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What nickname was given to the New York Yankees baseball team of the late 1920s, in particular to the first six hitters in the 1927 team lineup?

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Murderer’s Row The 1927 Yankees are recognized as one of the best teams in baseball history, alongside the 1939 Yankees, the 1961 Yankees and the 1998 Yankees.

What was the greatest number of home runs hit in a single season by baseball’s “Georgia Peach,” Ty Cobb?

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12

What did Chris Sabo shower the field with when his bat broke in a July 31,1996 game?

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Cork.

What major league baseball player retired in 1980 after playing in five different decades?

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Outfielder Minnie Minoso, who started out with the Cleveland Indians in 1949, and ended his career as a pinch hitter for the Chicago White Sox.

What major league baseball team had an Internet home page in English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin in 1996?

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The Los Angeles Dodgers.

In how many world Series did Babe Ruth play during his 22 year career?

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Ten, with his team winning seven of them.

Who was the last graduate of the Negro Leagues to retire from major league baseball?

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Hank Aaron.

What National League baseball team’s cap did Billy Crystal wear in City Slickers?

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The New York Mets’.

Outfielder Pete Gray played with the St. Louis Browns in 1945 despite a serious handicap. What was it?

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He had only one arm.

What was the World Series batting average of Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of the eight Chicago White Sox players convicted of accepting bribes to throw the 1919 world championship to the Cincinnati Reds?

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He had the highest average in the series, .375, as well as a perfect fielding record.

What Yankee pitcher threw his first no-hitter the night before hid dad had open-heart surgery, in 1996?

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Dwight Gooden.

What country’s first U.S. major league baseball player was Chan-Ho Park?

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South Korea’s

In the US, the World Series of Major League Baseball is confined to the champions of two baseball leagues that currently operate only in the United States and Canada. So how did the name ‘World Series’ come about?

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The obvious reason. When the term was first used in the 1880s, baseball was almost exclusively confined to North America; thus it was understood that the winner of the championship was the best baseball team in the world A recent myth has arisen that the ‘World’ in ‘World Series’ came about because the New York World newspaper sponsored it. There is no evidence at all supporting that hypothesis.

Four players on the first New York Mets team became major-league managers. Name them.

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Gil Hodges, Don Zimmer, Roger Craig and Jim Marshall were the four future manages on Casey Stengel’s 1962 Mets.

When the New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball club to adopt an official uniform in 1849, what did team members wear on their heads?

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Straw hats. The rest of the uniform consisted of blue woolen pantaloons and white flannel shirts.

What Mariner’s 15 homers in May of 1994 were more than the entire Montreal Expos team managed?

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Ken Griffey Jr.’s.

Who was baseball’s acting commissioner during the infamous 1994-95 strike?

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Bud Selig.

What clan consisting of Ray, Bob and Bret became the first three-generation family to play major league baseball?

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The Boone Family.

How many home run titles did Roger Maris win?

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One

What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the American Indian Movement?

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The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.

How many baseball gloves can be made from one cow?

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Five.

What was Babe Ruth’s won-lost record as a big-league pitcher?

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94-46.

What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the American Indian Movement?

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The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.

Who threw baseball’s last legal spitball?

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Hall of Fame’s Burleigh Grimes, for the New York Yankees in 1934. Although the pitch had been outlawed 14 years earlier, those already throwing it were permitted to continue.

What two Players led the National League in stolen bases every year from 1981 to 1990?

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Vince Coleman and Tim Raines.

Who signed with the Yankees in 1980 for over twice the amount George Steinbrenner paid for the franchise?

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Dave Winfield.

Joe DiMaggio was known as what kind of Joe?

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Joltin’.

Of what Colorado mining town was heavy weight boxing champion jack Dempsey a native?

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Manassa – thus his nickname, the Manassa Mauler, coined by Damon Runyon.

What baseball slugger did Felipe Alou dub “El Gran Gato,” the Big Cat”?

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Andres Galarraga.

In which country is the world’s largest McDonalds Restaurant?

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China (The McDonalds in Beijing is 28,000 square feet, 2 stories high, and seats 700 people). They are building one in London, England, for the 2012 Olympics which is assumed to be even larger.

How many players are there on a Baseball Team?

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9

What baseball player said of Biloxi Blues: “It reminded me of being in the Army, even though I was in the Navy:?

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Yogi Berra

What Brooklyn Dodgers great got his nick name for what he called his shooter when playing marbles as a child?

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Pee Wee Reese

Rugby’s man mountain Jonah Lomu plays for which country?

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New Zealand.

WHO HAD THE BIGGEST DROP IN BATTING AVERAGE FROM ONE SEASON TO THE NEXT?

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NORM CASH OF THE TIGERS BATTED .361 IN 1961 AND .243 THE NEXT YEAR

AFTER RETIRING AS A PLAYER, WITH WHAT TEAM DID BASEBALL GREAT BABE RUTH SPEND ONE YEAR AS A COACH?

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THE BROOKLYN DODGERS IN 1938

Which city’s baseball team are called The Blue Jays?

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Toronto

Whose record did Reggie Jackson tie when he spanked three home runs in a World Series game?

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Babe Ruth’s

What 60 year old gave up one hit in three innings of work against the Red Sox in 1965?

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Satchel Paige

Which Joe was nicknamed the Yankee Clipper?

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DiMaggio

Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski hold the major league baseball record for playing the greatest number of seasons with the same team. How many years did they play – and with what teams?

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23 years. Third baseman Robinson played with the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 1977; Carl Yastrzemski, outfielder/first baseman, played with the Boston Red Sox from 1961 to 1983

What great ball player played first base in high school and had pitched only one season in college when he was given a bonus to pitch in the major leagues?

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Sandy Koufax, who was 19 in 1954 when the Brooklyn Dodgers signed him up with a $14,000 bonus and an annual salary of $6,000

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PLAYER IN BASEBALL WHO IS POSITIONED BEHIND THE HOME PLATE?

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THE CATCHER

HOW MANY HOME RUNS DID MICKEY MANTLE HIT IN 1961, THE YEAR HIS NEW YORK YANKEE TEAMMATE ROGER MARIS HIT A THEN-RECORD-SETTING 61?

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54

What do the initials WP signify in baseball?

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Wild pitch

Whys was Kansas City Royal slugger George Brett issued a drivers’ license in 1985 without being required to take a vision test?

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According to a Kansas official, “If he can hit .350, we figured he could see.”

What two Yankees did 17-year-old female Jackie Mitchell strike out successively in 1931?

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Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

What was baseball great Stan Mulsial’s advice to those trying to hit a spitball?

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Hit it on the dry side

What NBC sports announcer admitted keeping a 1958 Mickey Mantle baseball card in his wallet?

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Bob Costas

What Pittsburgh Pirate had exactly 3,000 career hits before dying in a plane crash? A: Roberto Clemente.

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