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Hard Baseball Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our baseball set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard round is equipment specifications, scorekeeping notation, the balk, older World Series results and the founding of the American League. These reward someone who has kept a scorecard by hand at least once.
14 hard baseball trivia questions with answers
Which team won the 1955 World Series?
Answer: Brooklyn Dodgers It was the only title Brooklyn won before the club moved to Los Angeles.
The 1969 World Series was won by which team?
Answer: New York Mets The Mets had never finished above ninth place before that season.
Which team won the 1979 World Series?
Answer: Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh came back from three games to one down to beat Baltimore.
Which team won the 1991 World Series?
Answer: Minnesota Twins Both clubs had finished last in their divisions the previous season.
How many stitches are there on a regulation Major League baseball?
Answer: 108 The two figure-eight leather panels are sewn together by hand with waxed red thread.
What is the maximum permitted diameter of a Major League bat?
Answer: 2.61 inches The rule was tightened slightly from two and three-quarter inches in 2011.
A regulation baseball must weigh between five ounces and what?
Answer: 5.25 ounces The circumference is likewise fixed within a narrow band, nine to nine and a quarter inches.
In traditional scorekeeping notation, which position is numbered 6?
Answer: Shortstop The numbering runs from the pitcher at one round to the right fielder at nine.
A balk is called against which player?
Answer: The pitcher With runners on base, an illegal or deceptive motion by the pitcher advances every runner one base.
Petco Park is the home of which club?
Answer: San Diego Padres It opened downtown in 2004, incorporating a converted brick warehouse beyond left field.
Coors Field is home to which team?
Answer: Colorado Rockies Thin air a mile above sea level makes it famously friendly to hitters.
In which year did the American League begin play as a major league?
Answer: 1901 It had operated as a minor circuit, the Western League, before declaring major status.
On a scorecard, the letter K records what?
Answer: A strikeout A backwards K conventionally means the batter was struck out looking rather than swinging.
What is the maximum permitted length of a Major League bat?
Answer: 42 inches In practice almost every hitter uses something well under that limit, around thirty-four inches.
Answer key
- Brooklyn Dodgers
- New York Mets
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Minnesota Twins
- 108
- 2.61 inches
- 5.25 ounces
- Shortstop
- The pitcher
- San Diego Padres
- Colorado Rockies
- 1901
- A strikeout
- 42 inches
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