1989 Chicago Cubs by BruceM

Champion(s):

SteveWilliams


Runner(s)-Up:

BarthR
L’enfer, c’est les autres.


Quiz Description

If you're about my age, and you grew up with WGN, then you know that even if they didn't reach the World Series, the 1989 Cubs were the best Cubs.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 49 52 21 21 11 25 90 52 25 38 76 66
1 SteveWilliams 484 98 15
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2 BarthR 473 94 15
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3 Sean 445 91 15
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4 QuintongJ 405 87 15
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5 KelsoT 351 82 15
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5 JastrzebskiS 351 82 15
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7 SochackiA 340 77 15
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8 SchroederS 334 74 00
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9 WeikleB 294 70 15
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10 BoyerA 290 67 15
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11 SlumdogSquarepants 289 63 00
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12 WangS 284 60 15
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13 JohnstonCJo 282 56 15
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14 GrahamJ 277 53 15
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15 HightB 276 50 00
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16 cruzich 268 46 15
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17 GoodmanDL 257 43 15
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18 helitzur 252 39 15
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19 ChrisRosenberg 230 36 00
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20 Matto 208 32 00
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21 BradburnA 184 29 00
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22 twarner50 170 25 00
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23 KleinJ 169 22 00
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24 KromerM 168 18 00
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25 randalleng 157 15 00
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26 RautY 121 12 00
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27 DreyfusB 119 8 00
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28 JonesRW 71 5 00
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29 econgator 0 1 00
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Questions:

Two answers required. Which two outfielders finished first and second in the 1989 National League Rookie of the Year balloting as Cubs teammates?

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Jerome Walton, Dwight Smith

Two answers required. One hit 569 career home runs (27 as a Cub). The other pitched over 4,000 innings (490 as a Cub), including 53 in his age 49 season. Name both of these former Cubs, traded away from Chicago just prior to the 1989 season.

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Rafael Palmeiro, Jamie Moyer

Which relief pitcher saved 36 games for the 1989 Cubs, after coming over in the trade involving the players from the previous question? Four years later this southpaw would have an inauspicious World Series.

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Mitch Williams

Which American League team was the Cubs' trading partner in the deal mentioned in the previous two questions? Regardless of how the 2016 World Series comes out, this franchise will have MLB's second-longest active championship drought.

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Texas Rangers

Who managed the 1989 Cubs? He also managed the 1978 Boston Red Sox, and at age 72 he was body-slammed by Pedro Martinez in a 2003 ALCS brawl.

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Don Zimmer

Three answers required. Had Franklin Pierce Adams written a poem about the 1989 Cubs' starting infielders turning a 6-4-3 double play, the refrain might have gone "[BLANK] to [BLANK] to [BLANK]," fitting the meter of the original poem. Give all three surnames in order. (For ease of grading, the ideal answer keeps the "X to Y to Z" construction.)

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Dunston to Sandberg to Grace

Which pitcher had a .071 lifetime batting average going into the July 20, 1989, game in which he got the game-winning hit in the 11th inning? This righty had a 1.36 ERA in 72.2 relief innings that year.

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Les Lancaster

Which division rival came to Wrigley in a first-place tie with the Cubs at 63-48, only to be swept in a three-game series from August 7-9th? The losing pitcher in the first game of the series was Pascual Perez.

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Montreal Expos

What milestone event was scheduled to occur exactly one year before the middle game of the series mentioned in the previous question, but (due to inclement weather) officially occurred one day later?

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first night game at Wrigley Field

Which San Francisco Giant was MVP of the 1989 National League Championship Series, in which the Giants beat the Cubs in five games?

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Will Clark

Which member of the 1989 Cubs rotation was also the Opening Day starter for the 1992 Yankees? He later became an agent, briefly representing Frank Thomas (though he and partner Michael Moye dropped their representation of Thomas after the Big Hurt briefly staged a spring 2001 holdout).

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Scott Sanderson

A year later, the Cubs had a hangover season probably best remembered for hosting the 1990 All-Star Game. During an hourlong rain delay in that game, CBS aired an episode of what docudrama hosted by William Shatner?

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Rescue 911