Thursday, May 23, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Saturday Baseball Quiz

The debut of the BoopStats Saturday baseball quiz question.

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The Saturday Baseball Quiz

POSTED: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 12:29 PM
Bob Vetrone Jr.

(We'll post a baseball trivia question every Saturday, just for fun. In subsequent weeks, we will post the question as well as a detailed answer, stats, charts and commentary on the previous week's question. Pass along your questions, thoughts and ideas to vetronb@phillynews.com.)

THIS WEEK'S QUESION: In 2011, Mark Teixeira became the fourth player to reach 25 home runs in each of his first nine seasons. Who are the other three?
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:36 AM, 06/24/2012
    Eddie Mathews, Darryl Strawberry, Albert Pujols
    Go Phils !
    — zubzub
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:41 AM, 06/24/2012
    zub's right. I didn't do any screening to come up with the players. But I did actually search for players and the closest I came was Ralph Kiner who just missed it. But out of the 3, Pujols is a no brainer.
    — AvoidSundanceVacations


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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

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