Great American Past
Time
Manager Grubb watched from the
dugout as his baseball team took the field. It was the ninth inning
and his boys, the Dustville Crickets, were locked in a 9-9
tie with the Loisville Slugs. Grubb studied the nine players he had
positioned on the field: Simmons, Roe, Blow, Schmoe, Schmidt,
Whitt, Kitt, Kent and Kowalski. His attention soon became absorbed
by the curious fact that his nine players wore on their uniforms
the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The more he looked at
his players and their numbers, the more he noticed. Grubb's
observations are given below as clues, from which you should be
able to deduce who played which position, wearing which
number.
1. The outfielders' names rhymed
2. Theoutfielders' numbers, from left field around
to right, increased and were consecutive.
3. The name of the catcher, third baseman, and left
fielder all began with the same letter.
4. The number of the catcher, first baseman, and
right fielder had no curves in them.
5. The man with the longest name had the highest
number.
6. The sum of the outfielders' numbers equaled the
sum of the infielders' numbers (pitcher and catcher not being
considered infielders)
7. The number of letters in the pitcher's and
catcher's names, added together, was equal to the sum of their
unifrom numbers.
8. The four infielders, reading from first base
around to third, were positioned alphabetically.
9. The second baseman's number was half the number
of letters in the center fielder's name.
The puzzle:
North is 42 30.P-SS-CF
West is 082 56.Schmoe-Schmidt-Blow
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