Baseball Trivia I

[korme]

1. Who won the 1956 World Series?

The New York Yankees [ScottVib]

2. Who gave up Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World?"

Ralph Branca [ScottVib]

3. Who were the first 5 players inducted into the hall of fame?

Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Christy Matthewson [ScottVib]
Walter Johnson [vtbub]

4. Yaz won the Triple Crown in 1967. Who won a year earlier in '66?

Frank Robinson [ScottVib]

5. In 1971 Vida Blue struck out 301 batters, but didn't lead the league. Who did?

Mickey Lolich [Radii]

6. What major league player was hit by a pitch and died?

Ray Chapman [KSyrup]

7. Who hit the first inside-the-park home run (in Yankee Stadium) in World Series history?

Casey Stengel [KSyrup]

8. On April 8,1974 Hank Aaron hit his 715th homerun in a game, against who?

Al Downing [KSyrup]

9. On October 8th,1956 Don Larsen pitched a no-hitter in the World Series. What game of the series was it?

Game 5 [ScottVib]

10. Before Rickey Henderson, who was the all-time stolen base leader?

Lou Brock [ScottVib]


The Leaderboard
1. ScottVib - 5.8
2. KSyrup - 3.0
3. Radii - 1.0
4. vtbub - 0.2

I plan to keep something like this up, so this will be an All-Time Leaderboard.

[The Afoci]

10. maury wills sp?

[korme]

10. maury wills sp?

Incorrect.

[ScottVib]

1) Yankees
2) Ralph Branca
3) Ruth, Wagner, Young, Cobb, Matthewson
4) F. Robinson

6) Cochrane


9) Game 6
10) Lou Brock

[Ksyrup]

10 is Cobb.

[Ksyrup]

8 is Al (?) Downing

[Ksyrup]

6 is Ray Chapman. Hit on my birthday (years earlier), died the next morning.

[korme]

Originally posted by ScottVib
1) Yankees
2) Ralph Branca
3) Ruth, Wagner, Young, Cobb, Matthewson
4) F. Robinson

6) Cochrane


9) Game 6
10) Lou Brock

1. Correct.

2. Correct.

3. 4/5 Correct. Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Christy Matthewson and ___ all made it in the first year of the Hall, 1936. Cy Young did not make it in the first time around. Someone else did.

4. Incorrect.

6. Incorrect.

9. Incorrect.

10. Correct.

[ScottVib]

I stand by my guess on #10; but I think that Ksyrup is right with #6... I knew it started with a C


Shorty are you sure #4's wrong... I was pretty confident about that one.

[ScottVib]

9) Game 5 (knew it was one or the other.)

[Ksyrup]

Yeah, Brock is right. I thought brock was called wrong, so Cobb was my next guess.

But who can forget Rickey's speech:

"Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest."

Or something like that - right in front of Brock, too!

[korme]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
10 is Cobb.

Cobb is 4th All-Time.

Maury Wills was a good guess by The Afoci, but he held the all-time single-season record until the correct answer, Lou Brock (by Scott) beat that.

Originally posted by Ksyrup
6 is Ray Chapman. Hit on my birthday (years earlier), died the next morning.

Correct!

Originally posted by Ksyrup
8 is Al (?) Downing

Correct!!

Originally posted by ScottVib
9) Game 5 (knew it was one or the other.)

Righto!

[vtbub]

Frank Robinson WAS the triple crown winner of 1966.

Walter Johnson the 5th HOF?

[Radii]

#5 is Micky Lolich.

Is #3 Cap Anson? Total Guess...

[korme]

Originally posted by vtbub
Frank Robinson WAS the triple crown winner of 1966.

Walter Johnson the 5th HOF?

This is correct about Frank. I remember Scott answered F. Robinson, and I was thinking he answered something else... don't know how!

My fault, Scottster!

Walter Johnson is correct vtbub. :)

[korme]

Originally posted by Radii
#5 is Micky Lolich.

Is #3 Cap Anson? Total Guess...

Correct, Radii is on the board!

Walter Johnson was #5, not Cap.

[korme]

#7 is the only question remaining in Baseball Trivia I.

[ScottVib]

Ahh.. Johnson, I should have had that one... oh well. Don't worry about #4 Shorty... I thought I was right.. but I wasn't 100% on that one, thought I might have been off by a couple of years or something.

[Radii]

Is #7 DiMaggio? Random guess again!

[Ksyrup]

7 is Casey Stengel. Not only an inside-the-parker, but the 1st WS HR at Yankee Stadium!

[ScottVib]

7) Mantle?

Edit - He's probably too recent.. but figured I'd take a shot at it.

[korme]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
7 is Casey Stengel. Not only an inside-the-parker, but the 1st WS HR at Yankee Stadium!

Mighty Casey is correct!

I'll get a set of 10 questions up in a bit.