Wasn't Mickey Brantley a coach? I could be wrong.)
Cubbage
Dromenhouser (Do bullpen catchers count?)
Galante
Gibson
Harrelson

I'm sure I missed some in there. There had to be an E.

[Guest cooby]

Now I know why everybody wanted to use UMDB


Edit: Good gravy, he's ten years younger than I am. Now I really feel old when the coaches are younger

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Heffner
Hemus
Hiller
Hornsby
Hough

[Elster88]

Grote?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, I missed that this generated any interest. All apologies.

Nobody guessed. But in 2006, seven Gigantes were older than Manny Acta:

Jose Vizcaino, 38
Tim Worrell, 38
Moises Alou, 39
Omar Vizquel, 39
Barry Bonds, 41
Steve Finley, 41, and
Jeff Fassero, 43

Mark Sweeney tried to be the eighth, but came in nine month's younger, a full gestation period.

Seawolf took a plumb stab at the alphabetical coaches question

Manny Acta 2005 - 2006, 2005 - 2006
Sandy Alomar 2005, 2006
Bob Apodaca 1996 - 1999
Don Baylor 2003 - 2004, 2004
Bruce Benedict 1997 - 1999
Yogi Berra 1965 - 1971
Mickey Brantley 1999
Tom Burgess 1977
Chris Chambliss 2002
Guy Conti 2005 - 2006

1) Acta Correct
2) Alomar Correct (The Mets actually are currently employing their top two alphabetical coaches)
3) Apodaca Correct
4) Baylor Correct
5) Benedict Holy crap! Correct
6) Berra Correctamunco
7) Brantley? (Wasn't Mickey Brantley a coach? I could be wrong.) No, you couldn't. Well you could, but you're not. Correct

8) Cubbage Incorrect
9) Dromenhouser (Do bullpen catchers count?) [Incorrect and no
10) Galante Incorrect

Obviously, the other two are wrong as well, but a weepingly good showing. We're mising three guys between Brantley and Cubbage.

[HahnSolo]

Edgy, after incorrectly guessing the first time, I looked up the Giants roster. I believe you're missing a certain relief pitcher who has a brief Metly past.

And I think two of the "C" coaches are Chris Chambliss and Chuck Cottier.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yup. I knew I had eight yesterday. Mike Stanton is the cat Solo refers to.

Not that they all served at the same time, and perhaps less than half have a future from this point forward. But that's one third of a roster.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Chambliss is correct. We're looking for one before him and one after him.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Getting them in precise alpha order is a little outrageous for a closed-book quiz.

I kinda like the idea of continuing to riff until we get 'em all.

Burgess
Caravetta

...
Herzog..

Johnson, Darrell

Robinson, B.
Robinson, S.

[Gwreck]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Getting them in precise alpha order is a little outrageous for a closed-book quiz. I kinda like the idea of continuing to riff until we get 'em all.

Agreed.

Burgess
Caravetta

Down
...
Herzog..

Johnson, Darrell

Nieto

Robinson, B.
Robinson, S.

Rojas

Pavlick
Perlozzo
Peterson

Stottlemyre

Wallace
Wilson

[Guest Edgy DC]

1977's Tom Burgess is correct.

Be the first to share your memories of Tom Burgess

UMDB doesn't give us no Phil Caravetta.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Confirming Phil Cavaretta's coachness has been on my to-do list for a while.

He wasn't listed among the Mets coaches in their press guide, but there are many who claim he was a coach. I don't know the exact years, however, so haven't entered them for him. I'll have to go through the yearbooks to find out when (and if) he was an actual coach.

I think the timeframe would be around 1975.

[Guest cooby]

Burgess would be embarrassed to know my memory of him

[metirish]

From Baseball Library....

] Cavarretta was the Cubs' player-manager in 1951-53, and led the NL with 12 pinch hits in '51. Fired in spring training of 1954 because owner Phil Wrigley bridled at Cavarretta's prediction of a second-division finish, he finished his playing career with the White Sox. He managed extensively in the minors, coached and scouted for the Tigers, and became an excellent batting instructor for the Mets' organization.

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Cavarretta_Phil.stm

[Guest Edgy DC]

I seem to remember sending in Caravetta evidence to UMDB once before. I don't know if it was positive evidence that he was a coach or negative evidence, perhaps that he was merely a minor league coach/manager and spring training instructor.

[Willets Point]

cooby wrote: Burgess would be embarrassed to know my memory of him

Are we going to let this softball on a tee pass unoticed just because cooby is a woman of good reputation?

[nymr83]

Willets Point wrote: ="cooby"]Burgess would be embarrassed to know my memory of him Are we going to let this softball on a tee pass unoticed just because cooby is a woman of good reputation?

yes, that was the plan.

[metirish]

Yancy I just got of the phone with a guy over at Mets media relations...he confirmed that Caravetta was the Mets hitting coach from 75 to 78.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metirish goes the extra mile and also takes an important first step in getting the forum some future media credentials.

[metirish]

It took only two phone transfers to get to this fella...nice people ,he spent a few minutes going through records looking for the info.

[RealityChuck]

Add Rube Walker and Eddy Yost to the end.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

metirish wrote: Yancy I just got of the phone with a guy over at Mets media relations...he confirmed that Caravetta was the Mets hitting coach from 75 to 78.

Cool! You're the cat's pajamas!

Thanks.

[MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Cool! You're the cat's pajamas!

WOW! Didn't we once have a thread about words or phrases you don't hear much anymore? That is a definite candidate.
LOL!

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Call him back and ask+ him to send over a picture of Wayne Housie in a blue hat.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Phil Cavaretta

[Guest cooby]

Ask him if he has any memories of poor Tom Burgess

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Poor Tom Burgess would be a good title for a folk song.

It would be about an innocent man who gets hanged, or something like that.