| Who hit the first home run of the 1983 World Series?
Hint: #1 Less than two weeks after being traded to the Expos. He was named National League Player of the Week.
Hint: #2 He played with or for twenty-eight Hall of Famers in his eighteen seasons in the majors.
Thursday 2’s question answered:
Q. Who was the first player to record three hits in one inning?
Hint: #1 He stayed on the good side of his Hall of Fame manager partly because he didn’t smoke, drink or break curfew.
Hint: #2 In the last year of his playing career, which was the first year of his managing career, he umpired thirty-five games in the National League.
A. TOM BURNS [Wiki Bio]
– Ans. 3 H/inning = 06-Sep-1883. They were all extra-base hits. No other major-league player had a three-hit inning until 1953.
– #1 Manager Cap Anson was partial to “clean-living” ball players. Anson actually put in writing that Burns would be his ideal successor.
– #2 Umped in 1892.
FCR – Bill Deane, Cooperstown |
