Gold Glove Award
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50 free Gold Glove Award trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Gold Glove is baseball's best-known prize for fielding, handed out since 1957 to the top defender at each position in both leagues. It rewards the part of the game that rarely shows up in a box score: range, hands, arm and nerve. This quiz covers the award from both ends. One group of questions looks at the 2020 winners, chosen in an unusual way after a 60-game season, including the rookies and first-timers who broke through that year. The rest takes in the record holders and long streaks at every position, the voting rules and their controversies, the trophy itself, and the newer honors that have grown up around it. It is written for baseball fans of any era, with plenty of household names up front and a few deep cuts for people who can still picture the plays. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you leave with a story even when you miss.
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Q 01Which New York Yankees shortstop won his first Gold Glove after a 2004 dive into the stands?
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter cut his chin and bruised his face on that July dive against Boston, and the catch was cited as a reason when he was given the first of his five awards.
Q 02Which pitcher won a record 18 Gold Gloves, including 13 in a row in the National League?
Greg Maddux
Greg Maddux also retired with the most career putouts by a pitcher. After one miss in 2003 he won five more in a row, the last in 2008, his final season.
Q 03Which Giants center fielder won a Gold Glove in each of the award's first 12 years, from 1957?
Willie Mays
Willie Mays had made his famous over-the-shoulder World Series catch three years before the award existed. His 12 wins remain the outfield record, shared with one other man.
Q 04Which shortstop, known for his backflips and called the Wizard, won 13 straight Gold Gloves?
Ozzie Smith
Ozzie Smith won his first two in San Diego before a 1982 trade to St. Louis, and in 2012 he sold all 13 trophies at auction for more than $500,000.
Q 05Which Seattle Mariners right fielder won a Gold Glove in each of his first 10 major league seasons?
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki arrived from Japan having already won seven straight Golden Gloves there, so his run of fielding awards stretched to 17 years across two countries.
Q 06Which Orioles third baseman, nicknamed the Human Vacuum Cleaner, won 16 straight Gold Gloves?
Brooks Robinson
Brooks Robinson won one every year from 1960 to 1975, the most by any position player, and his fielding in the 1970 World Series earned him the Series MVP award.
Q 07Which right fielder won a 2020 Gold Glove in his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers?
Mookie Betts
Mookie Betts had won four straight in the American League with Boston, so a February 2020 trade made him a winner in both leagues without missing a year.
Q 08Which glove maker, founded in St. Louis in 1887, created the Gold Glove Award in 1957?
Rawlings
Rawlings was owned by its rival Spalding when it launched the award, and in 2018 Major League Baseball itself bought a stake in the company.
Q 09Which Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder won 12 straight Gold Gloves through 1972, his final season?
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente said throwing the javelin as a schoolboy strengthened his arm, and he recorded 27 outfield assists in the first of those seasons.
Q 10Which Cincinnati Reds catcher won 10 straight Gold Gloves, the first of them as a rookie in 1968?
Johnny Bench
Johnny Bench was 20 when he became the first rookie catcher to win the award. No Reds catcher won it again until Tucker Barnhart in 2017, 40 years after that streak ended.
Q 11Which club won the first American League team Gold Glove when the honor was introduced in 2020?
Cleveland Indians
The Cleveland Indians led the league with 27 runs saved in the field, three more than second-place Tampa Bay, and two of their players won individual awards that year.
Q 12Which Kansas City Royals left fielder won a 2020 Gold Glove and Platinum Glove in his final season?
Alex Gordon
Alex Gordon had been sent to the minors in 2010 and moved off third base, then won all eight of his awards as an outfielder, the last in a season without an error.
Q 13Which Cuban-born Chicago center fielder won an American League Gold Glove as a rookie in 2020?
Luis Robert
Q 21Which fielding metric alone decided the 2020 Gold Glove winners after the shortened season?
SABR Defensive Index
The SABR Defensive Index, a blend of five fielding statistics, normally counts for about a quarter of the result, but after a 60-game season it picked the winners by itself.
Q 22Which catcher nicknamed Pudge won a record 13 Gold Gloves at the position, 10 with the Texas Rangers?
Iván Rodríguez
Iván Rodríguez became a catcher at age eight because his father, who coached him, thought his pitching was scaring opposing players. His first 10 awards came in consecutive seasons.
Q 23Which Seattle Mariners center fielder won 10 straight Gold Gloves from 1990 to 1999?
Ken Griffey Jr.
Luis Robert had played his first major league game only that July, and he finished second to Seattle's Kyle Lewis in the Rookie of the Year voting.
Q 14Which Seattle Mariners rookie won the 2020 American League Gold Glove at first base?
Evan White
Evan White had signed a six-year contract before playing a single major league game, then made his debut on Opening Day in July 2020.
Q 15Which Atlanta Braves left-hander won a 2020 Gold Glove at pitcher, the first of three in a row?
Max Fried
Max Fried added the batting award for pitchers a year later, making him only the third pitcher to win both honors in the same season.
Q 16Which Chicago Cubs shortstop, nicknamed El Mago, won his first Gold Glove in 2020?
Javier Báez
Javier Báez ranked third among major league shortstops with seven runs saved, and his club took the National League's first team award the same year.
Q 17Which St. Louis Cardinals second baseman from Hawaii won his second straight Gold Glove in 2020?
Kolten Wong
Kolten Wong made only two errors in the 60-game season, the fewest by any National League winner at his position.
Q 18Which Texas Rangers right fielder won his first Gold Glove in 2020 and another a year later?
Joey Gallo
Joey Gallo saved 12 runs in only 53 starts in right field in 2020, the highest figure for any right fielder in the majors.
Q 19Which third baseman won a Gold Glove in each of his first 10 seasons, eight of them with Colorado?
Nolan Arenado
Nolan Arenado is the only infielder to open a career that way, and in 2020 he was also named his league's Platinum Glove winner for the fourth year running.
Q 20Which St. Louis Cardinals catcher won nine Gold Gloves and the first NL Platinum Glove in 2011?
Yadier Molina
Yadier Molina is not the only winner in his family: older brother Bengie, also a catcher, won two, giving the brothers 11 between them.
Ken Griffey Jr. made a habit of leaping at the wall to pull home runs back into play, and in 2007 fans voted him onto the all-time team for the award's first 50 years.
Q 24Which New York Yankees first baseman won nine Gold Gloves between 1985 and 1994?
Don Mattingly
Don Mattingly won his first in 1985, the year he was also the American League's Most Valuable Player, and his nine are a league record for a first baseman.
Q 25Which honor for the best hitter at each position is the offensive counterpart to the Gold Glove?
Silver Slugger Award
The Silver Slugger Award is a three-foot trophy shaped like a bat and plated in sterling, presented by the company that makes Louisville Slugger bats.
Q 26Who votes on the Gold Glove position awards in each league?
Managers and coaches
Managers and coaches decide most of the result, with fielding statistics counting for about a quarter. In 2020 the shortened season left them out and the numbers chose alone.
Q 27From 2016 to 2019, a Gold Glove also went each year to one professional player in which other sport?
Softball
Softball got its own winner when the award was extended to the women's National Pro Fastpitch league, and outfielder AJ Andrews of the Akron Racers was the first.
Q 28Which Philadelphia Phillies third baseman won 10 Gold Gloves and also hit 548 career home runs?
Mike Schmidt
Mike Schmidt is the only infielder to pair 10 of the fielding awards with at least 500 home runs; the two other players to do it were outfielders.
Q 29Which first baseman won 11 straight Gold Gloves from 1978 to 1988 with the Cardinals and Mets?
Keith Hernandez
Keith Hernandez took his first away from the perennial winner Steve Garvey, and his 11 are the most ever won at first base.
Q 30Which Chicago Cubs second baseman won nine straight Gold Gloves from 1983 to 1991?
Ryne Sandberg
Ryne Sandberg won the first of them in his very first season at second base, having reached the majors with Philadelphia as a shortstop.