Who's On First?
Hall of Fame slugger who is perhaps best known for his stint with the Atlanta Braves with whom he won a World Series
Who is Fred McGriff?
Hughie Jennings holds the painful record of most career hit by pitches with 287. Just behind him with 285, is this multi position player
Who is Craig Biggio?
This 13 year MLB veteran and former Detroit Tiger once led the league in RBIs for three consecutive seasons
Who is Cecil Fielder?
Busch Stadium in St. Louis opened up in 2006, replacing this circular designed, multi-purpose stadium the Cards called home for forty years
What is Busch Stadium?
2 time Cy Young award winning pitcher and World series MVP for Kansas City who holds the fifth lowest career BB/9IP
Who is Bret Saberhagen?
This player had large shoes to fill at first base when Albert Pujols left the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011—he initially held his own, posting back to back .300 seasons in 2012 and ‘13, before rapidly descending into futility and obscurity
Who is Allen Craig?
In 2003 Barry Larkin passed Dave Concepción for second in Reds franchise history in this category
What are hits?
This stout tubster posted a career .300 batting average and can now be heard on Philadelphia Phillies broadcasts
Who is John Kruk?
Fenway park is the oldest ballpark in major league baseball at 113 years old, however, this Negro League park predates it by two years, laying claim to the oldest professional baseball stadium in the world
What is Rickwood Field?
This former six-time win leader on the mound, and highly influential organizer of the National League was also an early adopter of the baseball glove and helped develop the modern baseball bat. It's no wonder he went on to found a sporting goods company in his name
Who is Albert Spalding?
The number of ways one can reach first base
What is seven?
Milwaukee Brewers Pat Listach won the 1992 American League Rookie of the Year award and comfortably so, beating out this speedy lefthanded outfielder
Who is Kenny Lofton?
Jonathan Broxton was a beefy hurler who played for the Dodgers, Reds, Brewers, Cardinals, and this team
Who are the Kansas City Royals?
Tiger Stadium was one of baseball's most hallowed grounds, where the Tigers played from 1912-1999. It sat along these streets in Detroit
What are Michigan and Trumbull?
This man was a star linebacker for the Green Bay Packers who went on to umpire in the American League for over 30 years. To this day he is still the only man to be inducted into both the pro football and pro baseball halls of fame
Who is Cal Hubbard?
Carlos Delgado holds Toronto Blue Jays team records in 14 offensive categories, which led to him being inducted into this institution in 2015
What is the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame?
In 2012 Jim Thome became the second player in Major League history to rack up this number of strikeouts
What is 2500
Despite the resemblance, Joba Chamberlain was not named after the notorious Star Wars space slug—he has however had his bout with flying bugs—these tiny flying insects infamously swarmed him during his first career playoff game in the 2007 ALDS
What are midges?
DAILY DOUBLE
Despite playing in one of baseball' oldest ballparks, this National League team has called more ballparks home than any other major league franchise
Who are the Chicago Cubs?
You can get one of these specially named hot dogs at a White Sox game, topped with yellow mustard, neon-green sweet pickle relish, chopped white onion, tomato slices, a dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers and celery salt. Just don't ask for ketchup
What is a Comiskey Dog?
This Iowa native holds the major league record of playing in 27 consecutive seasons--he also holds the much less favorable record of most career errors at first base, with 658
Who is Cap Anson?
Now batting… number 2… No, not the captain. This one time All-Star and father of a Hall of Famer wore the deuce in pinstripes for three seasons in the 1970s
Who is Sandy Alomar Sr?
DAILY DOUBLE
This big man posted a 0.87 ERA in three World Series starts and his record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the Fall Classic stood until 1961 when Whitey Ford broke it
Who is Babe Ruth?
Fenway Park in Boston, Crosley Field in Cincinnati, the Polo Grounds in New York--these are stadiums that featured steel supported two-tier grandstands and were squeezed inside city blocks, putting fans right on top of the action. These are perfect examples of this type of early 20th century ballpark design?
What are jewel box style ballparks?
Not a spitball, but this early 1900s banned pitch, in which the ball has been altered by scratching it with a rough surface, making the ball spin in funny ways. Shares the name with a close Rigdon family friend
What is an Emery ball?