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Old 05-26-2018, 11:16 AM
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Just for fun (no prize beyond impressing your friends):

Two questions about going out in style, one easy and the other (probably) a lot harder:

1. What player led his league in Slugging Average for the first and only time in his last season in MLB?

2. What player made the All-Star team for the first and only time in his last season in MLB?

(There may be more than one, but I don't think there are many.)

Hint: Neither of the cases I have in mind resulted from the player's untimely death.
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Old 05-26-2018, 11:22 AM
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Ortiz for slugging?
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Old 05-26-2018, 11:24 AM
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Told you that was easy!

The All-Star should be more challenging-

A hint, but it might also mislead (a counter-hint?): The All-Star's non-reappearance in the majors had a lot to do with his patriotic feeling and a desire to do something for his country (but this was not to join the US military).

Also, it's not prewar....
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Jim Bunning?
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Jim Bunning?
He must have been on multiple AS teams and did not run for Congress until later in life. Also isn't Vinegar Bend Mizell.
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Wild guess (and I know it's wrong), but the hint points at Moe Berg.
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The clues suggest to me it's a foreign player.
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Babe Ruth is my guess. Wasn’t 1933 the first All-Star game?
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Babe Ruth is my guess. Wasn’t 1933 the first All-Star game?
Ruth's last season was 1935.
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Peter is correct - it wasn't patriotic feeling for the US but for his native country- and an Olympics was coming up...
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Dave Nillson 1999, Australia.
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He was only 29. I wonder why he didn't come back.
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Nilsson it is - interesting story about his movements in the SABR bio of him, involving the Australian Olympic team, Japanese BB, and more.
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