pinch-hitter

[JACKIE42]

Who hit the only home run ever by a pinch-hitter in the first inning of a game? When did he do this?

[Toy Cannon]

I'll start the guessing with Joe Cronin.

[Blue56]

Cliff Johnson?

[JACKIE42]

I'll start the guessing with Joe Cronin.

Not Joe.

[JACKIE42]

Cliff Johnson?

Not Cliff.

[Toy Cannon]

Del Unser? Throw us a bone here, left or right handed?:D

[JACKIE42]

Del Unser? Throw us a bone here, left or right handed?:D

Not Del. Your to damn sharp for a bone, maybe later.

[Toy Cannon]

Jackie Jensen?

[yagsy]

I am totally guessing here with Rickey Henderson?
:D

[JACKIE42]

Jackie Jensen?

Not Jackie, my guy was a right handed hitter, thats your bone, hope it doesn't help you.

[JACKIE42]

I am totally guessing here with Rickey Henderson?
:D
Not Rickey.

[Toy Cannon]

Brant Alyea? This is one that Henry (hhascup) is going to have to answer.

[JACKIE42]

Brant Alyea? This is one that Henry (hhascup) is going to have to answer.

Not Brant.

[Toy Cannon]

Dave Hollins?

[JACKIE42]

Dave Hollins?

Not Dave.

[Toy Cannon]

my guy was a right handed hitter, thats your bone, hope it doesn't help you.

It didn't.

[JACKIE42]

It didn't.

I'm delighted to hear that.:banana:

[Toy Cannon]

I'm delighted to hear that.:banana:
:doublefin :cool:

[Toy Cannon]

Ollie Brown?

[JACKIE42]

Ollie Brown?

No not Ollie.

[hhascup]

On May 24, 1947, at Brooklyn, Carl Furillo pinch-hit for LF Gene Hermanski—in the 1st inning—and clouts a 3-run homer to give Brooklyn the lead over the Phillies. Furillo's pinch homer sets a ML record—it is the only pinch home run to come in the first inning.

[JACKIE42]

On May 24, 1947, at Brooklyn, Carl Furillo pinch-hit for LF Gene Hermanski—in the 1st inning—and clouts a 3-run homer to give Brooklyn the lead over the Phillies. Furillo's pinch homer sets a ML record—it is the only pinch home run to come in the first inning.

You got it.

[Toy Cannon]

You got it.
Told you Henry would get it.:cool:

[JACKIE42]

Told you Henry would get it.:cool:

I'm getting better at this, it seems to take longer for someone to come up with the answers to my questions, or are they just to busy elsewhere.

[Toy Cannon]

I'm getting better at this, it seems to take longer for someone to come up with the answers to my questions, or are they just to busy elsewhere.
That was a very good question. I was giving it my best and I felt sure I had read about it before but for the life of me I couldn't remember.

[JACKIE42]

That was a very good question. I was giving it my best and I felt sure I had read about it before but for the life of me I couldn't remember.

I had never read about it before, just came up with it surfing the INTERNET. I'll be back when I find something that might give you trouble, I know I'll never stump, everyone.

[Toy Cannon]

I'll be back when I find something that might give you trouble, I know I'll never stump, everyone.

You'll never stump Henry. The rest of us can be had from time to time.

[JACKIE42]

You'll never stump Henry. The rest of us can be had from time to time.

Everyone can be stumped Henry's no exception.

[Toy Cannon]

Everyone can be stumped Henry's no exception.
Want to lay some money on it?

I sort of stumped him once. He gave a wrong answer and I quickly supplied the right one before he had a chance to get it correct. I've been trying to stump the man for years. Check this out:


Henry Hascup is known as the uncrowned king of sports information. Newspaper sports writers from all over the country have called his home for sport information. He is currently the President and Historian, since the mid-1980's, of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame as well as the New Jersey Diamond Gloves. He is also the Historian of many other sporting organizations throughout the area, including Ring #25 & Ring #34 and is on the Board of Directors of Ring #8 out of New York. He also has been asked to MC many sporting functions thoughout the local area and has ring announced boxing shows on ESPN, Madison Square Garden Channel, Atlantic City, Westchester County Center in White Plains, Monticello Raceway, Hanover Marriott in Whippany, Iona College, Huntington Townhouse, etc. Henry is also the President of the North Jersey Majors-Met League, which is the best amatuer baseball league in the state of New Jersey and one of the best leagues in the country. You can find his name on several dozen sport web sites, either answering sport questions or as a trivia checker for many others. His home in Lodi New Jersey contains over 12,000 sport magazines and over 2,500 sport books. He owns every issue of The Sporting News since the early 1960's and he has a lot of other ones that go back to the early 1950's. He has all the record books, guides, registers, handbooks, almanac's, encyclopedia's, etc., on all sports. He has material as far back as 1886. He has also done a lot of research on his own by going through micro films and old newspapers. The 57 year old has been doing sports trivia since he was a kid. A local newspaper which is called the Bergen Record had a sports trivia question that they gave out every week for over 20 years (it stopped in 1991) and Henry answered correctly far more than anyone else and very selmon missed. He once answered 138 weeks in a row without missing. He has won over 1,000 sport trivia contests thoughout the area and also thoughout the country and that's even before he came on the internet. Among the contests he won are the New York Daily News, the Sporting News, Sports Magazine, the Paterson Evening News, The Bergen Record as well as several other local papers and he has won several radio contests including WFAN. He has corrected over 200 world championship boxing records for the Ring Record Book and over 1,000 records in all. He is also one of the editors for boxrec.com. He was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research Association, the Pro and College Football Researchers Associations and the International Boxing Research Association. Henry, who was a supervisor for PSE&G was also a single parent of 4 kids who lived with him in his household along with a large husky dog. If you were at the Diamond Glove Dinner (which he MC'ed) in September of 1988 you know that he asked his very lovely girlfriend Joyce to be his wife in front of over 250 people and on March 12th 1989 they got married. You might ask what does Joyce have in common with Henry, well she also was a single parent of 4 kids and a large husky dog who all lived with her. So all of them lived under the same roof, some people called them the Brady Bunch but they say Eight is Enough.

[Thedatch]

holy crap!!!

[JACKIE42]

Want to lay some money on it?

I sort of stumped him once. He gave a wrong answer and I quickly supplied the right one before he had a chance to get it correct. I've been trying to stump the man for years. Check this out:

I'm impressed, but every one can be beat.