question: What is the birthday of the man who asked Andrés Thomas "Why would you even throw him a strike?"
answer: April 2, 1945
context: Title: Pitchout
  Passage: In baseball, a pitchout is a ball that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone with the purpose of preventing a stolen base, thwarting a hit and run, or to prevent a run-scoring play on a suicide squeeze play.  The pitcher delivers the ball in such a manner for it to be unhittable and in a position where the catcher can quickly leap to his feet to catch it.  A well-thrown pitchout will allow the catcher to receive the ball standing up as opposed to his usual squat, giving him a better line to throw to a base without the pitcher or the batter obstructing his vision or aim.  Moreover, it is easier to throw a ball with more force from a standing position than it is from a squat, which is why most catchers leap to their feet when attempting to throw out a base stealer.  A pitchout is a type of intentional ball, but differs in that a pitchout is thrown harder to give the catcher the most time to throw out the base runner.
  Title: Grey alien
  Passage: Grey aliens, also referred to as "Alien Greys", "Greys", "Grays" and "Roswell Greys", are supposed extraterrestrial beings whose existence is discussed in ufological, paranormal, and New Age communities, and who are named for their unique skin color.  Forty-three percent of all reported alien encounters in the United States describe Grey aliens.  Such claims vary in every respect including their nature, origins (ETs, extradimensionals, time travelers, or machines), moral dispositions, intentions, and physical appearances (even varying in their eponymous skin color).  A composite description derived from overlap in claims would have Greys as small-bodied beings with smooth grey-colored skin, enlarged hairless head and large black eyes.
  Title: Ben Plucknett
  Passage: Walter Harrison ("Ben") Plucknett (April 13, 1954 in Beatrice, Nebraska – November 17, 2002 in Essex, Missouri) was an American track and field athlete, known primarily for the discus throw.  Plucknett qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.  He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.  In 1981, he broke the existing world record with a throw of 233'7", and broke the record again with a throw of 72.34 m (237'4") on July 7, 1981.  However, on July 13, 1981, the International Association of Athletics Federations banned Plucknett from further competition after he had tested positive for anabolic steroid use, and the records were removed.  Even though he was stripped of his World Record breaking throws the IAAF still recognizes his throw of 71.32m (233' 11.87") thrown on June 4, 1983, in Eugene, Oregon as the current North American record.  He died of a brain aneurysm on his farm.
  Title: Venus Throw
  Passage: The Venus Throw was the highest roll in the Ancient Roman gambling game of "tali" (knucklebones).  The game was played with four 4-sided rectangular dice numbered I, III, IV and VI, usually made from sheep's or goat's knucklebones.  In a Venus Throw, each "talus" landed on a different side, yielding as a score of 14.  A gambler would either throw the "tali" from his or her hand, or from a small box, (called a "fritillus").  Thirty-five different throws were possible.  While the Venus throw was the highest, the Vulture throw (all aces) — also known as the Dog throw — was the lowest.  The Venus throw could be used to designate the master of the revels.
  Title: Andrés Thomas
  Passage: Andrés Pérez Thomas (born November 10, 1963) is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as a shortstop for the Atlanta Braves from 1985-1990.  He batted and threw right-handed.  Thomas brought a power bat to the shortstop position for the Braves (13 HR each in 1988 and 1989); however, he struck out quite a bit (95 K's in 1988) and walked only 59 times in five seasons.  His free-swinging prompted then-Braves' broadcaster Don Sutton to ask hypothetically during games, "Why would you even throw him a strike?"  He was also an erratic fielder, leading all NL shortstops with 29 errors in 1988.
  Title: Strike and dip
  Passage: Strike and dip refer to the orientation or "attitude" of a geologic feature.  The "strike line" of a bed, fault, or other planar feature, is a line representing the intersection of that feature with a horizontal plane.  On a geologic map, this is represented with a short straight line segment oriented parallel to the strike line.  "Strike" (or strike angle) can be given as either a quadrant compass bearing of the strike line (N25°E for example) or in terms of east or west of true north or south, a single three digit number representing the azimuth, where the lower number is usually given (where the example of N25°E would simply be 025), or the azimuth number followed by the degree sign (example of N25°E would be 025°).
  Title: 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
  Passage: The 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1974–75 season.  The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.  Under the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team finished second in the Big Ten Conference.  The team earned the second of four consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament invitations.  Joe Johnson and C. J. Kupec served as team captains and shared team MVP honors.  John Robinson led the Big Ten in field goal percentage with a 60.3% average in conference games, while Kupec led the conference in free throw percentage with an 88.0%.  As a team, they led the conference in free throw percentage as well with a 75.8%.  The team began the season ranked seventeenth, peaked at eleventh, and finished the season in nineteenth in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll.  It was ranked for a total of eight of nineteen weeks during the season.  The team ended the season unranked in the final UPI Coaches' Poll.  Kupec was selected as an All-American.  The team's 74.4% free throw percentage was a school record that lasted 11 seasons.  On January 2, 1975, Kupec went 14 for 14 in free throw attempts against Illinois which continues to be a school single-game record for most without a miss, surpassing Craig Dill's total of 12.  The team set a school single-season free throw percentage record of 74.4% that would last until 1986.
  Title: 1877 St. Louis general strike
  Passage: Generally accepted as the first general strike in the United States, the 1877 St. Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.  The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.  When the railroad strike reached East St. Louis, Illinois in July 1877, the St. Louis Workingman's Party led a group of approximately 500 people across the river in an act of solidarity with the nearly 1,000 workers on strike.  The party transformed, through speeches and organization, an initial strike among railroad workers into a strike by thousands of workers in several industries for the eight-hour day and a ban on child labor.  One speaker was noted to say, At another large rally a black man spoke for those who worked on the steamboats and levees.  He asked, "Will you stand to us regardless of color?"  The crowd shouted back, "We will!"
  Title: Don Sutton
  Passage: Donald Howard Sutton (born April 2, 1945) is an American former professional baseball player.  He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher.  He played for 23 total major league seasons as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and California Angels.  He won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts and five of them one-hitters, and he is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574.
  Title: Grande sonnerie
  Passage: Grande sonnerie (French, meaning 'grand strike') is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock which combines a quarter striking mechanism with a repeater.  On every quarter-hour it strikes the number of quarter hours audibly on a gong, and then the number of hours since the last hour on a second gong.  For instance, in a 3 weight Vienna regulator wall clock, at 6:15 it would strike once on a high pitched gong, then strike six times on a lower pitched gong.  At 6:30 it would strike twice on the high pitched gong, then six times on the lower pitched gong.  At 6:45 three times on the high pitched gong, then six times on the lower pitched gong, and at 7:00 it would strike four times on the high pitched gong, then seven times on the lower pitched gong.  You will always know the exact time every fifteen minutes just by listening to the striking.  These types of striking clocks are mostly found as French Carriage Clocks, or German three weight Vienna regulators.  In addition they can strike the quarters and hours on demand, by activating a repeating mechanism at the push of a button, or the pull of a string.  The term is sometimes used erroneously for a mere quarter striking mechanism.
citations: Andrés Thomas Don Sutton