Baseball

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.

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Cork.

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.

The Los Angeles Dodgers.

Ten, with his team winning seven of them.

Hank Aaron.

The New York Mets’.

He had only one arm.

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

Dwight Gooden.

South Korea’s

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.

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

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

Ken Griffey Jr.’s.

Bud Selig.

The Boone Family.

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The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.

Five.

94-46.

The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.

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.

Vince Coleman and Tim Raines.

Dave Winfield.

Joltin’.

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

Andres Galarraga.

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.

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Yogi Berra

Pee Wee Reese

New Zealand.

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

THE BROOKLYN DODGERS IN 1938

Toronto

Babe Ruth’s

Satchel Paige

DiMaggio

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

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

THE CATCHER

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Wild pitch

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

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

Hit it on the dry side

Bob Costas

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