Q 01/05

Where did the Seattle Pilots, who became the Brewers, play their only season of home games in 1969?

A) Memorial Stadium

B) Sick's Stadium

C) Husky Stadium

D) Rainier Park

Answer · why

B) Sick's Stadium

Sick's Stadium was an ageing minor-league park whose plumbing was never upgraded: with a big crowd in, the water pressure all but vanished, one reason...

Q 02/05

Which future commissioner bought the bankrupt Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee in 1970?

A) Bowie Kuhn

B) Peter Ueberroth

C) Fay Vincent

D) Bud Selig

Answer · why

D) Bud Selig

Bud Selig, a Milwaukee car dealer who had been the largest public shareholder in the departed Braves, wanted his new club to carry on the minor-league...

Q 03/05

Which pitcher's diary of the Pilots' only season became the famous tell-all book Ball Four?

A) Marty Pattin

B) Diego Seguí

C) Jim Bouton

D) Gene Brabender

Answer · why

C) Jim Bouton

Jim Bouton kept the diary as a fading knuckleballer, and its clubhouse candour so alarmed baseball's commissioner that he called the book 'detrimental...

Q 04/05

Why did the 1970 Brewers play in altered Seattle Pilots uniforms?

A) The players voted to keep them

B) The move came days before the opener

C) The owner wanted to honour Seattle

D) A fabric shortage hit Milwaukee

Answer · why

B) The move came days before the opener

The move came days before the opener: a bankruptcy court cleared the sale about a week ahead of the first game, so 'Pilots' was torn off the blue and ...

Q 05/05

The Brewers moved from the American League to the National in 1998; which team later switched the other way?

A) Kansas City Royals

B) Texas Rangers

C) Colorado Rockies

D) Houston Astros

Answer · why

D) Houston Astros

Houston Astros, in 2013, to give each league 15 clubs; the Brewers had gone the other way so that both leagues kept an even number of teams when two e...