This is the fifth in a series of posts with questions related to the St. Louis Cardinals and the All-Star Game. The first reader that responds with the correct answer WHEN FOLLOWING THE PUBLISHED RULES will receive two tickets to the MLB All-Star FanFest, a $60. value, courtesy of Wilson Sporting Goods and The Cardinal Nation.
Again, please read the rules BEFORE RESPONDING to ensure you qualify.
Trivia Question #5
In the answer to Question #1, we learned that Stan Musial set the record for the most All-Star home runs with six. Which Cardinals player most recently went deep in an All-Star Game and in what year did he do it?
Reggie Smith for STL off Catfish Hunter, 1974
Reggie Smith in 1974
Correct, maryjay. You win the pair of All-Star FanFest tickets. Email me for details.
Edit: louman, you were tripped up the same way maryjay was earlier today. As the rules state, you needed to be a registered and approved user with at least one prior post before your subsequent posts appeared automatically. Instead, your posts sat in the approval queue until I checked there because it was your first. Check back tomorrow (Thursday) for additional chances to win.
Actually – my first post did not include the year but my second post did…therefore, by rules below and my second post including all of the info requested, I should have won.
You rules state…”To be approved to post at The Cardinal Nation, you must first register on the site. Then make at least one post before entering. I highly recommend you complete that process BEFORE you want to answer a question. “
louman, I can understand your disappointment, but the next sentence of the rules also says this: “Otherwise, the built-in approval delay will likely keep your post from being first, even if correct.” That is what happened to you – you were not yet an approved poster. The process was not complete.
There will be two more chances to win this afternoon.
To help explain further, any new user’s first post (and any subsequent posts until the first one is approved) goes into an approval queue. This is how I have always run the process here – to keep spammers out. Until I go to the queue and approve the first (and any subsequent) post, it/they sit there, not visible to anyone but me. In the meantime, another post with the correct answer came through and was immediately displayed. Because it was the first post publicly viewable, it was the winner. While your time stamp was earlier, you had not yet been approved as a poster.
The EXACT same thing including having made multiple posts, happened to another new site registree, maryjay60, yesterday afternoon, but she realized it at the time when her posts did not immediately appear. She ended up winning on a later question. Perhaps you can do the same.