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A Baseball Nightmare for Editors

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A Baseball Nightmare for Editors game quiz
"You find the error in each statement. This is a challenge if you choose to rack your brain. Good luck, you'll need it! :-)"

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1. The first pitcher to win two all-star games was Bob Friend, who in 1956 and 1960 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, won the bragging rights for the National League in each game. Friend also appeared in the 1960s World Series in which Bill Mazeroski's game-seven home run won it for the Pirates. Bob played for 16 seasons, all with the Pirates, and retired with a 197-230 career record.
    It was the 1962 World Series that Bill Mazeroski hit his series-winning home run
    Friend was not the first to win two all-star games
    Bob Friend played for two seasons with the Cardinals in his career
    Friend's career pitching record was 230-179


2. At the beginning of the 1948 season, Comedian Lou Costello asked Indians' owner Bill Veeck why there were no games that honored anyone other than players such as, "Babe Ruth day", "Lou Gehrig day", etc. Veeck in turn, created a wide variety of 'fan appreciation days' throughout the season which shattered every attendance record for baseball, with over 2,600,000 attendees in the season.
    Joe Early, their night watchman wrote the letter
    Walter O'Malley owned the Indians in 1948
    Ronald Reagan, the actor, wrote the letter
    The Indians reached 2,000,000 in attendance in 1969 for the first time


3. The last World Series in history to be played all in the same ballpark occurred in 1936 at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants lost the World Series to the Yankees four games to two. Babe Ruth was not in a Yankee uniform at the time, but the Yankees still had Lou Gehrig, who hit two home runs, and Lefty Gomez who won two games in the series.
    Ruth was still a Yankee until 1937
    Gehrig did not play in the series due to his illness
    The last in history was in 1944 in St. Louis
    Gomez won three games for the Yankees in the series


4. Earl Battey was confused. With the Washington Senators in 1960, he made the move to Minnesota with the franchise to become the Twins. In 1971, he found himself with the Senators again as a new American League expansion team, then moved with the franchise again to become the Texas Rangers in 1972. He was a two-time all-star in his career.
    Battey was a 10-season all-star catcher
    The player was Don Mincher
    The Senators became the Seattle Pilots in 1970
    Earl Battey never played for the Senators, Twins, or Rangers in his entire career


5. Pitchers Sam McDowell, Tom Seaver, Curt Schilling, and Bill Hutchison all threw 300-strikeout seasons in their careers. Although McDowell and Hutchison never saw a league championship game, they both had great careers of their own. McDowell retired with over 2400 strikeouts.
    Sam McDowell never threw 300 strikeouts in a season
    Sam McDowell retired with 3013 strikeouts in his 15-season career
    Hutchison appeared in two World Series
    Tom Seaver never threw 300 strikeouts in a season


6. In the 1970s, Curtis Brown played for only one season in his Major League career. He set a record in 1975 for playing his entire career of one season by going a 0-for-41 with his batting endeavors. However, the Mets finished third in the NL Eastern Division in the season.
    The Mets finished last in their division, losing 98 games
    The player was Randy Tate
    Brown was a one-season player, but pitched for the Angels
    Brown had 28 hits in his American League career


7. Playing in only one season as a 'regular' in my baseball career, I set a record for my batting average by hitting .370 in that season. I am Wilbert Robinson, who with the Baltimore Orioles of the National League in 1894, set this record for a one-season starting player that stood throughout the entire 20th century.
    The player was Al Wingo who set the record
    Robinson never played with the National League Baltimore Orioles
    The player was Francis Abercrombie who set the record
    The record was broken in 1950 by a St. Louis Brown player


8. The 1990 World Series which pitted the first bay area series with the Oakland Athletics facing the San Francisco Giants, was needless to state uneventful, except for the earthquake that delayed the series for 10 days. This was the Giants' first World Series play in 27 seasons. This was indicated by the Giants never having led in any of the four games of the series. The Giants lost the series four games to none, and Oakland's pitcher Dave Stewart was the World Series MVP.
    The Giants led game one of the series in the fifth inning
    The Giants were in a World Series four years prior and not 27 years
    Mark McGwire of the Athletics was the series' MVP
    This World Series happened in 1989


9. Even after closing out two centuries of baseball, Guy Hecker was still one of a kind. He was the only pitcher to win a batting title in the era. Hecker was a rookie in 1882 with the Louisville Eclipse of the American Association. He set an AA record by winning 52 games in a season in 1884, was the only AA player to hit three homes in a game, and was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the league also. In 1887, Guy also played an entire game at first base without ever touching the ball in 1887.
    His no-hitter was not the first in the league
    He never hit three homes runs in one game
    He never won a batting title
    The 1887 game at first base never happened


10. Only three shortstops in the National League won batting titles in the first 100 years of Major League baseball. The first was Rogers Hornsby, then Arky Vaughan, then Dick Groat in 1960. They were all Pittsburgh Pirates when they won the crown.
    Arky Vaughan was not a Pirate
    Honus Wagner was the first to win it
    Dick Groat won his title in 1953
    There were four shortstops to win the title including Luke Appling


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