Baseball Trivia Quiz
Q: What slugger did Boston name its third harbor tunnel after?
A: Ted Williams.
Q: What moniker did relief pitcher Jeff Reardon share with an
Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
A: The Terminator.
Q: What punctuation mark did baseball
clown Max Patkin wear on
the back of his jersey?
A: "?".
Q: Whose record of 59 did Babe Ruth break when he hit 60 homers in one season?
A: Babe Ruth's.
Q: What National League ballpark is known as the "Friendly Confines"?
A: Wrigley Field.
Q: What strikeout artist is nicknamed "The Big Unit"?
A: Randy Johnson.
Q: Who was Joe DiMaggio nearly traded to the Red Sox for in
1976?
A: Ted Williams.
Q: What two Players led the National League in stolen bases every
year from 1981 to
1990?
A: Vince Coleman and Tim Raines.
Q: What left-handed baseball legend's statue in Baltimore
mistakenly depicted him with a right-handed fielder's glove?
A: Babe Ruth's.
Q: What does Yogi Berra advise you to do when you come to a fork
in the road?
A: Take it.
Q: What was installed in front of major league baseball
fences in 1950?
A: A warning track.
Q: Whose number 4 was the first number ever retired in
major league baseball, in
1939?
A: Lou Gerhig's.
Q: How many career grand slams did Frank Robinson swat besides
the two he hit in consecutive at bats in
1970?
A: Zero.
Q: What baseball team retired the jerseys of Ken Boyer, Lou Brock
and Dizzy Dean?
A: The Saint Louis Cardinals.
Q: What sports figure, when asked if he'd seen Dr. Zhivago,
allegedly said: "No I feel fine"?
A: Yogi Berra.
Q: What former L.A. Dodgers southpaw autographed yarmulkes that
fetched $75 each in 1995?
A: Sandy Koufax.
Q: Whose single-season strikeout record did Nolan Ryan beat
by one?
A: Sandy Koufax's
Q: What 1995 change to Kansas City's stadium "smells like
baseball" to Cal Ripken?
A: Natural grass.
Q: Who did the Boston Bruins lose 18 straight playoff series to,
form 1946 to
1987?
A: The Montreal Canadians.
Q: What did Phil Niekro throw six times in one
1979
game,
including four in one inning, typing per game and per inning
records?
A: Wild pitches.
Q: Who was baseball's acting commissioner during the infamous
1994-95 strike?
A: Bud Selig.
Q: What Baltimore hurler claimed the only thing manager
Earl Weaver knew about pitching was that "he couldn't hit it"?
A: Jim Palmer.
Q: What Yankee pitcher threw his first no-hitter the night
before his dad had open-heart surgery, in
1996?
A: Dwight Gooden.
Q: What relief pitcher was nicknamed for the
pet he kept while
playing for the Pirates?
A: "Goose" Gossage.
Q: What major league baseball team started playing in
Coors
Stadium in 1995?
A: The Colorado Rockies.
Q: Who was the first Baltimore Oriole to be named American League
MVP?
A: Brooks Robinson.
Q: What Atlanta Braves slugger do fans call "Crime Dog"?
A: Fred McGriff.
Q: What base did Babe Ruth touch for luck while
running
from the outfield between innings?
A: Second base.
Q: What Negro League home run king died less than three months
before Jack?
A: Josh Gibson.
Q: What Cleveland Indians slugger nixed a five-year, $43-million
contract offer in 1996?
A: Albert Belle.