let’s play: Immaculate Grid!

9/9, 26. Garry Templeton, my last guess, is up to 17%--he's been rediscovered 100% because of this game. I had an 'S'-guy shortcut (Cardinals, Padres, Giants, Mariners) but of course couldn't remember him: Brett Tomko. Will try to remember Rich Wilkins instead, who had a classic outlier season in '93 for the Cubs.

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how the fuck did dave kingman never get 100 RBIs for the Mets?! 7 fucking seasons with over 30 home runs and he's only gotten 100+ RBIs twice! also why was he on 4 different teams in 1977? what happened there bro?!

Kingman's stats were freakish so many different ways. Don't ever use him for WAR (career high, 4.1, under 20 for his career); he did knock in 100 for the Cubs and A's (once each), never scored 100. Buzza alerted me to his bizarre '77 season, but I tend to forget the two non-NY teams.

9/9, 48. 31% of that is for the D-backs row, but that might actually be the lowest I've ever had for Arizona/Colorado/Miami/Tampa Bay.

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9/9, 25. 1970 AL batting crown: Alex Johnson, .32899; Yaz, .32862.

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9/9, 25. Stayed under 10% for the first seven, then gave in on Kingman and Palmeiro. Burt Hooton: when I was 12, I was able to throw a variation on the knuckle-curve (which probably still exists under some other name).

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Found this:

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9/9, 6

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jim gilliam is probably the most versatile <1 reliables in my arsenal, checks a lot of boxes

It takes the Mets and/or a lower score than mine to get you back here.

9/9, 16 today. Was glad that on Canadian HOF Induction Day, I was able to use Blue Jay legend--for one game--Doug Ault. He hit two HR in the snow on Opening Day, 1977. I was in Mr. Lightfoot's grade 12 history class listening on a transistor radio.

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Only 15 correct answers for 200 wins/one team, of which only five look good from a rarity standpoint: Ted Lyons, Red Faber, Hooks Dauss, Mel Harder, and (maybe) Bob Lemon.

Duh--Posnanski writes about Duane Kuiper all the time, you'd think I'd know he played second, not short.

9/9...121! Those strikeout boxes are hard--only 8 correct answers each for the Padres and Brewers. Thought of Clay Kirby for the Padres and Teddy Higuera for the Brewers, both of which would have been right; I also thought of moving Perry to the Padres and going with Vida Blue for the Giants, both of which would have been wrong.

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One good thing today: instead of Bouton for the Astros/Pilots (Brewers), Dooley Womack, the guy he was traded for. "I'd hate to think that at this stage of my career I was being traded even-up for Dooley Womack."

Rarity would have been just average today, somewhere in the 50s or 60s, but got as close to 9/9 without getting it as you can. Went with Lee Smith for Boston's 30-saves box; his best season there was 29.

9/9, 6

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Wally Pipp did nothing wrong (Lenny Randle on the other hand....)

Was under 5% today, one answer to go, and for Negro League catcher I named Rube Foster--I thought he was a pitcher/catcher/mostly manager, but I think I have him mixed up with someone else. I didn't want to go with Gibson or Campanella, obviously. If that comes up again, there was someone else I knew: Double-Duty Radcliffe, a hard name to forget.

9/9, 61. No such thing as a sabbatical--when I disappear from this thread, it's only because I'm not getting 9s. Haven't had one since Monday, so I threw in the towel on my last two guesses today, Ordonez and Martinez.

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9/9, 29 (shut out on the weekend). Not naming the most obvious answers for the 2000-K column is about the best I can do.

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