# Baseball trivia, here's a challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 10, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367 "2010-01-10T05:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/1 "2010-01-10T05:24:00Z")
I’m looking for the name of a major league player who played in the early 80s–I don’t know how long, or what position. He was a twin and his last name started with a Q. How can I find out this name? ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/2 "2010-01-10T05:29:54Z")
That honestly isn’t that much to go on, but the fact that his last name started with a Q helps tremendously, as that’s rather uncommon. My suggestion would be to go [here](http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/q/) and see if you can’t ferret him out from that list. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/3 "2010-01-10T06:01:47Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I’m looking for the name of a major league player who played in the early 80s–I don’t know how long, or what position. He was a twin and his last name started with a Q. > > How can I find out this name? Do you mean he was a twin, or played for the Twins? There are only four players with names starting with a Q who were active in the early 1980s. Luis Quinones Rey Quinones Jamie Quirk Dan Quisenberry ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/4 "2010-01-10T06:28:43Z")
The only “Q” guy I can think of who was affiliated with the Twins was Frank Quilici, who played for the in the 60s and managed the in the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/5 "2010-01-10T06:32:27Z")
I mean he had a twin (who did not play baseball, or at least, not at ML level). Thanks! Four Q names may help. (Now to determine if any of them were twins.) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/6 "2010-01-10T06:40:52Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I mean he had a twin (who did not play baseball, or at least, not at ML level). None of the four are listed as having a brother in baseball, FWIW, and the two Quinones don’t appear to be related. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/7 "2010-01-10T16:16:03Z")
The best-known player of that general period who had a less-talented twin brother was Jose Canseco (Ozzie Canseco did make the majors briefly, but as a PR stunt, not on merit). Are you sure about the Q? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/8 "2010-01-10T23:05:06Z")
Not that it’s a deal-breaking list or anything, but Wikipedia’s list of [famous twins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_twins) (and famous people with twins) does not have one set with a last name starting with Q. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-trivia-heres-a-challenge/524367/9 "2010-01-11T03:19:59Z")
How does that Sesame Street song go…something like “here is a question, a question for you. Remember the answer will start with a Q”?