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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. Barry Bonds finished the 2000 season six home runs shy of becoming the 17th major league player to hit 500 lifetime home runs. Collect two points for each of the top five career home run leaders you can identify.
2. Among players with 500 or more career home runs, who hit the fewest (1) pinch-hit homers during his career: Babe Ruth, Mike Schmidt, Frank Robinson or Eddie Mathews?
3. There are only six players in major league history to score more than 2,000 runs. Collect two points for each of the top five career run-scoring leaders you can name correctly.
4. Among the 20 pitchers who have won 300 career major league games, only eight of them have tossed a no-hitter in the big leagues. Collect ten points if you can identify four of the eight 300-game winners who pitched a no-hit game.
5. Nolan Ryan ranks first among big league pitchers with 5,714 career strikeouts followed by Steve Carlton's 4,136. Collect one point for each of the other ten pitchers you can name who have 3,000 or more lifetime strikeouts.
6. There are eight players in major league history who have driven in 1,900 or more runs, but only one of those eight players never led his league in RBI during his career. Who is he: Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Eddie Murray or Willie Mays?
- Willie Mays once was baseball's emperor.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) May 4, 2006 700+ words
...This is Hank Aaron's town. Babe Ruth's home run mark is being...was greater than either: Willie Mays. As in all cities with deep...descriptive words recorded about Willie Mays. My favorite remains the...first thing to establish about Willie Mays is that there really is ...
- Say Hey! It's Willie Mays, teens talkin' baseball: Hundreds of teenage baseball...
- News wire article from: Miami Herald (Miami, FL) February 24, 2006 700+ words
...Ashley Fantz Feb. 24--Willie Mays ambled toward the podium...move too quickly now." Willie Mays, the power-hitting...remember their names, and Willie Mays was quickly dubbed the...behind only Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and his godson, Barry...
- Willie Mays says milestone HR was no big deal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Roderick, Joe July 4, 2002 700+ words
...him talk now, the 600th homer Willie Mays hit was merely a footnote on the...that milestone and the first since Babe Ruth 38 years earlier. Hank Aaron would...he once was, but he was still Willie Mays. Corkins recalled catcher Chris...
- Willie Mays says milestone HR was no big deal.
- Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 4, 2002 700+ words
...him talk now, the 600th homer Willie Mays hit was merely a footnote on the...that milestone and the first since Babe Ruth 38 years earlier. Hank Aaron would...he once was, but he was still Willie Mays. Corkins recalled catcher Chris...
- The greatest living player . . . Willie Mays.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 15, 2004 700+ words
...linked San Francisco Giants teammate Willie Mays with his infant son, brings us...living ballplayer, 73-year-old Willie Mays or his godson, Barry Bonds, who...have become the second coming of Babe Ruth. Unfortunately for him, he has...
- The greatest living player . . . Willie Mays.(Chicago Tribune)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rogers, Phil May 15, 2004 700+ words
...linked San Francisco Giants teammate Willie Mays with his infant son, brings us...living ballplayer, 73-year-old Willie Mays or his godson, Barry Bonds, who...have become the second coming of Babe Ruth. Unfortunately for him, he has...
- Barry Bonds passes Willie Mays as baseball's no. 3 all-time HR...
- Magazine article from: Jet May 3, 2004 700+ words
...record of his godfather, baseball legend Willie Mays, on one day--660 and passing it on...time career home run list behind only Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755). But...go after the next thing." Although Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron loom in Bonds' path he...
- Willie Mays wants Bonds to keep focus.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Roderick, Joe March 15, 2002 700+ words
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. _ Willie Mays cringed a little when he heard over the winter that his godson...of 660 homers, third on the all-time list behind Aaron and Babe Ruth. At the time, Bonds had 122 fewer homers than he has now, and...
- Willie Mays worried about Bonds' focus on record.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Brown, Daniel March 14, 2002 700+ words
...Bonds home run advice, but one of them _ his godfather, Willie Mays _ objects to hearing the Giants left fielder talk about chasing...them is Mays, whose 660 homers trail only Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714). "You can't look at me, you can't look at Ruth...
- Willie Mays: May 6, 1931.(This Week in Black History)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Jet May 11, 1998 700+ words
May 6, 1931 Willie Mays, one of the most exciting baseball players in baseball history, was born in Westfield, AL...of Fame in 1979. During his major league career, he hit 660 home runs. Only Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth hit more.
Source: HighBeam Research, Baseball Quick Quiz.(Brief Article)