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The Editing Horse or Duck?

Created by Nightmare

Fun Trivia : Quizzes : MLB Mixture
The Editing Horse or Duck game quiz
"An outrageous editing quiz to find the error, putting the new editor, a horse, against a duck who filed a lawsuit because he didn't get the job earlier. You find the errors and see who is the better editor. I hope that you have fun with it. :-)"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Horse: My brother Joe and I combined for 539 career victories as pitchers. I was inducted into the hall in 1997 after playing for 24 seasons, mostly with Atlanta. Joe went to one World Series, but I never made it. We are the Perry's.
    The brothers were the Ripkens
    The brothers were the Niekros
    They combined for 803 wins
    Joe went to nine World Series


2. Duck: The frist Worl Serees skunking, four games to nun, happened in 1914 with the NL Boston Braves defeeting the AL Philedephia Athletics. Babe Ruth helped his own cause by winning two games and hiting fore home runs. Mr. Ruth retired as a Boston Brave.
    Ruth would not play for the Braves for another 21 seasons
    Both teams were American League teams
    Ruth retired as a New York Yankee
    There has never been a four games to zero World Series


3. Horse: In 1951, the arrival to the Giants of Willie Mays was just in time to take the Giants to the World Series. Mays won the Rookie of the Year award also. The Giants and Tigers tied at the end of the season and were forced to a three-game playoff. This playoff also witnessed Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world", his game and series winning home run. They went on to lose to the Yankees in the World Series.
    Mays never won a Rookie of the Year award
    The playoffs were the Giants and Dodgers
    Mays' first season was in 1966
    The Giants defeated the Yankees four games to one in the World Series


4. Duck: My name is Ozzie Smith. I strated my Major Leauge carrer with the San Deigo Padres, then later plyed with the St. Louis Cardinals. I was a 15-time gold glove at second base. In 1987, I was the runerup to Andre Dawson for the MVP. I retired in 1996, and was a 2002 Hall of Faime inductee.
    Smith never played for the Padres
    Smith was a shortstop
    Ozzie won only two gold gloves
    Smith was inducted into the Hall in 2004


5. Horse: The 2004 World Series won by the Boston Red Sox, was manager Tony Francona's first World Series appearance after managing the Tigers for 12 seasons. The Red Sox defeated the Cardinals four games to none, with the bat of Manny Ramirez and four pitchers winning one game each. Larry Walker was the only Cardinal who hit a home run in the series.
    Six Cardinals hit home runs in the series
    Francona managed the Phillies prior
    Boston won the series four games to three
    Ramirez was hitless and Bronson Arroyo was the series MVP


6. Duck: I was won of three bruthers in the Major Leauges. The others had to be jellous because I had it all. From three MVP awards to 10 World Series, winning nine, marrying a movie star to making millions from a cofee pot, their had to be some sendiment there. My name is Mickey Mantle.
    The person is Tony Congiliaro
    The person is Juan Marichal
    The person is Jim Northrup
    The person is Joe DiMaggio


7. Horse: Nap Lajoie of the Philadelphia Athletics was the first player in the new Major Leagues to hit over .400, batting .426 in 1901. That mark was almost duplicated in 1920 when George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns hit .407 with a tremendous 257 hits. That 257 plateau would last for 84 years before Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees would top the mark with 262.
    Sisler was a career Brooklyn Dodger
    The 257 record was never broken
    Sisler's record was set in 1956
    Ichiro Suzuki broke the 257 barrier


8. Duck: From 1936-1939, the New Yrok Yankees one an amazing fore consecutive Worl Serees. To top that, thay won five consective frum 1949-1953. Miller Huggins managed the teem in there first streek of four in the 1930s, then Casey Stengel took them to and won five consecutive serees later. In a 18-season span, the Yankees apeared in 15 Worl Series. All three feets will probably never be duplacated.
    Joe McCarthy managed them to the four consecutive series in the 1930s
    Casey Stengel never managed the Yankees
    The Yankees never won five consecutive World Series
    The Yankees have only appeared in 12 World Series in their franchise history


9. Horse: As the baseball years went by, a batter kept inching towards the 200-strikeout season mark. In 2004, a new mark was set but still keeping under 200 by Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants when he struck out 195 times. Bobby Bonds set his own mark of 187 in 1969, then broke it in 1970 by striking out 189 times. Bobby, the father of Barry Bonds, struck out more than 100 times in a season 10 times.
    Barry Bonds struck out 217 times in 2004
    Bobby struck out 100 times, 19 times in his career
    Bobby is the older brother of Barry
    The 2004 record of 195 was set by Adam Dunn of the Reds


10. Duck: Wat a treemendous carrer Hank Aaron had. 21 seasons with the Braves and too with the Brewers, Aaron hit 755 home runs in his carrer. Hank also was on the all-star roster 21 times. Only Yogi Berra apeeared in more with 32. He retired in 1976, then was a 1982 Hall of Fame inducktee.
    Aaron retired with 714 home runs
    Berra appeared in 15 all-star games
    Aaron was inducted into the hall in 1993
    Hank appeared in only 14 all-star games

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