Baseball Players Anagram Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mark Grace

From 1988-2000, Mark was in a Cubs uniform. At age 38, Grace pitched in one inning as an Arizona Diamondback, giving up one home run. Thus, he retired with a 9.00 ERA as a pitcher. With a bat in his hand, he had a .303 career average.

Answer: Harvey Haddix

May 26, 1959, was a game for controversy. It was not a play in the game, but was the Pirate pitcher who was never credited for throwing a perfecto. In 1995, Expo pitcher Pedro Martinez also threw nine perfect innings, but lost his perfect bid in the 10th when the Padres had a hit.

Answer: Josh Gibson

Josh Gibson was a catcher, and a big hitting catcher at that. He played for the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords throughout his career. Gibson's Grays' teammate Buck Leonard, was also inducted into the hall in 1972, but Gibson's balloting numbers placed him as the first. Pitching great Satchel Paige was also Gibson's teammate on the Grays. Josh died in 1947, ironically the same year that Jackie Robinson broke the Major League baseball color barrier.

Answer: Ernie Banks

Ernie played with the Cubs from 1953-1971. He won consecutive NL MVP titles in 1958 and 1959. The 11-time all-star even won a Gold Glove at shortstop. His career was complete except that he never went to a World Series game. The Hall of Fame took him in 1977. Carl Erskine pitched for the Dodgers from 1948-1959.

Answer: Cy Young

Cy won 511 career games. Along with Young's record-setting career victory numbers came 316 losses also. He retired in 1911, and had the Cy Young award named after him. The award was first presented in 1956.

Answer: Larry Doby

Doby broke the color barrier in the American League in 1947 with the Cleveland Indians. Larry played for five seasons with the Newark Eagles of the Negro League as a second baseman before joining the Major Leagues. He was the AL runner-up for the MVP in 1954. The Hall of Fame took him in 1998.

Answer: Dave Winfield

Winfield also played for the Angels, Blue Jays, Twins, and Indians. He hit over .300 only four times in his career, but was a consistent .283 hitter.

Answer: Mel Ott

Ott debuted just one month after his 17th birthday in 1926. Mel was the third player in baseball history to hit 500 home runs, behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx. He retired in 1947 and was a 1951 Hall of Fame inductee, the same year that some kid named Willie Mays was a rookie with the Giants.

Answer: Lou Brock

Lou Brock stole over 100 bases only once in his career, but stole 938 total. Lou was a part of the 1960s Cardinals who went to three World Series, winning two of them against the 1964 Yankees and the 1967 Red Sox. He experienced his only World Series loss against the Denny McLain led Detroit Tigers in 1968.

The six-time all-star retired in 1979 after 19 seasons, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the minimal six-year wait in 1985.

Answer: Wade Boggs

Boggs and his wife had been noted for writing numerous cook books about chicken dishes. Wade began his career in 1982 with Boston. His finest season was in 1987 when he batted .363, hit 24 home runs, and had 200 hits in the season. Strangely enough, Boggs finished ninth in the season MVP voting behind the winner, George Bell of the Blue Jays. Wade went to a World Series with both Boston and the Yankees, and won a title in 1996 wearing the pinstripes.