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Quiz about Braves Hall of Famers
Quiz about Braves Hall of Famers

Braves Hall of Famers Trivia Quiz


I've been a Braves fan since the 50s, and here's my tribute to all the Bravos in Cooperstown. Not all of them entered the Hall with the Braves as their primary teams, but they all contributed to Braves history. Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by shvdotr. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
shvdotr
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
386,385
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
12 / 15
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486
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
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Question 1 of 15
1. This Brave is the only one to play in all three franchise cities: Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. A third baseman, he was featured on the first cover of "Sports Illustrated" on 16 August, 1954. Along with Henry Aaron, he was co-holder of the MLB record for most career home runs by teammates when he passed away in 2001. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. This HOF'er helped lead the Miracle Braves to the 1914 World Series sweep of the Philadelphia A's. Only 5' 5" tall, he played 23 major-league seasons before retiring in 1935, an MLB record that would last until broken by Pete Rose in 1986. Who was this diminutive but speedy shortstop who nonetheless batted cleanup for the World Champion Boston Braves? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Since his MLB career as a player was only two seasons at third base with the Yankees, this Brave was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a manager. He won two World Series titles, one as a first base coach in 1977 with the Yankees, and one at the helm of the Braves in 1995. Who was this Braves manager from 1978 to 1981 and from 1990 to 2010? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. This HOF'er is as beloved by Cubs fans as Braves fans. His number 31 has been retired by both organizations. This Texas-born righty was an eight-time All-Star who also won 14 Gold Gloves, led the NL in ERA four times and in wins three. Known as "Mad Dog" and "Professor", who is the first MLB pitcher in history to win four consecutive Cy Young awards? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Let's check out perhaps the best lefty ever at the Braves. Author of two no-hitters, this Braves southpaw retired with 363 wins and no lefty in the 20th Century had more wins. He was a Cy Young winner, World Series champion, and 17-time All-Star, who led the National League in wins eight times. Who was this World War II veteran who took part in the Battle of the Bulge and won a Purple Heart? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. No beating around the bush with this guy. Sometimes called "The Hammer," what Braves outfielder broke Babe Ruth's career home run record by belting #715 off the Dodgers' Al Downing on 8 April, 1974? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. We go back to the Boston Braves, or the Beaneaters as they were known when he played for them, for this Hall of Famer, a pitcher who won 361 games, which at the time was second only to Cy Young. Who was this switch-hitting right-hander who was the youngest player to ever reach the 300 win plateau? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. This Hall of Famer was only a Brave for three years. But in his first season wearing the tomahawk, he batted .309 and finished third in the MVP voting while helping to lead the Braves to the NL pennant and their only World Series title in Milwaukee, beating the Yankees in four games. Who was this second sacker who entered the Hall as a St. Louis Cardinal? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. In 2002 this Brave became only the second pitcher in MLB history to record both a 20-win season and a 50-save season in his career. Who is this unique pitcher who became the first pitcher ever to retire with 200 wins and 150 saves? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. This Brave played as a Beaneater in Bean Town for nine of his 17 seasons in the majors. During that time, in 1894, he set the MLB single-season record for batting with a .440 average. Who was this slugging outfielder who drove in 100 or more runs eight times? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. He spent only four of his 16 major-league seasons with the Braves, but in the first of those four he helped the the Boston Braves win their only World Series. Although he played his first twelve seasons and won two World Series titles with the Cubs, his only MVP season came in Boston. Who was this player who was one of a "Trio of bear cubs and fleeter than birds"? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. This Cooperstown resident played the first nine seasons of an 18-year career with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, primarily as a catcher. And though he was a 9-time All-Star as a player, he nonetheless entered the Hall of Fame as a manager, largely on the strength of four World Championships for the New York Yankees. Who was this 29-year MLB manager with five teams? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. This pitcher took the mound for the Braves for 20 of his 24 total seasons. Who was this knuckleball pitcher who twice won and lost 20 games in the same season? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. This Boston Beaneater in the Hall of Fame only played six of his 13 seasons in Boston, but drove in over 100 runs two seasons in a row (1893-4) with them. Who is the right fielder who was linked by the press with Hugh Duffy as the "Heavenly Twins"? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. This Hall of Famer spent his first 16 years with the Braves as a southpaw starter on the mound, leading the league five times in wins, winning two Cy Young Awards, and being named to ten All-Star games. Only teammate Greg Maddux won more games in the NL during the 1990s. Who is this pitcher whose #47 was retired by the Atlanta Braves? Hint



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1. This Brave is the only one to play in all three franchise cities: Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. A third baseman, he was featured on the first cover of "Sports Illustrated" on 16 August, 1954. Along with Henry Aaron, he was co-holder of the MLB record for most career home runs by teammates when he passed away in 2001.

Answer: Ed Mathews

Mathews played 15 of his 17 major league seasons with the Braves. In Milwaukee's only World Series championship (1957), he hit a tenth-inning home run to win Game 4 and made the final putout in Game 7. He was a twelve-time All-Star and twice led the Braves in home runs in a season despite playing every season with Aaron.
2. This HOF'er helped lead the Miracle Braves to the 1914 World Series sweep of the Philadelphia A's. Only 5' 5" tall, he played 23 major-league seasons before retiring in 1935, an MLB record that would last until broken by Pete Rose in 1986. Who was this diminutive but speedy shortstop who nonetheless batted cleanup for the World Champion Boston Braves?

Answer: Rabbit Maranville

Rabbit's actual moniker was Walter James Vincent Maranville. In his first two seasons with the Bravos he placed third and second, respectively, in the MVP voting, finishing as runner-up in 1914 to a teammate. Known as a clown for his practical jokes as a player, his habit continued in 1925 when he was named manager of the Cubs, but it also kept him from completing the season at the helm.

Wagner, who played for Louisville and then the Pirates, was 5' 11" and weighed 200 pounds. Tinker played in Chicago his entire career. Reese played with the Dodgers from 1940 to 1958.
3. Since his MLB career as a player was only two seasons at third base with the Yankees, this Brave was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a manager. He won two World Series titles, one as a first base coach in 1977 with the Yankees, and one at the helm of the Braves in 1995. Who was this Braves manager from 1978 to 1981 and from 1990 to 2010?

Answer: Bobby Cox

Major League Baseball tabbed Bobby Cox as Manager of the Year four times, the first time with the Blue Jays in 1985. Although he won the award three times with the Braves in 1991, 2004, and 2005, he was by-passed the only year his team won the Series. "The Sporting News" named him Manager of the Year eight times.

In 2010 Cox became only the fourth manager to win 2,500 games. On 14 August, 2007, he set the MLB record for game ejections as manager, with 132. In 1996 he also became the first player or manager to be ejected from two World Series games, having gotten tossed in a Series game in 1992.
4. This HOF'er is as beloved by Cubs fans as Braves fans. His number 31 has been retired by both organizations. This Texas-born righty was an eight-time All-Star who also won 14 Gold Gloves, led the NL in ERA four times and in wins three. Known as "Mad Dog" and "Professor", who is the first MLB pitcher in history to win four consecutive Cy Young awards?

Answer: Greg Maddux

Maddux was legendary for his knowledge of hitters and how to influence them. During a game he is said to predict needing an ambulance for the first-base coach, and on the next figure that coach was struck in the chest with a foul ball. In a 40-plus-year career as MLB player, coach, and manager, Bobby Cox said Maddux was the best, smartest, and most competitive pitcher he ever saw.
5. Let's check out perhaps the best lefty ever at the Braves. Author of two no-hitters, this Braves southpaw retired with 363 wins and no lefty in the 20th Century had more wins. He was a Cy Young winner, World Series champion, and 17-time All-Star, who led the National League in wins eight times. Who was this World War II veteran who took part in the Battle of the Bulge and won a Purple Heart?

Answer: Warren Spahn

At age 42, Spahn and 25-year-old Juan Marichal matched up in a pitching duel that was still scoreless after 15 innings. In the bottom of the 16th, Willie Mays homered to give the Giants the 1-0 win.

Since 1999 the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame awards the best left-handed pitcher in MLB the Warren Spahn Award. Spahn was born in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Burdette, Spahn's teammate for 13 years, was born in Nitro, West Virginia. It's hard to top two town names like those. Burdette was MVP of the 1957 World Series, and was the winning pitcher in three of the Braves' four wins (Spahn won the other).

Burdette's 1959 Topps baseball card shows him winding up as a lefty because he could not find his glove and was using Spahn's for the picture. His name is also misspelled as "Lou" on the card.
6. No beating around the bush with this guy. Sometimes called "The Hammer," what Braves outfielder broke Babe Ruth's career home run record by belting #715 off the Dodgers' Al Downing on 8 April, 1974?

Answer: Henry Aaron

Aaron ended his career with 755 home runs. Other MLB career records he held at his retirement in 1976 include 6,856 total bases, 2,297 runs batted in, and 1,477 extra-base hits. Although he led MLB in homers when he retired, he never hit more than 50 in any one season and only led the NL in home runs four times.

But he was also a 25-time All-Star. Named to the MLB All Century Team, he was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. Since 1999, MLB also awards the Hank Aaron Award to the top hitter in each league.
7. We go back to the Boston Braves, or the Beaneaters as they were known when he played for them, for this Hall of Famer, a pitcher who won 361 games, which at the time was second only to Cy Young. Who was this switch-hitting right-hander who was the youngest player to ever reach the 300 win plateau?

Answer: Kid Nichols

Nichols led the National League in wins three times and had a ten-season streak of 20 or more wins. He also won 30 games seven times, with a high of 35 in 1892. The two achievements he said he was proudest of were his Hall of Fame induction and the fact that he had never been replaced by a relief pitcher.
8. This Hall of Famer was only a Brave for three years. But in his first season wearing the tomahawk, he batted .309 and finished third in the MVP voting while helping to lead the Braves to the NL pennant and their only World Series title in Milwaukee, beating the Yankees in four games. Who was this second sacker who entered the Hall as a St. Louis Cardinal?

Answer: Red Schoendienst

In 19 years as a player, Schoendienst was a ten-time All-Star, including during his 1957 season with the Braves. He played 15 years with the Cardinals, wrapped around short stints with the Giants and Braves, after which he managed the Cardinals for 14 years. The Cardinals retired his #2 and he is a member of the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame.
9. In 2002 this Brave became only the second pitcher in MLB history to record both a 20-win season and a 50-save season in his career. Who is this unique pitcher who became the first pitcher ever to retire with 200 wins and 150 saves?

Answer: John Smoltz

Smoltz pitched for 22 big-league seasons, all but the last one with the Atlanta Braves. He was an 8-time All-Star, World Series champion, Cy Young Award winner, and 2005 Roberto Clemente Award winner. He led the National League in wins twice and in strikeouts twice while also leading the league once in saves. The Braves have retired his #29.
10. This Brave played as a Beaneater in Bean Town for nine of his 17 seasons in the majors. During that time, in 1894, he set the MLB single-season record for batting with a .440 average. Who was this slugging outfielder who drove in 100 or more runs eight times?

Answer: Hugh Duffy

Duffy won the Triple Crown in 1894 and led the Beaneaters to four National League titles. Although only 5' 7" tall and weighing only 150 pounds, he led the league in 1894 with 18 home runs and finished his career with 106. In the 25 seasons between 1876 and 1900, only five players led the NL in home runs with more than Duffy's 18.
11. He spent only four of his 16 major-league seasons with the Braves, but in the first of those four he helped the the Boston Braves win their only World Series. Although he played his first twelve seasons and won two World Series titles with the Cubs, his only MVP season came in Boston. Who was this player who was one of a "Trio of bear cubs and fleeter than birds"?

Answer: Johnny Evers

When Evers made his MLB debut in 1902 with the Cubs, only three other players in the National League were younger. And though he was on three World Series Championship teams and an MVP in Boston, it took a poem to make him famous. In "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" Franklin Pierce Adams wrote in 1910,
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance...
12. This Cooperstown resident played the first nine seasons of an 18-year career with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, primarily as a catcher. And though he was a 9-time All-Star as a player, he nonetheless entered the Hall of Fame as a manager, largely on the strength of four World Championships for the New York Yankees. Who was this 29-year MLB manager with five teams?

Answer: Joe Torre

After managing the Mets for five years, Torre was named Manager of the Year by the Associated Press in his first season managing the Braves. He managed the St. Louis Cardinals for six years, a team he had also played with for six years. His twelve years managing the Yankees then produced two AL Manager of the Year Awards and four World Series titles.

The Yankees retired his #6 and he is a member of the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame.
13. This pitcher took the mound for the Braves for 20 of his 24 total seasons. Who was this knuckleball pitcher who twice won and lost 20 games in the same season?

Answer: Phil Niekro

An amazing pitcher, in 1974 Niekro led the league in wins, complete games, and innings pitched, finishing third in the Cy Young voting. He again led the league in wins in 1979 at the age of 40, finishing the second 20-win and 20-loss season of his career.

Overall, he was a five-time All-Star and a five-time Gold Glove winner. He pitched a no-hitter in 1973.
14. This Boston Beaneater in the Hall of Fame only played six of his 13 seasons in Boston, but drove in over 100 runs two seasons in a row (1893-4) with them. Who is the right fielder who was linked by the press with Hugh Duffy as the "Heavenly Twins"?

Answer: Tommy McCarthy

McCarthy is linked in baseball lore with the introduction of the hit-and-run technique. With the St. Louis Browns from 1888 to 1891 he scored over 100 runs each season and batted .350 in 1890 and drove in 95 runs in 1891.
15. This Hall of Famer spent his first 16 years with the Braves as a southpaw starter on the mound, leading the league five times in wins, winning two Cy Young Awards, and being named to ten All-Star games. Only teammate Greg Maddux won more games in the NL during the 1990s. Who is this pitcher whose #47 was retired by the Atlanta Braves?

Answer: Tom Glavine

In 1984 Glavine was drafted by the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings, as well as the Braves. Known for his hitting ability, he won four Silver Slugger Awards for being the NL's best hitting pitcher.

Glavine won two games, including the sixth and final game, in the Atlanta Braves' 1995 World Series win over the Cleveland Indians and was named the Series MVP. In 1996 he authored a book entitled, "None But the Braves: A Pitcher, a Team, a Champion." Then, after 16 Hall-of-Fame-quality years with the Braves, he pitched six years with the New York Mets before returning to Atlanta for his last major-league season.
Source: Author shvdotr

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