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Owning a baseball card company sure comes in handy.

Just thought of Tom Paciorek instead of Marisnick.

Got four boxes then punted.

My ninth Immaculate Grid, with a rarity score of 72. (My best score was a 5!) None of my choices were the post popular answer. My recollection that several members of the Big Red Machine ended up in Philadelphia helped me with this puzzle.

A's/Phillies: Joe Morgan 4%
A's/40 HR: Reggie Jackson 9%
A's/HOF: Ty Cobb 2%
Red Sox/Phillies: Tony Perez 0.6%
Red Sox/40 HR: Ted Williams 6%
Red Sox/HOF: Cy Young 2%
Reds/Phillies: Pete Rose 30%
Reds/40 HR: George Foster 14%
Reds/HOF: Frank Robinson 4%

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 156 9/9:
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I had a little voice that whispered “Larry Andersen” for Phillies/Red Sox. I’m glad I listened

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PHL/OAK - Jeurys Familia 2%
40 HR/OAK - Jose Canseco 26%
HOF/OAK - Reggie 10%
PHL/BOS - Jonathan Papelbon 21%
40 HR/BOS - Yaz 4%
HOF/BOS - Babe Ruth 10%
PHL/CIN - Pete Rose 32%
40 HR/CIN - George Foster 15%
HOF/CIN - Frank Robinson 4%

easy one today

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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:08 am easy one today

Yeah just 3 squares to fill with the two-team combos which are almost always harder (for me) than the single season/career milestones

Back to back days, not sure I've done that before. I had 8/9 and got busy with work and it gave me time to come up with a good TEX 30 SB guy, which I did.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 157 9/9:
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HOU/PIT - Derek Bell 2%
COL/PIT - Octavio Dotel 6%
30 SB/PIT - Honus Wagner 6%
HOU/TEX - Nolan Ryan 58%
COL/TEX - Todd Zeile 1%
30 SB/TEX - Alfonso Soriano 10%
HOU/ASG - Lance Berkman 5%
COL/ASG - Dante Bichette 5%
30 SB/ASG - Lou Brock 4%

The grid appears to be down this morning. Maybe they need more bandwidth.

429: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:28 am The grid appears to be down this morning. Maybe they need more bandwidth.

429: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS

Got 8 but whiffed on LAA/DET grrrr

I missed twice on the Padres 40-save guy. Tried Goose Gossage and Rollie Fingers. Trevor Hoffman is too recent for me.

Took a while to come up with Angels-Tigers but finally did, completing it. Woulda had a record score except for the saves guys were too common.

LAA/DET: Damion Easley 1%
LAA/NYM: Charlie O'Brien 0.03%
LAA/saves: Troy Percival 38%
SD/DET: Tony Clark 1%
SD/NYM: Gary Sheffield 2%
SD/saves: Heath Bell 14%
NYY/DET: Phil Coke 3%
NYY/NYM: Hal Reniff 0.08%
NYY/saves: Dave Righetti 6%

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 158 9/9:
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LAA/DET: Frank Tanana 5%
LAA/NYM: Jim Fregosi 4%
LAA/saves: Troy Percival 38%
SD/DET: Nate Colbert 2%
SD/NYM: Kevin Mitchell 3%
SD/saves: Trevor Hoffman 76%
NYY/DET: Cecil Fielder 13%
NYY/NYM: Bill Sudakis 0.06%
NYY/saves: Mariano 78%

Lost on my second guess today, in the 200K column. I had Bob Gibson for the Cardinals, but when I advanced to the row for the Orioles, I was surprised to learn that Jim Palmer never struck out 200 batters in a season.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:17 am Lost on my second guess today, in the 200K column. I had Bob Gibson for the Cardinals, but when I advanced to the row for the Orioles, I was surprised to learn that Jim Palmer never struck out 200 batters in a season.

I seem to remember that being in a puzzle earlier in the year, because I was thrown by that too. Today I missed on Mike Cuellar there, and finally settled on Dave McNally

I guessed Palmer. Then I guessed Cuellar. Then I gave up on that square.

I went with Palmer as well. Mussina didn't occur to me.

Went back to BALL FOUR and dredged up Steve Barber for MIL/BAL, an inspired (IMHO) and <1.0% choice

Another inspired choice would have Billy Beane for MIN/OAK (young Billy is in both unis during flashback scenes in the movie) but that was NOT one that came to mind in time.

I guesses Dizzy Dean for 200 Cardinal ks. He led the NL in strikeouts four straight times striking out between 191 and 199 batters. Maddening.

cal sharpie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:52 pm I guesses Dizzy Dean for 200 Cardinal ks. He led the NL in strikeouts four straight times striking out between 191 and 199 batters. Maddening.

I'd tend to avoid guessing 200K/season pitchers from pre WWII. Batters just didn't strike out all that much back then and a pitcher could lead the league in K/9IP averaging six or even five K's per 9 innings. I mean, if I could get in Walter Johnson, I'd go for him, though.

I also got Palmered on yesterday's IG.

I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve been playing this game since this thread started and today was my first Immaculate. I usually stop playing once I get one wrong. I’m an immaculate or nothing kind of guy.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 160 9/9:
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Immaculate with a new personal record rarity score of 7.

Gold Glove/Allstar: Vada Pinson 0.01%
Gold Glove/Brave: Joe Torre 0.5%
Gold Glove/HOF: Jim Kaat 2%
LA/Allstar: Carl Furillo 0.1%
La/Brave: Dusty Baker 3%
.300/Allstar: Richie Ashburn 0.1%
.300/Brave: Joe Adcock 0.07%
.300/HOF: Nap Lajoie 0.9%

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:29 am

cal sharpie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:52 pm I guesses Dizzy Dean for 200 Cardinal ks. He led the NL in strikeouts four straight times striking out between 191 and 199 batters. Maddening.

I'd tend to avoid guessing 200K/season pitchers from pre WWII. Batters just didn't strike out all that much back then and a pitcher could lead the league in K/9IP averaging six or even five K's per 9 innings. I mean, if I could get in Walter Johnson, I'd go for him, though.

I also got Palmered on yesterday's IG.

I got Cuellared

Today, though, I got the Saturday layup quiz.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 160 9/9:
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GG/ASG - Pudge Rodriguez 2%
GG/ATL - Andruw Jones 31%
GG/HOF - Johnny Bench 2%
LA/ASG - Roy Campanella .6%
LA/ATL - Freddie Freeman 38%
LA/HOF - Gil Hodges 1%
300BA/ASG - Stan Musial .5%
300BA/ATL - Dale Murphy 3%
300BA/HOF -George Sisler .3%

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 160 9/9:
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My lowest score ever