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What a Name! Riddle Me This

All but one of the following individuals play or played in the MLB. Can you spot the odd man out?

Urban Shocker Boof Bonser Chief Bender Pickles Dilhoeffer Rollie Fingers Wonderful Monds Tim Spooneybarger Razor Shines Coco Crisp Justin De Fratus Jair Jurrjens Stolmy Pimentel Chone Figgin Chorye Spoone Phil Cokes Al Alburquerque Will Rhymes Jarrod Saltalamacchia

Brandon Beachy James Smith Five people (Ben, David, Sarah, Mimi and Shaya) are participating in a baseball game with some other people. Each plays a different position (first base, pitcher, shortstop, catcher, right field) and gets a different number of hits (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). From the clues given below, can you figure out who did what?

Clues: 1) Ben, the furthest from home base, had exactly twice as many hits as the pitcher. 2) The shortstop was tired after getting her fifth hit. 3) Shaya had more hits than all the other infielders except for Sarah. 4) David wears a mask.

Home run!

Shaya is the first baseman and he got 3 hits. Mimi is the pitcher and she got 2 hits. Sarah is the shortstop and she got 5 hits. David is the catcher and he got 1 hit. Ben is the right fielder and he got 4 hits. So, now you know everything:

base, which leaves Mimi as the pitcher. Shaya cannot be the pitcher. The only position left for him is first Since we already know that Shaya had 3 hits and the pitcher had 2,

From clue 4, we know that David is the catcher.

means that Sarah is the shortstop (see clue 2). From clue 3, we know that Shaya had 3 hits and Isabel had 5. This

and that she got 5 hits. From clue 2, we know that the shortstop is a woman (Mimi or Sarah)

he got 4 hits and the pitcher got 2 hits. From clue 1, we know that Ben is the right fielder and that Answer:

Baseball Card Trivia

1. Paul Jones of Idaho holds the

Guinness World Record for largest baseball card collection.

How many cards does he have? a. 92,000 b. 700,000 c. 3,000,000 d. 12,000,000

2. Which card sold for $6.6 million, making it the most expensive baseball card ever sold? a. Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps b. Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey c. Honus Wagner 1909-1912 T206 d. Mike Trout 2009 Bowman

Chrome Draft Prospects

Superfractor Autograph

3. What is the first company to ever sell baseball cards? a. Fleer b. Peck and Snyder c. Donruss d. Topps

4. Why doesn’t Topps have an Alex

Rodriguez rookie card? a. A-Rod refused to enter a licensing agreement with

Topps when he was a rookie b. What? A-Rod was never a rookie c. Topps did not make any cards the year A-Rod was a rookie d. There is a Topps A-Rod rookie card, average value is $900

5. What was the error on the 1985

Topps Gary Pettis rookie card? a. The name printed on the card

is “Pettis Gary” b. He was on the Athletics, but the card has the Cubs logo c. His face is partially covered by the Topps logo d. The picture was actually of his younger brother Lynn

6. What is the error on Hank

Aaron’s 1957 Topps card? a. He is shown batting lefthanded even though he batted right-handed. b. It spells his name as “Hank

Aron” c. The back of the card has pitcher stats for a still unknown player d. It states “rookie card” but he was a rookie in 1952

Answers: 1-C 2-C. The reason it is the most expensive card is because of a licensing dispute. Card companies must pay players in order to use their images on cards. In 1909, the American Tobacco Company sent $10 to each player that they made a card of and began production of the cards. However, Wagner returned the $10 and denied them the right to use his image. It is commonly believed that he objected to his image being associated with a company that sold cigarettes. Before his objection, though, approximately 50 cards were produced and sold. 3-B. Peck and Snyder was a New York city sporting goods company that began selling baseball cards in 1868.

4-A

5-D 6-A. This was a result of a flipped photo negative. (Have no clue what that means? Ask your dad… He’d love to take you on a trip down memory lane to the “good ol’ days” when pictures had more value because “we knew we only had 24 shots.”)

Scorecard: 5-6 correct: You are as rare as a 1909-192 T206 Honus Wagner card!

3-4 correct: You are not tops but not bad. 0-2 correct: You are as valuable as an A-Rod rookie Topps card!