Kwiz

[Gwreck]

6 - Carlos Baerga? Umm, 75 games?

[Guest Edgy DC]

8: Desi Relaford.

[soupcan]

Forget it, I'm a dumbass.

[Guest cooby]

Don't let that stop you from giving it a try

[Guest Edgy DC]

SteveJRogers wrote: BTW, what is it with #8 and catchers?

There's actually an answer to this. As numbers were originally assigned to coincide with a player's position in the batting order (Ruth:3; Gehrig: 4), the catcher --- tending at the time to be the next to worst hitter in the lineup, after the pitcher --- got assigned 8 a lot, because they batted eighth a lot.

Randomly, I checked retrosheet for opening day in 1922. They have boxscores for four games that day. Of the eight teams in those four games, all eight batted their catcher eigth.

I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't some teams with catchers who hit well enough to warrant a better slot, but we're run by managers who didn't want to break convention.

Though the convention has long since passed, catchers oft carry on the tradition to wear what their forebears wore, even if they're not sure why.

Besides, it's a good number for a catcher. It's symmetrical, for the only player who is regularly photographed from from benind. It's got a no-nonsense earthiness to it (nothing mystical about 8), and when rendered in block letters it has the working-class stockiness of a catcher.

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: It's got a no-nonsense earthiness to it (nothing mystical about 8), and when rendered in block letters it has the working-class stockiness of a catcher.

I'm guessing you were just being funny here, but isn't the pitcher the only player regularly photographed from behind.

The catcher is probably photographed from behind only as much as any of the other players, which is when he's at bat. You rarely get a shot from behind home plate during games, and when you do the umpire gets in the way.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

1. Mookie (SK)
2.
3. Hebner (edc)
4. Staub (YSG)
5. Wright (lubitul)
6.
7. Hubie (Doc Tee)
8.Cannizzaro (steve j.)

[Guest iramets]

I'm going to guess Chuck Hiller for #2, and Joe Orsulak for # 6.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I already failed on Orsulak.

And I stand by my contention that the 8 looks good on a catcher's back. There is some mysticism to a hand-drawn 8, with it's infinity symbolism and all, but I still like a rock-solid block-rendered 8 on a backstop.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Chuck Hiller is wrong, but not by much.

[Guest KC]

I confess, I suck.

OE: oh sure, I suck has to top a new page to boot.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I remember running a similar quiz, but with uniform number not a factor. Who batted leadoff most often, who batted second, etc.

I'll have to see if I can find that...

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Lineup quiz from 2005

[metirish]

Poor Cooby after her exhaustive search it took only 22 minutes for the correct answers..

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

All the clicking she did probably earned me about 30 cents in ad revenue.

[HahnSolo]

Timo for #6?

[Guest cooby]

I swear there must be two coobies; I have no recollection of that at all

[Valadius]

Phil Linz for #2?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

1. Mookie (SK)
2. Phil Linz (valadius)
3. Hebner (edc)
4. Staub (YSG)
5. Wright (lubitul)
6.
7. Hubie (Doc Tee)
8.Cannizzaro (steve j.)

7 correct answers, 7 different contributors. We need an 8th for the 8th, if anybody gets No. 6.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sixes who didn't bat sixth the most:

Baerga
Boston
Orsulak
Perez
Vail

[MFS62]

HoJo?

Didn't he wear 6 for a while?

Later

[TransMonk]

Gerald Williams?

[Guest iramets]

Phil Linz?

[Guest iramets]

Aw, crap. Correct, but too late.

[metirish]

Jim Hickman

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I must be losin' it
Cuz my mind plays tricks on me
It looked so easy
But you know looks sometimes deceive...

[DocTee]

Backman

[Guest Edgy DC]

What kind of nut would bat Backman sixth?

[seawolf17]

The first six that came to mind was Melvin Mora, he wasn't around long enough. Are we allowed to at least look at the list on MBTN?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

There's a clue above.