Sporcle Saturday: Singles leaders
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Continuing our theme here on Sporcle Saturday with reader requests, asinwreck asked a few weeks ago for a Sporcle which examined the singles leaders in franchise history.
Once again, I’m happy to oblige: the only hitch was to determine where the cut-off should be. Number of singles? Number of players? In the end, I decided to go with number of singles, specifically at least 300 singles in Sox history for a total of 114 players. How many can you name? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- Because this is such a large quiz and also spans franchise history, I’ve allotted the full 20 minutes for completion attempts.
- For hints, I’ve provided tenure with the team (does not separate if a player left and returned to the team, though), number of hits, and position(s) played.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- Every position on the diamond is represented here, including pitcher.
- Shortstop accounted for three of the first six names on the list.
- Catcher was represented (I thought) reasonably well, with nine names overall.
All data from baseballreference.com
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Tough going. I got 70, with about 4 that I should have had; the rest, well, new names for me. Thanks Ted. Looking forward to asinwreck’s score
This was fabulous. I got 90/114 before I ran out of time.
Love a list that includes
Surprises:
90 is fantastic. I got 87, but 4 were just name guesses. I did get everyone that played in my lifetime (after 1960).
I got 60 and gave up with 7 minutes left, should have had a few more.
76. Very tough quiz. Love it. I concentrated on guys that played from 59 to present and only missed one of themÂ
What’s a
Related, Wilbur Wood was interviewed during today’s game and he mentioned how much he enjoyed being teammates with the 2B who had 717 singles.