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. Which player holds the record for most consecutive seasons (12) with 50 or more stolen bases: Lou Brock, Rickey Henderson, Tim Raines or Ty Cobb?

2. Which one of the following 300-game winning pitchers did not throw a no-hitter during his major league career: Tom Seaver, Steve Carlton, Phil Niekro or Warren Spahn?

3. At the start of the 2002 season, Rickey Henderson was 21 games shy of becoming the eighth major league player to reach 3,000 games played. For ten points, name four of the seven players who have played in 3,000 big league contests.

4. Besides Frank Thomas, who is the only other active player to have as many as ten seasons with a batting average of .300 or higher (minimum 50 games played in each season): Mark Grace, Larry Walker, Roberto Alomar, or Edgar Martinez?

5. There are only two players in major league history to register 700 or more at-bats in a season. Collect five points for each of these players you can identify. A clue: One played for the Royals, the other for the Phillies in the 1980s.