Miami Marlins Trivia
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59 free Miami Marlins trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Miami Marlins trivia quiz covers the strangest résumé in baseball: a franchise with the fewest playoff trips of any club, yet two World Series rings, both won as a wild card and both followed by a fire sale. There are questions on Wayne Huizenga's $95 million expansion fee, Billy the Marlin, Jeff Conine and Charlie Hough, Jim Leyland's 1997 team and Édgar Rentería's Game 7 single, the coldest World Series game ever played, the Loria-Henry ownership swap, Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera, Jack McKeon, the Bartman game, Josh Beckett at Yankee Stadium, Giancarlo Stanton's MVP, José Fernández, Kim Ng, Sandy Alcantara and Derek Jeter. The ballpark and identity get a round too: the move from Joe Robbie Stadium to the Orange Bowl site, the retractable roof and the aquarium backstop, the Red Grooms sculpture, the teal-to-orange-to-red rebrands and the Cuban Sugar Kings City Connect look. Easy questions suit any Marlins fan; the hard ones are for people who remember Carl Barger's No. 5. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Which expansion team began play alongside the Marlins in 1993?
Colorado Rockies
Colorado Rockies fans saw the playoffs first, in 1995, but the Marlins won the World Series two years later, in only their fifth season.
Q 02Which Blockbuster Video chief executive paid the $95M expansion fee to found the Marlins?
Wayne Huizenga
Wayne Huizenga said his 1997 champions had lost $34 million and ordered the roster broken up within weeks. A year later the Marlins had the worst record in the National League.
Q 03Which two Florida regions lost out to Miami in the 1991 bidding for a National League expansion team?
Orlando and Tampa Bay
Orlando and Tampa Bay both reached the final six, and St. Petersburg already had a finished dome standing empty. It waited until 1998 for the Devil Rays.
Q 04The Marlins originally shared which venue with the NFL's Miami Dolphins?
Joe Robbie Stadium
Joe Robbie Stadium was built for football, but the Dolphins' owner insisted on a layout wide enough for a diamond, betting baseball would come to Miami. He died in 1990, three years before the Marlins' first pitch.
Q 05The Marlins had to swap Florida for Miami in their name as a condition of what?
Using the county-owned new ballpark
Using the county-owned new ballpark came with strings: the city and Miami-Dade helped pay for it, so the funding deal put Miami's name on the team. The new name and colours were unveiled in November 2011.
Q 06Which team swept the Marlins out of the 2023 postseason in the opening round?
Philadelphia Phillies
Philadelphia Phillies pitching needed only two games. Miami had been outscored by 57 runs over the season and still won 84 games to reach October.
Q 07The Marlins were the first team ever to win the World Series as what?
A wild card
A wild card had never won it all before 1997. The Marlins finished nine games behind Atlanta in their division, then beat the Braves in the NLCS anyway.
Q 08Who was the only player to appear for the Marlins in both the 1997 and 2003 World Series?
Jeff Conine
Jeff Conine, known as Mr. Marlin, was traded away in the sell-off after the 1997 title. The club got him back from Baltimore on the last day of August 2003, just in time for another ring.
Q 09Who started the Marlins' first regular-season game, a win over the Dodgers on April 5, 1993?
Charlie Hough
Charlie Hough was 45 and threw a knuckleball. He struck out the first two Dodgers looking, facing the club that had drafted him back in 1966.
Q 10Which veteran collected his 3,000th major league hit in a Marlins uniform in 2016?
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki got there with a triple at Coors Field, aged 42. He had not played a big league game until he was 27, after 1,278 hits in Japan.
Q 11In 1993 the Marlins traded which young reliever to get slugger Gary Sheffield?
Trevor Hoffman
Trevor Hoffman was a converted shortstop with two big league saves when Florida sent him to San Diego that June. He retired with 601.
Q 12Which manager led the Marlins to the 1997 title in his first season with the club?
Jim Leyland
Jim Leyland had managed Pittsburgh for 11 seasons without reaching a World Series. A year after the parade his stripped-down Marlins lost 108 games and he resigned.
Q 13Which Marlin won the 2023 National League batting title with a .354 average?
Luis Arráez
Luis Arráez had just won the American League batting title when Minnesota traded him to Miami for pitching that January. He answered by winning the other league's title as well.
Q 21Which Marlin hit the foul pop that Steve Bartman reached for in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS?
Luis Castillo
Luis Castillo walked on the very next pitch, a wild one, and the inning came apart. Twelve Marlins batted and eight scored before Castillo himself popped up for the third out.
Q 22Who was named MVP of the 2003 World Series after a five-hit shutout in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium?
Josh Beckett
Josh Beckett was 23 and pitching on three days' rest. He ended it himself, fielding the last grounder and tagging the runner for the final out.
Q 23Which 72-year-old came out of retirement in May 2003 and managed the Marlins to a title?
Jack McKeon
Q 14Who managed the Marlins for seven seasons from 2016, the longest run in club history?
Don Mattingly
Don Mattingly was named NL Manager of the Year in 2020, after a virus outbreak shut his club down for a week and a patched-up roster still reached the playoffs.
Q 15Whose bases-loaded single in the 11th inning won Game 7 of the 1997 World Series?
Édgar Rentería
Édgar Rentería's two-out single ended it. In 2010 he did it again, hitting the home run that won the clinching game of the World Series for San Francisco.
Q 16What weather greeted the Marlins at batting practice before Game 4 of the 1997 World Series?
Snow
Snow flurries fell that night, and Florida's rookie starter gave up six runs and left without an out in the third inning of a 10-3 loss. Four days later the Marlins won the title at home.
Q 17Which high-kicking Marlins rookie went 11-2 in his first 17 starts in 2003 and won NL Rookie of the Year?
Dontrelle Willis
Dontrelle Willis, the D-Train, was pitching in Double-A until May and twisted away from hitters with every pitch. Two years later he led the majors with 22 wins.
Q 18Six Marlins drew votes for 2006 NL Rookie of the Year, but which of them won it?
Hanley Ramírez
Hanley Ramírez stole 51 bases that year, months after arriving as a prospect in a payroll-cutting trade. Three years later he won the NL batting title at .342.
Q 19Which catcher signed with the Marlins as a free agent for the 2003 season?
Iván Rodríguez
Iván Rodríguez ended that year's Division Series by holding on to the ball as a Giants runner crashed into him at the plate. 'Pudge' left for Detroit after one season, with a ring.
Q 20The Marlins came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat which team in the 2003 NLCS?
Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cubs fans were five outs from a first pennant since 1945 when Florida scored eight runs in the eighth inning of Game 6. The Marlins then won Game 7 at Wrigley Field too.
Jack McKeon took over a 16-22 club, went 75-49 and beat the Yankees, making him the oldest manager to win a World Series until 2022. He came back to manage Florida again at 80.
Q 24Whose extra-inning walk-off homer won Game 4 of the 2003 World Series?
Álex González
Álex González had one hit in 13 at-bats in the Series when he led off the 12th with a drive over the left-field fence. It squared things at two games apiece, and the Marlins never lost again.
Q 25In 2002 Jeffrey Loria bought the Marlins from John Henry in a deal that let Henry buy which team?
Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox ownership was Henry's goal, so baseball let Loria sell the Expos to the other 29 clubs and buy the Marlins for $158 million. Two years on, Henry's new club ended an 86-year title drought.
Q 26Before owning the Marlins, Jeffrey Loria made his fortune in what field?
Art dealing
Art dealing in New York paid for Loria's first club, a Triple-A team in Oklahoma City that he bought in 1989. It won a title in 1992, he sold it a year later and went shopping in the majors.
Q 27The Marlins' ballpark stands on the site of which demolished stadium?
The Miami Orange Bowl
The Miami Orange Bowl is where Joe Namath made good on his guarantee that the underdog Jets would win Super Bowl III. It came down in 2008, and the ballpark rose on the same ground.
Q 28What was built into the backstop walls behind home plate when the Marlins' ballpark opened?
An aquarium
An aquarium stood on each side of home plate, with live tropical fish behind protective panels in case of foul balls. Both tanks were removed after the 2020 season.
Q 29What sprang to life beyond the outfield wall after every Marlins homer when their ballpark opened?
A giant sculpture
A giant sculpture by pop artist Red Grooms spun its marlins, flamingos and seagulls after every Marlins homer. It cost $2.5 million, and new owners later moved it outside to the plaza.
Q 30Which boxing legend was driven onto the field to deliver the first ball at the Marlins' new ballpark in 2012?
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, frail with Parkinson's disease, rode out in a cart beside the club's owner. He had won his first heavyweight title in Miami Beach in 1964.