Yankee4Life

10 out of 10, 51 seconds. Very good questions.

You know why? Because they are believing their own hype right now. Giving Domingo German the ball??? What the F***???

6 out of 10, 54 seconds. I was doing good but then I got the last three wrong.

6 out of 10, 69 seconds. These were very tough today.😲

3 out of 10, 40 seconds. Soccer and Formula One questions kill me. And something occurred to me just now. Has anyone ever seen a NFL question?

8 out of 10, 65 seconds. The two I missed was all my fault.

I was very happy with these past two games and was glad to see them playing like they should be. Two things I really liked about today: 1. The first time up Cole made Devers uncomfortable at the plate and the guy stared him down because he may have wanted to start a fight because that is what Boston is known for. It didn’t work on Cole and Devers struck out. 2. Joey Gallo homered. If this guy can get going he can really end up helping the team a lot.

No, he was a regular here years ago. He also made the 1988 Total Classics mod and also was a former staff member.

10 out of 10, 45 seconds. These people like being tricky sometimes with their questions.

I would seriously drill the SOB the first time he is up tomorrow because he is just too comfortable at the plate. The Yankee staff treats him like Ortiz and he isn't.

10 out of 10, 55 seconds. A decent outing that I am satisfied with.

10 out of 10, 50 seconds. Yeah ok, but I did it kind of slow.

6 out of 10, 48 seconds. I don't know what the hell these were about today.

Ok, ok. So I am panicking. I always seem to. I just hope he isn't hurt.

Gutless outing by Severino. This is the beginning of the end.

7 out of 10, 71 seconds. These were hard today.

Hello Marty, I am sorry I did to see this post before now. I started this thread back in 2005 and I have learned something about each player that I have featured in here even if I had heard of them or not. It’s funny you should mention the profiles of players like Dimaggio or Gehrig for example. While most of us know a lot about these guys there is always going to be something that you end up learning about them and some of these under the radar players in here are down right fascinating. (Check out the Howard Ehmke profile on page eight.) In this same section of the forum I have a list of the players that have been already done so if you want me to do one please take a look at that list and if their name is not there please let me know.

6 out of 10, 55 seconds. How I did better than yesterday is the big mystery.

5 out of 10, 61 seconds. No excuses, I did terrible today and should have done better.

Chapman is a free agent at the end of the season and the Yankees should let him go.

It sure does. I am sick of these four hour games and every time the Yankees and Red Sox play they act like it is the final game of the season. Always have a good pillow and something nice to drink when you watch these two teams and best of luck!

10 out of 10, 38 seconds. I think this was my fastest ever.

Indirectly, the injury to Oakland’s Frankie Montas can be looked at as a blessing in disguise. If he is hurt for any period of time his trade value is going to go way down and there will be some legitimate concerns about his shoulder. Oakland is a team that will gladly trade with the Yankees provided they can get every good player they can off of them and they won’t budge until Cashman gives them what they wants. When they trade with other teams that is not the case. Look at the crap the Braves gave them for Matt Olson. Last night’s Yankee - Boston game took 3 hours and 51 minutes to play. It took them almost an hour and half to play three innings. This is why I hate these games between these two teams. And it might be longer tonight because the game is on FOX.

10 out of 10, 46 seconds. Very surprised I did not mess up any of the easy questions.

Hoyt Wilhelm There was nothing conventional about Hoyt Wilhelm's path to the Hall of Fame. He spent most of his big league career coming out of the bullpen, becoming the first reliever ever enshrined. He didn't make his major league debut until he was 29 years old, then pitched until he was nearly 50. And his arsenal featured not overpowering fastballs or knee-bending curveballs, but instead relied almost exclusively on a darting, unpredictable knuckleball. "I got to messing with the (knuckleball) in high school," Wilhelm said. "I started to see that the ball was doing something. I figured it was my only ticket to the big leagues, 'cause I couldn’t throw hard, and I knew if I was going to play ball, I'd have to make it some other way." Wilhelm's big league career nearly ended before it began. While serving in the Army during World War II, shrapnel from a German artillery blast struck Wilhelm in the back and right hand. He received the Purple Heart for his actions, and he would pitch his entire career with that piece of metal still lodged in his back. Wilhelm spent seven seasons in the minors before getting to the big leagues with the New York Giants in 1952. He'd been a starter throughout his minor league career, but Giants manager Leo Durocher moved him to the bullpen. As a rookie, Wilhelm went 15-3 with a league-high 71 appearances and an NL-low 2.43 ERA. After helping the Giants win the 1954 World Series title, Wilhelm bounced to the Cardinals, Indians and then the Orioles. In Baltimore, manager Paul Richards gave Wilhelm the chance to be a starter again. In just his third start, Wilhelm threw a no-hitter against the Yankees on Sept. 20, striking out eight. He remained in the Orioles rotation in 1959 and won the AL's ERA title with a 2.19 mark before moving back to the bullpen the following season. Richards helped increase Wilhelm's success by devising a larger catcher's mitt that was 41 inches in circumference – later reduced to 38 by rule – for Wilhelm's receivers to use, cutting down the passed balls that plagued him and so many other knuckleballers. Wilhelm settled in as the premier relief pitcher in an era dominated by pitching. From 1964-68 with the Chicago White Sox, Wilhelm went 41-33 with 99 saves and a 1.92 ERA in 361 games – all coming after his 40th birthday. While some marveled at Wilhelm's longevity – he was the big league's oldest player from 1966 through the end of his career in 1972 – he himself was quite pragmatic about it. He took care of himself, and he recognized that the knuckleball wasn't as taxing on his arm as conventional pitches would be. "He had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see," Brooks Robinson said. "He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going." An eight-time All-Star, Wilhelm finished his career with a record of 143-122, 228 saves and a 2.52 ERA in 1,070 games.