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  Your Toughest Baseball Experience!    
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The toughest created baseball quiz for the extreme experts only. Please do not expect to get five, but I hope that it is educational. :-)
Impossible, 10 Qns, Nightmare, Feb 07 17
Impossible
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  Baseball 101    
Multiple Choice
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Bring your baseball skills on.
Impossible, 10 Qns, Homeboy, Nov 02 16
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  Baseball 102    
Multiple Choice
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A mixed bag of baseball questions.
Impossible, 10 Qns, Homeboy, Oct 27 15
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MLB For Experts Trivia Questions
1. Who hit the most MLB homeruns in the 1950s?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Duke Snider

Duke Snider 326 homeruns.

2. What member of the 3000 hit club was born on the same day Bobby Thomson hit the shot?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Dave Winfield

Dave Winfield was born October 3rd, 1951.

3. In the first 100 years of the New York Yankee franchise, which team did they lose the most games to during the entire period?

From Quiz Your Toughest Baseball Experience!

Answer: Detroit Tigers

In exactly 1900 games during the period, it was the Detroit Tigers that gave them fits. The Yankee franchise lost 895 games to the Tigers. The Red Sox were a close second with winning 856 against the Yankees, compared to losing 1027. The Yankee franchise began as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, then the New York Highlanders, then the infamous pinstriped Yankees.

4. Who was the first pitcher to win a World Series game in each league?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Jack Coombs & Coombs

Phil Athletics 1910 Brooklyn 1916.

5. Who was the first major league player to hit two homeruns in an All Star game?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Arky Vaughn

It happened in 1941.

6. Who was the first pitcher in Major League history to lose 20+ games in two consecutive seasons?

From Quiz Your Toughest Baseball Experience!

Answer: Red Ruffing

Ruffing took the unfortunate honor in 1928 and 1929 with the Boston Red Sox. He went 10-25 and 9-22 respectively.

7. Who had the most hits in a decade in MLB?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Rogers Hornsby

Rogers Hornsby 2085 hits in the 1920s.

8. Who was the first M.L.B. rookie of the year to be elected to the M.L.B. Hall of Fame?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Jackie Robinson & Robinson

First black elected to the MLB Hall of Fame.

9. Who was the first man in MLB history to pitch five complete games in one World Series?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Deacon Phillippe & Phillippe

Deacon Phillippe for Pittsburg Pirates in 1903, against the Boston Pilgrims.

10. Who is the only M.L.B. player to win the Sullivan award?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Jim Abbott

The Sullivan Award honors the nation's top amateur athlete. It was established in 1930 by the Amateur Athletic Union, in memory of James E. Sullivan, the long-time AAU secretary-treasurer. Abbott won the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy in 1987. It is sometimes referred to as the 'amateur athlete of the year award' but cannot go to the same athlete more than once. In 1988 the trophy was awarded to Florence Griffith Joyner (track and field).

11. What year was the last best-of-nine World Series in MLB played?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: 1921

New York Giants were the winner.

12. Who is the only National league player to win N.L. M.V.P.in his first season in the National league?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Kirk Gibson & Gibson

Kirk Gibson 1988 M.V.P. National league.

13. The Major League all-star game presents its best for the fans. Which relief pitcher was the first selected to appear in the game?

From Quiz Your Toughest Baseball Experience!

Answer: Jack Russell

Jack Russell of Washington was selected in 1934. He was never called on to pitch. The first reliever to ever actually pitch in an all-star game was Mace Brown of the Pirates in 1938.

14. Who was the first player in MLB history to hit four homeruns in two different World Series?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Duke Snider

Duke Snider, Dodgers, 1952 and 1955.

15. Who is the youngest everyday player to appear in the World Series?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Fred Lindstrom

Fred Lindstrom was 18 years old with the 1924 New York Giants.

16. 17 stolen bases in a season would be a pretty good total by a player. Which team set a record for stealing only 17 bases total in an entire season?

From Quiz Your Toughest Baseball Experience!

Answer: St. Louis Cardinals

The unfortunate 1949 St. Louis Cardinals held this distinction. Their second baseman, Red Schoendienst, had almost half their total with eight thefts. The great Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter had three each themselves. Amazingly, the Cardinals still finished with 96 wins, only one game behind the NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost the World Series to the Yankees four games to one.

17. When was the last year both World Series teams were managed by player- managers?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: 1934

Frankie Frisch S.T.L. Cards, Mickey Cochrane Detroit Tigers.

18. Who is the only rookie pitcher to win three games in a single World Series?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Babe Adams & Adams

1909 Pittsburgh Pirates.

19. Who was the first American League player to hit four home runs in a game?

From Quiz Your Toughest Baseball Experience!

Answer: Erve Beck

1901 witnessed this Cleveland Blues second baseman hit four in one game on April 25th. He hit six in the season and that was his career high. Beck played professional baseball from 1899-1902.

20. Who hit the first World Series grand slam home run?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Elmer Smith & Smith

Elmer Smith (Cleveland Indians) in 1920 - pitcher Burleigh Grimes, Dodgers.

21. What year was the first Sunday night World Series game played?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: 1976

Reds vs Yankees on October 17th, 1976.

22. How many World Series homeruns did Willie Mays hit?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: 0

Willie Mays 660 career homeruns, no world series dingers.

23. Who is the only M.L.B. player to be picked off twice in the same World Series game?

From Quiz Baseball 101

Answer: Max Flack & Flack

Chicago Cub picked off by Babe Ruth Boston Redsox 1918.

24. Who was the first pitcher in baseball history to ever win a batting title?

From Quiz Your Toughest Baseball Experience!

Answer: Guy Hecker

Hecker was truly a one-of-a-kind ballplayer. In 1882 with the Louisville Eclipse of the American Association, he went only 6-6 as a pitcher, but one of those wins was a no-hitter, the second in the history of the AA. In 1884, Hecker threw the pitching Triple Crown, the only Triple Crown thrown in the American Association history. In 1886, he ballooned to win 52 games in the season. Also in 1886, Guy hit three home runs a game, the first player in any league to ever accomplish this feat. He hit four home runs in the season, but more importantly, won the batting title by hitting .341, and winning it over teammate Lou Browning of Louisville (then Colonels) by .001.

25. Who was the last MLB pitcher (in the 20th century) to get five hits in a game?

From Quiz Baseball 102

Answer: Mel Stottlemyre

Mel Stottlemyre 1964 Yankees.

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