Baseball Trivia Questions
Q: What major league baseball team is sometimes dubbed "The
Fish"?
A: The Florida Marlins.
Whose ceremonial pitch to open the
1940 baseball season smashed
into the camera lens of a Washington Post photographer?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt's.
Q: Who homered in his third straight game on the day he beat Lou
Gehrig's record for consecutive games?
A: Cal Ripken Jr.
Q: What two Yankees did 17-year-old female Jackie Mitchell strike
out successively in 1931?
A: Babe Ruth and
Lou Gehrig.
Q: 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"?
A: Bob Uecker.
Q: What pitcher was taken out of his major league debut in the
seventh inning for a pinch hitter named Duffy Lewis, in
1914?
A: Babe Ruth.
Q: What did Chris Sabo shower the field with when his bat broke
in a July 31,1996
game?
A: Cork.
Q: Whose record did Reggie Jackson tie when he spanked three home
runs in a World Series game?
A: Babe Ruth's.
Q: What American League baseball team plays home games in a
stadium nicknamed " the Big A"?
A: The California Angels.
Q: What National Leaguer went longest between MVP seasons,
winning in 1954 and
1965?
A: Willie Mays.
Q: How many intentional walks did Roger Maris, batting
ahead of Micky Mantle, get in his 61 home run season in
1961?
A: Zero.
Q: What Cy Young Award winner continued to hurl for a
prison team called the Detroit Dennys?
A: Denny McLain.
Q: What catcher, asked during
spring training what his hat size
was, answered: "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet"?
A: Yogi Berra.
Q: Who was the National League home run
king in half the seasons
of the 1980's?
A: Mike Schmidt.
Q: What Phillies slugger, upon seeing Lake
Michigan for the first
time, asked: "What ocean is that"?
A: John Kruk
Q: What Yankees manager explained: "In a short series good
pitching will always beat good hitting -- and vice versa"?
A: Casey Stengel.
Q: Who's major league baseball's career
leader in total
bases?
A: Hank Aaron.
Q: Who signed with the Yankees in 1980 for over twice the amount
George Steinbrenner paid for the franchise?
A: Dave Winfield.
Q: What high-living Yankee slugger's roommate noted: "I don't
room with him. I room with his suitcase"?
A: Babe Ruth's.
Q: What slugger received 900,000 letters in the first six months
of 1974?
A: Hank Aaron.
Q: What major league baseball team had an Internet home page in
English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin in
1996?
A: The Los Angeles Dodgers.
Q: What baseball team has lost the World Series a record 12
times?
A: The Dodgers.
Q: Who has the best won-lost percentage of any pitcher with
15 or more wins against the New York Yankees?
A: Babe Ruth.
Q: Who was pitching when pitcher Joe Niekro smacked his only
homer, in 1976?
A: Phil Niekro.
Q: What 60 year old gave up one hit in three innings of work
against the Red Sox in 1965?
A: Satchel Paige.
Q: What pitcher set a record in
1977 for most walks in a post
World War II season, with 201?
A: Nolan Ryan.
