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National Baseball Hall of Fame Library www.baseballhalloffame.org/library/about.htm

The Society for American Baseball Research www.sabr.org was established in Cooperstown, New York in August of 1971. The Society's mission is to foster the study of baseball, to assist in developing and maintaining the history of the game, to facilitate the dissemination of baseball research, to stimulate interest in baseball, and to safeguard the proprietary interests of its members' research efforts.

Baseball Poetry ... www.dodgers2001.com/multimedia/poetry
SABR Bibliography Committee and The Baseball Index:
www.baseballindex.org ... www.sabr.org/committ/biblio/biblio.htm ... www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/sabr/tbi
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1 trivia quiz  The Greatest Prospect Ever coolicon
A quiz about Sidd Finch, the fireballing Mets prospect who rocked the baseball world in 1985. Most questions are taken from his April 1, 1985 profile in "Sports Illustrated".
Tough 10Q
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Apr 01 07
stuthehistoryguy gold
2 trivia quiz  Literature About Baseball
Some highlights from the wonderful world of baseball literature, with special emphasis on Roger Kahn's 'The Boys of Summer'.
Average 25Q
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Oct 05 00
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3 trivia quiz  Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" icon
One of the New York Public Library's 100 Books of the Century, "Ball Four", is funny, informative, and about much more than baseball in 1969.
Difficult 25Q
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Feb 16 04
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4 trivia quiz  Talkin' Baseball
This is a quiz about Terry Cashman's "Talkin' Baseball." You'll have to know nicknames and baseball in the 1950s.
Average 20Q
1065 plays
Aug 02 02
GoodVibe
5 trivia quiz  Baseball Literature icon
Baseball has inspired more great writing than perhaps any other sport. Let's see how well versed you are on America's Pastime...
Tough 10Q
1050 plays
Jun 10 02
kmria
6 trivia quiz  Baseball Music
This is my first quiz. I wanted to do a music quiz, but there were so many of those that I decided to do a baseball one instead. I wonder if music trivia buffs may do better with this quiz than baseball fans.
Difficult 10Q
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Apr 17 02
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Some sample questions from this category:

* Jim Bouton's groundbreaking bestseller, 'Ball Four', is about his experiences with which expansion team?
* Bouton writes about his efforts to get back to the Majors using what pitch?
* Who described some of the bizarre plays during the Mets' first season in his book entitled 'Can't Anybody Here Play This Game'?
* Many of the most entertaining books are written by ex-catchers. Which former catcher wrote about the humorous side of baseball in his bestseller 'Baseball Is a Funny Game'?
* Whose biography is entitled, 'The Catcher Is a Spy?'
* Which catcher-turned-broadcaster wrote 'The Catcher in the Wry'?
* Which catcher-turned-broadcaster wrote 'Baseball for Brain Surgeons'?
* Which colorful former umpire wrote about his umpiring experiences in the entertaining book, 'The Umpire Strikes Back'?
* Who wrote 'It is said that baseball is 'only a game'. Yes, and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.'?
* Who wrote a magazine article entitled '99 reasons why baseball is better than football'?
* The well-known poem 'Casy at the Bat', written by Ernest Thayer, was first published in which newpaper?
* Who wrote the almost-as-well-known poem 'Tinker to Evers to Chance'?
* Managers have written some good baseball books. Which former manager wrote 'Nice Guys Finish Last', chronicling his days as a player and manager over a period of six different decades?
* Which erudite baseball observor wrote this nugget in his bestselling book: 'Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community'?
* Whose beautiful eulogy at Mickey Mantle's funeral, entitled 'The Ninth Inning', included the observation that 'We knew there was something poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what poignant meant'?
* Which Dodger became an agnostic after his son lost a leg in Vietnam?
* Which 'boy of summer' sued the Dodgers because they released him while he was hurt, without paying him for the rest of the year as required by the standard player contract?
* Which Dodger became a broadaster, teaming with Dizzy Dean on NBC's Game of the Week?
* Which Dodger became a bartender in Newport, Pennsylvania?
* Which Dodger became the manager of the Mets?

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