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Baseball Quick, Quiz.(Brief Article)
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.
1. What club is the only wild card playoff team to win the World Series: New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Florida Marlins or Toronto Blue Jays?
2. Steve Garvey became the first of three players to win a League Championship Series MVP Award with two different teams when he did it with the Dodgers in 1978 and the Padres in 1984. Collect five points for each of the other two players you can identify who have accomplished this feat. A clue: They are both pitchers.
3. Who are the only brothers to win a League Championship MVP Award: Roberto and Sandy Alomar, George and Ken Brett, Livan and Orlando Hernandez or Denny and Brian Doyle?
4. Since 1956, when the Cy Young Award was first presented, only four pitchers have won World Series MVP honors and the Cy Young Award in the same season. Collect ten points if you can correctly identify two of these four pitchers.
5. Through the end of the 2001 regular season, there were 12 pitchers with 3,000 or more career strikeouts in the major leagues and only four of those 12 never pitched in a World Series game. Collect ten points if you can name two of those four pitchers.
6. Who is the only player to ground into three double plays in one World Series game: Sal Bando, Willie Mays, Rickey Henderson or Paul O'Neill?
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