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Collect ten points for each question answered correctly. Answers on page 90. (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. Fred McGriff is the only player to hit 30 or more home runs in a season with five different teams. Collect two points for each of those teams you can identify.

2. Last season, Barry Bonds became the eighth player with 500 career home runs to win a league batting title. For ten points, name four of the other seven members of the 500-Home Run Club to have won a hitting championship during their careers.

3. Who is the only player with 500 or more lifetime homers not to have a season in which he hit .300: Mark McGwire, Eddie Mathews, Harmon Killebrew or Reggie Jackson?

4. In 2002, the Red Sox had two 20-game winners in Derek Lowe and Pedro Martinez, yet Boston failed to make the postseason. The last American League club to have two 20-game winners and not make the playoffs was the Baltimore Orioles in 1980. Collect five points for each Oriole pitcher you can identify who won 20 games in 1980.

5. Before Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki, who was the last player to collect 200 or more hits in his first two major league seasons: Joe DiMaggio, Wade Boggs, Harvey Kuenn or Tony Oliva?

6. Alex Rodriguez became the fifth shortstop, since 1900, to lead his league in runs batted in when he totaled 142 RBI for the Rangers last season. Collect ten points if you can identify two of the other four shortstops to lead the league in RBI.

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