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Cal Ripken signs autographs in Charlotte, NC @ the Knights game.    Sammy Sosa with the Cubs vs Braves, Easter Sunday 2004 @ Turner Field   Braves vs Indians, spring training, Winter Haven, FL (spring 2005) Chipper Jones on 1st   Coco Crisp, leadoff batter for the 2005 Indians takes a minute during spring training to speak to some fans.

Do you know the answers???
  1. Who pitched the only "perfect game" in the history of World Series?
  2. Who hit the home run that the newspapers reported as the first "tape measure shot"? When and how far?
  3. These career numbers belong to who? 94-46 lifetime pitching record. .690 slugging percentage, .474 on-base percentage, .342 lifetime average, 2873 hits, 506 doubles, 136 triples and 714 home runs?
  4. Can you name the top 3 career batting leaders?
  5. Who has been credited with almost 800 career home runs in a 17 year career in the negro leagues?
  6. Who's numbers are these? 511 - 316 career pitching record. 7354 innings pitched, 750 complete games and 2798 strikeouts.
  7. What player broke the MLB color barrier in 1947?
  8. Who was nick-named "the Georgia Peach"?
  9. Who has a record 17 straight 15 win seasons and over 300 career wins?
  10. Who's won the most Cy Young awards during his career?
  11. Who made "the catch" in the 1st game of the 1954 World Series?
  12. Can you name the top 3 all time hits leaders?
  13. From the movie "Field of Dreams" is  Moonlight Graham a real or fictional player?
  14. Who is the player with these career stats? #1 total bases, #2 at bats, #3 games, #3 runs, #3 hits, #1 RBIs, #1 extra base hits, #2 intentional walks.
  15. What pitcher threw the only opening day no hitter in the history of Major League Baseball?

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Quotes and sayings:
"A player that masters the boredom of repetition will become a better player" unknown

"Hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing"  Warren Spahn

"When I get through managing I'm going to open a kindergarten" Billy Martin

"He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it" Mel Ott referring to Yogi Berra

"I'd walk me" Willie McCovey, when asked how he'd pitch to himself

"Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't American"  Rogers Hornsby

"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it might rain" Leo Durocher

"I never questioned an umpire's integrity, just his eyesight" Tommy Lasorda

"If they came to Josh Gibson today and he were 17 years old, they would have a blank spot on the contract and they'd say, "Fill the amount in." That's how good he was" Baseball Digest, June 1969

"All I want out of life is when I walk down the street , people will say " there goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.""  Ted Williams

"It could be...... It might be....... It is! A home run!"  Cubs broadcaster, Harry Caray

"It's a great day for baseball, let's play two!"  Ernie Banks

"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench" Sparky Anderson

"You can learn a little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."  Christy Mathewson

"Best one-legged player I ever saw" Casey Stengel about Mickey Mantle

"Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak sunrise past a rooster" Curt Simmons (pitcher)

"May the sun never set on American baseball!" Harry S. Truman

"There is more to life than baseball, well not much more! Bob Feller HOF'62

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