MLB Baseball Trivia for Kids
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50 free MLB Baseball Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This MLB baseball trivia for kids quiz is written for young fans aged about 7 to 12, and for the parents, coaches and teachers who quiz them. It covers how the game works (innings, strikes, walks, home runs and grand slams), the teams and ballparks every kid hears about (the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cubs, Fenway and Wrigley), the heroes of the past and present (Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Derek Jeter, Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge), plus the fun stuff: mascots, the seventh-inning stretch, Cracker Jack, Little League and what is actually inside a baseball. Every question is one a young fan can get right or learn from, and each answer comes with a short fact worth repeating at the ballpark. There is nothing here about salaries or scandals. It works for a team bus ride, a rain delay, a classroom or a birthday party. All the answers were checked against Wikipedia and MLB records, so grown-ups can read them out with confidence. All 50 questions are free with no sign-up. Older fans can move up to our main MLB Baseball trivia page or the Hard MLB Baseball quiz.
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Q 01How many teams play in Major League Baseball?
30
30 teams, 15 in the National League and 15 in the American League. In 2013 the Houston Astros switched leagues so that each one would have the same number.
Q 02How many players does each baseball team have on the field at once?
Nine
Nine: a pitcher, a catcher, four infielders and three outfielders. That is why a baseball team is sometimes simply called a nine.
Q 03What happens if a Major League game is still tied after the ninth inning?
They keep playing extra frames
They keep playing extra frames, called extra innings, until one team is ahead when an inning ends. Since 2020 each extra inning of a regular-season game has started with a runner already on second base.
Q 04How many outs does the fielding team need to end the other team's turn at bat?
Three
Three. Each team bats until it makes three outs, so the winners of a nine-inning game have to collect 27 outs in all.
Q 05What is the umpire's call when a batter swings and misses, or lets a good pitch go by?
A strike
A strike. A foul ball counts as a strike too, but an ordinary foul can never be the third one that puts the batter out.
Q 06If the pitcher throws four balls to a batter, what happens?
A free walk to first base
A free walk to first base, also called a base on balls. Since 2017 a team that wants to walk a batter on purpose can simply signal from the dugout, with no pitches thrown.
Q 07A home run with runners on every base is called what?
A grand slam
A grand slam scores four runs, the most possible on one hit. Don Mattingly hit a record six in 1987, and they were the only grand slams of his whole career.
Q 08How far apart are the bases on a Major League field?
90 feet
90 feet. The four bases mark the corners of a square, so a batter who hits a home run jogs 360 feet to get all the way back to home plate.
Q 09In Major League Baseball, what is a soft tap of the ball made without swinging the bat called?
A bunt
A bunt. Batters sometimes bunt knowing they will be thrown out, a sacrifice that lets a teammate move up a base.
Q 10What colour is the thread that stitches a baseball together?
Red
Red. Every ball is still sewn by hand with 108 stitches of waxed red thread, because machines have never managed to do the job properly.
Q 11What nickname do fans give the World Series, baseball's championship?
The Fall Classic
The Fall Classic. The series normally belongs to October, but in 2001, after a delayed season, a game ran past midnight on October 31 and the stadium scoreboard flashed 'Welcome to November Baseball'.
Q 12What stopped the 1904 World Series from being played?
A boycott
A boycott. The Giants refused to play, their owner dismissing the new American League as inferior, and the only other year without a Series was 1994, when a dispute between players and owners cut the season short.
Q 13Which part of New York City is home to the Yankees, winners of the most World Series titles?
The Bronx
Q 21How many home runs did the Bambino hit in 1927, a record that stood for decades?
60
60, a record that stood for 34 years. Pitchers could not just walk him to stay out of trouble, because the equally feared Lou Gehrig batted next.
Q 22Which team went 86 years without a title after selling its star, 'the Bambino', to the Yankees?
The Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox. Fans called it the Curse of the Bambino, and it ended in 2004, when Boston beat the Yankees after losing the first three games of their playoff series.
Q 23Who became the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, in 1947?
Jackie Robinson
The Bronx, which is why they are called the Bronx Bombers. They began in Manhattan as the New York Highlanders and only became the Yankees in 1913.
Q 14Which is the only Major League team based outside the United States?
The Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays have been the only one since 2005, when the Montreal Expos moved to the US capital and became the Washington Nationals.
Q 15Where did the Dodgers play before they moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn. The Dodgers won just one World Series there, in 1955, after losing to the Yankees in all five of their earlier meetings.
Q 16Which ballpark, opened in 1912, is the oldest still used in the Major Leagues?
Fenway Park
Fenway Park in Boston. It is so old-fashioned that the scoreboard in left field is still changed by hand.
Q 17What is the nickname of the left-field landmark at Boston's ballpark?
The Green Monster
The Green Monster is a wall just over 37 feet high. It was not painted green until 1947; before that it was covered in advertisements.
Q 18Which big-league ballpark has ivy growing all over its brick outfield wall?
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field. The ivy was planted in 1937, and when a batted ball gets stuck in the leaves the hitter is given a double.
Q 19Which team ended a 108-year wait for a World Series title in 2016?
The Cubs
The Cubs. They ended the longest title wait in big American sports by coming back from 3-1 down to beat Cleveland in seven games.
Q 20Which famous slugger was nicknamed 'the Bambino' and 'the Sultan of Swat'?
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth began as a star pitcher and won 94 games on the mound in his career, most of them before he switched to hitting home runs full time.
Jackie Robinson took the field for the Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and won the first Rookie of the Year award, a prize that has carried his name since 1987.
Q 24Which uniform number is retired by every Major League team in honour of the man who broke baseball's colour line?
Number 42
Number 42 was retired across baseball in 1997, yet every April 15 every player on every team wears it for a day.
Q 25Which Braves slugger passed the Bambino's career home run record in 1974?
Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron. He finished with 755 home runs without ever hitting 50 in a season; his best year was 47.
Q 26Which 'Iron Man' broke Lou Gehrig's record by playing 2,632 games in a row?
Cal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr. He did not miss a game for more than 16 years, and the streak ended in 1998 only because he chose to sit one out.
Q 27Which Yankees shortstop, nicknamed 'the Captain', fell one vote short of a unanimous Hall of Fame election?
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter got 396 of 397 votes in 2020, a year after his old teammate Mariano Rivera became the first player ever elected unanimously.
Q 28Shohei Ohtani is a 'two-way player', which means what?
He is a star pitcher and a star hitter
He is a star pitcher and a star hitter. In 2022 the league even changed a rule, nicknamed the Ohtani rule, so that he could keep batting after his pitching was done.
Q 29Which country is Shohei Ohtani from?
Japan
Japan. He wanted to join an American team straight from high school, but the Nippon-Ham Fighters drafted him anyway and he stayed for five seasons.
Q 30Which Yankees slugger set an American League record with 62 home runs in 2022?
Aaron Judge
Aaron Judge. Before that season the Yankees offered him a $213.5 million extension and the two sides could not agree; after it they signed him for $360 million.