Baseball Trivia Question and Answers
1.
Which Major League pitcher retired with 5,714 strikeouts in 5,387 innings?
Answer:
Nolan Ryan
2.
Which baseball player is nicknamed "Big Hurt"?
Answer:
Frank Thomas
3.
Willie Mays is the godfather to which baseball star?
Answer:
Barry Bonds
4.
Who was the first player to win five Cy Young Awards?
Answer:
Roger Clemens
5.
How tall is Mark "Big Mac" McGwire?
Answer:
6 Foot 5 Inches
6.
Who was the first player to win the MVP in both the American and National Leagues?
Answer:
Frank Thomas
7.
Who did famous baseball player Ty Cobb play for?
Answer:
Detroit Tigers
8.
Who said "I ain't never thrown an illegal pitch, it's just that some of the stuff I throw ain't never been seen by this generation"?
Answer:
Satchel Paige
9.
Which baseball player is known as "El Duque"?
Answer:
Orlando Hernandez
10.
Where was baseball's Mark McGwire born?
Answer:
Pomona, California
11.
In the minor league organization of which Major League baseball team did Michael Jordan play?
Answer:
Chicago White Sox
12.
In 1998, Mark McGwire joined Willie Mays in holding which MLB record?
Answer:
4 Home Runs 1st 4 Games Of A Season
13.
How many home runs did Mark McGwire hit in 1996?
Answer:
52
14.
Playing only 18 games his first year in the big leagues, Mark McGwire hit how many home runs that year?
Answer:
3
15.
Who once said, "You hit 1 of mine, I hit 2 of yours. You hit 2 of mine, I deck 4 of yours"?
Answer:
Don Drysdale
16.
Which baseball player had the most RBI's in the 1980's?
Answer:
Eddie Murray
17.
In what city is the Little League World series played every August?
Answer:
South Williamsport, PA
18.
Who was the youngest player ever to appear on the field in MLB's modern era?
Answer:
Joe Nuxhall
19.
Who was the Yankees' first baseman before Lou Gehrig?
Answer:
Wally Pipp
20.
For which team did Mike Piazza never play during the 1998 season?
Answer:
Expos
21.
In what year and city was major-league baseball first played in a domed stadium?
Answer:
1965, Houston
22.
Which baseball star was once married to Marilyn Monroe?
Answer:
Joe DiMaggio
23.
Which baseball park has the "Green Monster"?
Answer:
Fenway Park
24.
What was Big Mac's (Mark McGwire) fellow Bash Brother's name?
Answer:
Jose Canseco
25.
Mark McGwire played college baseball at which one of these schools?
Answer:
USC
26.
How many career pinch-hit home runs did Mark McGwire have?
Answer:
6
27.
For what position was Mark McGwire recruited in college?
Answer:
Pitcher
28.
At the end of the 1998 season Mark McGwire's career home run total was what?
Answer:
457
29.
How many total home runs did Mark McGwire hit in the 1998 season?
Answer:
70
30.
Which manager coached Mark McGwire on two different teams?
Answer:
Tony La Russa
31.
In what state did MLB's Kansas City Royals play their first game?
Answer:
Missouri
32.
Which baseball team did catcher Joe Girardi begin his Major League career with?
Answer:
Cubs
33.
What team was Mark McGwire playing against when he broke the home run record?
Answer:
Cubs
34.
Who was Rookie of the Year in 1982?
Answer:
Steve Sax
35.
What was 60's and 70's era baseball player Walt Williams' nickname?
Answer:
No-Neck
36.
How many home runs did Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris combine for in 1961?
Answer:
115
37.
What team did baseball great Willie Mays finish his career with?
Answer:
Mets
38.
Who was the first pitcher to toss consecutive game no hitters?
Answer:
Johnny Vandemeer
39.
When Roger Maris hit sixty-one home runs in 1961, how many times was he intentionally walked?
Answer:
40.
Who or what was "Louisiana Lightning"?
Answer:
Ron Guidry
41.
How many home runs did Sammy Sosa hit in 1998?
Answer:
66
42.
What was Mickey Mantle's career batting average?
Answer:
.298
43.
What is baseball player Chipper Jones' real first name?
Answer:
Larry
44.
What manager went 26 years managing in the majors without ever winning a league pennant?
Answer:
Gene Mauch
45.
In baseball, which team was known as the "Hitless Wonders"?
Answer:
1906 Chicago White Sox
46.
Bill Mazeroski hit his series-ending home run off of which pitcher?
Answer:
Ralph Terry
47.
What famous baseball player made the statement "It ain't over till it's over"?
Answer:
Yogi Berra
48.
In it's inaugural season (1901) who led the AL in wins, era, strikeouts and shutouts?
Answer:
Cy Young
49.
Who was the first manager to capture pennants in both leagues?
Answer:
Joe McCarthy
50.
In what year did Fenway Park open?
Answer:
1912
51.
Which one of these nicknames was applied to George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr.?
Answer:
The Sultan Of Swat
52.
What was the nickname of baseball players Bill Killefer and Charlie Maxwell?
Answer:
Paw Paw
53.
Who was the only baseball Hall of Famer to hit a home run off a Babe Ruth pitch?
Answer:
Sam Rice
54.
Who was known as the "Babe Ruth of the Negro Leagues"?
Answer:
Josh Gibson
55.
What player wears a necklace made of teeth during games?
Answer:
Turk Wendell
56.
In baseball slang, what is a "pickle"?
Answer:
Player In A Rundown Between Bases
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