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Who’s up for some baseball trivia?

March 18th, 2009 · 6 Comments

vwckwo asked:


Name that player

- made MLB debut at age 17
- spent his entire MLB career with one team, including the team’s inaugural season
- won one World Series ring
- one All-Star appearance
- all-time leader in games played, at-bats, hits, doubles, total bases for the team he had played for.
- very unathletic and was frequently used as a pinch hitter

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  • 1 Modest Yahoo // Mar 20, 2009 at 5:48 am

    mlb trivia

    ed kranepool

  • 2 H-Town Gal // Mar 21, 2009 at 12:13 pm

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    Ed Kranepool

    Edit: Darn! Almost had first!

  • 3 michael.kirkendall // Mar 21, 2009 at 6:57 pm

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    Lou Gehrig…..of course….

  • 4 Mike D // Mar 22, 2009 at 6:32 am

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    Ed Kranepool – I’m a Mets fan and actually got his autograph when I was a kid.

  • 5 tweety // Mar 24, 2009 at 3:20 pm

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    Ed Kranepool was my first guess, since he played for the 62 Mets at the end of the season and I knew he was 17 at the time. And he held just about every Met batting record at the time he retired (because he played there the longest).

    But I completely forgot that Kranepool did make the All Star team one year (1965, just looked it up at baseball-reference). Of course, every team had to have an all star representative.

    And of course, he was used a lot as a pinch hitter, especially later in his career… and he was a pretty good pinch hitter too.

    At the time Kranepool retired in 1979, he was the Mets all time home run leader, with 118 (at that time, former first baseman John Milner was second with 94, followed by Cleon Jones with 93… Dave Kingman and Tommie Agee rounded out the top 5.

    Kingman passed Kranepool on the all time Met HR list in 1982.

    Darryl Strawberry, with 252 HRs as a Met, is still the all time Mets leader, followed by Mike Piazza, Howard Johnson and Kingman. Strawberry became the Mets HR leader in 1988.

    btw, Kranepool will be 64 years old this November.

  • 6 samdugan // Mar 25, 2009 at 8:45 pm

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    Ed Kranepool

    He made his debut in 1962,and played with the Mets until 1979. Made 2 World Series appearances, in 1969 and 1973 (one ring in 1969).

    Steady Eddie!!!!!

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