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Swan Swan H
Oct 09 2012 08:27 AM

Poking around the awesome UMDB yesterday I found a some obscuria of various levels that I thought might work themselves into a little quiz. Please answer all 10 questions. I'll leave the quiz up for a few hours, and the 'Pooler with the most correct answers wins a $10 gift certificate to Robert Hall, where it's always back-to-school time.

First Official Save by a Met
First Met to hit a Home Run as a DH
First (and only) Met to hit 200 doubles in one calendar decade (not just a 10-year span)
First Met to score 100 runs in a season
First Met to play 162 games in a season
First Met to get a hit in a foreign country
First future Met to homer against the Mets
First (and only) Met to play 1,000 games in one calendar decade
First future Met to win an MVP award
First Met to get a post-season hit

Edgy MD
Oct 09 2012 08:34 AM
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First Official Save by a Met
Cardwell.

First Met to hit a Home Run as a DH
Piazza.

First (and only) Met to hit 200 doubles in one calendar decade (not just a 10-year span)
All as a Met? Really? Um... Strawberry.

First Met to score 100 runs in a season
Agee.

First Met to play 162 games in a season
Millan.

First Met to get a hit in a foreign country
Harrelson.

First future Met to homer against the Mets
Uh, Clendenon.

First (and only) Met to play 1,000 games in one calendar decade
Moo.

First future Met to win an MVP award
Boyer. (Or Berra.)

First Met to get a post-season hit
Jones.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 09 2012 08:39 AM
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All guesses except one I think I knew

First Official Save by a Met
--Ken McKenzie

First Met to hit a Home Run as a DH
--Huskey

First (and only) Met to hit 200 doubles in one calendar decade (not just a 10-year span)
--Mookie

First Met to score 100 runs in a season
--Jones

First Met to play 162 games in a season
--Millan

First Met to get a hit in a foreign country
--[crossout:1308kpss]Beli[/crossout:1308kpss] Pfiel

First future Met to homer against the Mets
--Charley Smith

First (and only) Met to play 1,000 games in one calendar decade
-- Kranepool

First future Met to win an MVP award
--Mays

First Met to get a post-season hit
--Agee

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 09 2012 08:43 AM
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First Official Save by a Met Tug McGraw
First Met to hit a Home Run as a DH Carl Everett
First (and only) Met to hit 200 doubles in one calendar decade (not just a 10-year span) David Wright
First Met to score 100 runs in a season Tommie Agee
First Met to play 162 games in a season Felix Millan
First Met to get a hit in a foreign country Ron Swoboda
First future Met to homer against the Mets Duke Snider
First (and only) Met to play 1,000 games in one calendar decade Mookie Wilson
First future Met to win an MVP award Willie Mays
First Met to get a post-season hit Tommie Agee

Edgy MD
Oct 09 2012 08:48 AM
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Swan Swan H wrote:
First future Met to win an MVP award

I didn't use my thinking on this one.

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 09 2012 08:55 AM
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I first read it as first former Met to win an MVP award. I think that would be Kevin Mitchell?

MFS62
Oct 09 2012 08:56 AM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 09 2012 09:08 AM

Edgy DC wrote:
Swan Swan H wrote:
First future Met to win an MVP award

I didn't use my thinking on this one.

But since the Mets played their first ever series against the Cards, I think Boyer may have been the first future Met to homer against the Mets.

Later

Edgy MD
Oct 09 2012 08:57 AM
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I, for some reason, read it as "First future Met of the Met era to win an MVP award.

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 09 2012 08:58 AM
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Also, I'm glad to hear that my website was useful to you. In the last day or so I've been wondering if I want to continue to maintain it, and it's good to be reminded that there are people out there who use it.

And that reminds me, I still have to finish off the Schaefer stuff for 2012.

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 09 2012 09:00 AM
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Edgy DC wrote:

First future Met to win an MVP award
Boyer. (Or Berra.)

Am I losing my mind or was your answer to this question originally simply "Ken Boyer"?

Swan Swan H
Oct 09 2012 09:02 AM
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Mitchell is the correct answer to the 'former Met' question.

Oh, and as far as the site being useful, it's not just for hacky quizzes. I'm out there all the time.

batmagadanleadoff
Oct 09 2012 09:03 AM
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Swan Swan H wrote:
Oh, and as far as the site being useful, it's not just for hacky quizzes. I'm out there all the time.

Me too. That site's a Mets treasure.

Edgy MD
Oct 09 2012 09:27 AM
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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
Edgy DC wrote:

First future Met to win an MVP award
Boyer. (Or Berra.)

Am I losing my mind or was your answer to this question originally simply "Ken Boyer"?

Yeah, I doubled back. I got this edit button.

Swan Swan H
Oct 09 2012 12:26 PM
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OK, time to put this one to rest:

First Official Save by a Met - Nolan Ryan, game 2 of the 1969 season

First Met to hit a Home Run as a DH - Matt Franco, vs. the Orioles in the seventh game the Mets played in an AL park in 1997

First (and only) Met to hit 200 doubles in one calendar decade (not just a 10-year span) - David Wright, 222 in the 2000s despite the late start

First Met to score 100 runs in a season - Tommie Agee, 107 in 1970

First Met to play 162 games in a season - Felix Millan played them all in 1975 (probably the only one I would have known myself)

First Met to get a hit in a foreign country - Ed Kranepool, a homer as the fifth Mets batter at Parc Jarry

First future Met to homer against the Mets - Ken Boyer hit a couple in the sixth game of the 1962 season

First (and only) Met to play 1,000 games in one calendar decade - Mookie Wilson, 1,116 in the 1980s

First future Met to win an MVP award - Yogi Berra, in 1951. Yogi and Willie Mays both won in 1954

First Met to get a post-season hit - Art Shamsky singled leading off the second after the Mets went down 1-2-3 in the first inning of their first NLCS game vs. Atlanta

Edgy and Ben got four each, once Edgy unmuddled the syntax of my question. JCL with one correct.

MFS62
Oct 10 2012 06:59 AM
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Swan Swan H wrote:
First future Met to homer against the Mets - Ken Boyer hit a couple in the sixth game of the 1962 season

Edgy and Ben got four each, once Edgy unmuddled the syntax of my question. JCL with one correct.

Hey! I got this one correct.
Later

Swan Swan H
Oct 10 2012 08:16 AM
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Yup. They started against the Cardinals for one game, played a few against Pittsburgh, then St. Louis again.

cooby
Oct 12 2012 04:23 PM
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Swan Swan H wrote:
Poking around the awesome UMDB yesterday I found a some obscuria of various levels that I thought might work themselves into a little quiz. Please answer all 10 questions. I'll leave the quiz up for a few hours, and the 'Pooler with the most correct answers wins a $10 gift certificate to Robert Hall, where it's always back-to-school time.

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