Tough Major League Baseball Trivia

91. Which Mets pitcher in 1970, set a Major League record for striking out 10 consecutive batters in a game?

From Quiz Baseball All Mixed Up

Answer: Tom Seaver

The others never pitched for the Mets. April 1970 saw 'Tom Terrific' fan 19 San Diego Padres. His consecutive 10 broke the record of 9 by Mickey Welch of Philadelphia Athletics in 1884. Seaver went 20-10 with 289 strikeouts in 1970.

From Quiz Home Run Derby Winners

Answer: Tino Martinez, NYY

In 1997, it was Tino Martinez who won by defeating Larry Walker in the finals.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of Ty Cobb

Answer: Louisville Colonels

The Louisville Colonels were part of the American Association from 1882-91, and the National League from 1892-99. In 1900, the National League contracted from 12 teams to 8, merging the Louisville and Pittsburgh franchises. Jack Chesbro was traded by minor league Richmond Bluebirds in July 1899 to Pittsburgh, who traded him in December 1899 to Louisville ... but he and Wagner both went to Pittsburgh when Louisville merged with the Pirates.

From Quiz Baseball Bits and Pieces

Answer: Rodrigo Lopez

The others were all National League pitchers, and all won 16 games in 2006. Lopez the Oriole, went 9-18 in his sixth season in the Major League. Ironically, he tied his career high of 136 strikeouts in 2006. In 2005, he went 15-12.

From Quiz Major League Baseball: Pt 2

Answer: Rally Monkey

Angels fans also used thousands of thunderstix to create a deafening noise. They won the World Series against the Giants.

From Quiz Electro-Shock Baseball: Treatment 5

Answer: Babe Ruth

Babe did his with the well-known Yankees. He also in his final and only season in the National League in 1935 with the Boston Braves, hit three again on May 25 at Forbes Field. In 1961, Yankee Roger Maris broke the Babe's season record of 60, then 13 years later, Hank Aaron broke Ruth's career record of 714.

From Quiz Electro-Shock Baseball: Treament 3

Answer: George Brett

Brett played all his 21 seasons with Kansas City from 1973-1993. His batting titles came in 1976, 1980, and 1990. He was the first player to win the title in three different decades. In 1990, he won the title by hitting .329, just .004 over Rickey Henderson of the Athletics. George was a 1999 Hall of Fame inductee with 98% of the vote. Nolan Ryan was also inducted in 1999 with 99% of the vote.

From Quiz Grab Bag Baseball

Answer: Ted Williams

The others listed never played in the American League, didn't have a hit in the game, and their NL team was shutout. Williams' first shot came off Kirby Higbe of the Dodgers, and the second was dished up by Rip Sewell of the Pirates. Williams tied or set five records in the 1946 all-star game.

From Quiz Baseball, Here to Stay

Answer: Steve Carlton

Carlton sat behind Nolan Ryan in second for a number of years, 5714-4136, until Clemens then Johnson bumped him down the list. Carlton was the second pitcher in history to throw 4000 strikeouts, second to Ryan.

From Quiz Baseball Challenges

Answer: Tom Seaver

In his third season in the big leagues and the Mets in 1969, Tom went 25-7. He won the Cy Young Award for his efforts. Seaver had previously won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1967.

From Quiz Major League Hardcore

Answer: Ralph Houk

Both Mack and Lasorda never played for the Yankees, and Pepitone never managed. Houk, who played in the pinstripes from 1947-1954, began his managerial career with the Yankees from 1961-1963, then again from 1966-1973. He then packed his manager's hat and helmed the Tigers from 1974-1978. Then it was on to Boston from 1981-1984. Houk led his team to three World Series appearances, all Yankees in his first three seasons of managing, winning two of them.

From Quiz Who Knows Baseball?

Answer: Johnny Bench

Bench played for the Cincinnati Reds his entire career of 17 seasons. He won the Rookie of the Year in 1968, and his MVPs came in 1970 and 1972. His 389 career home runs led all catchers when he retired in 1983. He was a Hall of Fame inductee in 1989.

From Quiz Easy as 1, 2, 3?

Answer: 0

The Cy Young Award was named after Denton True 'Cy' Young. He retired in 1911, and his first award was given out in 1956. The award was given out to the most outstanding pitchers in baseball. Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the first recepient. Young won a career high 511 games, the first to even reach the 400 win plateau.

From Quiz Major League Resumes

Answer: Danny Ainge

Before pounding the parquet floor in the 'Gah-din', Ainge was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1977, spending three seasons in the majors with the Jays (1979-80-81). In 211 games, he batted .220, with two HRs, 37 RBIs, 57 runs scored and 12 SBs. After winning the Wooden Award as a member of the Brigham Young University team in 1981, Ainge hung up his baseball cleats for good, trading them in for a pair of sneakers, and Boston fans were glad of it. Ainge spent the first seven-plus seasons of his career (1982-95) wearing the green and white of the Celtics, helping them to three NBA titles. He was the second player in NBA history to make 900 career three-pointers (he finished with 1,002) and led the league in three-pointers in 1988. Did you know Ainge played on the same high school football team with Detroit Pistons star Joe Dumars?

From Quiz A Blurb of Baseball #1

Answer: Willie Stargell

Stargell played 21 years in the majors batting .282 with 475 homers, and 1,540 RBI. He spent his entire career as a Pitsburgh Pirate.

From Quiz Find the Missing Link

Answer: Jimmy Rosario

Rosario played with the 1972 Giants with Willie, then the 1976 Milwaukee Brewers with Aaron. This was Aaron's final season, who retired with 755 home runs. Rosario played only three seasons in the big leagues, 1971, 1972, and 1976.

From Quiz Baseball IQ Shake Up

Answer: Sandy Koufax

Koufax of the Dodgers threw them from 1962-1965, with the latter being a perfect game against the Cubs. Ryan threw a total of seven no-hitters in his career. The first player to ever throw three was Bob Feller of the Indians in 1940, 1946, and 1951.

From Quiz Baseball Fun

Answer: No No Nanette

Harry Frazee owned the Boston Red Sox and sold Babe Ruth's contract to the New York Yankees in 1919. It is rumored that the contract was sold to finance this musical, although it most likely that Babe Ruth's contract sale was an unrelated business transaction.

From Quiz Various Baseball

Answer: Ron Herbel

Giants pitcher Ron Herbel had a career average of .029.

From Quiz Baseball Potpourri No.2

Answer: Andy Hawkins

Hawkins threw his gem, in which he lost 4-0 for the Yankees against the White Sox, on July 1, 1990. A bases-loaded error on a fly ball at the warning track let three runs score with two outs.

From Quiz Baseball Mixtures

Answer: 5

Unique to baseball, there were 5 sluggers who reached the 25 mark. Magglio Ordonez led the club with 38, followed by the DH Frank Thomas with 28, Paul Konerko with 27, Carlos Lee with 26, and Jose Valentin had 25. The White Sox could only muster a 81-81 record with all these sluggers.

From Quiz Baseball Mix #28

Answer: Joe DiMaggio

DiMaggio started his tear in the Major Leagues in 1936, by hitting 29 home runs as a rookie, and was 8th in MVP voting for the season. The following season he was runner-up MVP. Amongst his collection of milestones, he won 3 MVP Awards, all as a Yankee.

From Quiz Miscellaneous Baseball

Answer: 0

The most home runs Aaron hit in a season were 47 in 1971.

From Quiz Baseball Potpourri

Answer: Honus Wagner

Wagner was also lesser known as "Death to flying things". He was a great shortstop for the Pirates during the early 20th century, also chewed used tobacco.

From Quiz Baseball Mixture

Answer: Denny Mclain

Mclain later began a pitching career in the Michigan penal system.

From Quiz Baseball for Dessert

Answer: The players were watching Wheel of Fortune

Lanier was the manager of Houston. He was tired of his players skipping infield practice before a game to watch Wheel of Fortune on television. Maybe Lanier didn't like Vanna White, or he could never solve the puzzles himself?

From Quiz Baseball for You

Answer: Joe Jackson

Shoeless Joe did it in 1911 for the Cleveland Indians. He played in limited duty for 3 seasons prior in and out of baseball and 1911 was his official rookie year. He batted .408 with 83 RBIs and 233 hits.

From Quiz No Dummies Baseball

Answer: Brooklyn Dodgers

The Babe coached the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938. His goal was always to manage a team, but that opportunity never came.

From Quiz Ultimate Baseball

Answer: mets & Mets & New York Mets & new york mets & The New York Mets & ny mets & new york metropolitans

It was their second WS title.

From Quiz Baseball Facts

Answer: Barry Bonds & Bonds

In 2001 Bonds hit 73 home runs, 156 hits, and had a batting average of .328.

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