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. There are only two major league players to record 500 or more home runs and 2,000 singles during their careers. Collect five points for each of these players you can identify

2. Going into the 2001 season, there were two active players with 1,000 or more extra-base hits. Collect five points for each of these two major leaguers you can name.

3. At the start of the 2001 season, who was the only active player to win consecutive RBI title during his career: Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Juan Gonzalez, Andres Galarraga or Jose Canseco?

4. Albert Belle is the only player to hit 50 home runs and 50 doubles in the same season, but who is the only other player to reach 50 homers and 50 doubles in different campaigns: Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Greenberg or Mickey Mantle?

5. Which of the following players did not have a season in which he walked 150 or more times: Ted Williams, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Jeff Bagwell or Eddie Yost?

6. Collect two points for each of the five players--whose last name begins with the letter "M"--who hit 50 or more home runs in a single season.