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Welcome to the New “Mystery Player World Series Tournament!”

Spring Training for the 2022 major league baseball season may be delayed, but not here on Baseball History Comes Alive! Our Mystery Player “Regular Season” tournament is well underway.

Here’s What It’s All About!

There’s nothing like a little friendly competition to get the juices flowing! As I mentioned, I’ve decided to turn the weekly Mystery Player game into a three-round tournament.

To use as much baseball logo as possible, I’ll be referring to each of the three rounds as the East, Central, and West Divisions. The divisional play will consist of six weekly entries. Each division winner and one wild card player will advance to the four-player Mystery Player World Series tournament!

East Divisional Play, Week Two

We’re currently in Week Two, with competition for the East Division championship. After six weeks, I’ll announce the East Division winner. Then we’ll start over in the Central Divison, followed by the West Division. If the same player wins more than one division, the second-place player will advance to the World Series.

To mix things up a bit, I’ll be throwing some “curves”: the posting of each weekly entry will always be on the weekend (Friday to Sunday), but the time will be varied and unannounced…I’ll be “mixing it up,” so that no one will be sitting on my “fastball” anticipating the post at a set time!

Player Identities: Joe Girardi, David Cone, Don Larsen, Yogi Berra, Davi Wells, Joge Posada

The weekly entries will go out automatically to all the subscribers of the Baseball History Comes Alive website, so you don’t have to do anything…just be ready each weekend!

And to be clear…the tournament is “open book.” Feel free to use any resources you want. As always, the underlying objective is to enhance our knowledge of baseball history while having some fun with a little competition.

Tournament Prizes

The winner of the tournament will receive a $25 Amazon gift card and a complimentary copy of my new book, soon to be published, The Best of Baseball History Comes Alive. The runners-up will also receive complimentary copies of my new book.

Tournament Scoring

As each round progresses, I’ll keep a running tally of players’ scores and weekly standings. Scoring will be as follows:

Three points: The weekly winner – the first player to correctly identify the Mystery Player(s) and answer all bonus questions correctly.
Two points: All the other players who correctly identify the Mystery Player(s) and answer the bonus questions correctly.
One point: Players who correctly identify the Mystery Player(s) only.

Participation will be open to all readers of Baseball History Comes Alive and our Old-Time Baseball Photos Facebook page. Also, please extend an invitation to any friends or relatives who might enjoy playing.

So as to give everyone a chance to participate without the player’s identity being immediately revealed, send me your answers via e-mail instead of leaving your answers in the comments section.

Send your answers to me at: Livac2@aol.com.

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“The Mystery Player World Series Tournament!”

Let’s Play Ball!

East Divison, Week Two

This week’s Mystery Players:

Today this week’s Mystery Players challenge is something a bit different. All our Yankee fan readers will enjoy this one! It’s from the “modern” era of baseball (anything past 1970 I consider “modern”!). The photo was taken on September 21, 2008, at Yankee Stadium, prior to the start of the last game of the 2008 season. These players are obviously all Yankees, but I wonder why were they put this group together? Any idea? Hmm…

So that’s your challenge:

Who are the Five Mystery Players? (OK…I’ll give you Yogi!).

This week’s bonus questions:

Why do you think this group was put together?
The player in the middle accomplished something that has been done only once in baseball history. What is it?
What was the nickname of the player second from the right?
Only one of the players has a Cy Young award. Which player is it?
Two of the players are Monument Park honorees. Which two?

Good luck!

If you’d like to take a stab at identifying these players, please send me your answers via email. But feel free to add any thoughts or personal reflections you might have about him in the comments section below. Remember you don’t have to answer everything to submit an answer. Just give it your best shot!

Send your answers to me at: Livac2@aol.com

Last Week’s Results for East Division, Week One:

The Mystery Players were

Clifford “Gavvy” Cravath and Tris Speaker

Congratulations to:

Michael Keedy

He was the first to identify last week’s Mystery Players correctly and also answer all the bonus questions correctly. He receives 3 points.

Answers to the Bonus Questions:

Clifford Cravath’s nicknames were “Gavvy” or “Cactus.” Speaker’s nickname was “Gray Eagle.” The year was 1915 on the occasion of the 1915 World Series between the Phillies and the Red Sox, won by the Red Sox. Speaker later managed the Cleveland Indians to the 1920 World Series championship.

The following also correctly identified the Mystery Players and correctly answered the bonus questions, receiving 2 points:

Ed Cassidy, Joe Chastein, Everett Shockley, Mike Bresina, Paul Doyle, Dave Minnihan, William Carter, Bob Rambo, Al Citro, Russ Bravender, Kevin Barwin, David Denny, Bill Cunniff.

The following identified the Mystery Players correctly but not all the bonus questions, receiving 1 point:

Terry Farmer, Cary Seidman, Nick Snider, George Curcio.

Also Participating: Patricia Hanson, James Pearn.

Appeals: If you think I’ve made a mistake with your score, you can request an appeal, just like an appeal in a major league game. It won’t go to New York, but I’ll address the issue as fairly as I can…and probably quicker than most major league appeals!