Peter,

Who took over much of the first-base duty for Bill Skowron after Skowron broke his arm in a collision with Coot Veal?

Hint: #1 His brother, although he had a lower career WAR had one more year of major league service.

Hint: #2 He was once traded fro the man who would become the league MVP two years in a row.

Weekend Bonus question answered:

Which former star high school football star admitted, “I’ve never wanted to do anything but play baseball.”?

Hint: #1 He holds the record for most career strikeouts in major-league All-Star competition.

Hint: #2 He was the first post-expansion player to hit fifteen home runs in a season where he had fewer than one hundred seventy-five at-

bats.

A. MICKEY MANTLE   [SABR Bio]

– Ans. He only said this later in his career, adding, “Let’s face it, there’s nothing else I can do but play baseball.” However, he also said, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.”

– #1 Baseball-Reference lists Mantle as the ASG K record holder with 17, including going down against such NL luminary moundsmen as Robin Roberts, Warren Spahn, Don Drysdale, Fergie Jenkins & Tom Seaver.

– #2 Hit 15 HR in 172 AB in 1963.

FCR – Terry Walters, Wabasha, Minnesota

D. Bruce Brown

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