Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #110 - National League, Home Runs, Lou Gehrig, Yankees, Innings, Fields, Batting, Hitting and more!

 

Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.

1. Whose ceremonial pitch to open the 1940 baseball season smashed into the camera lens of a Washington Post photographer?
    
2. Who homered in his third straight game on the day he beat Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games?
    
3. What two Yankees did 17-year-old female Jackie Mitchell strike out successively in 1931?
    
4. What slow-footed catcher admitted he used to knock his hat off while running to first base to make it appear he was "really moving"?
    
5. What pitcher was taken out of his major league debut in the seventh inning for a pinch hitter named Duffy Lewis, in 1914?
    
6. What did Chris Sabo shower the field with when his bat broke in a July 31,1996 game?
    
7. Whose record did Reggie Jackson tie when he spanked three home runs in a World Series game?
    
8. What major league baseball team is sometimes dubbed "The Fish"?
    
9. What American League baseball team plays home games in a stadium nicknamed " the Big A"?
    
10. What National Leaguer went longest between MVP seasons, winning in 1954 and 1965?
     
11. How many intentional walks did Roger Maris, batting ahead of  Micky Mantle, get in his 61 home run season in 1961?
     
12. What Cy Young Award winner continued to hurl for a prison team called the Detroit Dennys?
     
13. What catcher, asked during spring training what his hat size was, answered: "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet"?
     
14. Who was the National League home run king in half the seeasons of the 1980's?
     
15. What Phillies slugger, upon seeing Lake Michigan for the firs time, asked: "What ocean is that"?
     
16. What Yankees manager explained: "In a short series good itching will always beat good hitting -- and vice versa"?
     
17. Who's major league baseball's career leader in total bases?
     
18. Who signed with the Yankees in 1980 for over twice the amount George Steinbrenner paid for the franchise?
     
19. What high-living Yankee slugger's roommate noted: "I don't room with him. I room with his suitcase"?
     
20. What slugger received 900,000 letters in the first six months of 1974?
     
21. What major league baseball team had an Internet home page in English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin in 1996?
     
22. What baseball team has lost the World Series a record 12 times?
     
23. Who has the best won-lost percentage of any pitcher with 15 or more wins against the New York Yankees?
     
24. Who was pitching when pitcher Joe Niekro smacked his only homer, in 1976?
     
25. What 60 year old gave up one hit in three innings of work against the Red Sox in 1965?
     
26. What pitcher set a record in 1977 for most walks in a post World War II season, with 201?
     

 

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 110 -  Baseball

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt's.
2. Cal Ripken Jr.
3. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
4. Bob Uecker.
5. Babe Ruth.
6. Cork.
7. Babe Ruth's.
8. The Florida Marlins.
9. The California Angels.
10. Willie Mays. 
11. Zero. 
12. Denny McLain. 
13. Yogi Berra.
14. Mike Schmidt.
15. John Kruk
16. Casey Stengel.
17. Hank Aaron.
18. Dave Winfield.
19. Babe Ruth's.
20. Hank Aaron. 
21. The Los Angeles Dodgers. 
22. The Dodgers. 
23. Babe Ruth. 
24. Phil Niekro.
25. Satchel Paige. 
26. Nolan Ryan.