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Welcome to the WP:Baseball quiz. The quiz is a general knowledge quiz centred around the sport of baseball that any Wikipedian can enter. It is run as a friendly competition to test and improve your knowledge of one of the world's most popular games. Most importantly, it's supposed to be fun.

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Contents 1 Rules 2 Question guidelines 3 Questions 3.1 Q1 3.2 Q2 3.3 Q3

[edit] Rules

1. Anyone can answer a quiz question, but to ask a question you must first earn the right by being the first person to answer the previous one correctly. If the current question is still open and you think you know the answer, post your answer below and wait for an adjudication from the person who placed the question. Remember to sign your post with ~~~~.
2. If you are the first person to post the correct answer, the asker will post a message below your answer confirming you gave the correct response.
3. You now have the baton and 24 hours to post a new question. If a new question is not posted by you within that time limit, the asker can post a new question in lieu of yourself.

[edit] Question guidelines

1. If you're finding no-one can get the answer to your question, consider offering clues or replacing your question with an easier one. The aim is to keep the quiz moving.

[edit] Questions

[edit] Q1

Who holds the Major League record for having changed teams the most times? ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 20:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• Wild guesses (just so I can be the first to participate): Reggie Sanders or Kurt Bevacqua. —Wknight94 (talk) 20:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I guess we need one answer, eh? I'll say Sanders. —Wknight94 (talk) 20:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Both good answers, but the answer to this question isn't a player in recent memory. ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 22:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Just to get a clarification, are you asking who has played for the most teams or changed teams the most? Mike Morgan has the record for most teams played for, but I guess that isn't the question based on the above comment. --Holderca1 15:16, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oh yeah, that's a good try too. :) —Wknight94 (talk) 16:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
    • I specifically wrote the question in a manner so that the answer wasn't Morgan, actually. ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 00:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Well, I guess I made the question too hard. If nobody figures it out in the next 19 hours, I'm giving the answer. I have decided not to do this because I didn't give enough clues. ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 03:11, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
  • How about more hints first, like how many teams did he play for? --Holderca1 12:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Okay, here are some clues:
      1. If I counted right, he played for 9 teams and changed teams 17 times.
      2. He once quipped that he was "in Washington more times than [Franklin D. Roosevelt]".
      3. Only Tony Fernández since him has seen 4 tours of duty with a team. Hope that helped. ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 23:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Rickey Henderson was with Oakland 4 times but he's clearly not the right answer... —Wknight94 (talk) 00:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
        • Oops, I lied. However, he was with one team five different times (you can figure out which team by my second clue). ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 02:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Bobo Newsom. He had 17 different stints, and thus actually changed teams only 16 times. But still. -- dakern74 (talk) 21:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Congrats! Go ahead and ask away—you've earned it. (How strange: everyone who has guessed at this question has a number in their username.) ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 00:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Q2

MLB rule 4.06(b) reads, No fielder shall take a position in the batter’s line of vision, and with deliberate unsportsmanlike intent, act in a manner to distract the batter.

Who inspired the addition of this rule to the book by actually doing it one too many times? -- dakern74 (talk) 04:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that's a tough one. Better hit the books. ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 23:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Is it Wee Willie Keeler? ςפקιДИτς ☺ ☻ 19:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Good guess, but no. A tad more recent. -- dakern74 (talk) 22:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. I wouldn't put that kind of thing beyond Johnny Evers. -- Bpmullins 01:19, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Nope. I'll give you the first hint that it happened in the mid-1950s. -- dakern74 (talk) 05:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, Jim Piersall? --Holderca1 15:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Second base. -- dakern74 (talk) 19:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Pretty much had to be a middle infielder. Billy Martin? -- Bpmullins 21:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Good guess, knowing his antics. Right city, wrong team. -- dakern74 (talk) 01:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I will guess Dodgers, Jim Gilliam? --Holderca1 14:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Narrowing it down. One team left. This was harder than I expected.... -- dakern74 (talk) 15:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow, I never thought that Davey Williams inspired his own rule. ¿ςפקιДИτς! ☺ ☻ 00:39, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

He didn't. Eddie Stanky while with the Giants. I will try to post another, slightly less confounding question later today. 04:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Q3

Okay, here's one with four possible correct answers. One of them very easy to find; the other three, not so much. But this way maybe we get a few more people to post new questions.

Only four ballparks in Major League history have had 10,000 home runs hit in them. What are they, who hit #10,000 in each of them, and when (year will be enough)? -- dakern74 (talk) 07:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I know all the parks, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Tiger Stadium. Kevin Millar hit the 10,000th at Fenway in 2003, will have to do some digging on the other three. --Holderca1 14:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)