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.