Baseball Trivia Quiz # 16
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Baseball Players and Their Teams - Which National League team did Sean Casey play for when he had a .458 slugging percentage in 2001?
The correct answer is 'Cinncinnati Reds'
In 2001, Sean Casey had an outstanding batting average of .310 and a slugging percentage of .458. He made history at PNC Park in Pittsburgh with the first home run since the stadium was opened.
Baseball Question 2
Schoolyard Taunts, Rhymes and Songs 2 - We're still picking teams for baseball. What were my mother and your mother doing when my mother beat up your mother?
The correct answer is 'Hanging clothes'
'My mother and your mother were hanging clothes. My mother punched your mother in the nose. What color was the blood?' Spell out the color, last one picked is on your team.
This dates from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which hundreds of poor working women perished. The nosebleed refers to the resultant factory safety laws that were like a punch in the nose to rich industrialits.
This dates from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in which hundreds of poor working women perished. The nosebleed refers to the resultant factory safety laws that were like a punch in the nose to rich industrialits.
Baseball Question 3
The Greatest Prospect Ever - Among the more astonishing aspects of Sidd Finch’s life was that, as far as anyone could tell, he had played no organized amateur baseball before his professional tryout! He had attended college, but to the best of anyone’s recollection he had expressed NO interest in playing varsity baseball. What prestigious institution did Finch attend?
The correct answer is 'Harvard'
Intercollegiate baseball has been played at Harvard since 1863, when they triumphed in their first game against a squad from Brown. Finch’s time at Harvard was brief; according to his college roommate Henry Peterson: “I came back one afternoon and everything was gone…He was on his way to Tibet to study.”
Baseball Question 4
Reds by the Numbers - Eric Davis and Adam Dunn have crushed some baseballs in what number?
The correct answer is '44'
Eric Davis hit 203 home runs with the Reds from 1984-1991. Adam Dunn became the first NL rookie to hit 12 home runs in one month (August 2001).
Baseball Question 5
Dummies Baseball #5 - What team won the 1954 World Series?
The correct answer is 'New York Giants'
The other teams did not exist in 1954. The Giants (who became the San Francisco Giants in 1958), beat the heavily-favored Cleveland Indians 4 games to 0. Although there was no MVP named, the Giants' Alvin Dark batted .412 in the Series.
Baseball Question 6
Baseball for You - What was Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore most remembered for?
The correct answer is 'Pitched a perfect game in relief (27 outs)'
Shore pitched in relief getting 27 outs after Babe Ruth was ejected by the umpire after walking the first batter in a game in 1917. Ruth's batter who walked was thrown out at second base on Shore's first pitch.
Baseball Question 7
Electro-Shock Baseball: Treament 3 - The 2000 World Series was a subway series against the Yankees and Mets. When was the last New York subway series prior to that?
The correct answer is '1956'
44 seasons back, the series pitted the Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, which the Yankee club won four games to three. There were 14 subway series in the 20th century, then they seemed to almost stop. One reason for this was that two powerhouse New York teams, the Giants and Dodgers, moved to the west coast.
Baseball Question 8
Angels Baseball - In 1971, the Mets traded Nolan Ryan to the California Angels. Who did they get in return?
The correct answer is 'Jim Fregosi'
Along with Ryan, the Mets sent Don Rose, Leroy Stanton, and Francisco Estrada to the Angels in exchange for Fregosi in one of the most lopsided trades in the history of the game.
Baseball Question 9
March in Baseball History - March 13, 1975: I became the first black manager in baseball history. Who am I?
The correct answer is 'Frank Robinson'
The other managers did not fit the ethnic background. Robinson, after playing in 21 seasons mainly for Cincinnati and Baltimore, and winning the MVP in both leagues, began his managerial duties with the Cleveland Indians. Frank has also managed the Giants, the Orioles, Expos, and made the move to Washington with the Expos team in 2005. As a player, Robinson was a 1982 Hall of Fame inductee.
Baseball Question 10
"The Benchwarmers": Baseball Blunders - What is the name of Gus's wife?
The correct answer is 'Liz'
Throughout the movie, Liz (Molly Sims) is primarily interested in having a baby with Gus, and she's very annoyed with his preoccupation with baseball. She is the only person sympathetic to him when she finds out that his friends have shunned him because he used to be a bully. At this point, Gus admits that the reason he is reluctant to have a baby is because he is worried that his kid will be constantly bullied because of karma paying Gus back for years of tormenting other kids. At the end of the movie, Liz tells Gus that she is pregnant and he is overjoyed.