The Simpsons and Baseball by BarkerC

In "Homer at the Bat" (aka the softball episode), Mr. Burns brings in a team of nine ringers to play for the plant softball team, all MLB players at the time. Which of the nine was the last two retire from baseball, one of only two of the ringers without a World Series ring.

In "Dancin' Homer", Homer's work as a mascot for the Springfield Isotopes eventually earns him a call up to the big leagues to spot what mascot, one Homer refers to as "“the greatest mascot there is…" (He would later go on to win a seat in the state legislature, but that's Season 14, so...)

In "Homer Goes to College", Mr. Burns attempts to use his influence on the board of Springfield University to gain admission for Homer. When his words don't work, he begins to "severely beat" one of the board members with a baseball bat, in an homage to what 1987 film?

In "Brother's Little Helper", what player comes in to Springfield to retrieve the valuable market research data from the MLB satellite that Bart shot down while on Focusyn?

In "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", what Baseball Hall of Famer is seen "pleading with the crowd for... for some kind of sanity." before being knocked unconscious by a barrage of pretzels in a "black day for baseball."?

In "Krusty Gets Cancelled", in listing the things Gabbo can do, Harry Shearer provides a virtually dead on impression of what MLB announcer, one he considers among his favorite impressions to perform?

What MLB announcer wrote both "Dancin' Homer" and "Saturdays of Thunder" in addition to credits on ~M*A*S*H~, ~Cheers~, ~Frasier~, ~Wings~, and ~Becker~ among others.

In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", what "blessing in disguise" does Moe credit for the second half resurgence of the Isotopes?

In "Hungry Hungry Homer", Homer is staging a hunger strike to protest the Isotopes' impending move to Albuquerque. Lisa says she's proud of him and gives him a copy of a book of this actor's core beliefs, one of which, Homer leans, is that he really hates Wayne Rogers.

In "Three Men and a Comic Book", Milhouse originally goes to The Android's Dungeon to purchase the 1973 baseball card of what Hall of Fame outfielder, the one "when he had big sideburns".

In "You Only Move Twice", before settling on Tom Landry's hat as his splurge at the Spend Zone, Bart notices a baseball made out of what athlete, who controversially finished at #35 of ESPN's Greatest American Athletes of the 20th Century?

In "Homer at the Bat" (it's just that good), Mr. Burns has an original lineup of legends including Mordecai Brown, Gabby Street, Cap Anson, Nap Lajoie, Pie Traynor, Honus Wagner, Joe Jackson, Harry Hooper and this man, Burns' choice for right fielder who Smithers notes "has been dead for 130 years." Name this legend of the amateur era, considered by many to be the first professional player, and thus, fittingly, the first ringer.