Trivia

[batmagadanleadoff]

What player model baseball bat did George Brett use to hit the controversial 1983 pine tar home run?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Graig Nettles?

[seawolf17]

Derek Jeter.

[ashie62]

Hal McRae

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Lance Armstrong.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

George Brett

[Benjamin Grimm]

For some reason Jim Rice's name popped into my head.

[batmagadanleadoff]

All wrong answers.

Here's a hint: We're looking for a player who was once a Met.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ha. Amos, is it?

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ha. Amos, is it?

No, but that's a great guess, innit?

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: George Brett

The bat had George Brett's named "inscrbed" (is that the right word? -- engraved?) on it. But the specs were from a bat used by a one-time Met. The bat company referred to that model by the name of the one time Met that is the answer to this trivia question.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Tommy Davis?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Tommy Davis?

No. Not Tommy Davis.

The following tidbit isn't much of hint, but in 1983 George Brett was the only major leaguer to regularly use the "Name of one-time Met" model bat.

[Fman99]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Tommy Davis? No. Not Tommy Davis. The following tidbit isn't much of hint, but in 1983 George Brett was the only major leaguer to regularly use the "Name of one-time Met" model bat.

Chico Escuela?

[metsmarathon]

dave kingman

[batmagadanleadoff]

Here's another hint. The player we're looking for played for the Mets in the '60's.

[Willets Point]

Yogi Berra.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Willets Point wrote: Yogi Berra.

No on Yogi.

[Guest Kong76]

Ashburn

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cleon.

[Guest Kong76]

I was gonna say Jones or Agee but they also played in the 70's.
Ashburn popped into my head vuja daylee ...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

ken boyer

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'll post the answer at the start of today's game, if this riddle isn't solved by then.

More hints:

1) I'm neither confirming nor denying that the Met also played for the Mets in the '70's. All I said was that he played for the Mets during the '60's.

2) The player was not exclusively a Met, but he is associated with the Mets, more than with any other team.

[HahnSolo]

Swoboda.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Nope on Swoboda, Boyer, Ashburn and Cleon. Kingman didn't play for the Mets during the '60's, so Kong can't be it. (Though I realize that I gave the '60's hint after Kingman was guessed.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jim Hickman?

[metsmarathon]

agee

[seawolf17]

Nothing says bats like Marvelous Marv Throneberry.

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seawolf17 wrote: Nothing says bats like Marvelous Marv Throneberry.

There's the winner. George Brett belted his pine tar incident home run with a T-85 Hillerich & Bradsby bat: the Marv Throneberry model. I suppose this is fitting: if I had to write up that home run as a work of believable fiction, I'd have hapless Marv hit it.

Here's some video of Marv in action:

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: Nothing says bats like Marvelous Marv Throneberry. There's the winner. George Brett belted his pine tar incident home run with a T-85 Hillerich & Bradsby bat: the Marv Throneberry model. I suppose this is fitting: if I had to write up that home run as a work of believable fiction, I'd have hapless Marv hit it. Here's some video of Marv in action:

More Miller Marv, and some not with Marv:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTN17BKAVk4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U1OigmuZVw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fra0tS0lk