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Good call on Gwynne as a 100+ RBI man
I wouldn't have gone there.

He was on my fantasy team the year that he had something like 10 home runs and 102 RBI. Not sure he ever hit double figures in home runs again, and pretty near certain he never came close to 100 RBIs otherwise.

(after checking - 1997, 17 HR, 119RBIs, along with a .372 BA. 4 other seasons of 10+ HRs. I got a lot of grief for overpaying for Gwynn and his one dimensional fantasy contributions before the season, and it was a lot of fun watching him prove the critics at my old job wrong.)

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 175 9/9:
Rarity: 161
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NYY/SD - Dave Winfield 14%
SD/40 HR - Ken Caminiti 23%
SD/100 RBI - Machado 32%
NYY/STL - Roger Maris 7%
STL/40 HR - Johnny Mize 2%
STL/100 RBI - Golsdchmidt 23%
PHL/NYY - Didi Gregorious 28%
PHL/40 HR - Kyle Schwarber 18%
PHL/100 RBI - Ryan Howard 13%

Immaculate with a rarity score of 43 (Angels SB upped my rarity score):

LAA/TOR: Scott Downs 0.4%
LAA/SB: Chone Figgins 25%
LA/GG: Jim Fregosi 2%
CHW/TOR: Alex Rios 5%
CHW/SB: Eddie Collins 3%
CHW/GG: Nellie Fox 4%
LAD/TOR: Curtis Granderson 1.0%
LAD/SB: Pee Wee Reese 2%
LAD/GG: Gil Hodges 0.8%

8 of 9 due to whiffing on TOR/CHW after taking a few flyers on TOR/LAD (Raul Mondesi) and TOR/LAA (Dominic Leone) which, to my great surprise, turned out to both be correct.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 177 9/9:
Rarity: 266
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NYY/BAL - Reggie 8%
ARI/BAL - Schilling 20%
BAL/ROY - Cal Ripken Jr 80%
NYY/SF - Randy Johnson 15%
SF/ARI - Wilmer Flores 2%
SF/ROY - McCovey 6%
NYY/KC - Steve Balboni 5%
KC/ARI - Zack Greinke 78%
KC/ROY - Beltran 51%

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This is the twelfth time I've been immaculate. Rarity score of 61. I had thought about trying to go with all old-timers, guys who played before I became a fan, but even though all of the teams were original franchises, I couldn't fill out that first column.



⚾️ Immaculate Grid 178 9/9:
Rarity: 61
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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 178 9/9:
Rarity: 21
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STL/BOS: Jack Clark 2%
STL/200 HITS: Frankie Frisch 0.5%
STL/HOF: Joe "Ducky" Medwick 0.9%
DET/BOS: David Wells 0.8%
DET/200 HITS: Charlie Gehringer 2%
DET/HOF: Hal Newhouser 5%
SF/BOS: Carl Mays 0.1%
SF/200 HITS: Bobby Bonds 10%
SF/HOF: Bill Terry 0.4%

I really like it when it the grid contains old teams so you can try to fill as many black-and-white images as you can. Carl Mays I got only because when I lived in SF there was some quiz about "FIRST Mays of the Giants" and it was Carl not Willie, Carl more known for his Boston on-the-field fight with Ty Cobb and even better known for killing Ray Chapman with a pitched ball. In any event, glad to be able to use this pointless knowledge.

I almost screwed up when I accidentally hit Orlando Cabrera when meaning to hit Orlando Cepeda for the BOS/StL square. But it turns out that both were correct so that saved me.
And then I whiffed on BOS/DET

Pondered those BOS combos all day.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 178 9/9:
Rarity: 140
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BOS/STL - JD Drew 8%
STL/200H - Rogers Hornsby 5%
STL/HOF - Dizzy Dean 4%
BOS/DET - Tony Clark 0.9%
DET/200H - Ty Cobb 18%
DET/HOF - Al Kaline 26%
SF/BOS - Mark Melancon 0.9%
SF/200H - Willie Mays 73%
SF/HOF - Mel Ott 4%

My 13th win. Rarity score 67.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 180 9/9:
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I used Jim Bouton, too. I took a gamble that Pilots would count as Brewers.

I missed the Brewer-Astro.

Scored an .05% rarity with Indian-Met Jack Heidemann

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:31 pm I missed the Brewer-Astro.

Same here had a fairly easy 8/9 minus that center square

New low rarity score of 14

WAS/CLE Otis Nixon 0.7%
WAS/HOU Rusty Staub 8%
WAS/ALLSTAR Hubie Brooks 0.4%
MIL/CLE Gorman Thomas 2%
MIL/HOU Jonathan Villar 2%
MIL/ALL STAR Don Money 0.6%
NYM/CLE Jose Vizcaino 0.2%
NYM/HOU Bob Aspromonte 0.2%
NYM/ALL STAR Ron Hunt 0.7%

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 181 9/9:
Rarity: 218
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My 14th win. This was an easy one.

Not easy if you go up there swinging for the fences and pick Cory Snider as a Cleveland all-star

I would have gotten a better score if I had used Harmon Killebrew for the Royals Hall of Famer.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 182 9/9:
Rarity: 153
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Number 15 for me.

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 184 9/9:
Rarity: 109
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Love the easy Saturday grid

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 188 9/9:
Rarity: 126
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CY/HOF - Koufax 10%
CY/ASG - Verlander 10%
CY/GG - Maddux 69%
SS/HOF - Vlad Guerrero 2%
SS/ASG - A-Rod 4%
SS/GG - Pudge Rodriguez 3%
ROY/HOF - Jackie Robinson 18%
ROY/ASG - Ohtani 2%
ROY/GG - Fred Lynn 7%

The ones that don't have team logos are definitely easier.

My 16th win:

Am I the only one still playing this?

My 17th Immaculate Grid:

I won today
⚾️ Immaculate Grid 192 9/9:
Rarity: 118
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Big score was Met-Diamondback Jorge Fabregas