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Baseball quick quiz.(American Baseball League)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

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Collect ten points for each question answered correctly. Answers on page 95.

(If you score 80 or better, you are a baseball expert; 70 or better, superior; between 60 and 70, good, and between 40 and 60, average

2. Who is the only player to rank among the top five in career leaders in hits, home runs, RBI and runs scored: Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Carl Yastrzemski or Willie Mays?

3. Which player holds the career mark for reaching base the most times--through a hit, walk or hit by pitch: Pete Rose, Stan Musial, Rickey Henderson, Ty Cobb or Hank Aaron?

4. Brooks Robinson, Ozzie Smith and Jim Kaat are three of 13 former or current major league players who have won 10 or more Gold Glove awards during their careers. Collect one point for each of the other ten players you can identify who have won at least 10 Gold Gloves.

5. At the end of the 2001 season, there were four active managers who won division titles with two different teams. Collect ten points if you can name three of these four skippers.

6. Among the 20 big league pitchers who have won 300 or more career games, who is the only one to register all of his victories with one club: Warren Spahn, Lefty Grove, Christy Mathewson or Walter Johnson?

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