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Baseball quick quiz.
(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. For ten points, name two of the four active pitchers who have won 20 or more games in a season for more than one club.
2. There are four pitchers in major league history, since 1900, who won 20 or more games in one season for three different teams. Collect ten points if you can identify two of these tour hurlers.
3. Who was the last left-handed pitcher to win 25 or more games in a season: Steve Carlton, Frank Viola, Ron Guidry or Randy Johnson?
4. True or False. David Cone is the only pitcher in major league history to post a 20-win season for both the New York Mets and New York Yankees?
5. The last time a National League team had three 20-game winners on its pitching staff was in 1923 when Doll Luque, Pete Donohue and Eppa Rixey each won 20 or more games for which club: Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers or New York Giants?
6. Since 1958 when they moved to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have had 11 different 20-game winners. Claude Osteen accomplished the feat for LA in 1969 and 1972. Collect one point for each of the other ten 20-game winners the Dodgers have had while playing in Los Angeles.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Baseball quick quiz.