MLB Trivia - 7/11/06

[Willie Bee]

More All-Star home run stuff for y'all to ponder...

1) Who is the only person to homer in three consecutive All-Star Games?

2) There have been 15 pinch-hit homers in the All-Star Game. Hank Blalock hit the most recent one in 2003. How many of the other 14 can you name?

3) How many All-Star Games have not had at least one home run hit?

4) Only one Met has homered in the All-Star Game. Who is it?

5) Who hit the last walk-off homer in the All-Star Game?

[Stumpage]

5) Callison ended the 1964 game with a 3-run walk-off. Saw that highlight a few years back and I'm pretty certain nobody has hit a game-winning jack since.

[Willie Bee]

Excellent work as usual, stumpage

Callison's 3-run jack to end the 1964 contest was the last walk-off in the ASG. I still have a very clear image in my head of where I was exactly when Callison hit that home run and it remains one of my favorite All-Star Game memories.



EDIT: I miscounted on the pinch-hit homers; there have only been 14 total, counting Blalock a few years back. And by my count, the only other walk-off homer in the All-Star Game besides Callison came in 1941 by Ted Williams.

[Stumpage]

Thanks Bee...Must have been quite the thing to see when Williams hit his walk off as well. Actually, up until I saw Callison's highlight, I thought the shot by Williams was the only ASG ever to end on a walk-off. Being THE MAN of baseball triv, do you know if there were any other mid-summer classic walk offs, or are those 2 the only ones?

[Willie Bee]

Those are the only two I know. Schoendienst hit a game-winning homer in 1950, but it was in the top of the 14th inning and not a walk-off job.

[Willie Bee]

For the few who might be interested in the answers...

1) Who is the only person to homer in three consecutive All-Star Games? Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh, 1949-50-51

2) The 14 pinch-hit homers in the All-Star Game
Mickey Owen (1942); Gus Bell (1954); Larry Doby (1954); Willie Mays (1956); Harmon Killebrew (1961a); George Altman (1961a); Pete Runnels (1962b); Reggie Jackson (1971); Cookie Rojas (1972); Willie Davis (1973); Lee Mazzilli (1979); Frank White (1986); Fred McGriff (1994); Hank Blalock (2003)

3) How many All-Star Games have not had at least one home run hit? 15 ... 1938; 1944; 1953; 1957; 1958; 1962a; 1963; 1966, 1968; 1970; 1978; 1985; 1987; 1990; 1999

4) Only one Met has homered in the All-Star Game. Who is it? Before last night's game, it was Lee Mazzilli in 1979. David Wright has now joined Mazzilli.