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Welcome to the “Mystery Player World Series Tournament!”

The 2022 major league baseball season has completed one month, while 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! 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 contests. Each division winner and two wild card players will advance to the Mystery Player World Series tournament!

Central Divisional Play, Week Five

We’re currently in Week Five, with competition for the Central Division championship. 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!

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 $50 Amazon gift card and a complimentary copy of my newly released book, The Best of Baseball History Comes Alive. The runners-up will also receive complimentary copies of the book.

As you send me your answers, I will grade them and return them to you with your score for the round. As each round progresses, I’ll keep a running tally of players’ scores and weekly standings.

Participation is 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!

Central Divison, Week Five

This week there are a total of 11 points available – One for each of the five players in the featured photo (five points total), one each for each of the bonus questions (five points total), and one for the first person to get all the players and the bonus questions correct.

This week’s Mystery Players:

As we get closer to the end of Central Division play, I’m stepping it up a notch in difficulty, so you’ll have to bring your “A-game” for this one. Today, we see five Tiger players on the dugout steps at Braves’ Field in Boston. This photo was found unidentified as part of the Leslie Jones Boston Public Library collection. I did the IDs for the collection.

Who are the five Mystery Players?

(1 point awarded for each correct identification)

This week’s bonus questions:

How many of these players are in the Hall of Fame? Which player or players? (1 point)
One of the players got into a famous fight with Joe Medwick in the World Series, resulting in Medwick’s ejection. Which player? (1 point)
Regarding Question 2 above, what was the reason Judge Landis gave for Medwick’s ejection? (1 point)
These players were teammates on two pennant winners and one World Series championship. What were the two years? (1 point)
One of the players had the nickname, “The Madman from Mississippi.” Which player? (1 point)

Good luck! 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

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Last Week’s Results for Central Division, Week Four:

The Mystery Players were:

Birdie Tebbetts, Mel Parnell, and Vern Stephens

Answers to the Bonus Questions:

Birdie Tebbetts managed the Indians; Mel Parnell and Vern Stephens are in the Red Sox HOF; Parnell played for the Red Sox his entire career; the year was 1950; Vern Stephens led the league 3 times in RBIs and home runs once.

Congratulations to:

Mike Bresina

He was the first to identify last week’s Mystery Players correctly and also answer all the bonus questions correctly. He received 9 points.

The following also scored points by identifying some or all of the Mystery Players and the bonus questions:

Paul Doyle (8), William Carter (8), Bob Rambo (8), James Pearn (8), Mark Moreno (8), Cary Seidman (5), George Curcio (8), Fred Holbrook (5), Kevin Barwin (8), Everett Shockley (8), Al Citro (7), Pat Hanson (8), Russ Bravender (8), Ed Cassidy (8), Tom Marshall (7), Michael Keedy (8), Bill Cunniff (8), Don Stokes (2).

Welcome to new participant, Gary Nicolai, who scored 8 points!

Appeal Plays: 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. Send me your appeal request at: Livac2@aol.com. 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!