Q 01/05

What is the standard distance between each base on a Major League Baseball diamond?

A) 80 feet

B) 75 feet

C) 100 feet

D) 90 feet

Answer · why

D) 90 feet

In Major League Baseball, the distance between each base (first to second, second to third, and third to home plate) is exactly 90 feet. This measurem...

Q 02/05

Which National League club has the most World Series titles?

A) St. Louis Cardinals

B) San Francisco Giants

C) Los Angeles Dodgers

D) Atlanta Braves

Answer · why

A) St. Louis Cardinals

The Cardinals' 11 titles rank second overall; the Dodgers share the record for most Series lost, 14, with the club that has won the most.

Q 03/05

Who set the MLB single-season record for hits, with 262 in 2004?

A) Pete Rose

B) Ichiro Suzuki

C) George Sisler

D) Tony Gwynn

Answer · why

B) Ichiro Suzuki

He broke George Sisler's 84-year-old mark of 257 and holds the single-season record in Japan's NPB as well.

Q 04/05

Per The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, baseball's term for a bases-loaded home run was borrowed from which card game?

A) Poker

B) Contract bridge

C) Cribbage

D) Whist

Answer · why

B) Contract bridge

In bridge the same term means taking every possible trick; in baseball it means the most runs possible on one swing.

Q 05/05

Until 1967 one Cy Young Award covered all of MLB. Who was its first recipient, in 1956?

A) Don Newcombe

B) Warren Spahn

C) Whitey Ford

D) Bob Lemon

Answer · why

A) Don Newcombe

Commissioner Ford Frick created the award in 1956 in honour of Cy Young, who had died the year before; the Dodgers have since won more of them than an...