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| Who won the World Series in 1994? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Nobody. This was a strike year, there was no World Series played.
| Who won the Triple Crown Award in 1966? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Frank Robinson. Frank won the Triple Crown in '66, and was followed by "Yaz" in '67.
| Who won the 1956 World Series? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
New York Yankees. Of course this was the year Don Larsen pitched his perfect game in the World Series. The Yankees won this series in 7 games, and Larsen pitched his perfect game in Game 5.
| Who were the first 5 players inducted into the hall of fame? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, and Christy Matthewson. Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, and Cy Young didn't made it in the on the first try. They all did make it later on though. The fist five were inducted in 1936, the first year of the Hall.
| Who was the last National League player to hit over .400 in the 20th century? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Bill Terry . His average was .401 in 1930 with the New York Giants.
| Who was the first team to win the World Series after being relocated in the 20th century? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
Milwaukee Braves. The year was 1957, four years after moving from Boston, the Milwaukee Braves beat the New York Yankees in the World Series 4 games to 3 led by Joe Torre, Hank Aaron, and Warren Spahn.
| Who was the first relief pitcher in the Hall of Fame with a losing record, with over 200 game appearances? | Historical MLB (kurtcobain_us2002) |
Rollie Fingers . His record was 114-118.
| Who was on deck when Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard Round the World"? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Willie Mays . It was 1951, and Mays was a rookie. It was in the final game of the season, a playoff game to decide the National League Pennant.
| Who set a Major League record with 19 sacrifice flies in one season? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Gil Hodges. Gil did this for the 1954 Brooklyn Dodgers. He also provided 10 the following year.
| Who served up Hank Aaron's first Major League homerun? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Vic Raschi . Raschi dished this one up in 1954 while pitching for the Cardinals, giving Aaron his first with the Milwaukee Braves, and Major League baseball. Jack Billington served up his record tying 714th homerun.
| Who played at Griffith Stadium? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Washington Senators. The Senators played at Griffith the frist time they were created. They started playing there in 1911.
| Who is the silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
Harmon Killebrew . Killebrew was this model. He started his career with the Washington Senators. 573 home runs later in 1975, he retired from baseball after serving many years with the Twins. Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers was the NBA logo in the 20th century.
| Who had the lowest ERA in a single season in the 20th century? | Historical MLB (kurtcobain_us2002) |
Dutch Leonard. Gibson had an ERA of 1.12 in 1968, but the lowest was Leonard, who in 1914, threw a 0.96 for the Red Sox. The lowest ERA in baseball history at .857 was set in 1880 by Tim Keefe.
| Who gave up Bobby Thomson's, "Shot Heard Round the World?" | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Ralph Branca. Branca came into the game in relief in the bottom of ninth inning. He was known for choking in the clutch. He gave up the homer on a low fastball.
| What was remarkable about the 1963 MVPs of both Major Baseball Leagues and the NFL? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
They all wore the same number. Sandy Koufax with the Dodgers, Elston Howard with the Yankees, and Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns all wore the number 32.
| What team lost 23 consecutive games in 1961? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Philadelphia Phillies . In 1961, they finished 47-107 under the helm of Gene Mauch.
| What team did Vic Willis win 89 games for, from 1906 through 1909? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Pittsburgh Pirates. After being traded from the Boston Braves of the National League, Willis did this for the Pirates. He retired in 1910 after being traded to the Cardinals.
| What team did Al Kaline play his entire career with? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
Detroit Tigers. He was a Tiger at heart from 1953 until 1974 for 22 loyal seasons. This great outfielder retired with 399 home runs.
| What other profession besides baseball did John Dillinger also participate in? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
Bank Robber. John Dillinger played second base in 1924 for Martinsville, Indiana. He never made it to the big leagues.
| What New York pitcher one a record 41 games in 1904? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Jack Chesbro . No one as even came close to breaking this record in the 20th century. With set-up pitchers, closers, etc., in today's baseball, this feat will be a tremendous one to touch by anyone.
| What is so remarkable about major League umpire Cal Hubbard? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
He is in the baseball and football hall of fame. (He has eleven fingers., He is blind in one eye., He was in the 1948 Olympics for wrestling). Major League umpire Cal Hubbard is the only person in both the baseball and football Hall of fame. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. It would be 3 more years before an umpire was inducted. Al Barlick was inducted in 1979.
| What inning was it when Babe Ruth "called his shot?" | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
Top of the fifth. A lot of people say it was the bottom of the ninth with a full count. But the Yanks were at Chicago so it couldn't have been the bottoom of the ninth.
| What did Christy Mathewson call his pitch that today is referred to as a screwball? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Fadeaway. The screwball is one of the most difficult pitches to hit. Mathewson played with the Giants from 1900-1916 and retired with 373 wins.
| What did Babe Ruth wear under his hat to keep cool? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
A Cabbage Leaf. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
| What Chicago Cubs catcher drove in eight runs in one game in 1980? | Baseball Facts (Minimeat) |
Barry Foote . This was the Cubs record for most RBI's in one game. Nate Colbert set the single day record with 13 in a 1972 doubleheader.
| What award did Steve Carlton win even though his team finished in last place in 1972? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
Cy Young. Steve Carlton is the only pitcher to win a Cy Young with a last place team in the 20th century. He did it with the 1972 Phillies. He went 27-10 on a team that only won 56 games.
| The Mets won the 1969 World Series against the Boston Red Sox? | Baseball Facts and History (Midget1207) |
f. The 1969 World Series was won by the New York Mets in 5 games against the Baltimore Orioles. The O's won the first game, but the "Amazins" swept the rest.
| Of the Hall of fame class of 1936 who had the most votes? | Historical MLB (kurtcobain_us2002) |
Ty Cobb . More people voted for Cobb than they did for Babe Ruth.
| How tall was the St Louis player Eddie Gaedel? | Baseball's Little Known Facts (ogrefiend) |
3ft 7in. Eddie Gaedel was the 3ft 7in dwarf who played in only one game against the St. Louis Browns and the Detroit Tigers. In the second inning of a double-header, St. Louis manager, Zach Taylor, sent the 3ft 7in 65-pound Eddie Gaedel up to bat. Gaedel stood in a crouch up at the plate, giving pitcher Bob Cain a strike zone of about one and a half inches. Gaedel was walked on four straight pitches.
149-200. He hit for average not for power.
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