Good morning!
It’s the second week of Opening Day starters on Sporcle Saturday. Today, you’ll be tasked with naming first basemen and third basemen to get the Opening Day start.
First base looks to be one of the few positions where the same player (presumably) will be the Opening Day starter. Starting pitcher, catcher, second base, third base, right field, and designated hitter will all be new faces.
As with last week, there are 190 entries for you to name: how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I’ve allotted 25 minutes for completion attempts.
- All players are grouped by season.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- One guy on this list holds the most Opening Day (and consecutive) starts at third base: 9, running the length of his White Sox tenure, 1923-1931.
- From 1908-1917, the White Sox started a different guy at first each season. It wasn’t until Chick Gandil started three straight from 1917-1919 that that particular spell was broken.
- Frank Isbell was the Sox’ first-ever Opening Day first baseman. But he also started Opening Day at third base in 1903, second base in 1906 and 1907, and then again at first base in 1909.
All data from baseballreference.com
