MLB Baseball Trivia for Seniors
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59 free MLB Baseball Trivia for Seniors trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This MLB baseball trivia for seniors is written for people who remember listening to games on a transistor radio and reading box scores over breakfast. The questions lean on the golden age of the game: Babe Ruth's sale to the Yankees, Jackie Robinson breaking the color line, Willie, Mickey and the Duke, the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn, Koufax sitting out Yom Kippur, Yogi's sayings, Hank Aaron passing 714 and the Big Red Machine. It also covers the culture around the game: 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game', Cracker Jack, the seventh-inning stretch, Abbott and Costello, Harry Caray and Vin Scully, and films like The Pride of the Yankees and Field of Dreams. The questions are meant to spark memories rather than stump anyone. Most are easy to medium, with a handful of harder ones near the end for lifelong fans, and none require knowing anything that happened after the 1990s. It works well read aloud in a group, at a senior center or family gathering. Younger fans who want the record-book version can try our main baseball trivia page (brainpickle.app/quiz/a/baseball). Every answer has been checked against a reference encyclopaedia, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Babe Ruth began his career as a star left-handed pitcher for which team before being sold to the Yankees?
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox had Ruth from 1914 to 1919; he won 23 games in 1916 and 24 in 1917 before owner Harry Frazee sold him to the Yankees.
Q 02Which position did Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers on April 15, 1947, when he broke the color line?
First base
Robinson opened 1947 at first base because Eddie Stanky held second; he moved to second base in 1948 and won the first-ever Rookie of the Year Award in 1947.
Q 03Which uniform number was retired across every Major League team in 1997 in honor of Jackie Robinson?
42
Number 42 was retired across all of Major League Baseball on April 15, 1997, the 50th anniversary of Robinson's debut; since 2009 every player wears 42 on Jackie Robinson Day.
Q 04Mickey Mantle's nickname 'the Commerce Comet' came from the town where he grew up, in which state?
Oklahoma
Commerce, Oklahoma, in the Tri-State lead and zinc mining district, is where his father Mutt worked the mines and taught him to switch-hit from childhood.
Q 05Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run in 1974 came off which Dodgers pitcher?
Al Downing
Al Downing, who like Aaron wore number 44, gave up the 715th homer at Atlanta Stadium on April 8, 1974, before a crowd of 53,775.
Q 06Sandy Koufax famously sat out Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on which holiday?
Yom Kippur
Game 1 on October 6, 1965 fell on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, so Koufax sat; he then threw shutouts in Games 5 and 7 and was Series MVP.
Q 07How many World Series championships did Yogi Berra win as a player, more than anyone in history?
10
Berra won 10 World Series with the Yankees between 1947 and 1962, a record for a player; he appeared in 14 Series in all and was an 18-time All-Star.
Q 08Stan 'the Man' Musial was born in which Pennsylvania mill town?
Donora
Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel and zinc mill town on the Monongahela River, in 1920; his 3,630 hits split exactly 1,815 at home and 1,815 away.
Q 09After which season did the Dodgers play their last game in Brooklyn before moving to Los Angeles?
1957
The Dodgers' final Brooklyn season was 1957; they played their last Ebbets Field game on September 24, 1957, and moved west for 1958 along with the Giants.
Q 10Which beloved Cub was known for saying 'Let's play two!'?
Ernie Banks
Ernie Banks, 'Mr. Cub', played all 19 of his seasons (1953-71) for the same franchise, hit 512 home runs and won back-to-back NL MVP awards in 1958 and 1959.
Q 11Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, was known by what nickname?
Charlie Hustle
'Charlie Hustle' was coined in 1963 spring training by a Yankee pitcher mocking Rose for sprinting to first on a walk; Rose adopted it proudly.
Q 12Reggie Jackson hit three homers in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series against which team?
Los Angeles Dodgers
Against the Los Angeles Dodgers on October 18, 1977, Jackson homered on consecutive first pitches off Burt Hooton, Elias Sosa and Charlie Hough; with his last swing in Game 5 that made four homers on four swings.
Q 13Carlton Fisk waved his 12th-inning Game 6 homer fair in which World Series?
1975
Q 21Larry Doby became the first Black player in the American League in 1947 with which team?
Cleveland Indians
Doby debuted for the Cleveland Indians on July 5, 1947, 81 days after Robinson; he and Satchel Paige became the first Black players on a World Series winner in 1948.
Q 22Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stood in which section of Brooklyn?
Flatbush
It was demolished in 1960 and replaced by an apartment complex that still carries its name.
Q 23Wrigley Field was the last Major League park to install lights for night games, in what year?
1988
Wrigley Field's first night game came on August 8, 1988, and was rained out in the fourth inning; the first official night game was played the next evening, August 9.
Fisk's homer off the Fenway Park left-field foul pole ended Game 6 of the 1975 World Series at 12:34 a.m. on October 22; his team lost Game 7 that night.
Q 14What was Harry Caray's trademark broadcast exclamation?
Holy Cow!
'Holy Cow!' was Caray's signature call across a broadcasting career that began with the Cardinals in 1945 and ended after the 1997 season; he also popularized singing the seventh-inning stretch.
Q 15Vin Scully called Dodgers games for how many years, the longest run with a single team in sports history?
67
Scully's 67 seasons ran from 1950 in Brooklyn, where Red Barber mentored him, through 2016, the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single team.
Q 16Which comedy duo made the routine 'Who's on First?' famous?
Abbott and Costello
Abbott and Costello performed 'Who's on First?' on radio, in the 1945 film The Naughty Nineties and on television; a recording plays continuously at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Q 17Who played Lou Gehrig in the 1942 film The Pride of the Yankees?
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper, a right-hander, played Gehrig and earned a Best Actor nomination; the film's closing 'luckiest man' line ranks 38th on the AFI's list of greatest movie quotes.
Q 18Babe Ruth's 'called shot' home run in the 1932 World Series came against which team?
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs were the opponent in Game 3 at Wrigley Field on October 1, 1932; Ruth gestured before homering off Charlie Root, and the Yankees swept the Series.
Q 19Ty Cobb, 'the Georgia Peach', spent 22 years with which team?
Detroit Tigers
He was player-manager for his last six seasons there and finished his career with the Athletics.
Q 20The famously valuable T206 Honus Wagner baseball card was issued by a firm that sold what product?
Tobacco
The American Tobacco Company printed it from 1909 to 1911, and Wagner, 'the Flying Dutchman', is said to have objected to it.
Q 24Which ballpark was nicknamed 'The House That Ruth Built'?
Yankee Stadium
The original Yankee Stadium opened on April 18, 1923 with Ruth hitting its first home run; it served the Yankees through 2008 apart from the 1974-75 renovation years.
Q 25'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and which composer?
Albert Von Tilzer
Albert Von Tilzer composed the melody to Norworth's lyrics in 1908; neither man had attended a game, and Norworth got the idea from a subway sign advertising a game at the Polo Grounds.
Q 26In which New York town is the National Baseball Hall of Fame located?
Cooperstown
Cooperstown was chosen because the 1907 Mills Commission claimed Abner Doubleday invented baseball there in 1839, a story historians reject; the Hall's museum opened in June 1939.
Q 27Which of these was among the first five men elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936?
Christy Mathewson
Christy Mathewson, the Giants' 373-game winner, joined Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner and Walter Johnson in the inaugural 1936 class; the museum building opened in 1939.
Q 28Baseball's first all-professional team was the 1869 Red Stockings of which city?
Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869, led by Harry Wright, were the first openly all-salaried team and went undefeated on a national tour; MLB marked the centennial in 1969.
Q 29Who became the first Black manager in major league history in 1975?
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson debuted as baseball's first Black manager on Opening Day, April 8 of that season, as a player-manager in the American League, and homered in his first at-bat.
Q 30Brooks Robinson, 'the Human Vacuum Cleaner', played his whole 23-year career at third base for whom?
Baltimore Orioles
His 2,870 games at third base remain the most by any player at a single position.