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Baseball Quick Quiz.(Brief Article)
Collect ten points for each question answered correctly.
(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. Hall of Famer Warren Spahn holds a record for left-handers by winning 20 or more games in a season 13 times for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves in the National League. What left-handed pitcher won 20 or more games the most times in the American League: Lefty Grove, Dave McNally, Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank or Jim Kaat?
2. On July 24, Barry Bonds turned 37 and was on pace to hit 50 or more home runs in 2001--he had 26 through May 28. Who is the oldest player to reach the 50-homer plateau at age 35: Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Johnny Mize or Mark McGwire?
3. Going into the 2001 season, there were six active players who had seven or more 100-RBI campaigns in the major leagues. For ten points, name four of these six sluggers.
4. Rickey Henderson is tops among active players with 13 seasons in which he scored 100 or more runs. Collect five points for each of the other two active players you can identify who have scored 100 runs in one season eight or more times.
5. True or False. No catcher, since 1900, has ever led his league in doubles in one season?
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- Press release article from: Business Wire November 1, 2000 700+ words
...Foundation's "Night of Heroes" honoring Willie Mays on Tuesday, November 14, at the San...New York Mets game and dinner with Willie Mays -- two tickets to a San Francisco Giants' game with Willie Mays -- includes sitting in Willie Mays...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 5, 1994 700+ words
...investors to develop, own and operate a Willie Mays Country Chicken quick-service restaurant...GP, Inc. is the general partner of Willie Mays Country Chicken I, L.P., a New...formed to own and operate the Livingston Willie Mays Country Chicken restaurant. As the...
- Dear Mr. President: Willie Mays Aikens wants to be free.
- News wire article from: Kansas City Star March 25, 2001 700+ words
...you catch the name on the request. The name is Willie Mays Aikens. Willie Mays Aikens? The ballplayer? The doctor came up...Less than two weeks after the first charmed season of Willie Mays. Say hey. What a player. Mays hit home runs...
- Dear Mr. President: Willie Mays Aikens wants to be free.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Posnanski, Joe March 25, 2001 700+ words
...you catch the name on the request. The name is Willie Mays Aikens. Willie Mays Aikens? The ballplayer? The doctor came up...Less than two weeks after the first charmed season of Willie Mays. Say hey. What a player. Mays hit home runs...
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- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review Abif, Khafre July 1, 2000 700+ words
...Negro Leagues. When Willie Mays was selected to play...Major League Baseball. Willie Mays had a wonderful career...he played his final season with the New York Mets...virtual 3-D figure of Willie Mays. This is Tate's first...
- FSN Bay Area and Orchard Supply Hardware Announce the Day You Met Willie Mays...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 25, 2005 700+ words
...Rare Opportunity to Meet Hall of Famer Willie Mays at San Jose Orchard Supply Hardware...Registration for "the Day You Met Willie Mays" Contest from August 1-September...OSH) announced today The Day You Met Willie Mays sweepstakes. Starting Monday, August...
- Willie Mays makes Midsummer Night by the Bay even better.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Salisbury, Jim July 10, 2007 700+ words
...Need we go on? Willie Mays embodied all of this...96 RBIs his first season on the West Coast...consecutive 100-RBI seasons. He played 22 seasons...1973. In those 22 seasons, he hit .302 with...All-Star Game for Willie Mays." Mays shares the...
- Willie Mays once was baseball's emperor.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) May 4, 2006 700+ words
...greater than either: Willie Mays. As in all cities...Thirty-three seasons since he played...recorded about Willie Mays. My favorite remains...establish about Willie Mays is that there really...hadn't spent two seasons in the service...
- Louisville Slugger Museum(R) Presents Willie Mays: 24 at 75 Celebrating the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 4, 2006 700+ words
...Ky., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Willie Mays, who wore number 24 during his stellar...occasion with a new exhibit entitled Willie Mays: 24 at 75, Celebrating the "Say Hey...hurdles." Artifacts featured in the "Willie Mays: 24 at 75" exhibit include: - Mays...
- MASCOTT ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF CINNABON INTO NEW ENGLAND; ADDITIONAL WILLIE...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 27, 1992 700+ words
...CINNABON INTO NEW ENGLAND; ADDITIONAL WILLIE MAYS GRILLED & ROASTED CHICKEN LOCATIONS...addition to the opening of its first Willie Mays Grilled and Roasted Chicken in the Menlo...corporation intends to open two additional Willie Mays Chicken locations during the spring...
Source: HighBeam Research, Baseball Quick Quiz.(Brief Article)