baseball Trivia Quiz # 1174
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Dummies Baseball #19 - Which of the following sluggers, never hit 50 home runs in a season?
The correct answer is 'Hank Aaron'
Amazingly enough, Hammerin' Hank only reached 47 in his career. Also strange, is that he hit 44 (his jersey number with the Braves) home runs, 4 times during his career. Aaron hit 755 home runs in his career. Bonds hit 73 in 2001, McGwire hit 70 in 2001, and Mays hit 52 in 1965.
Baseball Question 2
Literature About Baseball - The well-known poem 'Casy at the Bat', written by Ernest Thayer, was first published in which newpaper?
The correct answer is 'San Francisco Chronicle'
Published in 1888.
Baseball Question 3
Baseball and the Presidents II - Who was the first President to 1st own a professional baseball team?
The correct answer is 'Warren Harding'
He was part owner of a minor league team from Marion, Ohio.
Baseball Question 4
Everything Baseball - Ty Cobb wore number 23 on his uniform.
The correct answer is 'False'
Actually, it wasn't a rule that the players wear any numbers until about the mid 1930s. Cobb retired by 1928. Ty Cobb was nicknamed the Georgia Peach. He played for 24 seasons from 1905 to 1928. He had a career batting average of(.367). For his career he batted under .320 only once (1905), but batted over (.400) three times(1911, 1912 and 1922).
Baseball Question 5
Original Names of Pro Sports Teams - What was the original name of baseball's Texas Rangers?
The correct answer is 'Washington Senators'
The 2nd version of the Washington Senators (formed 1961) relocated to Texas in 1972. The original Senators (formed 1901) had moved to Minnesota in 1961 to become the Twins.
Baseball Question 6
Nightmare Baseball XXII - What person playing as a relief pitcher was the first to win three games in a Championship Series?
The correct answer is 'Jesse Orosco'
It was in 1986 when Orosco and the Mets played the Astros for the NLCS. This was argubably the best played series of all time. Orosco also had two saves in the World Series that year against the Red Sox.
Baseball Question 7
Baseball's All-Century Numbers - Noted and quotable Yankees catcher Yogi Berra wore this number.
The correct answer is '8'
Yogi has more World Series rings as a player than any other player in major league history.
Baseball Question 8
Dummies Baseball #34 - What baseball legend and former Giant star, died of cancer on August 23, 2003?
The correct answer is 'Bobby Bonds'
The baseball world mourned the loss of the father of Giant great Barry Bonds. Bobby played half of his 14 seasons with the Giants. The others listed, never played for the Giants, and all passed away prior to 1986. He was 4th in the league MVP voting in 1971, and 3rd in the voting in 1973. Bonds who always shucked the media, never found a World Series in his career. He retired with 332 home runs, as a Chicago Cub in 1981. He had one of the highest strikeout ratios in baseball, striking out 1757 times. Bobby was 57.
Baseball Question 9
Electro-Shock Baseball: Treatment 5 - In 1938, Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds no-hit the Braves, then no-hit the Dodgers only four days later. A truly amazing feat. Ironically in 1947, another Reds pitcher no-hit the same Braves, then again four days later, had a no-hitter going into the ninth inning against the same Dodgers, but lost it to a one-out single by Eddie Stanky. Who was this pitcher that almost duplicated this incomprehensible feat?
The correct answer is 'Ewell Blackwell'
An unreachable feat in itself, but it was reachable by two pitchers. Johnny Vander Meer of the Reds was only in his second season of Major League baseball when he accomplished this. Blackwell, on June 18, 1947, also in his second full season, did it to the Braves. Then four days later again just like Vander Meer, almost did it again to complete the full circle against the same Dodgers. Strangely enough, Ewell won only 82 games in his 10-season career.
Baseball Question 10
Nightmare Baseball XV - Which one of these catchers held the record for playing in 171 consecutive games without committing an error?
The correct answer is 'Charles Johnson'
Charles Johnson with the Florida Marlins accomplished this on June 23rd, 1996 through the end of the 1997 season. On opening day in 1998 he committed his first error closing the streak. He broke Rick Cerone's record of 159 consecutive errorless games.