Thursday, April 14, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #112 Trivia Questions and Answers About Baseball

Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.
  1. What song do baseball fans break into when Mitch Williams steps
    out of the bullpen?
     
  2. Whose 1996 single to center, in his first regular season
    at-bat, was the first hit by a Red Sox pitcher in 24 years?
     
  3. Who was the American League base-stealing champ for nine years
    in the 1980s?
     
  4. Who was the winningest active major league baseball manager
    before he retired in 1996?
     
  5. Which finger on a pitcher's throwing hand controls a curve
    ball and slider?
     
  6. What former Negro League player is the only pitcher in the
    Hall of Fame with a losing major league record?
     
  7. Who was the only pitcher to lead the National League in
    strikeouts three times during the 1980s?
     
  8. What clan consisting of Ray, Bob and Bret became the first
    three-generation family to play major league baseball?
     
  9. Who set a major league record for the fewest errors by a
    shortstop, with three in 1990?
     
  10. Who was the only major leaguer to play at least 500 games with
    each of four teams - Houston, Montréal, New York and Detroit?

  11. Which two cities have ballparks honoring Number 44 above
    the outfield fence?
     
  12. Who returned from a stint in Japan to pound 51 home runs
    in 1990?
     
  13. Who was the only baseballer to lay over 500 games at each of
    five different positions?
     
  14. What former Yankee southpaw explained how to doctor a baseball
    in the 1977 article "Confessions of a Gunkball Artist"?
     
  15. Who has the most wins in Dodgers history-- Don Drysdale, Sandy
    Koufax or Don Sutton?
     
  16. Who led the National League in ERA in each of his last five
    seasons, ending in 1966?
     
  17. What two Yankees were nearly traded to Milwaukee for
    pitcher Warren Spahn and slugger Hank Aaron in 1960?
     
  18. What late, great Dodgers pitcher was known to fans as "Double
    D"?
     
  19. What pitch does a batter face when Dwight Gooden throws his "yacker"?
     
  20. What 50-year old minor league pitcher did 57,000 fans crowd
    the Orange Bowl to watch in 1956?
     
  21. What Nicaraguan-born baseballer was known as "Arriba!" to
    adoring Latin fans?
     
  22. What commissioner of baseball was named after a Civil
    War battle fought in Georgia?
     
  23. What homer hitter is known as "The Big Hurt"?
     
  24. Who was the last graduate of the Negro Leagues to retire from
    major league baseball?
     
  25. What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the
    American Indian Movement?
     
  26. How many home run titles did Roger Maris win?
     
  27. What catcher replaced Mel Allen as TV announcer for the
    Yankees in 1964?
     
  28. What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total
    career runs?
     


Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 112 - Baseball
Trivia

Major league baseball trivia questions and
answers.

  1. Wild Thing
  2. Roger Clemens.
  3. Rickey Henderson
  4. Tommy Lasorda.
  5. The middle.
  6. Satchel Page
  7. Steve Carlton
  8. The Boone Family.
  9. Cal Ripkin Jr.
  10. Rusty Staub 
  11. Atlanta and Milwaukee.
  12. Cecil Fielder 
  13. Pete Rose. 
  14. Whitey Ford
  15. Don Sutton.
  16. Sandy Koufax.
  17. Whity Ford and Mickey Mantle.
  18. Don Drysdale.
  19. A curve ball.
  20. Satchel Page. 
  21. Roberto Clemente.
  22. Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
  23. Frank Thomas. 
  24. Hank Aaron.
  25. The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians. 
  26. One 
  27. Joe Garagiola.
  28. Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.