First: I confess to complete ignorance on How to Insert a Spoiler into a post. (Perhaps the forum About This Message Board has some pointers on this?)
Second: According to Lee Allen in The American League Story(1961), the Yankes were not known as “The Highlanders” from 1903 to 1913–when they played their home games in Highland Park, before moving into the Giants’ Polo Grounds. According to Allen, there were newspaper headlines, in sports sections, identifying the team as the Yankees as early as 1905.
To make spoilers:
Just put [ SPOILER ] (without the spaces) in front of the text and [ /SPOILER ] at the end.
What Rose Bowl player served up home runs to Babe Ruth in 1927? Ernie Nevers
What Mets pitcher later became a congressman and assistant secretary of commerce? Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell
What slugger struck the loudspeaker in the Astrodome with a fly ball? Mike Schmidt
In Harvey Haddix’ losing perfect game in 1959, who scored the only run? Joe Adcock
What major-league player was the first player to join the Army for World War I? Hank Gowdy
What happened to Eddie Waitkus (Phillies) in 1949? A psychotic young woman shot him point-blank with a shotgun. She was institutionalized and he was out for the rest of the season.
Where did the Boston “Miracle Braves” play their home games in the 1914 World Series? Fenway Park, courtesy of the Red Sox
Why did Roy Campanella never catch for the Los Angeles Dodgers? (Not a happy situation 
) He was in a serious automobile accident and his spine was severed
I don’t think most teams had “official” team names in the early 20th century. I’ve seen reprints of early baseball cards with refer to “Boston Americans” and “Boston Nationals”. The AL team was named at different times: Puritians, Pilgrims, and Somersets before becoming the Red Sox. The NL team was the Red Caps, Beaneaters, Doves, Rustlers, Bees before becoming the Braves.
FWIW, baseball-reference.com calls the Yankees the Highlanders from 1903-1913.
Which leads me to my trivia question:
Who were the first MLB “Blue Jays”
Philadelphia changed their name to the Blue Jays for 1943 and 1944 before changing back to Phillies
Wow… when I saw this thread, I immediately knew what my trivia question would be. Little did I suspect (given the huge amount of baseball trivia that exists) that several people would have already mentioned the game that involves it.
I’m a Phillies fan too, and was watching the first night game at Wrigley on TV. My question is:
“What Phillies player hit the first homer under the lights at Wrigley Field, only to have that hit discounted when the game was rained out?”
Phil Bradley
-P
Who’s the only pitcher with 200 career victories AND a losing record?
Bobo Newsom, whose career record was 211-222
The batter doesn’t get first base on a balk. All runners already on base are allowed to advance one base. Batter stays where he is.
To Astorian: There was one other major-league pitcher who won more than 200 games but has a losing record–“Happy” Jack Powell. He played from 1897 to 1912 and had a record of 246 wins and 253 losses. (Turkin & Thompson’s Encyclopedia, 1956)
To Petey: concerning the “Highlanders”: Regardless of your website, I prefer to rely on Allen’s quote of a contemporary line in a newspaper from that period.
Not true…
In the bottom of the 13th, Felix Mantilla reached first on an error, breaking up the perfecto. Joe Adcock then hit the ball over the wall…but in the midst of all the excitement, passed Mantilla on the basepath, and was therefore called out. Mantilla did score (no-one left to pass on the basepath!), so the correct answer is “Felix Mantilla.” Here’s a box score of the game.
The Baseball Hall of Fame on Abbott and Costello:
(Do visit their website if you have a chance-they recently added an online exibit on uniforms, including a vast database of practically every uniform ever worn in the 20th century.)
I have no questions, except for this.
In 1962, their first year of existance, the Mets traded Harry Chitli to the Indians for a player to be named later. Who did they get in return?
[spoiler]Harry Chitli
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This one seems obvious, but I’ve actually gotten into arguements over it:
How many bases are there?:
3. Home plate is not a base
OK, Duke. I stand corrected. :o
Well, MLB Rule 2.00 seems to disagree with you. Maybe you should look things up before arguing about them.
"A BASE is one of four points which must be touched by a runner in order to score a run; more usually applied to the canvas bags and the rubber plate which mark the base points. "
Name the player who played his entire career in three different teams in one city.
Dutch Zwilling, who played for the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, and Chi-Feds/Whales of the Federal league, which means he played for every nickname given to a Chicago team.
What player was present on both the day Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak begun, and the day it ended?
Wally Pipp. Gehrig replaced him at first base, of course, and Pipp was in the stands as a spectator the day Gehrig took himself out of the lineup
Who was the first player to play for both the Yankees and Mets in the same season?
Bob Friend. Second was Hal Reniff. Dave Kingman also did it.
The Yankees and the Red Sox once agreed to trade Ted Williams for Joe Dimaggio. At the last minute, the deal fell through because the Red Sox demanded another player. Who was it?
Yogi Berra
Name the three (yes, three) members of the 1962 New York Mets who played for the Mets the years they won pennants.
Ed Kranepool (most know this), Al Jackson (who appeared in nine games for them in 1969 before being traded), and Bob Miller (1 game in 1973 as late-season bullpen help)
Name the ballplayer who won a batting championship even though he officially finished second in batting that year (and I don’t mean someone years later discovered a box score error – the league knew what it was doing and did it deliberately).
Jimmy Foxx, 1938. His .349 BA was just below Taffy Wrights .350. Wright appeared in just 100 game – the minimum to qualify for a batting championship. However, he had only 263 at bats. Though Wright qualified, the league – with the assent of just about everyone in baseball – named Foxx the champion