Seven chapter members were treated to Italian fare and a fun animal-name themed baseball quiz by trivia master Tom Thayer on Saturday, April 14.
Thayer – winner of many chapter quizzes and a member of the runner-up quiz team at SABR 44 in Houston in 2014 – devised a quiz with clues for players whose names and/or nicknames are also animal names. The players made up three teams – Team Aquatic, Team Terrestrial and Sky Team.
Jim Baker took top prize with 25 points, and Jan Larson was runner up with 20 points. For his efforts, Jim took home the Robert W. Creamer biography, “Stengel: His Life and Times.” To try your hand at the quiz, click here.
With a smaller group, we still had a nice diversity of of clubs represented. Jan had the cap of the meeting featuring the cartoon logo for the Baltimore Orioles in honor of Chris Davis ending his record 0-for-54 hitless streak the day before. In usual fashion, Tom Wancho wore a non-baseball shirt – this time representing the Cleveland Caveliers of the NBA.
Jim wore his Fukuoka Daiei Hawks cap. Mike Dillon wore a Rangers cap and nice Arizona spring training Rangers polo shirt. I wore my Norichika Aoki Astros shirsey with “Astros” in Japanese script (アストロズ) on front and Aoki’s name (in Japanese kanji: 青木)and No. 3 on the back. Aoki joined the Astros for the first half of the 2017 season before finishing out the season with the Blue Jays and the Mets. He re-joined the Nippon Professional Baseball last year with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, where he continues to play.
It was the 149th consecutive monthly meeting.
We hope you can join us for the May and June meetings, which have been set. In May, we’ll gather at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Serranos (MoPac and Ben White in Southwest Austin). In June, we’ll have an outing to see the Round Rock Express on Saturday, June 1. Requests for RSVPs and more information will come later.
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