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    Default OT - 6/1/2007 Puzzle

    Co-Recipients Don't Count

    1. Mariano Rivera
    2. Bobby Richardson
    3. Sandy Koufax
    4. Pete Rose
    5. Reggie Jackson
    6. Johnny Bench
    7. Derek Jeter
    8. Mike Schmidt
    9. Donn Clendenon
    10. Troy Glaus
    11. ?????????????
    12. Jermaine Dye
    13. Manny Ramirez
    14. Frank Robinson
    15. Willie Stargell
    16. Darrell Porter

    Name the missing Major League Baseball player.


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    These are always fun. I love sports trivia (I'm still ready to take on Howie Schwab), but am racking my brain on this one. I'm 100% certain what all these players share, but just can't determine the missing link yet. I may just have to take a random stab shortly...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    These are always fun. I love sports trivia (I'm still ready to take on Howie Schwab), but am racking my brain on this one. I'm 100% certain what all these players share, but just can't determine the missing link yet. I may just have to take a random stab shortly...
    This is actually a fairly difficult question, and is much more a brainteaser than a piece of baseball trivia. If you look at it from a pure baseball standpoint, you aren't going to get it (unless you guess ... but what's the fun in that?)

    Now that I think about it the question is actually pretty contrived, so my advice would be not to waste too much time waiting for that "a-ha" moment.
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    Ganch I'm not sure your "submit answer" button is working. I entered most players who I thought would have met the qualification, and got an "incorrect answer" screen everytime.

    Did you create this yourself or get it somewhere else? If a little more time elapses I may have to request a hint....

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    The weaving in and out of generations is what is throwing me off the most....

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    Damn, I thought I had that one too

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    Ganch I'm not sure your "submit answer" button is working. I entered most players who I thought would have met the qualification, and got an "incorrect answer" screen everytime.
    It's working just fine.

    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    Did you create this yourself or get it somewhere else? If a little more time elapses I may have to request a hint....
    I thought of this problem while doing squats at the gym. (And that's not a hint.)

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    If the recent ones listed didn't give it away I'll go ahead and let everyone know that these are all World Series MVPs (seeing Donn Clendenon instantly set that off for me, as that is always a good baseball factoid question). If anyone can start to decipher this out from there I'd be curious to know how...

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    Donn Clendenon was the only man to win the World Series MVP on a losing team fyi...

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    Solved by BigBollocks on Fri Jun 01 at 22:42:28.

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    Don't get too hung up on the baseball angle. This is first and foremost a lateral thinking puzzle that happens to be couched in a baseball framework.

    The details of the puzzle all have to do with baseball, but the manner of relating them to each other does not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ganchrow View Post
    Solved by BigBollocks on Fri Jun 01 at 22:42:28.
    Looks like you got it. Good job.

    But did you actually figure it out or did you just guess?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ganchrow View Post
    Looks like you got it. Good job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    Care to explain your answer?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ganchrow View Post
    Care to explain your answer?
    My fingers are tired from typing right now. I'll be back soon to explain my thought process better....

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    Still no real solutions yet. Here's another hint:

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    Ganch this has to be the most frustrating thing ever. I long since pulled up the list of World Series MVPs, and even looked for things such as age at the time, etc. Hopefully you'll share how you derived your answer relatively soon, because I'm utterly clueless....

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    Ganch this has to be the most frustrating thing ever. I long since pulled up the list of World Series MVPs, and even looked for things such as age at the time, etc. Hopefully you'll share how you derived your answer relatively soon, because I'm utterly clueless....
    I figure I'll just keep giving hints until someone's able to figure out how the answer is arrived at.

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    Other than the fact it can be any one of 34 names, I have no clue

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    Donn Clendenon was the only man to win the World Series MVP on a losing team fyi...
    You'd be on to something there Bollocks...if it wasn't for the fact when Clendenon won the WS MVP in 1969, he played for the world champion Mets.

    Bobby Richardson (1960) is the only one to earn the MVP playing for a losing club in the Series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie Bee View Post
    Other than the fact it can be any one of 34 names, I have no clue
    Why 34 names?

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    I have no clue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie Bee View Post
    You'd be on to something there Bollocks...if it wasn't for the fact when Clendenon won the WS MVP in 1969, he played for the world champion Mets.

    Bobby Richardson (1960) is the only one to earn the MVP playing for a losing club in the Series.

    LOL Willie

    For some reason I always had thought it was a Met who held that title and it was Clendenon, so I appreciate you setting me straight there Willie. This thread has humbled and comfused me to the point of throwing me entirely off my game apparently

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    Ganch do you mind if I give a hint at what the answer is? I'd be curious if anyone can find the link even with the answer....

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBollocks View Post
    Ganch do you mind if I give a hint at what the answer is? I'd be curious if anyone can find the link even with the answer....
    I'm sure someone will figure it out soon enough. As I said, coming up with the answer has little to do with baseball and so knowing the answer doesn't really help.

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    Biggest hint yet:

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    I still can't figure the puzzle.
    But with the talk of Donn Clendenon, I just wanted to mention that he was the only World Series MVP to ever live in my hometown - Sioux Falls, S.D. He was a lawyer here until the time of his death.
    We still have a Cy Young Award winner residing here - Jim Perry.
    I've been fortunate to have met both of them. They were each open and enlightening, probably due to the fact that they lived in an area that seemed a million miles from MLB.
    Unfortunately for them, their achievements in baseball came at a time when they didn't receive million dollar contracts and both had to assume careers after baseball.

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    My apologies in advance ...

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    Very nice Ganch, very nice. I'd tried the position numbers out, and was looking for an "8" that could help complete a word with an "h" or something along those lines.

    I like the way you think. I'm looking forward to a little "puzzle revenge" in the future...

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