Baseball Throughout the Years Trivia Quiz

Answer: Indians vs Yankees

None of the other teams existed in 1929. The American League mandated all teams to wear numbers for the 1931 season and subsequent. The Indians did win that game.

Answer: Philadelphia Phillies

The Marlins and Diamondbacks did not exist as yet in 1970. After playing two seasons with the Reds and nine seasons with the Cardinals, a trade was in the works just prior to the 1970 season to have him pack his bags for Philadelphia. He tested the reserve clause to the extreme and took the Cardinals and the league to court.

He sat out the 1970 season because he was "hands off" to Major League club owners. He signed a one-year contract with the Washington Senators in 1971 for the largest amount that he ever had prior, then retired after the season.

Answer: Tommy Davis, Dodgers

All the others had not begun their Major League careers yet in 1963. Hank finished third in batting average with his .319 average. Runner-up went to the Pirates' Roberto Clemente. Davis batted .326 in the season for his second consecutive batting title. Tommy batted over .300 six times in his 18-season career and retired with a .294 career average.

Answer: Ernie Shore

The Black Sox Scandal took place in the 1919 World Series before the other players were born. It was June 23, 1917, when pitcher Babe Ruth of the Red Sox started the game against the Washington Senators. Ruth took offense to umpire Brick Owens after throwing ball four to their leadoff batter Ray Morgan. Owens booted both Ruth and Red Sox catcher Pinch Thomas from the game for arguing.

Here came Shore along with new catcher Sam Agnew from the dugout. Before anyone knew it, Agnew cut down Morgan trying to steal second after Shore threw only one pitch. Ernie then shut down the Senators for the next 26 consecutive outs.

The debates went on as to whether Shore should be credited with a perfect game, but the rules stated that only the starting pitcher may be credited with the perfect game.

The Red Sox won the game 4-0, then the back half of the doubleheader 5-0.

Answer: Dizzy Dean

Dean saw two World Series in 1934 and 1938. Dizzy won the NL MVP in 1934, then was runner-up in 1935 and 1936 to Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs and Carl Hubbell of the Giants, respectively. Banks of the Cubs never experienced even one postseason playoff game in his career of 19 seasons. Carew found only two ALCS with the Twins and two with the Angels. Surprisingly, Mattingly spent his entire 14-season career as a Yankee from 1982-1995, yet never played in the big game.

Answer: Bob Welch

Welch reached the 25-win marker only once and it was good enough for a Cy Young Award. Bob went 27-6 in 1990 with the Athletics, and won the Cy Young Award over runner-up Clemens and Oakland teammate Dave Stewart. Clemens won 20+ games in a season six times, topping out at 24 in 1986 with the Red Sox.

Although Ryan set a career record with 5714 strikeouts, he reached the 20-win plateau only twice. He won 21 in 1973 and 22 in 1974, both with the Angels. Schilling reached the 20-win mark three times, 22 in 2001 and 23 in 2002 with the Diamondbacks, then 21 with the Red Sox in 2004.

Answer: Rickey Henderson

Henderson beat Coleman to the bag by only four seasons. Rickey topped 100 in 1980, 1982, and 1983 with the Athletics. Coleman stole 110, 107, and 109 from 1985-1987, and also set a Major League record by stealing 50 consecutive before being caught in 1989. Brock and Wills hit the century mark only once. Early times baseball saw Billy Hamilton of the Philadelphia Phillies reach the 100-mark three times in the 1890s.

Answer: Mike Schmidt

All the players were one-team players, but only Schmidt hit over 500 big ones. Mike was a Phillie from 1972-1989 and topped at 48 in the 1980 season. This was good enough for the first of two consecutive NL MVP Awards. He also won the World Series MVP in 1980 when his Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals.

Answer: Pete Reiser

The outfielder Reiser played for only 10 seasons from 1940-1952, and mostly for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He stole only 87 bases in his career including his seven thefts of home. In 1941, Pete was the NL MVP runner-up to teammate Dolph Camilli while teammate Whit Wyatt finished third.

Answer: Cy Young

The other old-timers didn't lose even 200 games in their career. With the advent of today's relief pitchers, set-up specialists and closers, it is virtually impossible in modern day baseball to lose 300 games before you involuntarily retire. Young retired with the most wins in history of 511, another impossible feat along with 316 losses.

In early baseball it was common for a pitcher to start 40 to 50 to even 55 games in a season, and throw complete games in the process. Young pitched in 55 games in 1891 with the Cleveland Spiders. Clayton Kershaw won his third Cy Young Award in 2014.

He pitched in only 27 games in the season.