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. Darrell Evans became the first player in major league history to hit 40 or more home runs in a single-season in both the National League and American League when he clubbed 41 homers for the Atlanta Braves in 1973 and 40 for the Detroit Tigers in 1985. For ten points, name the three active players to accomplish this feat.

2. In 2000, Todd Helton became only the fifth player in big league history to reach the century mark in runs, RBI, walks and extra-base hits in the same season. For ten points, name two of the other four players to get 100 or more extra-base hits, walks, runs and RBI in one campaign.

3. Last season, Seattle's Kazuhiro Sasaki set a major league mark for rookies with 37 saves. Who set the record of 36 saves for rookie pitchers? Gregg Olson, Todd Worrell, John Wetteland or Dan Quisenberry?

4. Tim Hudson became the seventh pitcher in Oakland A's history to win 20 games in a season last year. Collect ten points if you can name four of the other six pitchers to have a 20-win season with the Oakland Athletics.

5. Collect ten points if you can identify three of the four active pitchers who have won a league ERA title with two different teams.

6. Before Darin Erstad did it in 2000, who was the last major leaguer to collect 240 or more hits in a season: Don Mattingly, Kirby Puckett, Wade Boggs or Lance Johnson?