Freddie Freeman played for the Atlanta Braves from 2010 to 2021. The Braves are the current reigning World Series champions He recently signed as a free agent with the L.A. Dodgers. Freeman was the 2020 NL MVP and finished 2nd in voting for NL Rookie of the Year in 2011 his first full season.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022
F is for Freud, Freddie Freeman, and Fugue
Freddie Freeman played for the Atlanta Braves from 2010 to 2021. The Braves are the current reigning World Series champions He recently signed as a free agent with the L.A. Dodgers. Freeman was the 2020 NL MVP and finished 2nd in voting for NL Rookie of the Year in 2011 his first full season.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
E is for Edmonds, Eustace and Equal
Jim Edmonds played Major League Baseball from 1993 to 2010 . He hit his first 121 homers with the Anaheim Angels from 1993 to 1999. It was after he left Anaheim ,in the period between 2000 and 2010 that he was his most prolific at the plate. During that time he hit 272 of his 393 career home runs. (241 with the St. Louis Cardinals, 19 for the Chicago Cubs, 8 for the Milwaukee Brewers, 3 for the Cincinnati Reds and 1 for the San Diego Padres.)
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
D is for Dirty, Dawson, Drain
Good morning and welcome to Day 4 of the A to Z Challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB Sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z Wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
One of the challenges in doing an a to z challenge that is a list of people is figuring out who to include and exclude based on what letter their name begins with. It is especially difficult if a players first name and last name begin with the same letter. If I want to include Freddie Freeman in my homerun list, I have no choice but to use him as F which is where I was planning on putting Frank Thomas. Another problem is when 2 players cancel everyone else out. I knew I wanted to include both Dick Allen (who I featured on April 1st) and Andre Dawson on this list, but since they both use up the same letters it squeezes out players like Adam Dunn who hit 354 homers between 2000 and 2010. Allen and Dawson are good choices though as they both revitalized their careers when moving to Chicago.
Dawson hit 274 of his 438 homers between 1976-1987 tied with Don Baylor for 10th for most homers in that era. This included all 225 of his career home runs with the Montreal Expos and 49 with the Cubs in 1987 the year he won his MVP award. Dawson hit another 100 with the Cubs playing 5 additional seasons on the Norths Side before finishing his HOF career with the Red Sox and Marlins.
Part III: Wordle Starting Words from A to Z
Note: Correct letters in the correct places will be shown in bold. Correct letters in incorrect places will be shown in italics.
On March 4, 2022 my opening word was drain
D R A I N- A was the only correct letter and it was in the correct place, I went from drain to blade.
B L A D E - D and E were in the word but not in the tight place. I countered with stead
S T E A D - This put the last 3 letters in the right place, so I forged ahead with ahead.
A H E A D - which was right!
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Monday, April 4, 2022
C is for Capital Punishment, Cal, and Codex
Good morning and welcome to Day 3 of the A to Z Challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB Sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z Wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Part I: A to Z Limericks
2 years ago my theme was state capitals. Last month in preparation for this years challenge. With memories of that challenge I wrote this limerick...
I once had a friend in Cheyenne
Who hated his cell phone plan
He got charged for roaming
Without leaving Wyoming
He's better off with a string and a can.
Written in March 2022 in anticipation of the challenge.
Part II: A to Z Homerun hitters of my lifetime
When you think of Cal Ripken you don't necessarily think of home runs. I think of the streak. I think of the period between May 30, 1982 and 9/19/1998 when he started 2,632 straight baseball games. Whit Merrifield of the Kansas City Royals currently has a 467 consecutive game streak. Merrifield would have to play more than 13 seasons to get near that record. Merrifield is already 33 years old. Ripken was 38 when the streak ended.
Yet Ripken was a prolific homerun hitter. He hit 431 homers in his hall of fame career, 242 between 1988 and 1999 all with the Baltimore Orioles.
Part III: Wordle Starting Words from A to Z
Note: Correct letters in the correct places will be shown in bold. Correct letters in incorrect places will be shown in italics.
On March 3, 2022 I started with codex.
C O D E X - This gave me an O in the right place so I followed up with aorta.
A O R T A - In addition to the O, I got a T out of position. My next guess was robin.
R O B I N - This gave me the O and the N and also the R as there was no other space for it. That helped me get Mourn in 4.
M O U R N
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Saturday, April 2, 2022
B is for Bisquick, Bryce, and Bulbs.
Good morning and welcome to Day 2 of the A to Z Challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB Sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z Wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
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