Who has played in the most World Series games?
a. Mickey Mantle
b. Joe DiMaggio
c. Pee Wee Reese
d. Yogi Berra
Answers to all questions:
1. In the first night game in World Series, the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates squared off. What year was it?
c. 1971. Oct. 13 - Game 4 in Pittsburgh
2. When an earthquake struck northern California before the third game of the 1989 World Series, how long did the Giants and A’s have to wait to play again?
c. 10 days
3. Now that the Rangers have brought the World Series to Texas for the first time, which is the only state with a major-league team still waiting to host the Series?
b. Washington
4. Besides Pittsburgh’s Bill Mazeroski in 1960, only one other player ever hit a World Series-clinching “walk off” home run. Who was he?
d. Joe Carter, in 1993 versus the Phillies
5. The Yankees easily have won the most World Series (27), but which team is second with 10 championships?
a. St. Louis Cardinals
6. In 1997 this team became the first wildcard playoff qualifier to win the World Series:
b. Florida Marlins, who beat the Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 3.
7. Which player was known as “Mr. October” for his World Series slugging heroics?
d. Reggie Jackson, who was given the nickname by his late teammate, Thurman Munson, during the 1977 World Series.
8. Which team lost to the Yankees in 1956 when Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history?
a. Brooklyn Dodgers
9. Who is the first and only Asian player selected as the MVP of the World Series?
b. Hideki Matsui of the Yankees in 2009
10. Which team won the first World Series in 1903, when it was a best-of-nine format?
a. Boston Americans, who later became the Red Sox
11. Which two teams were involved in the first West Coast World Series, back in 1959?
c. Dodgers vs. White Sox
12. What year did the New York Yankees win their first 'Fall Classic?'
d. 1923
13. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics won 5 World Series titles as manager. But two men won more. Who are they?
b & d - McCarthy and Stengel each led the Yankees to seven championships.
14. There are three men who have been named World Series MVP multiple times. Which of these players has not?
a. Mickey Mantle, who was never named World Series MVP
15. Who is the only pitcher in World Series history to appear in all games during a seven-game series?
d. Darold Knowles, who pitched in all seven games during the 1973 World Series between the Oakland A's and NY Mets
16. Who is the only pitcher to throw three complete-game shutouts in one World Series?
b - Mathewson pulled off the feat in the 1905 World Series for the NY Giants against the Philadelphia A's.
17. The Yankees won 5 consecutive World Series titles, from 1949 to 1953. New York defeated the same club three times in that stretch. Which NL club was it?
b - Brooklyn Dodgers, in '49, 52 and 53
18. Three men share the mark of recording 13 hits over the course of a World Series. Which one of the following is not part of the group?
d - Jackson had 12 hits in the 1919 Series.
19. Who has the best batting average in a World Series?
a - Billy Hatcher hit .750 for the Reds versus the A's in 1990.
20. Who has played in the most World Series games?
d - Yogi Berra, who played in 75 World Series games between 1947 and 1963
