I think I got it!!!
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Spearmaster
Remember our discussion about lucky numbers? 4 and 14 actually come out of 41, which is my true lucky number, and the number of the apartment I once lived in when I was young.
Without any further clues, and being the baseball statistician you are, can you guess who my favorite baseball player of all time is?
Daffy
There are two Hall of Fame members who sported #41...
Tom Seaver-Mets
Eddie Matthews-Milwaukee
I would like to guess Seaver.
Wow, impressive duck!
I was too busy catching some ZZZZZZZ's...
I'd have to imagine that
Daffy is likely correct. But, I'm going to go in another direction.
This is what I came up with...
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Player's who wore #14" would include:
- Kenty Hrbek (there's no way you're a big Hrbek fan...)
- Ken Boyer (maybe...)
- Gil Hodges (possibly, he was a player and manager... but he's generally overlooked in baseball lore)
- Larry Doby #14 (the first African-American to play in the AL... though in some circles, they'll say that it was in fact Babe Ruth!)
- Ernie Banks #14 (hmmm...)
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Players who wore #4" would include:
- Duke Snider #4 (could be...)
- Ralph Kiner #4 (doubt it...)
- Lou Gehrig #4 (another strong candidate...)
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Players who wore double-4's" would include...
- Hank Aaron (HUGE candidate...)
- Reggie Jackson (Big maybe...)
- Willie McCovey (possibly...)
Something a tad more esoteric...
- My being a HUGE Barry Bonds fan, I'd be quick to think that he's presently 41-years old. Born in July of 1964. But, there aren't many of us Lamar Bonds fans left these days... I'll pass.
- Rafeal Palmeiro is also born in 1964, making him 41-years old as well. But... literally after being showered with praises from the media and fans alike, after reaching 3,000 hits, just 2 weeks later, it was all forgotten about after the "steroid" debacle came about...
I'll pass.
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Going out-of-box a little further" with...
- Don Wilson wore #40 and Pee Wee Reese wore #1, add them together and you get "41"? (it's a trick question, because you like 2 players... pass)
- Jackie Robinson wore #42 and subtract Pee Wee Reese's #1 from his and again... you get "41" (pass...)
- Albert Pujols slugged
41 HR's this past year... (pass)
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Okay, I was leaning with someone from the trifecta of (as Daffy said)
Tom Seaver,
Eddie Matthews, or an (my guess)
Ernie Banks.
But...
I'm going to say that it's "
Jack Chesbro". The only modern-day (although not so modern anymore) 41-game winner. Mr. Chesbro did this in 1904 with the New York Highlanders. That's my guess.
Sidenote: I was going to guess Ernie Banks because I'm guessing that Spearmaster was once a native of Chicago... Just a hunch that's way-out-there...
Steed
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