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Baseball trivia questions and answers.

What was the greatest number of home runs hit in a single season by baseball's "Georgia Peach," Ty Cobb?
A: 12.

What well-known baseball pitcher is descended from a Hessian mercenary who fought for the British in the American Revolution?
A: Orel Hershiser, whose first name is Slavic for "eagle."

How big a cut did baseball's Gary Carter take in his base pay when he signed with the San Francisco Giants in 1990 after being dropped as a catcher by the New York Mets?
A: Almost $2 million--he went from $2.2 million to $250,000.

How did baseball superstar Leroy "satchel" Paige get his nickname?
A: From his size-14 shoes, which were "as big as satchels."

What two baseball-playing brothers hit home runs in the same World Series game?
A: The Boyers, Ken and Clete, third basemen for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees, respectively. Their homers came in the seventh game of the 1964 Series.

What was unique about the two no-hitters pitched by Cincinnati Red southpaw john Vandermeer?
A: They were consecutive--and the only no-hitters he ever threw. Vandermeer blanked both the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn dodgers in June 1938. He's in the record books as the only pitcher in major league history to throw back-to-back no-hitters.

What major league baseball team was featured in the 1951 film Angels in the Outfield, starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh?
A: the Pittsburgh Pirates. (When President Eisenhower was in office, he told an interviewer it was his favorite movie.)

How many baseball gloves can be made from one cow?
A: Five.

How far must the left and right field fences be from home late in a major league baseball park?
A: 325 feet. The minimum distance was set in 1959.

Who was baseball's first rookie of the Year?
A: Brooklyn Dodger great Jackie Robinson, who was given the award in 1947. Forty years later, it was officially renamed the Jackie Robinson Award, although it's still widely called Rookie of the Year.

Why did the Cincinnati Reds baseball team send an autographed second-base bag to cowboy movie star Roy Rogers?
A: The red-brick tenement that was his boyhood home once stood on the site of second base at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.

Wood from what tree is used in making the bats used in major league baseball?
A: Ash.

What baseball legend hit Yankee Stadium's first two World Series home runs?
A: Casey Stengel--in the 1923 World Series when he was playing for the New York Giants. The homers were hit in games one and three, the only two games the Giants won in the series.

Who was the only major league baseball player to have a brand of cigarettes named after him?
A :Ty Cobb.

In 1927, when Babe Ruth hit his 60 home runs, two of those home runs were hit off a pitcher who was later elected to the Pro Football hall of Fame. Who was this multi-talented individual?
A: Ernie Nevers, who played baseball for the St. Louis Browns in 1926, '27 and '28; and football for the Duluth Eskimos in 1926 and '27 and the Chicago Cardinals in 1929, '30 and '31.

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